Search Results: Science & Technology from Books of the World

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, September 1988. Hardcover. First printing / full number line. Brown leatherette over boards with copper titles to spine and front cover. Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light wear to bottom edge. Jacket rubbed, and faded at spine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxiv + 740 pages. 25 cm.

Houston: Council For Environmental Education, 2013. Paperback. Revised Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Not damaged. xxix + 396 pages, illustrations.Project Wild is an interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program emphasizing wildlife. The goal of Project WILD is to assist learners of any age in developing awareness, knowledge, skills, and commitment resulting in informed decisions, responsible behavior, and constructive actions concerning wildlife and the environment. Contents:Welcome to Project WILD!Section 1. Ecological knowledge. Wildlife populations ; Habitats, ecosystems, and niches ; Interdependence ; Changes and adaptations ; BiodiversitySection 2. Social and political knowledge. Cultural perspectives ; Economic, commercial, and recreational considerations ; Historical and geographic development ; Political and legislative frameworksSection 3. Sustaining fish and wildlife resources. Attitudes and awareness ; Human impacts ; Issues and trends ;… Read More

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good+ book in a Very Good jacket. Prior owner's name to FFEP, otherwise unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Reading and edgewear to jacket included a few short tears. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiv + 470 pages. Illustrated.

Amherst, New York: Prometheus, November 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean. Slight fading. Light reading wear to lower corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxxii + 365 pages. First published in 1892, this autobiography of the great naturalist, compiled and edited by his son Francis, offers fascinating glimpses into the mind and personal experiences of the man whose discoveries have had such a profound influence on science, philosophy, and the modern world view. In the first half of the book Darwin reminisces about his early life, his family and upbringing, and his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, during which he made the many observations that were later to prove so critical to his formulation of evolutionary theory. The second half is devoted mainly to the Origin of Species: its foundations, development, the writing and publication process, its varied critical reception, and the gradual acceptance and… Read More

Hauppauge, New York: Barron's Educational Series, February 2014. Near Fine. Flash cards As New. Corner wear to box. Not from a library.

Washington, DC: Center for Technology and National Security Policy by National Defense University Press, July 2006. Trade Paperback. First Printing (stated). New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 192 pages.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2005. DVD. Twenty-four 30-minute lectures on four Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with an As New 120-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Not from a library. From the estate of Amato Giaccia, MD. Suitable for gifting. An interdisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject. In 24 lectures, you will investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. You will see that little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work. Contents: Lecture 1 Biology and Behavior—An Introduction ; Lecture 2 The Basic Cells of the Nervous System ; Lecture 3 How Two Neurons Communicate ; Lecture 4 Learning and Synaptic Plasticity ; Lecture 5 The Dynamics of Interacting Neurons ; Lecture 6… Read More

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company, 2009. DVD. Twelve 30-minute lectures on two Fine DVDs in a Fine original case along with a Fine 84-page paperback Course Guidebook. Disks show little sign of prior use. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. Drawing on extensive graphics, including hundreds of stunning astronomical images, Dr. Filippenko shows how scientists have been able to read the evidence to surmise a great deal about objects that are inherently invisible. Contents: Lecture 1 A General Introduction to Black Holes ; Lecture 2 The Violent Deaths of Massive Stars ; Lecture 3 Gamma-Ray Bursts—The Birth of Black Holes ; Lecture 4 Searching for Stellar-Mass Black Holes ; Lecture 5 Monster of the Milky Way and Other Galaxies ; Lecture 6 Quasars—Feasting Supermassive Black Holes ; Lecture 7 Gravitational Waves—Ripples in Space-Time ; Lecture 8 The Wildest Ride in the Universe ; Lecture 9 Shortcuts through the Universe and Beyond? ; Lecture 10 Stephen Hawking and Black Hole Evaporation ;… Read More

London: Picador, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 360 pages.
Lev is a man who has come down in the world. Formerly a Russian biological weapons scientist, he is now a chauffeur in "that new Russia where physicists wash windows and engineers drive trams". So he decides to take his somewhat lethal knowledge abroad; to offer his services to a foreign government. But on the way from the airport his taxi is stopped and robbed. It is in this helpless state, alone and adrift in Delhi, that Lev meets Maya. Beautiful, ferocious and utterly original, Maya has been waiting for a man like Lev to walk into her life. Briefly they come together and Lev steps into the marvelous world that is Maya. But then something terrible happens - something for which the Russian scientist is blamed. The Brainfever Bird is an exquisite love story, a tale of… Read More

New York: Penguin, 1988. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light edgewear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 352 pages. 10 pages of plates. Explains the meaning and application of chaos--the study of patterns emerging from seemingly random phenomena--and introduces the scientists responsible for major discoveries in this field.

Crans, Switzerland: Rotovision, 1998. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Corners sharp. Light rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. This important typography manual explains the differences between designing for the screen versus the printed page. 160 pages. Profusely illustrated. 4to.

New York: Penguin, October 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine curved, but not creased. Light edgewear and creasing. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xviii + 750 pages. A critically acclaimed study documents the outbreaks of newly discovered diseases around the globe, such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola, and explores the social and environmental deterioration that helps to keep such viruses alive.

London: Gaia Books, 1996. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Corners sharp. Publisher's sample label to spine, otherwise covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 287 pagesThis volume explains how flowers heal, and is a guide to flowers used in aromatherapy, flower essences, homeopathy and herbalism. It includes detailed descriptions of traditional and new flower essences from around the world. Readers learn the simple treatments for physical ailments, as well as emotional problems. Beautifully illustrated profiles, reveal the healing character and therapeutic qualities of 100 of the most important flowers. Each profile compares the preparation and remedies, describes how they work and indicates how to select the appropriate treatment for a particular ailment. It contains special features on Bach Flower Remedies, and Californian and Australian bush flower remedies.

New York: Simon & Schuster, September 1993. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 380 pages. Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans value trust and cooperation? At first glance these questions don't appear to have anything in common, but in fact every one of these statements refers to a complex system. The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a species or a stock, spontaneously organize into complicated structures like ecosystems and economies; stars become galaxies, and snowflakes avalanches almost as if these systems were obeying a hidden yearning for order.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Reading wear. Spine uncreased but lightly curved. Wear to corners and hinges. Creasing/bumping to lower portion of front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 731 pages. Includes 94 archival photographs and a glossary with brief descriptions of the hundreds of people interviewed and discussed in the book.
A brilliant, panoramic portrait of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, November 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xx + 251 pages.From the beginning of European trade and conquest overseas, Europeans have known they died from the effect of the strange "climate." Later, they came to understand that it was disease, not climate, that killed, but the fact remained that every trading voyage, every military expedition beyond Europe, had its price in European lives lost. For European soldiers in the tropics at the beginning of the nineteenth century, this added cost in deaths from disease--the "relocation cost"--meant a death rate at least twice that of soldiers who stayed home. This book is partly a statistical exposition of the changing death rates of European Algeria, the British West Indies, and southern India--by cause of death from disease--set against the comparable figures for those who stayed at home in France or Great Britain. About two-thirds of the book is devoted… Read More

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, November 1968. Trade Paperback. Prior owner's name to first page, otherwise unmarked. Not from a library. xxiii+309 pages. Illustrated. 24 cm.
Monographic compilation of introductory lectures on decision making analysis under uncertainty - covers analysis of basic problems, uncertain payoffs and biased measurements, use of judgmental probability, samples and statistical analysis, risk sharing and group decisions, etc., and some further perspectives.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Books, March 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light wear to pictorial covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 676 pages. Reliable, unique, and sometimes never-before-revealed self-care secrets practiced by physicians and health-care professionals. The result is a one-of-a-kind volume of sure cures and treatments for common conditions--from angina to ulcers, from sore feet to forgetfulness. .

New York: New American Library / Signet, February 1969. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing (stated). No ISBN. Signet Q3770, 95¢. Very Good+. Interior lightly tanned, but unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Light reading and shelfwear to covers, including light creases. No tears, no folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 143 pages.