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Harry Harrison
Planet Story
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with repair to upper rear corner and general traces of storage. 113pp. A space opera from legendary science fiction author Harry Harrison and fantasy artist Jim Burns in which the wold of Strabismus is invaded by an immense automatic track-laying robot which lays down railway lines so the US of Earth can exploit the rich mineral deposits. Many adventures follow.
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Vincent, Colin A.; Scrosati, Bruno
Modern Batteries: An Introduction to Electrochemical Power Sources
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with dust jacket bonded to boards and minor bumping to corners. 264pp. The state of play in the 1980s in the development of modern batteries for a myriad of uses, with all the physics and chemistry explained.
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Brian Moss
Ecology of Fresh Waters: Man and Medium
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. Appears hardly used. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with dust jacket bonded to boards and no bumping to corners. 417pp. Second completely revised edition of the established study of the ecology of freshwaters which traces the progression of water from rain, through upland streams, flood plain rivers, lakes and estuaries.
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Medical Research Council
The Toxicity of Plutonium
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers and no rusting to staples. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 38pp. A Government statement summarising present knowledge (1975) about the potential hazards to man of the element plutonium and its compounds.
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Rees, Martin
From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons (Reith Lectures 2010)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 154pp. In this expanded version of the 2010 Reith Lecture by Astronmer Royal Martin Rees, he describes how science has progressed very rapidly over the 21st century and he puts forward the proposal that science should be part of everyone's culture - it being humankind's greatest collective achievement.
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Heinlein, Robert A.
Friday
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, scuffing to top of spine, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nicks/scuffing to upper edge. 380pp. Novel about Friday, an extraordinary women in a future world with an athletic and killing ability beyond the reach of 'normal' people, happliy sexual, mosly amoral and thus a perfect operative for her job as a secret courier.
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Barrow, John D. and Tipler, Frank, J.
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning and no bumping to corners. 706pp. This work addresses Mankind's place in the Universe, taking the reader on an eclectic study of many scientific disciplines leading to a revealing picture of the structure of the physical world solely in terms of its invariant constants.
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Krauss, Lawrence and Hawking, Stephen (foreword)
The Physics of Star Trek
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 188pp. The author discusses many of the ideas used in Star Trek from a scientific factual viewpoint, being the forefront of modern physics. He also includes the top ten physics bloopers and blunders in Star Trek as selected by Nobel Prize winning physicists and other Trekkers. First British Edition.
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Regis, Ed
What Is Life?: Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 198pp. A study of the ultimate mystery of biology.
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Roberts, Alice
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being
Book in mint unread condition. 392pp. Alice Roberts uses the latest research to uncover the evolutionary history hidden in all of us, from the secrets found only in our embryos and genes, to those visible in our anatomy.
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Colin Tudge
The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 262pp. An account of the discovery of 'Ida', the most complete early primate fossil ever found and how this has changed what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.
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Goldacre, Ben
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 474pp. Ben Goldacre has been exposing the purveyors of bad science for over a decade, with humour. This book features over a hundred of his funniest and most skilful take-downs.
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Davies, Paul
About Time : Einstein's Unfinished Revolution (Penguin Science)
Penguin image stamp to bottom of page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 316pp. An in-depth discussion of time by Professor of Natural Philosophy Paul Davies, setting out a fascinating theme of why Einstein's can't be the last word on the subject.
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Holland, John H.
Emergence: From Chaos to Order
Book appears in unread condition. Small crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. 258pp. The theory of emergence is a simple theory that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and that a small number of rules or laws can generate incredibly complex systems with wide-ranging implications for science, business and the arts.
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Fred Hoyle; John Elliot
A for Andromeda (Story-Tellers)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 174pp. The classic story from astronomer Fred Hoyle and writer John Elliot.
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Kaku, Michio
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 428pp. The author's vision of the far future when the Earth becomes a cold dark wasteland but when we can escape to new worlds.
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Stewart, Ian; Cohen, Jack S.
Wheelers
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 505pp. Novel about aliens from Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, who threaten to destroy the Earth.
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Niven, Larry; Barnes, Steven
The Barsoom Project
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to lower corner of front cover and to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 340pp. Hard SF novel with fantasy and adventure from two of the subject's most successful writers.
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Gribbin, John
The Birth Of Time: How We Measured The Age Of The Universe
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 216pp. Detailed account of how the age of the Universe was calculated.
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Herbert, Frank
The God Makers
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked purple cloth boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nick to top of sunned spine. 190pp. Scarce British first edition of one of the great Frank Herbert science fiction novels.
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Baxter, Stephen
Proxima (Proxima 1)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 455pp. A novel exploring the colonisation of a new planet around Proxima Centauri with all the pitfalls and excitement that could entail.
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Sample, Ian
Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 307pp. The fascinating story of how teams of scientists gave search for a particle that, if it existed at all, would reveal the very origins of mass - the last building block of life itself. This particle is the Higgs boson.- the 'God' particle.
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Mu, The Justified Ancients Of Mu
2023: A Trilogy (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Minor crease to lower corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 392pp. 'The supposed disappearance happened on 23 August 1994. Rumour has it they would not appear for another twenty-three years.' A novel about peace and the end of the internet.
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Gribbin, John
Stardust : The Cosmic Recycling of Stars, Planets and People
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 198pp. The author describes how stars are made and how they die and how we came into being from the material scattered from dying stars.
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Martin, Sean
Alchemy And Alchemists
Appears unread. Book and jacket in as new condition. 160pp. The history of the so-called Royal Art or alchemy which actually paved the way for modern science and helped to revolutionise aspects of medicine.
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Asimov, Isaac
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 316pp. Isaac Asimov's convincing argument, based on a meticulous analysis of the universe, that 'we are not alone'.
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Asimov, Isaac
The Third Isaac Asimov Double: The Rings of Saturn, The Moons of Jupiter
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, lightly tanned pages, sunning to lowest quater inch of spine foot and small bump to lower rear edge and lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to top of spine and slight rubbing to upper corners. 286pp. First Edition of the single volume holding two of Asimov's most famous novels - The Rings of Saturn and The Moons of Jupiter.
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Diamond, Jared M.
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. The 'due' to return' label has never been stamped. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 480pp. An attempt by scientist Jared Diamond to apply scientific methodologies and theories towards understanding human history by addressing the problem of differential rates of development over 13,000 years. Illustrated.
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Harding, Stephan
Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower rear corner, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 256pp. The author discusses how Gaian science can help us develop a sense of connectedness with the 'more-than-human' world.
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Davies, Paul
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 162pp. This book covers the many current theories about how the universe may come to an end. Or is it possible that the universe never will end, that the 'last three minutes' will never come.
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Lynas, Mark
Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 346pp. This study investigates scientist's claims that the next century will see global temperatures rise between one and six degrees, with devastating results.
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Carroll, Sean
The Particle at the End of the Universe
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 341pp. An account of the hunt for the elusive Higgs particle.
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Stewart, Ian & Cohen, Jack
Figments of Reality : The Evolution of the Curious Mind
No evidence that the book has been read. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight soiling to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 325pp. This book seeks to explain the evolution of mankind's consciousness, arguing that the mind evolved in the context of culture and language, aiding survival in a complex and competitive world.
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Chown, Marcus
The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science
Book in as new condition. 309pp. A highly accessible exploration of reality, the nature of the universe and the place of life within it from cosmologist Marcus Chown.
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James Kakalios
The Physics of Superheroes
book in as new unread condition. 424pp. Physics professor James Kakalios explains how superheroes (Superman, Batman etc) would fare in the world of real physics. How strong would Superman have to be to leap tall buildings in a single bound ? Could Storm of the X-Men cotrol the weather ? And much more.
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James Kakalios
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Maths-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 318pp. Using examples from comics and magazines from the 1950s, the author, a professor of physics, explains the real-life scientific breakthroughs that led to some of the incredible technologies prediced in the 1950s.
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Flannery, Tim (intro and editor)
Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 277pp. The author discusses the issue of climate change and some of the innovative new solutions being developed around the world, which work with the earth's systems to combat climate change.
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Krauss, Lawrence M.
Beyond Star Trek
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 190pp. An account of popular TV science fiction shows and movies being put against actual physical laws to see how they compare by theoretical physics author Lawrence M Krauss.
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Jenkins, Robert; Jenkins, Susan
The Biology of Star Trek
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 189pp. Using up to date theories, the authors attempt to answer questions such as 'what effect on the body from being beamed up', 'why do Vulcans have pointed ears', 'could Kirk really have sex with females of other species' ?
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Silverberg, Robert (editor)
New Dimensions Science Fiction: No. 5
Name/phone no stamp to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slight damp effect to upper edge. 234pp. Sixteen of the best new short stories from science fiction writers in the 1970s.
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Unwin, George
Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights : The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine and upper edges . 260pp. Beginning with a section on muslin making at Anderton near Northwich, this study of industrializasion around the end of the 18th century mainly concentrates on the cotton industry at Stockport and nearby Marple. Originally published in 1924.
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Kahn, E. J. Jr.
All in a Century : The First 100 Years of Eli Lilly and Company
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked rough cloth boards and no bumping to corners. 211pp. The history of the pharmaceuticals company Eli Lilly, based in Indianapolis, Indiana and its employees over 100 years from 1876. Tucked in is a printed compliments letter from Mr Eli Lilly, then the Hon Chairman of the Board.
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Card, Orson Scott
The Shadow of the Hegemon
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor tanning to page edges, tiny nick to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nick to top of spine. 365pp. The second book in the author's Ender's Shadow Trilogy. First British Edition.
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Al-Khalili, Jim (editor)
What's Next : Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future or Can They ?
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 250pp. Eighteen top scientists and experts explore what's in store for the human race. Entertaining, informative and filled with ground-breaking science.
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Angier, Natalie
The Canon : The Beautiful Basics of Science
Appears unread in mint condition.. 293pp. Described as the best introduction to essential science, this inspiring tour takes us from astronomy to biology and beyond.
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Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Shadow
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with tiny repair to front fore-edge and a small damp spot near rear spine foot. 379pp. The first book in the author's Ender's Shadow Trilogy. First British Edition.
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Lewis, Simon L. & Maslin, Mark A.
The Human Planet : How We Created the Anthropocene
Book in unread as new condition. 465pp. The authors explain what the Anthropocene is, how we humans have created it and finally pose the question 'Can Homo Dominatus become Wise ?'
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Al-Khalili, Jim & McFadden, Johnjoe
Life on the Edge : The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Book in as new unread condition. 461pp. A new groundbreaking field of research on how very small events of the quantum world can affect the world of middle-sized creatures like us.
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Johnson, Steven
Mind Wide Open : Why You are What You Think
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 274pp. The author takes to the frontiers of brain science and reveals how we are hard-wired to think and feel.
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Cox, Brian & Forshaw, Jeff
The Quantum Universe : Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
Book and jacket in as new unread condition. 256pp. The two authors give us the real science on quantum physics and the nature of all interconnectedness in their ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of acience.
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