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2018Book 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 ?'
2015Book 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.
2005Appears 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.
2011Book 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.
2019Appears 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.
1971Good condition, cover has some slight wear to edges/corners, top and tail of spine is bumped and nicked, clear, bright and tight throughout. Ex-library with minimal stamps. No jacket. Ex-Library
19303 VOL.RILEGATI CON COPERTINA RIGIDA. COLOR BORDEAUX. 1° VOL.LA TECNICA E LA STATICA STAMPATO 1930.478 PAGINE. 2 ° VOL.LE APPLICAZIONI DEL CEMENTO ARMATO NELLE COSTRUZIONI CIVILI ED INDUSTRIALI .STAMPATO 1931. 679 PAG. 3° VOL.MONOGRAFIE DI COSTRUZIONI ITALIANE CIVILI ED INDUSTRIALI. STAMPATO 1932. TAV.LXXX.OTTIMO STATO.
1927Hardcover without dust jacket; very good condition. Includes 16 pages of advertisements at rear. Spine is lightly sunned and edges lightly rubbed; page block foxed and endpapers lightly tanned. No other notable flaws. Spine is tight and contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
2011Appears 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.
1982No 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.
1989No 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.
1996No 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.
2008No 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.
2015Book 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.
2009No 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.
2015No 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.
1995Penguin 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.
2000Book 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.
2001Appears 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.
2006Appears 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.
2001Appears 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.
1990No 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.
1999Appears 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.
1972No 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.
2014Appears 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.