THE ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS: The Scientific Search for the Soul
First printing of the Nobel Laureate's reflections on the nature of consciousness — inscribed to plant geneticist Bernard Pollack.
First printing of the Nobel Laureate's reflections on the nature of consciousness — inscribed to plant geneticist Bernard Pollack.
First edition of Venn's treatise on symbolic logic, discussing for the first time in book form his famous innovations in diagrammatic representation.
First edition of this manual of forensic psychology by the influential psychiatrist, author of THE MIND OF THE MURDERER, frequent expert witness and examiner of Ian Brady in the matter of the Moors murders, and a founder member of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.
First edition of this early and important work in computer programming.
Sixth edition ("forty-third thousand") overall — and the first to use the term "evolution" to describe the mechanism of natural selection that Darwin introduced in the book.
First edition, important association copy of this early work in computer programming, owned and annotated by Mary Lee Woods, noted computer scientist and programmer (and mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee).
Signed first printing of the autobiography of the (in)famous evolutionary biologist and giant of the modern atheist movement, reflecting on his career and the fame brought about by his best-selling books.
First edition of this lively popular history of aeronautics, from Daedalus to the Wright brothers, with a particular emphasis on historical ballooning anecdotes of the most sensational kind.