"SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN": Adventures of a Curious Character
First printing of Feynman's first volume of highly entertaining memoirs
First printing of Feynman's first volume of highly entertaining memoirs
First UK edition of these three essays on quantum theory and atomic structure, including Bohr's formulation and elucidation of the correspondence principle, published shortly after he was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.
First printing of the Nobel Laureate's reflections on the nature of consciousness — inscribed to plant geneticist Bernard Pollack.
Inscribed first printing of Fossey's landmark scientific memoir.
Rare inscribed first edition of the particle physicist's exposition of his famous solution to the housing shortage and the climate crisis: energy-saving space colonies, conveniently parked between Earth and the Moon.
Signed first edition of Chomsky's first book, a landmark of linguistics and cognitive science, containing the first appearance of his famous sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
First US edition of Freud's exploration of the relationship of the individual to the group, in the scarce original dust jacket.
First US edition of this popular science book by the influential physicist and Nobel Prize winner, retaining its scarce original dust jacket.
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.
Uncommon first edition of these collected papers and discussions on the state of psychical research and the evidence for ESP in laboratory experiments, among the European peasantry, and in homing pigeons.
Midcentury edition of this wildly amusing survey of mathematical and scientific paradoxes and paradoxers, the uncommon 1954 unabridged reprint of the 1915 second edition, with a new introduction by Ernest Nagel.
Inscribed first printing of the book Colson Whitehead described as "[a] bleak, illuminating chronicle of racism in the name of 'science.'"
First printing of Corliss's handbook to the geologic mysteries of this terrestrial globe.
First printing of Tufte's classic work on data visualization.
Inscribed first printing of this groundbreaking work by a psychologist and Islamic scholar, presenting an "integrated theory of personality development that takes into account a universal understanding of both humankind and culture" (Knabb and Welsh).
First edition of these collected essays, translated by Raymond Rosenthal and published shortly after Levi's death.
First edition of this general introduction to the problems of chemistry, published as part of Oxford University Press's series "The Problems of Science."
First volume in a two-volume monograph on the structure and dynamics of ions and ion pairs. Contributors include Paul Kebarle, Johannes Smid, Walter F. Edgell, J. Howard Sharp, and others.
First printing of this discussion of industrial archaeology and its applications to the physical study of mines, mills, and factory sites, the communities lived in by industrial workers, and the "microgeography" of spatial and functional relations within industrial workplaces.
First edition of this "essay about basic research" from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, exploring the ways in which biogeochemists apply their tools to questions of human prehistory.
First edition of this short historical survey of analytical chemistry, published at the joint invitation of the Science Museum and the Centenary Organizing Committee of the Society for Analytical Chemistry.
First edition of these collected essays, papers, and letters on contraception and related scientific matters, by the research chemist responsible for the development of the first birth control pill.
First edition of this autobiography of chemist Streitwieser, native Buffalonian and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.
First edition of this impassioned paean to the history of the American coke industry (that is to say: coke, the fuel byproduct of coal or petroleum distillation, not the other one, or the other other one).
First edition of this comprehensive study of chemistry as occupation, profession, and discipline in America over a 100-year period, issued as part of the publisher's "CHEMISTS AND CHEMISTRY" series.