Physical Sciences
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Biochemistry
by Jeremy M ; Tymoczko, John L ; Stryer, Lubert Berg
In the new edition of Biochemistry, instructors will see the all the hallmark features that made this a consistent bestseller for the undergraduate biochemistry course: exceptional clarity and concision, a more biological focus, cutting-edge content, and an elegant, uncluttered design. Accomplished in both the classroom and the laboratory, coauthors Jeremy Berg and John Tymoczko draw on the field’s dynamic research to illustrate its fundamental ideas.
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed...
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The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999 which introduces string theory and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings.
Physics
by Douglas C Giancoli
For algebra-based introductory physics courses taken primarily by pre-med, agricultural, technology, and architectural students.
This best-selling algebra-based physics text is known for its elegant writing, engaging biological applications, and exactness. Physics: Principles with Applications, 6e retains the careful exposition and precision of previous editions with many interesting new applications and carefully crafted new pedagogy. It was written to give students the basic concepts of physics... Read more about this item
This best-selling algebra-based physics text is known for its elegant writing, engaging biological applications, and exactness. Physics: Principles with Applications, 6e retains the careful exposition and precision of previous editions with many interesting new applications and carefully crafted new pedagogy. It was written to give students the basic concepts of physics... Read more about this item
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson follows his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. From the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a profound, funny, and wonderfully clear and entertaining adventure into the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it.
Optics
by Eugene Hecht
Optics, Fifth Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives for the reader: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition’s pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.
Classical Electrodynamics
by John David Jackson
The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.
Physical Chemistry
by Donald a McQuarrie and John D Simon
As the first modern physical chemistry textbook to cover quantum mechanics before thermodynamics and kinetics, this book provides a contemporary approach to the study of physical chemistry. By beginning with quantum chemistry, students will learn the fundamental principles upon which all modern physical chemistry is built. The text includes a special set of "MathChapters" to review and summarize the mathematical tools required to master the material Thermodynamics is simultaneously taught from a...
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Physical Sciences Books & Ephemera
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ARKANSAS FOR 1892 WITH TWO ATLASES The Iron Deposits of Arkansas
by Branner, John C. & R. A. F. Penrose
Boston: Press Printing Co.. Very Good. 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean black cloth, spine gilt faded. Atlas #2 contains 5 folded sheets of maps: Yellville; Harrison-Berryville; Fayetteville-Bentonville; Eureka Springs and Black Rock. Atlas #3: 6 folded sheets of maps: Yellville; Mountain Home; Batesville; Fayetteville-Bentonville; Eureka Springs and Black Rock. Both Atlases show some signs of wear. Maps with A few mended tears. Gilt titles no longer visible. Text volume VG; Atlases Good....
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$100.00
A Land
by Hawkes, Jacquetta
London: Readers Union, 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine. x, 205 p., color frontispiece and 19 leaves of plates (1 in color); 20 cm. Orange-brown cloth with gilt spine title. Top edges black. No dust jacket. Maps on endpapers. The two color plates are by Henry Moore. Combining geology and archaeology, archaeologist Hawkes examines the geography of Britain from earliest times and the historical relationship between people and the land. In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; clean and tight.
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$25.00
The World Before the Deluge.
by Figuier, Louis
1891. London, Cassel and Company, 1891. 12,5 cm x 19,5 cm. VIII, 518 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Original brown cloth with dark brown lettering and illustration, gilt lettering on spine and gilt grammar school logo on back. Written dedication on front free endpaper. Includes for example the following essays: Consideration of Fossils / Modification's of the Earth's Surface / Old Red Sandstone and Devonian Period / Jurassic Period / European...
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€120.00
Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Optics, Geography, Astronomy and Dialing. 3 volume set
by Ferguson, James; Brewster, David
Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute; J Fairbairn; T Ostell; &c. G : in Good condition. Modern rebind. Some foxing. 1806. Second edition revised. Brown hardback board covers with maroon leather spines. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). lxviii, 422pp; x, 510pp; 50 plates. 50 double-page b/w plates. Heavy set – extra shipping needed for overseas. .
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£460.00
Earth First! The radical environmental journal; Volume 26 No. 4, Beltane, May-June 2006
Eugene, OR: Daily Planet Publishing, 2006. Magazine. 48p., stapled wraps, 8.25 x 10.75 inches, illus., address label on rear wrap else very good condition. Articles on the fight against dam building in Iceland, the FBI's war on envirionmental activists, ALF activist and political prisoner Rod Coronado, and more. Inside rear wrap is a poster reading "Build a Wall of Resistance/Don't Talk to the FBI" with an illustration of an FBI agent at the end of a row of houses, all of which are slamming their doors...
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$25.00
The Book of Mountains
by Ottenheimer, Laurence
London: Moonlight Publishing, 1989 12mo laminated boards pp92 colour drawings VG Curious little book on various aspects of mountains. Rirst English language edition, from 1983 French.
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£3.09
Rutley's Elements of Mineralogy - 24th Edition
by Read H.H
London: Murby, 1960. sound unmarked copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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€5.00
The Greening of America
by Reich, Charles A
Bantam Books, 1971. Very Good paperback . Mass Market Paper Back. Very Good.
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$7.00
Six Not-so-easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-time
by Feynman, Richard P
Penguin, 1998. First Edition. paperback. Good. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). First Edition, 1998. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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£6.49
The New World of Mr Tompkins
by George Gamow and Russell Stannard
Hard Cover. New/New.
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$29.00
Smith's College Chemistry: Third Revised Edition
by KENDALL, James
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935. Hardcover. Good. Later printing. Octavo. xiv, 753pp. Small stain on preliminary pages, owner name inked and stamped on front fly, front board and spine detached, good only.
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$20.00
Annals of British Geology, 1891
by Blake, J F
London: A Dulau & Co. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Ex Students' Library/. 1892. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xii, 404pp + plates. 6 b/w plates. .
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£24.00
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe
by Davies, Paul
Hardback. Very Good.
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£0.79
O QUE É A ENERGIA NUCLEAR, OPORTUNIDADE EM PORTUGAL.
Soft Cover. 1ª Edição. Colecção Temas e Problemas/Série: Documentos. Moraes Editores. Lisboa. 1978. De 23x16 cm. Com 277, [iii] págs. Brochado. Ilustrado no texto com gravuras, esquemas, quadros e gráficos. Exemplar com leves sinais de manuseamento nas capas de brochura. A obra contém capítulos de: Domingos Moura; Frederico Carvalho; Rui Namorado Rosa; Alfeu Fernandes Forte; João Manuel Gaspar Caraça: António Mota Redol; João Barreto; João F. Martins; M. Rodrigues. I-168-E-12
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€20.00
Meteorites and Their Parent Planets
by Harry Y McSween
Introduction to the study and significance of meteorites, classification and origin, recent discoveries, chemical and physical properties, and how they escape their parent bodies and find their way to earth. 237 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Book in near fine condition ex library with stamps inside back cover and borrowing sleeve remnants on back endpaper and inside back cover. Dust jacket in very good condition in clear wrapper with small fold to flaps and sticker on back.
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A$60.00
Industrial Crystallization: Fundamentals and Applications by Lewis, A.E.
ISBN: 9781107052154
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 31 August 2015
Hardcover 350 pages
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this text provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of industrial crystallization. Newcomers will learn all of the most important topics in industrial crystallization, from key concepts and basic theory to industrial practices. Topics covered include the characterization of a crystalline product and the basic process design for crystallization, as well as batch... Read more about this item
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 31 August 2015
Hardcover 350 pages
Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this text provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of industrial crystallization. Newcomers will learn all of the most important topics in industrial crystallization, from key concepts and basic theory to industrial practices. Topics covered include the characterization of a crystalline product and the basic process design for crystallization, as well as batch... Read more about this item
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R400.00
The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action by Richard B. Silverman
ISBN: 9780126437324
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, 19 Feb 2004
Hard cover, 640 page
Standard medicinal chemistry courses and texts are organized by classes of drugs with an emphasis on descriptions of their biological and pharmacological effects. This book represents a new approach based on physical organic chemical principles and reaction mechanisms that allow the reader to extrapolate to many related classes of drug molecules. The Second Edition reflects the significant changes in the drug... Read more about this item
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, 19 Feb 2004
Hard cover, 640 page
Standard medicinal chemistry courses and texts are organized by classes of drugs with an emphasis on descriptions of their biological and pharmacological effects. This book represents a new approach based on physical organic chemical principles and reaction mechanisms that allow the reader to extrapolate to many related classes of drug molecules. The Second Edition reflects the significant changes in the drug... Read more about this item
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R690.00
Über den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle (and 5 further articles)
by HAHN, Otto & STRASSMANN, Fritz
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. In: Die Naturwissenschaften. Vol. 27. Berlin, J. Springer, 1939. 4to (27:20,5 cm). With numerous illustrations in text; xviii, 862 pp. Title-leaf with library- and deaccession-stamp. Later cloth-backed boards. ---- PMM 422 (b); Poggendorff VIIa/2, 356 & 4, 568; Norman 963 Anm. - First printing of Hahn and Straßmann's famous paper on the discovery of nuclear fission. "In 1938 Hahn and...
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€750.00
The Real War
by Nixon, Richard
London, England: Sidgwick & Jackson. Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edtion; 1st Printng. Hardcover. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 341 pages; Stated First Edition, With Clear Plastic Jacket of Mylar protecting the dust jacket. , Water Stain Bottom edge, Text unaffected. .
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$23.25
Forest of England in Bye-Gone Times
by John Croumbie Brown
Oliver and Boyd, 1883. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. First edition. Ex-library copy with all the usual markings. Some edgewear to the corners and spine. Scuffing on outer edges of spine. Spine is bumped but binding is intact. Light foxing to outer edges of pages. Text is clean and unmarked.
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$50.00
Student Discovery: The Herpetofauna of the City and County of San Francisco, California
by Morafka, David
San Francisco: Junior Academy, California Academy of Sciences, 1968. 20p., + two-page bibliography, 8.5x11 inches, very good mimeographed report in stapled wraps. Lists amphibian and reptile species found in the city, with discussion of their adaptation to the relatively urbanized environment.
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$15.00
TEXTOS FUNDAMENTAIS DA FÍSICA MODERNA.
by LORENTZ. (H.A.), EINSTEIN. (A.) e MINKOWSKI. (H.)
Hard Cover. I. O PRINCIPIO DA RELATIVIDADE . 3ª edição. Colectânea de artigos com um ensaio de H. Weyl, notas de A. Sommerfeld e prefácio de O. Blummenthal. Prefácio de Manuel dos Reis. Tradução de Mário José Saraiva. Fundação Caloust Gulbenkian. 1983. De 21x14 cm. Com xviii-279 págs. Encadernação do editor em tela azul escura com estampagem a ouro na lombada e a seco na pasta anterior. I-46-H-8
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€30.00
UMA BREVE HISTÓRIA TECTÓNICA DA TERRA - A BRIEF TECTONIC HISTORY OF THE EARTH.
by RIBEIRO. (António)
Soft Cover. Parque Expo. Lisboa. 1998. De 28x23 cm. Com 52, [i] págs. Brochado. Ilustrado em extratexto com 11 páginas numeradas, com modelos, esquemas e gráficos da autoria de José Garção. Obra bilingue, em português e inglês. Monografia concebida no ambito da Exposição sobre os Oceanos (Expo 98). António Ribeiroé licenciado em Geologia pela Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, fez estudos pós-graduados em Tectonofísica em Paris e Leeds e doutorou-se em Geologia pela...
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€20.00
The economy and population of the Ahtna Inc. area
by Planning Support Group, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of the Interior
Billings, MT: Planning Support Group, 1973. iv, 26 p., ill., map, 8.5x11 inches, spiralbound. Rubberstamp on cover indicates rejection as a duplicate by Harvard's Tozzer Library. Report #216.
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$25.00
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Kaku, Michio
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
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$14.99
