Search Results: Science from Nessa Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, xx + 425 pages + 16 pages of b & w plates, tight square and clean. "The Manhattan Project was a chapter of history rich in the drama of human strengths and frailties, as Jennet Conant chronicles in her illuminating "109 East Palace"... Yet, for all the doubts and hardships, the scientists and workers at Los Alamos were part of something exrtaordinary... Thanks to Conant's vivid book, we understand why." Check out the scans. . First Simon & Schuster Soft Cover . Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books, 1984. ----Quarter bound in black cloth red boards golt on spine, headband, with "Review Copy" card loosely laid in as well as stamped "Review Copy on ffep, (x) 259 pages, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "The only defence against the weapons of the future is to prevent them ever being used. In other words, the problem is political and not militay at all. Upon us, the heirs to all the past and the trustees of a future which our folly can slay before its birth, lies a responsiblity no other age has ever known. If we fail in our generation, those who come after us may be too few to rebuild the world, when the dust of the cities has descended, and the radiation of the rocks has died away." Contents include: Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke / Beyond the Global Village / New Communications and the Developing World / In the Hall of the Knights / To Russia, with Love --- / War and Peace in the Space Age / Electronics and Education / A Flash of… Read More

Almonte, Ontario: Algrove Pub., 2001. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 9" by 6" (inches), flat uncreased spine, square true tight & clean, 396 pages including diagrams & illustrations through-out, Near Fine condlition. "In this 1904 sequel to his enormously successful 1899 book, 1800 Mechanical Movements & Devices, Hiscox adds yet more new & different devices, frequently dealing with them in combination. This is an excellent compendilum of mechanisms for anyone active in mechanical design, jig & fitxture design, model building, or simplified methods of work." Check out the scans. . 2001 Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Basic Books 2nd printing of the revised & updated 1972 Edition, 1972. -----Orange cloth with black and red design and lettering on spine, headband, no names, red end papers, 945 pages, ths is the 2nd printing of the revised & updated 1972 edition (book club), dust jacket is in Very Good condition with minor edge wear. Contents include: What is Science? / The Universe / The Earth / The Atmosphere / The Elements / The Particles / The Waves / The Machine / The Reactor / The Biological Sciences / The Molecule / The Proteins / The Cell / The Microorganisms / The Body / The Species / The Mind / Appendix: Mathematics in Science / Gravitation / Relativity / Bibliogrpahy / illustrations / index of Names / index of Subjects. The scan you see is the book you buy. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Toronto: House of Anansi Press Inc., 2013. -----The sacn you see is the book you get. Blue boards with silver lettering, headband, 326 pages, SIGNED twice once on title page and once on loosely laid in "Thank You' letter by Maude Barlow, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Check out the scans., . Signed by Author. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Walter J. Black ------The scans you see are the books you get. Two (2) "Classics Club" hard covers in VG+ condition, grey tweed with red, gilt and black design and lettering on boards, both have red top edges & headbands. "On Man In The Universe" Metaphysics - Parts of Animals - Nicomachean Ethics - Politics - Poetics by Aristotle - edited with intro by Louise Ropes Loomis, xxxviii + 441 pages, 1971, small area on inside front board top edge has "eraser roughing" / "Five Great Dialogues" Apology - Crito - Phaedo - Symposium - Republic by Plato - translated by B. Jowett, edited, with intro by Louise Ropes Loomis, viii + 511 pages, 1969, check out the scans.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jackets. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Tucson, Az: University of Arizona Press, 1992. -----# 21A014 - The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 9" by 6" (inches) square tight & clean, flat uncreased spine, 211 pages, SIGNED "For the RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) Hamilton Centre with best wishes from" David H. Levy, on title page. Very Good Plus condition with small & faint front bottom right corner crease. "David Levy's biography of this contemporary planet hunter presents aspects of Tombaugh's life that may surprise readers who know him primarily for the discovery of Pluto. Based on a long series of interviews with Tombaugh & his colleagues, friends, & family, the book also draws on the scientific record to substantiate details of Tombaugh's discoveries. A goldmine of original information." (Sky & Telescope, New Scientist) Check out the scans. . Signed by Author. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

New York: Touchstone Books, 2001. -----Tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, (xx) 233 pages with b & w photos, no names. "His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thriling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of briliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modisty, Watson relaates his and Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences, the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work." Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stcok photo. 1st Touchstone Edition 1st Printing . Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Ottawa: Environment Canada, 1982. -----20 page softcover booklet, illustrated in full colour, photos, maps, diagrams, tight square and clean, no names or writing, faint edge wear. "Find out what we knew back then, 1982, what we did and what we did not do? Then put 2 and 2 together and see the consequences". Contents include: Intro by John Roberts / Forword / The Forecast / Where Does Acid Rain Come From? / Wet and Dry Deposition / Long Range Transporation / Drowning Worms / No Metal Umbrellas / Atmospheric Dumping Ground / How the Acid Kills the Fish / Acid Shock / Rite of Spring / End of the Line / Statues and Architecture / How Acid Rain Affects the Forests / Crops and Soils / Danger to Human Health / What Can be Done About Acid Rain? / What Can I Do? / additional reading / photo credits. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. First Edition First Printing. Illustrated Card Covers. Very Good Plus Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Brown tweed cloth with gilt, headband, xliv, 439 pages with b & w photos through-out, included is the ERRATA sheet loosely laid in, Near Fine condition with ink name on ffep, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition now in Mylar. "Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese & North American medical & political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause." Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Jacket illustration: "City of Drawers" by Salvador Dali - pen & ink 1936;. 8vo.

New York: Weybright and Talley, 1975. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, xii, 363 pages with illustrations through-out, Near Fine condition with small & faint tape residue on ffep, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with faint shelf wear now in Mylar. "The polar regions directly affect us & our lives in many profound ways. Find here answers to some of the most baffling mysteries about the ice ages, the ever-changing global relationships of sun, atmosphere & oceans, and the differences between the arctic and antarctic." Check out the scans. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Jacket painting B\by Wendell Minor; Bob Hines interior illustrator,. 8vo.

Fort Worth, TX : Radio Shack, 1998. -----# 012776 - The scan you see is the book you get. Large stapled soft cover (roughly) 8 1/4" by 5 1/4" (inches), 48 pages with diagams & drawings through-out, with publishers pre-punched hole top left by spine, Very Good Plus condition with front cover sticker pull (else Near Fine). "This book includes standard application circuits & circuits designed by the author." Check out the scans.. 8th Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley: Univ of California Pr, 1997. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Quarter bound in black cloth green boards with gilt on spine, head band, no names, (xv) 364 pages with line drawings, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Contents include: Preface / The Need for Theory in the study of Sickness and Healing / Origins of Sickness and Healing / Early Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing / Later Stages of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing / Culture, Drugs, and Disorders of Habituation / Somatopsychic Disorders in an Evolutionary Context / Description Parameters of Sickness and Healing / An Evolutionary Conception of Sickness and Healing / A Broad View of Medical Evolution / Implications of an Evolutionary Approach to Sickness and Healing / Toward an Evolutionary Philosophy of Medicine / Appendix: Outline of the Evolution of Sickness and Healing / References / index. Check out the scans. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/NF. Illus.… Read More

London: Haper Collins Voyager , 1999. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Black boards with silver letting on spine, (xiii) 558 plus 16 pages of b & w photos, no names, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Contents include: Preface; Intro; Dunsany, Lord of Fantasy; Rockets; The Coming Age of Rocket Power; Extraterrestrial Relays; The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth; The Challenge of the Spaceship; First Men in the Moon; The Problem of Dr. Campbell; The Lackeys of Wall Street; Voyages to the Moon; Your're on the Glide Path, I Think; Morphological Astronomy; The Conquest of Space; The Effect of Interplanetary Flight; Space Travel in Fact and Fiction; Review: Destination Moon; Interplanetary Flight; The Exploration of Space; Review: When Worlds Collide; Review: Man on the Moon; Flying Saucers; Review: Flying Saucers Have Landed; Undersea Holiday; The Exploration of the Moon; Eclipse; Astronautical Fallacies; The Star of Bethlehem; Capricorn to Cancer; Keeping House in Colombo; The… Read More

New York: Avon 1st Revised '79 / Pyramid 1st '68 / Dell 1st '70 / Ace 1st Revised '76 / Pocket 4th '78 , 1979. -----Five (5) paperbacks, all are in Very Good condition, all are tight and square, one is store stamped, one has ink name, one has a sticker pull, minor edge wear, 221, 159 + 8 b & w plates, 285, (vi) 226, (viii) 248 pages, the scans you see are the books you get. 1st and Various Printings & Dates . Soft Covers. Very Good.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Purple cloth with silver lettering on spine, xii, 290 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "A sweeping exploration of the history of memory and human civilization. Memory makes us human. No other animal carries in its brain so many memories of such complexity nor so regularly revisits those memories for happiness, safety, and to accomplish complex tasks. The Guardian of All Things is scientific history that takes us on a 10,000 year old journey replete with incredible ideas, inventions, & transformations. From cave drawings to oral histories to libraries to the internet, The Guardian of All Things is the history of how humans have relentlessly pursued new ways to preserve and manage memory, both within the human brain & is a series of inventions external to it. Michael Malone looks at the story of memory, both human & mechanical, and the historic turning points in that… Read More

Dundas: Dundas Museum and Archives / MacMaster University, 2009. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover, clean square and tight, 103 pages with colour and b & w photos through-out, Very Good Plus condition with readers crease and a few marks to front cover (minor). Contents include: Forward / Map / A Tour through Space & Time / The View from the Heights: Native Peoples & Healing / The View from the Heights: Europeans & Healing / Alternate Healing / Science & Healing in the Valley / Past & Present: Two Views / Timeline / List of Doctors, Dentist & Chiropractors. Check out the scans. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo.

U.S.A.: Bandera Press, 2016. ------ # 012830 - The scan you see is the book you get. Green cloth with gilt (roughly) 9 1/4" by 6 1/4" (inches) headband, x, 425 pages, SIGNED by Luke Timmerman, with personal inscription on title page. Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition now in Mylar. "Luke Timmerman fully captures this Willy Wonka of molecular biology & all of his complcations in an utterly riveting narrative." (Misha Angrist, Duke University) Check out the scans. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Minneapolis: Lindsay Publications / T. S. Denison & Co, 2001. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" (inches), flat uncreased spine, clean square true & tight, 120 pages filled with diagrams & illlustrations through-out, Near Fine condition. "Making the projects described here requires no expensive tools, equipment or a special room. All the work can easily & safely be done on a kitchen table with ordinary simple hand tools." Check out the scans. . 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Coles, 1979. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover/trade, flat uncresed spine, square clean and tight, 124 pages,Very Good Plus condition with just a touch of aging to block edges (minor). Contents include: Mind Over Mind / Through Mesmerism to Hypnotism / The Developent of Hypnotism / Auto-Suggestion: A Modern Key to Hypnotism / Hypnoidal Test / How to Induce Hypnosis: The Fixation Method; The Finger Pressure Method; The Progressive Verbal Method; Counting Methods / Theory & Practice / Hypnotism & Crime. Check out the scans. . Coles Edition . Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo.