Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes: Twenty-Five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (Behavior) of Animal
by Pavlov, Ivan Petrovitch
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International Pubishers, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Portrait Frontispiece. This book has unusual association value, besides being the first English translation of a landmark in the study of psychology. It bears the signature and period designer bookplate of A.C. Ivy, the legendary University of Chicago professor and authority in anatomy (83 publications, including the acclaimed text The Carcinogenicity of Fat "Browned" by Heating - the bookplate bears his motto and the artist initials "MD"). This copy also stood in the famed John Crerar Library of Science, and has a small neat "Withdrawn from Crerar Library" stamp on the endpaper. Introduction by William B. Cannon. A clean, tight copy of one of the milestone books of 20th Century science.
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- Title
- Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes: Twenty-Five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity (Behavior) of Animal
- Author
- Pavlov, Ivan Petrovitch
- Illustrator
- Portrait Frontispiece
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- International Pubishers
- Date Published
- 1928
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/ Either way, her dad built a musty little empire with a sexy, funny, brilliant, and hard-to-pronounce name that boasted membership in the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA) and exhibited at Chicago book fairs such as the famed Printer's Row. / The way he puts it:
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/ When he says "our" he means himself, his wife, and his two daughters. It has grown more and more into a family business every year, and now he's nearly ready to hand the reins over to one of his daughters. (Don't worry, the other one's a school teacher.) On Biblio, Alba manages Bibliodisia's inventory and sales under the considerably less sexy, funny, brilliant and hard-to-pronounce business name of Alba's Books.
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