Search Results: Science from Books & Bygones

London: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Synopsis The figure of Albert Einstein still towers over the 20th century, although his most important work dates from 1905. The one equation most people know is E=MC2, but most of us could not explain what it means. This book elucidates the special and general theories of relativity, as well as electromagnetism, space-time and other theories. It enables readers to appreciate the great physicist's achievements by laying out the context in which he developed his theories and the way that they were received..

New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1947. Book. Good Reading Copy. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6 x 9"; 353pp; blue cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, chipped and torn; good reading copy;.

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office HMSO, 1962. Book. Good Reading Copy. Hardback. 189 pages; blue cloth cover with laminated plastic over; working copy;.

London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1979. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 278 pages. An interesting look at natural selection..

Massachusetts: Massachusetts; Winthrop; 1972;, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 7.25 x 9.5"; 158pp; blue cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, clipped to inside top front edge; very good copy;.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. Book. Good. Full-Leather. Sixth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 859 pages. Translated and edited from Ganot's Éléments de Physique. 4 coloured plates and 746 woodcuts..

Cambridge: Galloway and Porter, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 6.25 x 10"; 508 pages; blue cloth with gilt title to spine; dustwrapper, a little scuffed and chipped to edges; very good/good; with extensive numerical tables;.

London: Hutchinson, 1967. Book. Good. Hardback. 270 pages; black cloth with gilt titles; dustwrapper with sellotape to edges; owners name to free front endpaper; good;.

Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1972. Book. Illus. by Danov, T. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 322 pages. Black and white illustrations. Appears to be a very technical book about the health standards in Bulgaria in the 1970's. Russian (Bulgarian) text throughout..

London: W. Stewart & Co., 1895. Book. Good. Hardback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. An essay, together with two appendices, entitled "The Bases of Certitude" and "Evolution, or Epigenesis". Black cloth with gilt titles to front board and spine..

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1964. Book. Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5.5 x 9"; 253 pages; green cloth with gilt title to spine, clear film covering; no dustwrapper; good;.

Oxford: Pergamon, 1969. Book. Good. Paperback. paperback with librex film; good;.

London: Granta Books, 2000. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Leading geneticist Richard Lewontin's It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions consists of a collection of essays written over a period of 17 years for the New York Review of Books dealing with various aspects of biology and human biology in particular. Lewontin discusses Darwin, Mendel, natural selection, heredity, and the current state of play in modern genetics while damning what he sees as widespread biological determinism from the socio-biology of the recent past to the current "vulgar Darwinism" of the present. IQ testing, and gene therapy, evolutionary psychology, and feminist notions of gendered knowledge all come under fire. The title essay "The Dream of the Human Genome" is a review of nine major books up to 1992 and an attack on the Genomic "grail knights" that, in Lewontin's view, represent… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of three works, The Scientist, The Inventor and The Artist.

London: Whittaker & Co, and George Bell & Sons, 1891. Book. Reading Copy. Hardback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 143 pages. Numerous pencil notes and underlining to text.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1993. Book. Good. Hardback. First. 4vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 196 pages. Black cloth cover. Dustwrapper light creasing from shelf wear to bottom edge. Otherwise very good. No inscriptions..

London: Society of Chemical Industry, 1946. Book. Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6 x 9"; 349 pages; green cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, chipped with loss to top edge of spine; g/g;.

Moscow: Nauka, 1977. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 398 pages. Russian text throughout. Dustjacket is scuffed with small tears. Biological structure of the ocean. Black and white illustrations and diagrams..

New York: Henry Holt, 1993. Book. As New. Hardback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 8.5 x 10.25"; illustrated laminated boards; dustwrapper; very good copy; written for the younger reader..

London: David Bogue, 1882. Book. Reading Copy. Hardcover. Second Edition. 64mo - up to 3" tall. 335 pages. Blue cloth with gilt titles. A well shaken book, but complete and clean..