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NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in fine condition. Text block clean and tight; no writing, no markings noted. * From the book, ""The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002,"" edited by Natalie Angier, is another eclectic, provocative collection"" (Entertainment Weekly). . . . ""Malcolm Gladwell, Joy Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Burkhard Bilger, Dennis Overbye, and many more of the best and brightest writers on science and nature explore such topics as the rise and fall of Islamic science, disappearing cancers, and the meaning of mountain lions in the back yard.""

New York, NY, U.S.A.: The Macmillan Company, 1944. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. This Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged, was published in 1944. (First edition was 1929; Second edition 1930.) Hardcover in very good condition. Dusty gray boards with black spine lettering; corners & head & heel of spine bumped. Text block is clean & tight with no writings or markings noted. Endpapers and all text papers show age toning & dust dulling. Heavy papers have deckle edges on bottom and side. Two or three pages of the index show ghost of leaves of a pressed plant (plant no longer in book). Dust jacket in fair condition. All intact but shows shelf & edge wear and many chips along edges (see photos.) DJ not price clipped ($2.95.); in mylar cover. Title page notes title as listed here; dust jacket, however, just indicates ""A History of Science."" 574 numbered pages.

New York: Dutton, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First American Printing. September 2006. In addition, complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Has red and black boards with gold lettering along spine. Black remainder mark on bottom text block. Dust jacket in very good condition; not price clipped. * Among the unlikeliness research: A Swiss-Japanese-Czech team noted the effects of chewing hum flavor on brain waves . . .Two brothers figured out how to insinuate pungent scratch-and -sniffable perfume into magazines . . . A Japanese device translated dog barks into human language . . .and many more.

New Yoirk: LIFE, 2018. Soft cover. Fine. OVERSIZE. Vol. 18, No. 20 : October 12, 2018. Soft cover special edition of LIFE magazine dedicated to the life and legacy of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Pictorial wraps in fine condition. Interior clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. 8 1/2"" wide x 10 3/4"" tall; 96 pages. Black & white and color photographs on every page with narrative.

NY: Picador, 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st Printing First Picador Paperback Edition: September 2003, in addition complete number line including number one. Soft cover in fine condition. Text block clean and tight. Contains some colored and black and white photos. No markings noted. * From the book, ""Mapping Mars"" is a brilliant, sustained achievement which presents not just our changing representation of Mars, but the developing map of humanity's consciousness through science, technology, culture, and art. Oliver Morton is a superb writer who has made a specialist subject enthralling and universal.""

HarperOne, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd Printing Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings or tears noted. * From the book, ""Accessible to young people and adults alike, 'One Makes the Difference' shows how every positive change in our lives, no matter how big or small, contributes to saving our world.""

U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. First Published in 1986 and reprinted many times since then.This edition printed in 1996. Softcover in very good condition. Wraps crisp & bright and show only ghost of shelf & edge wear. Text block clean & tight with no markings noted. Appears unread.

NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd Printing Second Printing per number line. Soft cover in very good condition with wraps crisp & bright; no creases. Text block clean and tight; no writing, no markings noted. * From the comment by Ronnie Cummins, National Director of the Organic Consumers Association, ""David Steinman shows us how we must bring together the issues of food, health, and the environment if we and our children are to survive the coming crisis.""

New York: Random House, 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated First U.S. Edition. In addition contains complete number line including number one. Hard cover in fine condition with black boards and silver gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; not price clipped. * From the jacket flap, ""The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with his career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time.""

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Petite hard cover in very good condition. Size approximately 7 3/8"" tall x 4 3/8"" wide x 1/2"" thick. 156 numbered pages. Drawings and illustrations throughout. Boards and papers show mellow age toning; no writing, no markings noted. Top text block stained red. * A volume from the Science Study Series and published as a part of a fresh approach to the teaching and study of physics by the Physical Science Study Committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which began during 1956. From the Introduction, ""...a classic of science literature, and its author was one of the most colorful of British scientists. Three lectures that he delivered before a juvenile audience at the London Institution on December 30, 1889, and on January 1 and 3, 1890, compose the book."" Was first published ""in this form in 1902 and in a revised edition in 1916, but [until this edition] has been long… Read More

Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2007. 2nd Edition. Audio Book (DVD). New. Course No. 1810. New in unopened shrink wrap: consists of three parts: Soft cover Course Guidebook, one DVD case with 8 DVDs, a second DVD case with another 8 DVDs. From the visible back of the second DVD case and assuming same on first case : each DVD contains six lectures of 30 minutes each; in total 96 lectures. * From the course description, ""This course concentrates on the most exciting aspects of our fantastic Universe and on the methods astronomers have used to develop an understanding of it.""

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Stated: First published in Great Britain in 1997. Copyright 1997; printed in Great Britain. Soft cover in fine condition with bright, crisp, uncreased wraps. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. * From the book, ""We are living in a golden age of cosmology, the science of the universe as a whole. What is said of the seventeenth century in the study of our solar system, or of the early twentieth century in quantum mechanics, will be said of cosmology in our own time - that never before in history was so much about one field of science learned so quickly by so few.""