Poisonous Plants
Boston: Harvard University / Arnold Arboretum, 1974. Softcover. 8vo., 55 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted from Arnoldia, Vol. 34, No. 2, March / April 1974.
Science and Nature
Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery
New York: Criterion Books, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo., 285 pp. Preface by General L.M. Chassin, General Air Defense Coordinator. Translated from the French and edited by the Research Division of Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York. Presenting important documentary evidence of a meaningful pattern and guiding intelligence behind the latest UFO.....
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Atlanta/Kansas City: Turner/Andrews and McMeel, 2004. Hardcover. 8vo., 383 pp. Index, black and white plates, illustrations. Astronauts Shepard and Slayton tell the story of America's race to the Moon, beginning in 1961 when Shepard became the first American to fly in space and ending on July 20, 1969 when Neil.....
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Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement [Dover Books on Physics]
New York: Dover, 1990. Softcover. 8vo., Five early papers evolve the theory that won Einstein a Nobel Prize, including 'On the Theory of the Brownian Movement' and 'A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.' Originally published by Methuen in London in 1926.
The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field [Princeton Science Library]
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Softcover. 8vo., 166 pp. Diagrams, appendices, index. Fifth edition.
Sidelights on Relativity
New York: Dover, 2010. Softcover. 8vo., Reprint. 56 pp. Originally published by E.P. Dutton in 1923. Contains two lectures/addresses by the author: one delivered on May 5, 1920 at the University of Leyden and the other on January 27 1922 to the Prussian Academy of sciences in Berlin in relation.....
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory: A Clear Explanation that Anyone Can Understand
New York: Crown, 1961. Hardcover. 8vo., 163 pp. Later print.
The Russian Scientist
New York: Macmillan, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. From Mendeleyev and Pavlov to the scientists and technologists of the 1970s era USSR. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that has a few chips.
The Magnetic Effect
Hicksvillle: Exposition Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. 128 pp. Stated second printing. Scarce hardcover edition. Introduces Biomagnetics, the science of applying a magnet's energies to the animal system. Presents the factual, natural basis of applied biomagnetic energies to the understanding of the field. The computer-exact and reproducible findings in this work.....
An Einstein Encyclopedia
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. Hardcover. 4to, 347 pp. Bibliography, Index. The single most complete guide to EinsteinÕs life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected.....
Immortality: The Scientific Evidence
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo., 220 pp. Index.
Man in Search of His Ancestors
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo., 274 pp. Frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table, tables, maps, index. Man's hunt through the ages in search of his origins. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Translated by Malcolm Barnes.
Rosalind Franklin and DNA
New York: Norton, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in. a very good lightly soiled dust jacket. A view of what it is like to be a gifted woman in an especially male profession.
Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age
New York: Harper and Row, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo., 241 pp. With diagrams, text illustrations. First edition, stated, of this relatively scarce Clarke title exploring the possibilities of telecommunications satellites, space flight, space voyages, and possibilities of extraterrestrial contact.
Extraterrestrial
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. Hardcover. 8vo., 240 pp. Additional Reading, Index. Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book | Amazon Best Book of the Year | Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
These Fragile Outposts: A Geological Look at Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Garden City: Natural History Press, 1964. Softcover. 8vo., 328 pp. Black and white illustrations in text, appendices, bibliography, index, map endpapers. Published for The American Museum of Natural History.
Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet
New York: Norton, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo., 225 pp. An unofficial report commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. Prepared with the assistance of a 152-member committee of corresponding consultants in 58 countries.
Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide
New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Hardcover. 8vo, 421 pp. Glossary, References and Index. Columbia University Medical Center physicians Brian A. Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky explain that, despite the vexing ÒLyme Wars,Ó there is cause for both doctors and patients to be optimistic. Drawing on both extensive clinical experience and.....
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA
Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2007. Hardcover. 8vo., 362 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful opportunism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.
The Voyage of the Beagle
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo., Abridged and edited by Millicent E. Selsam. Illustrations by Anthony Ravielli.
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Wolfhead [Berkley 03658]
New York: Berkley, 1978. Softcover. Small 8vo. Paperback Original [PBO]. Berkley 03658.
One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment
Washington, D.C: National Academy Press, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo., 196 pp. Index.
The Enneagram: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Music and Meaning
New Paltz: Codhill, 2017. Softcover. 8vo., 128 pp. Explores various aspects of the enneagram, the symbol that G.I. Gurdjieff introduced to the modern world, which he stated represented a complete description of the laws governing the universe and how they relate to modern mathematical and scientific descriptions of the laws.....
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Hardcover. 8vo.
The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness
New York: Basic Books, 1993. Hardcover. 8vo., 358 pp. Dawkins eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence.