Search Results: Science from Bytown Bookery

Penguin Books Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Trade Paperback. 0140512233 . Trade Paperback, clean & unmarked with offsetting on the inside of the covers, scuffing and edgewear. "A complete mixture of chemical additives is used to enhance the texture, flavour and color, or to extend the shelf life, of most processed foods. How much do we know about these additives? This dicitonary is a comprehensive guide to all the additives that are listed on food and drink products." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 221 pages .

Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0387121625 . Brown hardcovers, white / black titles to the cover and spine. Very Good ++, tightly bound, a bright, unmarked text. ; B&W Illustrations; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 356 pages .

London, England: Metheun & Co. Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Cloth/ Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Light fading and bumping to the spine ends, corners sharp with a clean & unmarked interior (owner's name written on the front free end-paper) , with a solid binding. The DJ is clipped with rubbing and edgewear to the covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages .

New York: Interscience Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. B000IUI46E . Green cloth boards with white titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked interior. The DJ is in very good condition with wear to the cover edges and light scuffing. A nice copy. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 286 pages .

Penguin. Very Good. 1960. Paperback. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good condition. An name written on the front free end paper, otherwise a clean & unmarked text with a solid binding. "In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters . "; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 318 pages .

New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. All About Books # 19. Tan cloth with blind imprint of an octupus on cover. Wonderful conditon. DJ has a small chip missing at the top and the bottom of the spine, edgewear, a stain on the back and back flap. Rubbing and spine is faded. "In All About Strange Beasts of the Present, Robert S. Lemmon tells the believe-it-or-not story of many of these extraordinary animals and the changes they are undergoing. For scientists have proved that nearly every living thing is always turning into something a little different or is disappearing entirely." ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 148 pages .

New York: MacMillan Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0025432206 . Red cloth boards, gilt titles to the spine. A very good++ copy, clean, tight & bright, light sunning to the top and bottom cover edge. The front free end paper has two lines written in pencil on it. Cartography by Arthur Banks. A list of the maps inthe book. Each page is illustrated with historical maps. The DJ Is very good, browning to the spine with cover scuffing and edgewear, no tears. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 112 pages .

Basic Books. Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Paperback. 0738202088 . Green/ black Hardcovers in Fine+ condition. A sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is unclipped and in Fine condition. "A botanical journey that reveals the science behind flowers--how they evolved, how they survive, and how they heal, as well as various types of flowers that regulate their own temperature, attract pollinating bats, and smell like rotting corpses." ; B&W Illustrations; 7.5 X 1 X 7.5 inches; 232 pages .

New York: Dorset Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0880294566 . Grey hard boards with red cloth spine, gilt titles to the spine. In very good++ condition with a very clean & unmarked interior. The DJ has light scuffing and edgewear, a crease on the front cover bottom edge. "The Pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon of Greece, the Great Wall of China, the Colosseum of Rome . . . Today, we stand in awe before these wonders of the ancient world. They hold our history and the deepest secrets of our past in their hidden recesses." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 408 pages .

London, England: Victor Gollancz Ltd.. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. Black hard boards, gilt titles to the spine, very good. Frontispiece with black & white illustrations and plates through the book. The DJ is good with heavy spine browning, cover rubbing and edgewear, spine end chipping. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages .

New York: Free Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0684857332 . Green/black hard covers in Fine condition with very light spine end bumping. Graphs, notes and indexed. The DJ is unclipped, Near Fine, with light cover rubbing. "A Stanford professor redefines how nature organizes itself--based on nearly two decades of research in the Arizona desert--in a revolutionary book that maintains that the ant queen is not in charge: there are no leaders. "; B&W Illustrations; 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.7 Inches; 182 pages; Box 4 / .

University Of Chicago Press. Very Good. 1982. Trade. 0226808408 . Trade Paperback. Very Good, tightlybound a very few markings through the book. Cover scuffing and edgewear. "The Architecture of Matter, addresses the long, often tortured struggle to conceptualize and understand the world around us. "; B&W Illustrations; 0.9 x 9 x 5.8 Inches; 398 pages .

New York: John Wiley & Sons. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0471155365 . Black hard boards with silver titles on the cover. This copy is in excellent condtion. The DJ is unclipped with a little bleeding from the book back cover on the top inside edge of the back cover. "Trefil, an acclaimed popular science writer and physicist, argues that the human brain is a highly complex adaptive system qualitatively different from those of other animal species and from even the most advanced computer systems." ; 0.95 x 9.51 x 6.41 Inches; 242 pages .

Ballantine Books. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 0449907236 . Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition. Tightly bound with an unmarked text, very light wear to the cover edges. Nice copy. "this exciting work delves into previously unexplored territory as it leads readers on a guided tour of every major scientific theory from Newton's mechanics to Einstein's relativity to the second law of thermodynamics--in a quest to unravel the mystery of the nature of time. 12 pages of illustrations, 4 in color"; B&W Illustrations; 1 x 8 x 5.3 Inches; 377 pages .

John Wiley & Sons Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0471019909 . Black hard covers, silver titles on the cover. Tightly bound with light pencil underlining and notes on some pages. ; 362 pages .

Yale University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0300092962 . Grey hard boards with burgundy cloth spine covering. In Near Fine condition, tightly bound, a bright unmarked interior with light spine end sunning. The DJ is unclipped, Near Fine, with light wear to the covers. "Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, this work is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition." ; 0.9 x 8.58 x 5.96 Inches; 230 pages .

New York: Theo. Audel & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. Softcover. Blakc leather covers with the titles imprinted on the cover. Wear to the spine ends and corners, well-bound with an unmarked interior. A very nice copy. : "A Progressive Illustrated Series with questions - answers, calculations. Blakc & white illustrations on each page. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1755 - 2,262 pages; Box 8 / Shelved .

University Press of Colorado. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. Trade Paperback. 0870816713 . Trade Paperback in very good condition. Tightly bound with an unmarked interior. Light browning to the cover extremities. "In this fascinating exploration of occult practice, Anthony Aveni takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through time and space to unveil the many ways people have used magic over the millennia in hopes of improving their lives. As Aveni persuasively argues, the ancients sought what we now search for through science and religion -- a clearer picture of humanity's place in the cosmos." ; B&W Illustrations, B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 361 pages .

Simon & Schuster. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 0671711008 . An oversize Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition. Tight, unmarked with light tanning to the pages and very light cover edgewear. " The author synthesizes the work of leading plasma physicists to propose a different evolutionary theory: that our cosmos is too large to have been created from a single explosion a mere 20 billion years ago. It is, according to the author, a plasma universe, growing slowly in giant strands twisting across space, in a skein of threads connecting the smallest particle of matter to an infinity of different cosmic systems." ; B&W Illustrations; 1.6 x 9.2 x 6 Inches; 466 pages .

Simon & Schuster. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1995. Trade Paperback. 0671510576 . Trade Paperback in good condition. Glossy covers with little edgewear, there are signs of moisture, small ripples, on some of the inside pages. Tightly bound with an unmarked interior. "This inside account of Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, conveys the exciting drama being played out in the pioneering and enormously profitable field of drug research. Vertex is dedicated to designing--atom by atom--a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug that has major implications for HIV research. This inside account of Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, conveys the exciting drama being played out in the pioneering and enormously profitable field of drug research. Vertex is dedicated to designing--atom by atom--a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug that has major implications for HIV research." ; 1.26 x 8.27 x 5.59 Inches; 464 pages .