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Biochemistry
by Jeremy M ; Tymoczko, John L ; Stryer, Lubert Berg
In the new edition of Biochemistry, instructors will see the all the hallmark features that made this a consistent bestseller for the undergraduate biochemistry course: exceptional clarity and concision, a more biological focus, cutting-edge content, and an elegant, uncluttered design. Accomplished in both the classroom and the laboratory, coauthors Jeremy Berg and John Tymoczko draw on the field’s dynamic research to illustrate its fundamental ideas.
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University; Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; and the cofounder and President of the Planetary Society, the largest space-interest group in the world. For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he was an adviser on the Mariner, Voyager, and Viking unmanned space missions, and he briefed...
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The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999 which introduces string theory and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings.
Physics
by Douglas C Giancoli
For algebra-based introductory physics courses taken primarily by pre-med, agricultural, technology, and architectural students.
This best-selling algebra-based physics text is known for its elegant writing, engaging biological applications, and exactness. Physics: Principles with Applications, 6e retains the careful exposition and precision of previous editions with many interesting new applications and carefully crafted new pedagogy. It was written to give students the basic concepts of physics... Read more about this item
This best-selling algebra-based physics text is known for its elegant writing, engaging biological applications, and exactness. Physics: Principles with Applications, 6e retains the careful exposition and precision of previous editions with many interesting new applications and carefully crafted new pedagogy. It was written to give students the basic concepts of physics... Read more about this item
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bryson follows his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. From the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a profound, funny, and wonderfully clear and entertaining adventure into the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it.
Optics
by Eugene Hecht
Optics, Fifth Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives for the reader: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition’s pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.
Classical Electrodynamics
by John David Jackson
The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.
Physical Chemistry
by Donald a McQuarrie and John D Simon
As the first modern physical chemistry textbook to cover quantum mechanics before thermodynamics and kinetics, this book provides a contemporary approach to the study of physical chemistry. By beginning with quantum chemistry, students will learn the fundamental principles upon which all modern physical chemistry is built. The text includes a special set of "MathChapters" to review and summarize the mathematical tools required to master the material Thermodynamics is simultaneously taught from a...
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Physical Sciences Books & Ephemera
Space places
by Ressmeyer, Roger
US: Collins Publishers, 1990-01-01. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 207 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463528
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$31.00
CATALOGUE OF THE RARE ASTRONOMICAL BOOKS IN THE SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
by Kenney, Louis A.; Owen Gingerich
San Diego: Friends of the Malcolm A. Love Library, San Diego State University, 1988. First edition. Cloth bound in very good condition; Spine womewhat faded.. #2 of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies in slipcase; 12" x 9.5"; 335 pages.
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$27.50
Operations at River Stations, 1901: A Report of the Division of Hydrography of the United States Geological Survey. Part II - (West of Mississippi River).
by author not noted
Washington. : Government Printing Office. , 1902. . Pink printed wraps. . A very good copy. . 8vo.. Numerous illustrations, 14 full page plates.
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$32.50
Chemical Manipulation; Being Instructions to Students in Chemistry, on the methods of performing experiments of demonstration or of research, with accuracy and success
by FARADAY, Michael
London: W. Phillips, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo (214 x 136 mm). vii [1], ix [1], 11-656 pp. Woodcut illustrations in text. Original cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered label to spine (rebacked preserving original spine, wear to extremities, corners bumped, boards soiled). Internally little age-toned with minor occasional spotting, dust- and finger-soiling. Provenance: The library of Hugh Selbourne. ---- Bolton I, 434; Duveen...
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€1600.00
Modern Mineralogy
by Frye, Keith
Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1974 Bds; 8vo.,323pp. Tight. No names or other markings. Nice D/j with a couple of small but open scrapes lower edge of front flap-fold. Near Fine in V.Good D/j.
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$18.00
Gravity, Black Holes And The Universe
by Nicolson, Iain
John Wiley: New York,, 1981 Hardcover. Cloth; 8vo.,264pp. A few pages with tips of corners creased.Small name-plate inside front cover. else V.Good+ in Fine d/j.
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$12.00
Trace Fossil Concepts: SEPM Short Course, No. 5
by Basan, Paul B. (ed.)
Oklahoma City: Society of Economic Paleontologists & Mineralogists. Very Good+. 1978. Softcover. A softcover edition in Very Good+ condition with creasing to the edges, some minor soiling, and previous owner's name stamped on the upper right corner of the front wrap; This book is a guide for educators teaching fossil concepts in the elementary school setting. The book is divided into five sections: the history of fossils, types of fossils, how to identify fossils, and how to use fossils in...
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$27.84
Scenic Trips to the Geologic Past: Southern Zuni Mountains: Zuni-Cibola Trail
by Foster, Roy W
Socorro, New Mexico: New Mexico Inst. M & T, 1971 Softcover in the two-staple format, 75pp. Photo illustrated throughout. maps. #4 in a series. Cover slightly rubbed, else Near Fine.
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$6.00
Ecology of Fear
by Davis, Mike
Vintage, 1998. Softcover. VG to VG-/na. Some rubbing & edgewear; few creases; some yellowing; otherwise overall clean & tight. 484 pages
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$11.00
Quantum Mechanics and Experience
by Albert, David Z
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Cloth. 0674741129 . A charming edition in Fine condition in a Very Good dust-jacket with little soiling to the surfaces and tearing around the trim ; An original investigation, as well as a novel attempt at writing about science in a style that is simultaneously elementary and deep. A lucid introduction to the foundations of quantum mechanics; 8vo; 206 pages; FSA .
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$27.84
The Crime of Galileo
by Santillana, Giorgio De
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. An edition in Very Good condition with denting and wearing to the board corners and edges in a Good dust-jacket that has edgewear including minor tearing around the spine edges ; Author recreates the full drama of Gallileo's ill-starred encounter with the Inquisition; 8vo; 340 pages; TBC .
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$37.13
Physics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine
by Gopal B. Saha
Hardback. New. This book helps radiology and nuclear medicine residents to prepare for the American Board of Nuclear Medicine, American Board of Radiology, and American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine examinations, all of which require a strong physics background.
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£141.70
Einstein His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
First Edition Very good condition with VG dustjacket.
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$10.00
Handbook of Chemical Property Estimation Methods Environmental Behavior of Organic Compounds
by Lyman, Warren J
McGraw-Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0070391750 . Exlibrary with usual library markings. .
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$65.00
Rising From the Plains
by McPhee, John
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. Second Printing. Cloth. 0374250820 . A second printing in Very Good condition with some aging and fading to the boards in an alike dust-jacket with scuffing and some soiling to the rear; About high-country geology and a Rocky Mountain regional geologist. A story about a Wyoming ranch and the geologist who grew up there; 8vo; 213 pages .
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$34.03
Water Policy: Security Issues (International Review of Comparative Public Policy)
by Witter, S.G. & S. Whiteford
JAI Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0762306297 . 251 pages .
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$32.00
General Principles Of Geology (Scientific And Technical Publications Series)
by J. F. Kirkaldy
Hutchinson's Scientific & Technical, 1954. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1954. First Edition. 327 pages. Blue dust jacket over red cloth. File copy. Contains black and white photographic plates. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to endpapers. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Stamp to title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild water stains and droplets to front board. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips,...
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£11.71
Scenic Trips to the Geologic Past: taos-Red River-Eagle Nest, New Mexico
by Schilling, John H
Socorro, New Mexico: New Mexico Inst. M & T, 1973 Softcover in the two-staple format, 25pp. Photo illustrated throughout. maps. #2 in a series. Fine.
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$6.00
Trattato Delle Metheore
by Vieri, Francesco De
Florence: Appresso Giorgio Marescotti. Very Good. 1573. First Edition; First Printing. Vellum. The first edition of the first comments on the first three books of "Meteorologica" of Aristotle in in the Italian language. Adams V714. Includes index and errata leaf, errori occorsi nello stampare. Original limp vellum, minor worming and soiling. Spine handlettered; With his commentary on the first three books of Aristotle's "Meteorologica", Francesco de Vieri, Professor at the...
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$1206.56
Earth, Air, Fire and Water : A Personal Adventure Into the Sources of Our Life and Legend
by Eliot, Alexander
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962 Hardcover. Cloth & bds; (Front cover with a slight tendency to turn up), 8vo.,216pp.(one page with a corner crease).,Nice d/j with some slight edgewear, else V.Good in V.Good D/j.
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$18.00
Geology and Ground-Water Resources of the Qu'Appelle Area Saskatchewan:
by Christiansen, E. A
Saskatchewan, Canada: Saskatchewan Research Council Geology Division Report No. 1, 1960. 53 pages with two maps in a pocket on the inside back cover. Square and solid with some crumpling along the edges of the back cover and a 1/4" tear there as well, otherwise the covers show light wear. The previous owner's name is on the front cover and a correction to one word of text has been made inside.. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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$17.00
The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics
by Calder, Nigel
BBC Books, London, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Size: Quarto 4to. 196 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely...
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A$13.50
Concise Inorganic Chemistry
by J.D.Lee
D.Van Nostrand Company Ltd, 1965. Paperback. Good. 1965. Second Edition. 263 pages. Illustrated paper cover with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Ownership plate stuck to reverse front cover. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate tanning and wear marks to spine and covers.
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£11.21
STRATEGY FOR AIR POLLUTION CONTROL IN EAST ASIA
by Hirai, Eiji; Chief editor
Tokyo: Association for Environmental Pollution Control. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed on endpaper by author of second paper. Owner's name on endpaper. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 152 pages; Signed by One Author .
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$25.00
