1989, oversize hardcover edition, Bound in full purple cloth, stamped on the spine in silver. 288 pages, filled with remarkable paintings, full-color illustrations, maps, etc. Co-written by a...

This book is the first volume of a two-volume work, which is an improved version of a preprint [47] published in German. We seek to deduce the funda mental concepts of quantum mechanics solely from a...

For over forty years, Leo Marx has studied American culture as a dialectical process, a fruitful contest between conflicting ways of seeing the world and expressing its meaning. The Pilot and the...

Following the publication of the Japanese edition of this book, several inter esting developments took place in the area. The author wanted to describe some of these, as well as to offer suggestions...

A panel of leading science writers profiles the varied personalities of some of the most colorful and creative thinkers and examines the often surprising methods behind this century's pioneering...

Physics affects the way we live and, ultimately, how life itself functions. This new take on a classic text investigates key frontiers in modern physics. Exploring our universe, from the particles...

Beginning students of quantum mechanics frequently experience difficulties separating essential underlying principles from the specific examples to which these principles have been historically...

In the course of 30 years as a practicing crystallographer I have frequently been faced with the necessity of finding out a little bit about some general branch of mathematics with which I was...

Shows and describes toy trains from 1840 to 1955, looks at stylistic and technological changes, and describes major manufacturers

Second, Corrected Edition. 451 pages. Illustrated. Foreward by Paul Feyerabend.

362 pages including Index. Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, 1981. Trade Paperback.

A cogent analysis of the new realities of newspaper publishing created by the revolutionary use of computers considers the potential of computerization to alter the quantity, nature, and texture of...

Well illustrated guide to some 130 species which breed in the arctic: distribution, habitats, breeding behaviour, adaptations, migrations.

A wonderfully illustrated introduction to identifying North American shorebirds: sandpipers, plovers, oystercatchers, turnstones, and dowitchers Shorebirds offer unique challenges to both beginning...

The shorebirds of the world constitute one of the largest groups of nonpasserine birds, yet no comprehensive summary of them has been written for almost a century. In this book, intended as a...

413p paperback, very good fresh copy without annotations

This is a lucid introduction to some of the mathematical ideas which are useful to biologists. Professor Maynard Smith introduces the reader to the ways in which biological problems can be expressed...

Now in its 9th edition, this standard text offers a regional description of the human body that is very user-friendly, following logical dissection sequences. It provides students with all pertinent...