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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World


MORLAND, PAUL

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: John Murray / Hachette 2019

KEYWORDS: human population history social science demography

$55.00
3a5/26

The Electric Current: How Produced and How Used


WALMSLEY, R MULLINEUX

Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xii + 764pp + catalogue to rear, illus, G+ (heavy water damage/staining to boards & rear pages, moderate scuffing to spine & board edges/extrems, heavy tanning/soiling to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, heavy cracking to front gutter, some prelims pages torn out, moderate water staining to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: Cassell and Company 1894

KEYWORDS: electricity engineering energy electrical science

$50.00
3a5/43

Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Second Edition)


VAN CREVELD, MARTIN

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, viii + (4) + 313pp, illus/maps, VG (moderate fading to spine & front cover, light creasing to cover edges, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: military history logistics art science supplies

$80.00
3a3/23

Illegitimacy: An Examination of Bastardy


TEICHMAN, JENNY

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 200pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl tanning & soiling to eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing/chipping & moderate staining/fading to edges)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: first editions family history illegitimate bastardy morality sociology social science law legal

$40.00
3a3/30

The Genetics of Human Population


CAVALLI-SFORZA, L L & BODMER, W F

Imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, black lettering to spine, black lettering & brown illus to front board, xvi + 965pp, illus/diagrams, VG (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light bruising to spine, light soiling to boards & spine, light tanning/foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor insect damage to gutter of title page, occasional pencil & ink annotation/marking)

PUBLISHER: W H Freeman and Company 1971

KEYWORDS: science geography human population genetics demography demographics

$15.00
xxaef220272

Samples from the Lab


FOOTE, ROB & GOLDEN, ANNA (ED.) & GUDRUN, ELLIOT (ED.)

Octavo hardcover (near FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Rob Foote 2023

KEYWORDS: illustration science fiction fantasy humour sci fi art

$16.50
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The Last Colony


SCALZI, JOHN

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates 2007

KEYWORDS: science fiction sci fi literature Old Man's War Ghost Brigades sequel

$47.50
3b4/40

Knowledge, Cause and Abstract Objects: Casual Objections to Platonism


CHEYNE, COLIN

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, super octavo, maroon heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 236pp, VG+ (sl fading to board edges, sl soiling to boards, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

KEYWORDS: signed Colin Cheyne philosophy literature science platonism

$47.50
3b3/13

Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology


ANDERSON, KATHARINE

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, red gilt lettering to spine, x + 331pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2005

KEYWORDS: history weather meteorology Victorian era science forecasting forecasts 19th nineteenth century

$10.00
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The Ascendant Stars: Book 3 of Humanity's Fire


COBLEY, MICHAEL

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Orbit 2011

KEYWORDS: science fiction sci fi literature space opera Humanity's Fire 3

$22.50
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Gay-Lussac: Scientist and Bourgeois


CROSLAND, MAURICE

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1978

KEYWORDS: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac scientist biography history of science

$16.50
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Science in the Age of Computer Simulation


WINSBERG, ERIC B.

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 2010

KEYWORDS: science data processing philosophy theory of knowledge computer simulation

$22.50
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Science: A History 1543-2001


GRIBBIN, JOHN

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane

KEYWORDS: history of science scientific discovery progress john gribbin

$16.50
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Sex, Science and Profits


KEALEY, TERENCE

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 2008

KEYWORDS: science philosophy society terence kealey

$15.00
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature


MILLER, GEOFFREY

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copIes, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Doubleday 2000

KEYWORDS: sex sexuality sociology evolution evolutionary science geoffrey miller

$40.00
3c4/37

Sport, Promotional Culture and the Crisis of Masculinity


GEE, SARAH & JACKSON, STEVEN

Octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xxi + 286pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2017

KEYWORDS: social science commentary men masculinity gender sport culture

$40.00
3c3/36

Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader (2 Vols)


MAHARAJ, AJAYA KUMAR SAHOO BRIJ (Ed)

2 VOLS, octavo, patterned heavy boards, coloured lettering to spines, mixed pagination, VG (heavy bruising to spines & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, moderate wrinkling to pastedowns) in d/w, VG (minor fading to spines, moderate to heavy creasing, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Rawat Publications 2007

KEYWORDS: sociology social science diaspora migration ethnicity

$40.00
3c3/39

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1: Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church


BONHOEFFER, DIETRICH & VON SOOSTEN, JOACHIM (Trans) & GREEN, CLIFFORD J (Ed) & KRAUSS, REINHARD (Trans) & LUKENS, NANCY (Trans)

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xv + 373pp, VG+ (sl creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges, minor creasing to bottom corner of pgs 147-152, minor pencil annotations)

PUBLISHER: Fortress Press 2009

KEYWORDS: religion theology Dietrich Bonhoeffer literature Christianity sociology church social science

$45.00
3c2/40

The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660-1815


PORTER, ROY

Octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 288pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine & board edges, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine & covers, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1977

KEYWORDS: geology history earth science sciences

$67.50
3c1/8

Principles of Geology; or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants (Ninth and Entirely Revised Edition)


LYELL, Sir CHARLES

NINTH EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, frontispiece, xii + 835pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing/fraying & discolouration to spine- cloth partially flapping, light to moderate scuffing to board extrems, minor staining to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate foxing/soiling to eps, prev. owners' names in ink to front eps, tidy tape reinforcement to front gutters, moderate to heavy foxing throughout, severe crack to rear gutter- binding exposed & rear board flapping loose)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1853

KEYWORDS: geology environment history historical earthquakes volcanos geography earth science sciences

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