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The Atomic Bomb: Facts and Implications

By: "Atomic Scientists of Chicago (Hogness, Franck, Mulliken, Urey, Johnson, Cole, Daniels, Zinn, Seaborg, Szilard)"

Price: $24.95

Publisher: "Chicago, IL", Atomic Scientists of Chicago: 1946

Seller ID: 7NT065

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, yellowed, clean interior, age soiled exterior, faint curl. Staple bound. 64 pages. Includes photos, diagrams, vocabulary & bibliography. ""the information, convictions, and conclusions presented in the following collection of essays by the atomic scientists did not begin with the dropping of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima but are rather the outgrowth of serious considerations given this problem since the inception of the atomic bomb projects in the early part of this last war."""
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Audubon and His Journals Volume 1

By: "Audobon, John James and edited by Maria Audobon"

Price: $1.00

Publisher: "Dover, 1960":

Seller ID: B002L0IONM

ISBN: B002L0IONM

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Audobon and His Journals: with Zoological and Other Notes VOLUME 2

By: "Audobon, Maria R."

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Peter Smith (republication of Dover edition of 1960):

Seller ID: B0019QTOME

ISBN: B0019QTOME

Binding: Paperback

Condition: very good

Quattro Pro 6 for Windows

By: "Auer, Parsons & Oja"

Price: $7.25

Publisher: "Cambridge,MA", Course Technology: 1995

Seller ID: 40X020

ISBN: 0760032807

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Bright, tight, pretty clean, w/curled corners. Some cover creasing. Underlinings and a few notes in margins."
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The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway

By: "Auletta, Ken"

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Random House:

Seller ID: 9780679457381

ISBN: 0679457380

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

For the past four years, Ken Auletta has been covering the emerging world of electronic communications for The New Yorker -- the technical side, the business side, and the human side of such companies as Viacom, Disney, Time Warner, Paramount, Microsoft, and News Corp. In this compelling collection of his pieces on media partnerships and divorces, hirings and firings, and ambitious new ventures, Auletta takes you inside this volatile world as no one else could.

With exclusive access to many of the industry's top players -- from Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Gerald Levin, and John Malone to Sum...
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A Decade of Progress in Refractory Metals (1965 Gillett Memorial Lecture)

By: "Ault, G. Mervin"

Price: $49.95

Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", American Society for Testing and Materials: 1966

Seller ID: 5-3T007

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"As new except for filing notation on top corner of front cover and major point underlined with ruler on page 3. 54 page, staple-bound. "
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Francis Bacon: The Major Works

By: "Bacon, Francis (Brian Vickers, ed.)"

Price: $19.95

Publisher: NY, Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 15T041

ISBN: 0192840819

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new except for faint age-yellowing of pages. ""The major prose (Advancement of Learning; Essays; New Atlantis) in full, together with 16 other pieces not otherwise available…"" 813 pages including Index, Notes and Suggested Reading list."
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Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons (Control of Nature)

By: "Badash, Lawrence"

Price: $8.25

Publisher: Prometheus Books:

Seller ID: 9781573925389

ISBN: 1573925381

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Here the development of nuclear weapons is viewed from the perspective of the scientist. From the discovery of fission to the Manhattan Project, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arms race and early steps toward arms control, this book provides a context for developments in the period 1939-1963.
Lawrence Badash traces the course of this tumultuous and apocalyptic period with scientific clarity and sympathetic understanding.
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The End of Healing: A Journey through the Underworld of American Medicine

By: "Bailey, Jim"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The Healthy City:

Seller ID: 9780985420390

ISBN: 0985420391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A looming menace lurks within the towers of American medicine. One young doctor is determined to uncover the truth. Follow him on a journey you will never forget.

Don Newman, a resident physician at the renowned University Hospital, awakens to the screams of his pager in a windowless call room in the middle of the night. He runs to a dark ward to attend to a dying woman strapped to a bed and realizes--despite working long and hard to become a doctor and having sworn to do no harm--harm has become his business.

So begins Dr. Newman's quest to find true healing in a world...
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The Eternal Darkness: a personal history of deep-sea exploration

By: "Ballard, Robert D."

Price: $32.95

Publisher: "Princeton, NJ", Princeton University Press: 2000

Seller ID: 26T006

ISBN: 069109554X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"Signed by author. As new - gift quality. ""One of the greatest schientific and archaeological featds of our time has been to finally cast light on the 'eternal darkness' of the deep sea. This is the story of that achievement, told by the man who has done more than any other to kae it possible..."" 388 indexed pages including extensive ""Further Reading"" list."
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Soil Surveys and Land Use Planning

By: "Bartelli, Klingebiel, Baird & Heddleson"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Soil Science Society of America and American Society of Agronomy: 1966

Seller ID: 4-3H001

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD-

"Tight, bright, clean, slight flare to covers. 19 essays on ""soil survey, or soil mapping...the process of determining the soil types, or other properties of the soil cover, over a landscape, and mapping them for others to understand and use"" as applied to planning for development or agriculture. 187 illustrated pages."
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"Ants, Indians, and Little Dinosaurs: A Celebration of Man & Nature for the 75th Anniversary of Natural History Magazine"

By: "Bates, Marston, Carr, Archie, Frank, J. Dobie, Wood, Joseph Krutch, de, Teilhard Chardin, Mead, Margaret, R., Paul Ehrlich, Roosevelt, Theodore, La, Oliver Farge"

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Scribner:

Seller ID: 9780684143125

ISBN: 0684143127

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Contemporary Issues in Perimenopause and Menopause

By: "Batzer, Frances R. MD"

Price: $19.95

Seller ID: 97P036

ISBN: 1884065163

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new. ""to acquaint primary care physicians and gynecologists with the necessary information to evaluate specific health concerns unique to women and the most appropriate treatment options."""
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Erosion and Sediment Pollution Control

By: "Beasley, Gregory & McCarty"

Price: $94.95

Publisher: "Ames, IA", Iowa State University: 1984

Seller ID: 4-2H005

ISBN: 0813815304

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! Classic reference for those in soil conservation. Excellent for determining erosion factors and soil loss as well as checking the results of computer modeling programs for terrace and water impound structures. 654 indexed, illustrated pages with problems and source list at the end of each chapter. "
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Mummy Dearest: How Two Guys in a Potato Chip Truck Changed the Way the Living See the Dead

By: "Beckett, Ron, Conlogue, Jerry"

Price: $12.45

Publisher: The Lyons Press:

Seller ID: 9781592285440

ISBN: 1592285449

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A feast for the eyes as well as the mind. Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue, the unlikely hosts of the Discovery Channel & Channel 4's popular The Mummy Road Show, recount their adventures both in front of the camera and behind the scenes as they travel the world in a converted Charles Chips delivery van. Beckett And Conlogue pioneered the combined use of radiography and endoscopy to unlock the mysteries of the world's most baffling mummies - and in the process breathed new life into an old science. Their work has led to startling discoveries and unique insights on how people throughout human his...
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"Galilean Electrodynamics, Vol. 4. No. 1-6"

By: "Beckmann, Petr (Ed.)"

Price: $49.95

Publisher: "Boulder, CO + Storrs, CT`", Galilean Electrodynamics: 1993

Seller ID: 10Y001

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"As new except for slight curl and faint fading of spine edge. All 6 regular bi-monthly issues for 1993. 20 pages each (4-6 articles), staple-bound in turquoise paper cover. No. 5 includes the letter announcing the death of Professor Beckmann and the transfer of publishing to Storrs. ""Galilean Electrodynamics aims to publish high-quality scientific papers that discuss challenges to accepted orthodoxy in physics, especially in the realm of relativity theory, both special and general...The journal seeks to publish any and all new and rational theories consistent with experimental ...
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"Galilean Electrodynamics, Vol. 4. No. 1-6"

By: "Beckmann, Petr (Ed.)"

Price: $49.95

Publisher: "Boulder, CO + Storrs, CT`", Galilean Electrodynamics: 1993

Seller ID: 8DP001

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

Japan: An Anthropological Introduction

By: "Befu, Harumi"

Price: $7.95

Seller ID: 94H009

Binding: Trade paperback

Condition: GOOD

"UGLY reading copy - exterior (rubbed, scraped, curled) but clean, tight interior with only occasional underlining. ""On the small islands of Japan, over a hundred million people make their living in an area roughly comparable in size to the state of California. This book is about those people - how they came to be what they are, how they live, and how they feel."""
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"Thesis Eleven, Number 38, 1994 : Freedom, Memory, Reason + Art in the New World "

By: "Beilharz, Peter (ed.)"

Price: $24.95

Publisher: "Cambridge, MA", MIT: 1994

Seller ID: 11H002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! ""the conflicts , aspirations and fractures of modernity are the main themes of this issue...""Contents: Democracy + Mutations of Latin America (Alain Touraine); The System, the Actor and the Social Subject (Francois Dubet); Touraine's Critique of Modernity: Metacritical Reflections (Johann P. Arnason); Alain Touraine's Sociology of the Subject (Kevin McDonald); Brazil and a Sociology for Hope (Rowan Ireland); Bernard Smith - Imagining the Antipodes (Peter Beilharz); Modernism and Post Modernism: Neo Colonial Viewpoint - Concerning the Sources of Mo...
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The Magic of Numbers (Dover Books on Mathematics)

By: "Bell, Eric Temple"

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Dover Publications:

Seller ID: 9780486267883

ISBN: 0486267881

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

From one of the foremost interpreters for lay readers of the history and meaning of mathematics: a stimulating account of the origins of mathematical thought and the development of numerical theory. It probes the work of Pythagoras, Galileo, Berkeley, Einstein, and others, exploring how "number magic" has influenced religion, philosophy, science, and mathematics
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