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Lintott, Chris
The Crowd & the Cosmos : Adventures in the Zooniverse
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased also a couple of very tiny bumps to corners. 185pp. An account of how the author conceived and led the 'Zooniverse' project which organised enthusiasts from all walks of life to contribute to scientific knowledge.
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Forward, Robert L.
Starquake
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 339pp. The sequel to Dragon's Egg and the Cheela on the neutron star.
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Asimov, Isaac
The End of Eternity
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned, lightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 189pp. Classic science fiction from Isaac Asimov about a Technician whose job it was to range through past and present centuries monitoring and even altering time - who then fell in love with a mortal.
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Wilson, Colin
Starseekers
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 with rubbing to upper and lower rear fore-edges and tiny nick to spine foot. 271pp. A wide-ranging study of astronomical discovery and the means to it. The three sections of the book are 'Ancient Cosmology' which includes Neolithic astronomy and early observations, the 'Era of Discovery' - Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Newton and Herschel and finally 'The Exploding Universe' which traces the acceleration of astronomical discovery since Einstein and Quantum Theory.
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Okuda, Michael and Denise
Star Trek Chronology : The History of the Future
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. 184pp. A complete year-by-year history of the Star Trek universe including almost 500 photos and a comprehensive index.
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Robinson, Ben and Riley, Marcus
U.S.S. Enterprise (Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to lower front corner. 159pp. An expanded look at the USS Enterprise in the way only Haynes can do it. With many exploded diagrams and description of how Enterprise works plus a wealth of other images including many colour photos from the actual TV series.
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John, Owen
Sabotage
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, slightly arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. 187pp. Novel about the sabotage of a nuclear power station in North Wales.
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Ehrlich, Dr Paul R. & Harriman, Richard L.
How to be a Survivor : A Plan to Save Spaceship Earth
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, name indent to front, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 177pp. A call to arms from the 1970s for us all to work towards saving our planet. No one in power listened and nothing seems to have changed - except it is now much more urgent. But the arguments were there then.
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Coates, G. E. & Wade, K.
Organometallic Compounds : Volume One (1) The Main Group Elements
Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - to end papers and title page only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to rear and to spine. 573pp. Volume one of a text book on the chemistry of organometallic compounds covering the main group elements. Third Edition.
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Green, M. L. H.
Organometallic Compounds : Volume Two (2) The Transition Elements
Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - to end papers, lower page edges and title page only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasint to top of spine and sunning to spine. 376pp. Volume two of a text book on the chemistry of organometallic compounds covering the transition elements. Third Edition.
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Moore, Walter J.
Physical Chemistry
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. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with small tears to lower edge and nicks and chips to corners. Index on 25 pages plus 844pp. The classic study of physical chemistry by Moore.
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Simpson, C. F.
Practical High Performance Liquid Chromatography
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 with minor traces of storage. 315pp. A comprehensive study of HPLC as a means of chemical analysis and separation with over thirty experiments described in detail.
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Bergamini, David
Mathematics
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and slight bumping to some corners. 200pp. A well-illustrated study of mathematics and numbers.
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Gorsuch, T. T.
The Destruction of Organic Matter : International Series of Monographs in Analytical Chemistry, vol. 39
Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with bright slightly tape-marked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased but trimmed slightly to lower edge . 152pp. A careful examination of the effects of the destructive removal of organic materials from a sample prior to analysis of the 'non-organic' elements. Using radio-active methods, it has been shown that this step introduces more error than all the other steps in the procedure combined.
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Lynas, Mark
The God Species : How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans
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 traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 280pp. A manifesto suggesting we need to use all our technological capability to save the planet from ourselves in areas such as climate change.
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Pink, Daniel H.
Drive : The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Appears to be in as new unread condition. 242pp. Derived from four decades of scientific research on human motivation, the author exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does - and how that affects every aspect of our lives.
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Collins Petersen, Carolyn ; Brandt, John C
Hubble Vision : Further Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 224pp. Science from the Hubble Space Telescope with superb colour and black & white images captured by the telescope from the heavens. .
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The Editor
Texas Instruments Programmable Slide-Rule Calculator SR-56
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, spiral binding in excellent condition and no bumping to corners. 194pp. With all the instructions you would need for your Texas SR-56 calculator, nath programs, statistical programs, financial programs, electrical engineering programs, navigation programs and additional programs. A piece of technology history. Scarce.
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The Editor
The Electrical Year Book 1963
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright green boards, tiny mark to upper front corner, nick to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Attached book mark. 362pp.
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Holland, Julian
The Times History of Britain's Railways
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. 304pp. Britain's railways from 1600 to the present day. Well illustrated.
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Pournelle, Jerry
Janissaries
No marks or inscriptions. Minor crease to upper corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 255pp. A tale of inter-planetary warfare in this stunningly imaginative space opera from Jerry Pournelle.
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Pournelle, Jerry
King David's Spaceship
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 332pp. A tale of the impact of technology on cultures set in the galactic empire of the future from Jerry Pournelle.
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Reid, John L. & Rubin, Peter C. & Whiting, Brian
Clinical Pharmacology
No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to front cover, crease to part of spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 422pp. This book aims to integrate basic science with clinical practice, bridging the gap between laboratory science and the bedside.
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Reynolds, John
Windmills & Watermills
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 creased with nicks/rubbing to upper corners. 196pp. A beautiful and instructive book about watermills and windmills - their history, engineering and applications. Particularly well illustrated.
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Dorr, Heinz & Holzinger, Dr Franz
KRONOS Titanium Dioxide in Emulsion Paints
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 122pp. Properties, manufacture, formulations and applications of Titanium Dioxide as used in emulsion paints. Very scarce.
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Ward, John (editor)
Thermoset Powder Coatings
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Light creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with lightly marked rear, well rubbed front and dusty page edges. 140pp. Technical manual on raw material production, application and use of thermoset powder coatings. Very scarce.
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Atkins, Philip
Flying Scotsman LNER Class A1/A3 Pacific No 4472 (Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual)
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. 172pp. A unique perspective on what is involved in the restoration, maintenance and operating this classic LNER locomotive Flying Scotsman plus its history and running in the way only Haynes can do it. With many diagrams and description of how Flying Scotsman works plus a wealth of other images including many colour and black & white photos from the past.
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Williams. Archibald (editor)
Home Mechanics : The Hobby Books
No marks or inscriptions. A clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but torn and repaired and very dusty. 301pp. How to make a fascinating range of small engineering appliances in the home workshop. It even explains how to make and use a simple X-Ray apparatus. With 214 sketches and diagrams. Undated ca 1920. Scarce.
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Rolt, L. T. C.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel : A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 345pp. A well researched account of possibly the greatest engineer of the 19th century. It includes the conflict between Brunel and John Scott Russell over the Great Eastern which venture was directly responsible for Brunel's financial ruin and his early death at age of fifty-two.
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Noakes, G. R.
A Text Book of Light
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to spine ends and lower corners. 355pp. Aimed at 6th form students specialising in science.
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Trinder, Barrie
The Darbys of Coalbrookdale
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to lower part of rear edge, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 76pp. A straightforward and accurate account of the role of the Darby family in the industrial history of Shropshire. Illustrated.
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Walton, Perry
The Story of Textiles
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, minor rubbing to spine ends, dusty untrimmed page edges and no bumping to corners. 274pp. 'A birds-eye view of the history of the beginning and the growth of the industry by which mankind is clothed.' Illustrated.
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Hadfield, Charles
The Canals of Yorkshire and North East England : Volume I (one)
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to spine foot and minor bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 254pp. An in-depth study of the history of Britain's canals, this issue concentrating on Yorkshire.
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Hamilton, Peter F.
The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy #1)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to front fore-edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor bump to front fore-edge. 652pp. Science fiction set in the distant future when over a thousand star systems have been colonised. At its centre is the Void and the story focuses around dreams of life within the Void, telepathic powers and much more.
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Simkiss, Wendy (editor)
The North West Geologist : No 15 : 2008
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on George Highland Morton, Styal Country Park, Geology of Horsetails, the Pedwardine Inlier Herefordshire, the Nant Francon-Ogwen Valley, the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Trip to the Shap area.
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Tomas, Andrew
We are Not the First
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers and to spine. A clean very tight copy with rubbed unmarked boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 224pp. How atomic theory, penicillin, electric batteries, space travel and many other ideas were first discovered thousands of years ago.
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Cherryh, C. J.
The Faded Sun : Shon'Jir
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked purple cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small crease to lower front edge and a little sunning. 253pp. Science fiction. States 'First British Edition' to front cover.
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Eisler, Steven
The Alien World : The Complete Illustrated Guide
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, single 2cm tear to fore-edge of one page and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with a little creasing, nick to upper rear edge and lightly rubbed edges/corners. 96pp. The fantastic artwork from Steven Eisler which are split into the five groups Oisir-Raxxla, Human, Hiraldron, Narathnu and Uan-Irec. With ninety colour illustrations. Scarce in the UK.
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Edmondson, Harry
A Treatise on Advanced Worsted Drawing
Signed C Edmondson (maybe the author's son) to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon boards, very clear gilt lettering to spine, slight softening to spine ends, light foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 295pp. A distillation of the author's thirty years of experience of worsted drawing and spinning providing the practical advice designed to assist the men responsible for the running of worsted machinery. It deals with the Bradford or 'Open' system. Illustrated. Scarce in the UK. A number of extracts are tucked in at the front - wool preparation advice from the Textile Mercury, a two-page flyer advertising the book, a review of the book in a Leeds newspaper cutting and the remains of the book's dust jacket.
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TeSla, Nikola and Childress, David Hatcher
The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 351pp. An account of the inventions of Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia in 1857, who went on to work extensively on new electricity devices including transmission without wires, a death-ray, a submarine, a vertical take-off machine, thought photography, anti-gravity, time travel, Atlantis and much more.
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Heath Robinson
Devices
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, light tanning/foxing to page edges, bight gilt lettering to spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with light creasing to edges, sunned spine and general traces of storage. 116pp. A collection of Heath Robinson's humorous inventions to assist in solving the predicaments of life. Originally published in 1940 as Let's Laugh to detract from the stresses of wartime.
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Hawking, Stephen
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
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. 232pp. Stephen Hawkings' final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions.
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Clark, Stuart
The Search for Earth's Twin
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. 234pp. The story of the search for a distant planet like our own.
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French, Karen L.
The Hidden Geometry of Life : The Science and Spirituality of Nature (Signed By Author)
Signed 'Karen L' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 240pp. A journey into the heart of space, time, light and matter. The author explores the secret geometry behind everything, from the growth pattern of a fern to the chanting of a sacred mantra to the spiral twist of a galaxy, revealing that meaning and order are everywhere, if we only open our eyes and minds to perceive them.
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Tyson, Neil deGrasse
Letters from an Astrophysicist
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper rear edge. 247pp. Popular scientist Neil de Grasse Tyson answers 101 letters from members of the public about science, philosophy and life.
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Gee, Henry
Jacob's Ladder : The History of the Human Genome
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to top of spine and very minor traces of storage. 272pp. This study shows not just the history of ideas that led to deciphering the human genome, but it also shows how the genome itself contains the scars and history of all the generations of life back to the very origins of life more than three billion years ago.
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Moss, Dr Thelma
The Probability of the Impossible : Scientific Discoveries and Explorations of the Psychic World
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing and very slight creasing to upper and lower edges. 410pp. An account of discoveries and explorations in the psychic world - of experiments by scientists probing the unknown - in order to better understand the nature of human beings.
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Segre, Gino
Einstein's Refigerator
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 300pp. A fusion of science, culture and the imagination as the author, a world-renowned physicist takes us on an extraordinary tour of our bodies, our planet and the the farthest reaches of the universe using temperature as a guide.
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Garrod, Alastair
Electrics Afloat : A Complete Step by Step Guide for Boat Owners
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 114pp. A self-help guide to managing your boat's electricity system. With clear artwork and uncomplicated text. With fold-out diagramatic appendices at the back.
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Phillips, Victor A.
Modern Metallographic Techniques and Their Applications
Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to spine and front and tiny nick to top of spine. 538pp. A comprehensive and critical approach to materials science.
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