Science from Charlie's Books

"Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry" by Scott Huler. Signed/Inscribed by the author on the title page, thus, - "To __ Best Wishes. (Signed Scott Huler)." First Edition 2004 published by Crown Publishers, New York. Appendix A - Beaufort Scale Family Album . Appendix B - Explanation of the Plate Describing… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind" by Michio Kaku. Doubleday 6th printing 2014 hardcover with Notes and Index. 377pp. Underlining in the text and for this a rating of Good with a Very Good dust jacket.

"The Spiritual Universe: One Physicist's Vision of Spirit, Soul. Matter, and Self" by Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. Soft-Cover book published as a second edition by Moment Point Press, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This edition has a new Preface and new illustrations. Includes biographical reference and index. Chapter Notes. 325pp. Fine condition.

"The Riddle of Gravitation (Revised and Updated Edition) by Peter G. Bergmann. Soft-Cover book (8.50" x 5.4") published in 1992 by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. Illustrations. Includes bibliographical references and index. Fine condition.

"Mathematics and the Physical World" - a 1981 paperback edition published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York. "This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged, slightly corrected republication of the work as published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, in 1959." Preface by the author, Morris Kline. Illustrations. 482 pages plus "a Catalog of Selected Dover Books… Saber más sobre este artículo

"The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics" edited by Timothy Ferris with a Foreword by Clifton Fadiman, General Editor. First Edition 1991 indicated with the printing number sequence although the absence of a price on the jacket. Published by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company in 1991. Includes bibliographical references and index. 859pp. Blue boards with letters in gilt… Saber más sobre este artículo

"The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist" by Richard P. Feynman. Perseus Books of Reading, Massachusetts. Third Printing May 1988. 133pp. "In these remarkable lectures - never before published - the brilliant scientist reveals his thinking on life, religion, politics, science - and everything in between." Fine book.

Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara. Oxford University Press, New York, 2009 4th printing - printed in Great Britain. Included bibliographical references and index. `With Postscript, Notes,Special Sources, Photographic Acknowledgements, and Index. 408pp. An ex-library copy with all the usual markings - thus, a Good+ book and dust jacket.

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science" by Armand Marie Leroi. Published by Viking Penguin in 2014 as a 1st edition. First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing. This edition illustrated and with Glossaries, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Illustrating Aristotle, and Index. 501pp. An ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Even so, a clean and tightly bound book and… Saber más sobre este artículo

"Companion to the Cosmos" by John Gribbin. Published in London by Weidenfeld & Nicolson as well as printed and bound in Great Britain by Butler and Tanner Ltd. 1996 edition. Main Text: John & Mary Gribbin. Timelines: Benjamin Gribbin. Diagrams: Jonathan Gribbin. 504pp. Hardcover (10" x 7") with dust jacket both in Fine condition.

"Sand" - a hardcover book (9.5" x 8.75") by Raymond Siever. NY: Scientific American Library, 1988. First Edition. This book is #24 of a series. Distributed by W.H. Freeman and Company. Illustrated. 237pp. Fine off-white hardcover with a Very Good+ dust jacket.

"The Discovery of Subatomic Particle s" by Steven Weinberg. Scientific American Library, an imprint of W.H. Freeman and Company. Hardcover 1983 First edition with blue boards with letters in white on the spine. (9.6" x 8.8"). Illustrations. Appendix. 206pp. Fine hardcover book with sunned dust jacket in Good condition with some short edge… Saber más sobre este artículo

"The Scientist and His Tools" (The Basic Science Education Series) by Bertha Morris Parker - Laboratory School, University of Chicago. Intermediate Text 1956 published by Row, Peterson and Company, Evanston, Illinois. Illustrated. 36pp. Paperback in Good condition (stapled at the spine) with some cover edge rubbing and small corner crease on the rear lower corner. … Saber más sobre este artículo

"Java Man: How Two Geologists' Dramatic Discoveries Changed Our Understanding of the Evolutionary Path to Modern Humans" - 2000 hardcover book by authors: Carl C. Swisher III, Garniss H. Curtis, and Roger Lewin. Scribner 2000 1st edition. With photographs, Notes, and Index. 256pp. Fine hardcover with Near Fine dust jacket with a few foxing spots near… Saber más sobre este artículo

"Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science" by Dr. Judy Mikovits & Kent Heckenlively, JD with a Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "Children's Health Defense". Skyhorse Publishing, 2020 reprint edition. Pictures. 221 pages with Chapter Notes. Fine hardcover with Fine dust jacket.

"A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer" by George Johnson. First Editor 2003 published by Alfred A. Knopf of New York. Includes biographical references and index. 204pp. Fine hardcover with Fine dust jacket.

Soft-Cover book "The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era - a Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos" by Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry. First HarperCollins Paperback Edition published in 1994. Pictures. Includes biographical references and index. 305pp. Slight corner crease to the front upper corner and date on the first blank page, and mark… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paperback Avon Books 1989 reprint edition of "Stephen Hawking's Universe" byJohn Boslough. "An introduction to the most remarkable scientist of our time." Sixth Printing. Pictures. 149pp. Appendix: Is the end in sight for Theoretical Physics? An Inaugural Lecture. Very Good condition - pages have tanned.

Paperback Random House Trade 2004 reprint edition with 647 pages. In Near Fine condition with some illustrations. "A History of Science Told Through the Lives of ts Greatest Inventors."

Fine 2017 book published by ECCO with 376 pages. Hardcover in Fine condition with Fine dust jacket. "A profound look at what the future holds." --- Brad Stone.