Search Results: Sciences from Black Cat Hill Books

San Francisco Sierra Club, 1991. Paperback First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. First Ed thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of wear to extremities; mildest rubbing. Binding square and secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 204pp. Map, photos, reading list, index. Preface by H.H. the Dalai Lama. Introduction by Peter Matthiessen. Trade Paperback. Ancient Futures is much more than a book about Ladakh. Passionately argued, it raises important questions about the whole notion of progress, and explores the root causes of the malaise of industrial society; shows us a new approach to living with thousand-year-old cultures in ways that don't flatten them and discard their value. A critically important book.

Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1968. Hardcover First Ed, unstated. Near Fine in Very Good+ DJ: Book shows a single page dog-eared; very mild shelfwear at bottom edge; former bookdealer’s stamp at front free endpaper; binding square and secure; text clean. DJ shows light overall wear; price-clipped; mylar-protected. Close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 8vo. 329pp. First modern botanist to collect & describe the flora of the Near East during a three year trip, 1573-1575. (Harvard Monographs in the History of Science). First Ed, unstated. Hardback with DJ.

Berkeley & London University of California Press, 1993.. Hardcover First Edition, unstated. First impression Very Near Fine in Fine DJ. Book shows former bookseller rubber-stamped logo at front free endpaper; else flawless. Binding square and secure; text clean. DJ flawless; unclipped; mylar-protected. Just about 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 287pp. Studies on the History of Society and Culture, No 16. Hardcover with DJ. How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a centre of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, the author of this treatise develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. It offers a vivid re-creation of the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics - those men and women who articulated their hopes for religious and political reform and whose ideologies ranged from evangelical to anabaptist and even… Read More