First Edition. The memoirs of the paleoanthropologist who discovered many fossils of early human ancestors in Africa. She also discovered and classified a variety of very early human-made tools. 224 pages (preliminaries included in pagination). First edition, first printing (states "First edition published in the United States..." on the copyright.....
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First Edition. While best-known for his reinterpretation of ancient history and astrophysics, particularly the book, Worlds in Collision, Immanuel Velikovsky was a medical doctor trained who trained in analysis under one of Freud's pupils, Wilhelm Stekel. He published a number of papers on psychology before he emigrated to the United.....
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Later printing. Daniel's doctoral dissertation, "probably the first one in sociology by an African American" (Blasi, American Sociology of Religion: Histories, p. 29). Based upon a survey of the theological schools for negroes in the United States made by Robert L. Kelly and W.A. Daniel. "Few familes in America can.....
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First Edition. The co-founder of Microsoft offers his views on the future of computers in our lives. The book was published at the beginning of the Internet era, before online access was readily available to the general public. Gates predicted that the Internet was "unlikely to be available in homes.....
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First US edition. A very scarce signed first American printing of these lectures on gravitation, mathematics and physics, principles of conservation in nature, symmetry, past vs. future, and the quantum mechanical view of nature. These lectures were recorded by the BBC for broadcast in Great Britain, and the text of.....
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First Edition. A fine/fine first edition inscribed to the scientist Stephen Jay Gould. 183 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "first published..." with no indications of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to Stephen Jay Gould, a National Book Award-winning science writer.....
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First Edition. The scientist who developed the modern theory of continental drift here offers a heuristic explanation of mirages and related visual phenomena in the atmosphere. This is an offprint (sonderdruck) from Annalen der Physik, vol. 57, no. 4, 1918. Paginated [203–204] 205–280. Self-wrappers grubby, else a very good copy.....
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First Edition. Stephen Jay Gould's copy of this photography monograph, to which he contributes the introduction. The book is signed by the photographer's three sons. 132 pages. 9-7/8 by 11-1/2 inches. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust.....
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First Edition. A book on psychotherapy seldom found signed by Albert Ellis. This collection of edited transcripts of psychotherapy sessions from a variety of therapists, including the editor, Maxie C. Maultsby Jr, and others, includes Albert's pieces, "A Young Male Who Is Afraid of Becoming a Fixed Homosexual" and "A.....
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First Edition. A signed first edition of this dual exploration of neuroscience and the search for extraterrestrial life (SETI). 281 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Ferris on the front free endpaper. Rather.....
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First Edition. An association copy of this look at early human tools. 351 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould and signed by both authors.....
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First Edition. A lovely set in the publisher's original binding of this German botanist's observations on the indigenous peoples of Brazil in the early 19th century, with a dictionary of the languages of the Tupis. In addition to the series title, the two volumes also have individual titles. Volume I......
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First Edition. Noted biologist E. O. Wilson's copy of the first edition of this influential textbook. Hutchinson (1903–1991) is considered one of the key scientific thinkers in the modern ecology movement. He taught at Yale for five decades beginning in 1928. This book is a summary of a lifetime of.....
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First Edition. An inscribed first edition of this lecture on hallucinations by a French doctor who reviews the literature on the subject and then provides case studies, including one of demonic possession (p. 63–64). Bottex (1796–1849) published a number of studies on mental disease and insanity as well as treatises.....
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First Edition. A book in verse challenging the agnosticism of Robert Ingersoll. [i–ii: blank] [1–3] 4–214 [215–218: blank]. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in the publisher's original lime green cloth stamped in gilt and burgundy. Covers a bit soiled.
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First Edition. A 19th century account, possibly unrecorded, of the effects of taking hashish written by a reporter for the New York World newspaper. He describes highs ("a thrill unspeakable"), followed by a crash ("the marrow was all gone from my bones"), that turned into hallucinations ("each drop of water.....
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First Edition. An illustrated introduction to bird evolution. This is the first edition; it was reissued in 2015 in revised form. 312 pages. 8-1/2 by 10-3/4 inches. First edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to.....
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First Edition. A late work summarizing Gulick's views on divergent evolution with what might today be called "contingency": "members of the same species, exposed to the same environment in isolated groups, will often arrive at divergent methods of dealing with the environment." He goes on to conclude that the assumption.....
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First Edition. The text of the Naumburg Memorial Lecture, about writing biographical novels, by one of the best practitioners of the genre as the author of Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), Sailor on Horseback (Jack London), and The Origin (Charles Darwin). 17 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine.....
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![Item No: #362728 Dr. Nikola Tesla: Complete Patents [Gray Gold Cover]. Nikola...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362728.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684533891)
New edition. A facsimile reprint of Tesla's patents. 500 pages. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. Bound in gray cloth with gold-colored stamping. Large ownership name on the front pastedown. Covers a bit grubby; text block slightly musty smelling. Covers a bit splayed (bowed out).
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First Edition. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. pp. 453–527. 8-1/4 by 11-5/8 inches. First separate edition. Covers with light wear, thus very good in wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the front cover, "To Stephen Gould, with thanks for your analysis of Dollo's thoughts. Maurice.....
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First Edition. A book that explores the idea that a comet colliding with the earth could have caused the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. This is the scarce hardcover version (there was a simultaneous issue in paperback). First edition (first hardcover printing). A near fine copy in a near fine.....
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A key work on evolution, based on snails in Hawaii. Gulick coined the term divergent evolution to describe the formation of new species due to geographical separation. The entire issue of this journal is devoted to Gulick's essay. A very good copy in the original wrappers. With a one-inch closed.....
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![Item No: #361809 Die Entstehung der Mondkrater [The Formation of Lunar Craters]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361809.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1665011976)
First Edition. A notable paper on the impact origin of moon craters. Wegener considers the three leading explanations at the time—the bubble or explosion hypothesis, the tidal hypothesis, and the volcanic hypothesis—and finds them inadequate. He then elaborates his own theory of projectile hypothesis, which he simulated by impacting cement.....
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First Edition. An argument for a reconceptualization of time in physics. 319 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Smolin, and scarce thus. This copy belonged to Edmund H. Fischer, winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1992. It.....
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