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Dover Publications, New York, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. front cover is creased at the lower corner, and the protective coating has started to peel. There is no other damage to describe, the book is clean and free of annotation. It is illustrated with 14 photographs and 67 online tureens, and has a bibliography and index. The book is an interesting account of the more important parasites that affect man because different forms of disease in him. The account is non-technical in level, so that anyone interested in this subject should be a follower without difficulty. Size: Trade Paperback. 320 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Biology; Medicine & Health. Inventory No: 0249464. .

CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 1996. First Edition. Softcover (Spiral Bound). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographs. This volume comprises an atlas of human cell ultrastructure in tissues and organs, made up exclusively of human material. It should provide students with a background and reference for the key elements of the tissues involved. some handling marks (trivial to the edges of the binding; no other damage to detail Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 164 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Biology; Science & Technology. ISBN: 0643057013. ISBN/EAN: 9780643057012. Inventory No: 0244926. . 9780643057012

Simon & Schuster, London, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: maps & photographs. the book is a secondhand. There is no damage to describe to either the book, all the dustjacket. In this book the author follows the trail of discoveries about human origin made by scientists over the last 100 years. He recounts their intense rivalries, personal feud in fierce controversies as well is that beats of skill and endurance. – Dustjacket blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XXIV, 72 pages, includes glossary, notes on sources, selected bibliography & index.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: maps & photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Biology; Inventory No: 0246798. .

Cheshire, Melbourne, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: John Bird. XIV, 170pp., last blank, foreword, acknowledgements, general index, index of animals and plants, list of illustrations. The text is illustrated by coloured frontispiece, black and white photography and black and white line drawings. Brown boards with animal and bird tracks embossed on the covers, darker brown writing on the front cover and spine. The corners are slightly rubbed and there are some dust marks to the top paper edge. The front hinge has cracked. Illustrated dustwrapper, by John Bird, with a white background and blue and gold writing on the front cover and spine. Dustwrapper is rubbed and faded and there are a few handling marks on the panels. In this book the author touches on the natural flora and fauna in Australia, within the natural environment, suburban backyards and the response of children to the natural world. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Leer más

Cheshire, Melbourne, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: John Bird. XIV, 170pp., last blank, foreword, acknowledgements, general index, index of animals and plants, list of illustrations. The text is illustrated by coloured frontispiece, black and white photography and black and white line drawings. Brown boards with animal and bird tracks embossed on the covers, darker brown writing on the front cover and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper, by John Bird, with a white background and blue and gold writing on the front cover and spine. Dustwrapper is rubbed and faded and there are a few handling marks on the panels. In this book the author touches on the natural flora and fauna in Australia, within the natural environment, suburban backyards and the response of children to the natural world. there is a slight darkening of the spine section of the dustjacket, very like rubbing at the top of the front fold over crease, and previous owner's name at the bottom right… Leer más

Picador, London, 1978. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 192 pages, acknowledgements, 5 appendices, references, bibliography, index; the book is illustrated with 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. In 1926 an Austrian experimental biologist, Paul Kammerer, committed suicide. The suicide itself came as a climax to a great evolutionary controversy. Arthur Koestler decided to investigate the mystery. He expected, when he started on his researches, to tell the tragedy of a man who betrayed his calling, for the suicide was accepted as a confession of guilt and Kammerer's work was discredited from that day to this. Instead, as Koestler read the contemporary papers, and corresponded with Kammerer's daughter and all surviving scientists who had attended the lecturer in Cambridge, he found himself writing a vindication of a man who was in all probability himself betrayed. Light browning to the endpapers and internal pages are very lightly browned. Otherwise a very… Leer más

Penguin, Ringwood, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Diagrammatic. Includes bibliography and index. 10 text figures,"Dominant Mammal is then, a biologist's view of the human situation, but that outlook is still a humane one. The author can no more see the future than anyone else. He finds himself swinging between optimism and pessimism, and his final question is: how long must humanity's " continue before it reaches one of its only two alternative endings: extermination or a stable human ecosystem?" -- rear fold over blurb from the original hardcover dust jacket manufacturing fault means that the first two pages still joined at the bottom with a small excess of paper. Apart from browning of the page edges, there is no damage to describe. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 232 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Diagrammatic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science &… Leer más

Harper & Row, Publishers, New York and London, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Slight rubbing of the top and bottom edges of the dust jacket, price clipping of the front fold over flap. Previous owner's name on the first page, age darkening and spotting of the edges of the paper. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. 14 stories, and unit the author who is a physiologist uses the animals he is observed to illustrate some common theme in all of our lives, and to show, that biologically, it has always been one world. – Paraphrasing the dust wrapper blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Natural History & Resources; Biology; Inventory No: 0273048. .

Princeton University Press, Princeton New Jersey, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: graphs & tables. here for the first time within an evolutionary and ecological framework the author integrates the biological attributes that characterise parasites ranging from such diverse groups of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi to helminths, mites, insects, and parasitic flowering plants. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 237, [5] pages, includes subject index, author index, bibliography, in original dark green cot covered boards, with a dustjacket which has darkened on the front panel, and has a dark patch at the top right where a price sticker once resided. There is no other damage to detail.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: graphs & tables. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Biology; Inventory No: 0248223. .

The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. preface by editor, bibliography and suggestions for further reading, sources of illustrations, authors and index. The text is illustrated with both black and white photographs and illustrations. Green coloured cloth covered boards with silver coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "From Gaia To Selfish Genes is an anthology of lively excerpts from the writings of leading theorists in the life sciences on the controversies and bold ideas driving contemporary biological research." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Authors include James Lovelock, Julian Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Richard Dawkins and Dorian Sagan. Minor rubbing to the backstrip edges and the book corners. Chipping to the backstrip edges and dustwrapper corners. Some… Leer más

Wonder Books, New York, 1970. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Darrel Sweet. a clean copy with no damage Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. (3), 4-48, pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Darrel Sweet. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Biology; Children. Inventory No: 0262976. .

Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 55 pp., some suggestions for further reading. Illustrated card front cover, showing an x-ray of a man, with dark green and black background with green writing on the front panel. The corners of the booklet are scuffed and rubbed, there is creasing to the front cover and there is rubbing along the spine. Some discolouration to the white back cover. The internal pages are starting to brown. "This book it contains the script for programmes from the INSIGHT series, originally broadcast on ABC Radio between November 1968 and March 1969.". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Lectures; Conservation; Biology; Australia; Inventory No: 0101283. .

Penguin, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1965. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Black-and-white plates & drawings. age toning of the page edges, reading creases on the spine, otherwise clean and neat and tidy. Volume 2 has some stippling marks on the front cover which don't show up in the photograph. The purpose of these books is to give a comprehensive picture of the evolution of the human body which includes the history of the whole group of creatures known as the vertebrates. The books not only involve other warm-blooded Perry creatures, but such varied forms as birds, reptiles, frogs and salamanders and fishes, for we cannot properly understand man, his body or mind, unless we understand his vertebrate ancestry. – Rear panel blurb Size: 12mo (standard paperback). X, 64, 198 & [6], 199, 65-128, 437, [9] pages includes appendix of synoptic classification of vertebrates, phylogenetic charts of the vertebrates and index to volumes 1 and 2.. 2-volume set… Leer más

Bantam, New York, 1979. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. These Further "Notes of a Biology Watcher" extend the explorations of man and his world that members of the Lives of a Cell will remember with gratitude. Among the other treasures in Dr Thomas's magnificent new book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts and Montaigne. -- Front fold over blurb there is a small rectangle cut out of the top of the 1st page, no other damage, no annotations. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 146 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Biology; New Age & Alternative. ISBN: 0670465682. ISBN/EAN: 9780670465682. Inventory No: 0278803. . 9780670465682

The Viking Press, New York, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. XII, 175 pages, in original cloth backed blue boards, with colour illustrated dustjacket. The dustjacket has small tear at the top left of the front panel, and top right of the rear panel. Now protected. Untrimmed front edge of text block (deckle), previous owner's name and date of purchase on the lower right hand corner of the front free end page. No other damage. These Further "Notes of a Biology Watcher" extend the explorations of man and his world that members of the Lives of a Cell will remember with gratitude. Among the other treasures in Dr Thomas's magnificent new book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts and Montaigne. -- Front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 175 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams.… Leer más

Aurum Press, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A clean copy with no damage to the dustjacket, no damage to the book, no annotations. Much of the world can be understood through the subject of this book, myths and legends, health and disease, history, biology, anthropology, contemporary culture and animal behaviour. The scientific literature on the subject is voluminous, and there is of course, a vast store of scatological humour in all national cultures – front folder the blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Biology; Animals & Birds. ISBN: 1854106341. ISBN/EAN: 9781854106346. Inventory No: 0285852. . 9781854106346

J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. XIV, 196 pp., preface, list of illustrations, scientific names of the birds mentioned in the text, index. Coloured frontispiece. Front endpaper is illustrated by a map. The text is illustrated with sepia photography. Blue boards with the publisher logo embossed in the front cover, gilt writing on the spine. The corners are bumped and the head and the heel of the spine and are soft and also bumped. There is browning of the paper edges of the book and internally, from half title page to the end of the book there is heavy foxing. The first 2" of half title page is loose. This book is a naturalists invocation of Sydney, its plants, its wildlife and above all the geographical make up of Sydney and surrounding areas. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity… Leer más

Viking, New York, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Drawings. A clean copy, no damage, with a dust jacket that shows no damage either. In this book the author invites readers to discover animal underbelly is – and along the way celebrates the wondrous genital diversity of life in all shapes and sizes. – A tour of the latest insights of the burgeoning field of evolutionary biology. – Rear panel blurb Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 246 pages includes notes & bibliography & index.. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Drawings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Biology; ISBN: 0670785911. ISBN/EAN: 9780670785919. Inventory No: 0269164. . 9780670785919

UNESCO, Paris, 1965. reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. there is a split in the spine measuring approximately 1.5 inches starting at the bottom, and the blue has started to dry out. Previous owner's name on the first and last pages. Otherwise clean, and complete. The book looks at general observations on racial prejudices and myth, and the myth of blood and the inferiority of crossbreeds, colour prejudice – the Negro myth; the Jewish myth; the myth of "Aryan" or "Nordic" superiority et cetera, with a conclusion and bibliography. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 52 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Sociology & Culture; biology; Politics & Government. Inventory No: 0257003. .

Doubleday & Co, New York, 1974. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. the book has a purple splatter across the bottom edge of the pages, and traces of foxing to the front edge of the text block . Internally clean, and free of annotation. Illustrated with charts, diagrams, line drawings, black-and-white photographs and colour photographs the book commences with an account of the evolution and biology of molluscs (mollusks), and then the author delves into facets of shells and their influence in religion, mythology, commerce and medicine, as well as giving a general history. Dust jacket is slightly faded across the top edge and on the spine. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 192 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Biology; ISBN: 0600380483. ISBN/EAN: 9780600380481. Inventory No: 0277929. . 9780600380481