Edition: First American Edition
Publisher: Viking, New York
Date published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780670806058ISBN:0670806056
Description: Good, good. 23 cm, 293, black line on fore-edge, DJ flap creased, bookplate This novel, the author's fourth book, is set in Australia among the indigenous peoples of that land. The author is a winner of the Whitbread Award and the E. M. Forster Award. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: IAEA, Vienna
Date published: 1983
Description: Good. Quarto, approx. 450, wraps, index, address label on rear cover with ink notation, some wear to cover edges Over 2500 abstracts on international nuclear research; the abstracts are indexed by author and subject. Topics covered include physical sciences; chemistry, materials and earth sciences; life sciences; isotopes; isotope and radiation applications; engineering and technology; and other aspects of nuclear energy (economics, nuclear law, nuclear documentation, safeguards and inspection ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing thus
Binding: Brochure
Publisher: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Bethesda, MD
Date published: 2001
Description: Very good. This pamphlet is folded in thirds, and measures 11 inches by 8.5 inches unfolded. It is printed on both sides and has one major illustration on the front panel. Also contains a listing of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Fiscal Year 2001 Funding Recommendations, as well as a listing of FASEB Advocacy Principles, listing of FASEB Officers and Selected Publications. The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology is the largest coalition ... Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM
Date published: 1990
Description: Good. Quarto, 10, wraps, profusely illus. in color, table, some wear at spine. Subtitled: Forming Partnerships with Industry to Strengthen the Nation's Science, Technology, and Manufacturing Base. The laboratory's work in energy, the environment, defense, materials science, life sciences, electronics, and computers is fertile ground for technology transfer. Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: AIAA, New York
Date published: 1977
Description: Very good. Quarto, 67, wraps, illus. (some color), maps, figures, red ink name on front cover. Topics covered include communication satellite systems, navigation satellite systems, land observations, sea and maritime observations, atmospheric observations, and new potentials (space processing, life sciences, and space-based solar power). Read More
Edition: Tenth printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, A Touchstone Book, New York
Date published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780671657130ISBN:0671657135
Description: Juliana Lee. Good. No dust jacket issued. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 339, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Book has some lower right corner curving. Cover has some edgewear and soiling. No dust jacket issued. Isaac Asimov, in Information Week, described this work as "270 brilliantly original essays on...how the mind works." This book tries to explain how the mind works. The Society of Mind is a construct in which each mind is made up of many ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing
Binding: Staplebound
Publisher: FASEB Office of Public Affairs, Bethesda, Maryland
Date published: 2002
Description: Very good. 36 pages. Oversized volume, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Includes Executive Summary, References, Conference Participants, Acknowledgements, and Reports on the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundatin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the US Department of Defense. Also includes References, Conference Participants, and ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing
Binding: Staplebound
Publisher: FASEB Office of Public Affairs, Bethesda, Maryland
Date published: 2000
Description: Very good. 31 pages. Oversized volume, measuring 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches. Includes Executive Summary, References, Conference Participants, Acknowledgements, and Reports on the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundatin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Also includes References, Conference Participants, and Acknowledgements. The Federation of ... Read More
Edition: Presumed first edition/first printing thus
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC
Date published: 1982
Description: Very good. [4], 26 p. This outreach document reflects the research priorities/interests of the United States Air Force in the post-Vietnam War era and before the commencement of several decades of combat activities in the Middle East. At the time this document was issued the Commander was Col. James E. Baker and the Vice Commander was Col. Richard H. Hartke. AFOSR has funded more than 60 years of critical basic research efforts for the Air Force. Many of the technological breakthroughs enjoyed ... Read More
Edition: Presumed first edition/first printing
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC
Date published: 1986
Description: Very good. [4], 60 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. Many illustrations in color. From Wikipedia: "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. Since February 2006, NASA's mission statement has been to "pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research." President Eisenhower established ... Read More
Edition: Presumed first edition/first printing
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD
Date published: 1996
Description: Very good. Cover and pages have minor wear and soiling. 88 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Some illustrations in color Sharply rising enrollments in undergraduate biology, spurred by the growing importance of the life sciences in society, led faculty members acorss the country to experiment with new ways of teaching students. The results were changes in undergraduate biology education as dramatic as those reshaping biology itself. From Wikipedia: "The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) ... Read More
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date published: March 2021
ISBN-13:9781982115852ISBN:1982115858
Description: Brad Torchia (Photograph of Jennifer Doudna) Very good in Very good jacket. xix, [1], 536, [4] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (most in color). Notes. Index. DJ has minor wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and professor. He has been the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, and the editor of Time. Born in ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Office of..., Bethesda, Maryland
Date published: 1999
Description: Very good. ii, 84 pages. Oversized report in wraps, measuring 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches. Minor wear at spine noted. Topics covers include Conference Participants, Speakers, Executive Summary, Introduction, and General Principles. Contains Agency Reports from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy; the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Also ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: National Research Council, Washington DC
Date published: 1994
Description: Good. xi, [1], 199, [1] pages. Tables. Figures. References. Bibliography of Space Studies Board Planetary Sciences Reports. Cover has wear and soiling. An Integrated Strategy for the Planetary Sciences: 1995-2010, explains that a responsive planetary exploration program demands a mix of mission sizes ranging from comprehensive missions with multiple objectives (such as Galileo and Cassini) to small missions with highly constrained scientific objectives. 2 At the same time The Role of Small ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
Date published: 1989
Description: Good. vii, [1], 44 pages plus covers. Illustrations (most in color). Cover has some wear and soiling, with edge tear at back. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. The Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1) mission originated with a call to the scientific community for experiments in 1978. Accepted experiments involved humans, primates, rodents, amphibians, and plants. The original payload configuration was reduced to include human, passive rodent, and basic biology experiments and ... Read More
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NASA/NIH, Washington, DC
Date published: c. 1989
Description: Fair to good. Quarto, 184, wraps, profusely illus. (many in color), tables, glossary, appendices, soiling to a few pages, covers scuffed. Small piece missing top of rear cover. The experiments in this manual emphasize the normal changes in the cardiovascular and fluid regulatory systems of the body during space flight. Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington DC
Date published: 2010
Description: Very good. 56 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations (mostly in color). The cover story is on Health & Medicine: NASA Technologies Improve Health Care In Space And On Earth. Includes other information on Infectious Diseases, Aging, Radiation Risks, Astronauts, Cardiology, Medical Imaging, Behavioral Health, Life Sciences, Biomedical, Cell Imaging, Nanotechnology, Implantable Medical Devices, Piezoelectric Sensor, Technology Transfer, and Innovative Partnerships. Technology ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Date published: 1988
Description: Good. [2], 80, [2] pages plus covers. Illustrations (some in color). Further Reading. Cover has wear and soiling, especially at the edges. Mailing information on back cover. Los Alamos Science, the flagship publication of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1980 through 2005, was distributed to the international scientific community, academic libraries, and US government policymakers. It presented a coherent picture of some of the most exciting scientific initiatives of the Laboratory and ... Read More
Edition: Presumed first edition/first printing
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Univeristy of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Office of Planning, Berkeley, CA
Date published: 1992
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. [4], 112 p. Includes illustrations. Sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Research (OER), the Critical Technologies Research Workshop was held in Berekeley, California on May 27-29, 1992. Approximately 100 scientists, engineers, and managers from the national laboratories, industry, academia, and government participated. The objective of the Berkeley WOrkshop was to advance the role of the DOE multiprogram energy ... Read More
Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hungarian Space Office, Budapest, Hungary
Date published: 1993
Description: Very good. 147, [1] pages. Color illustrations inside front and back covers. Illustrations (many in/with color). Cover has slight wear and soiling. Ink marks on title page. This is a summary report on the Hungarian Space activities for the years 1992-93. The information is organized into five main research directions: Space-Earth System, Space Physics, Space Life Sciences, Satellite Technics and Technologies, and Space Technology. Primarily in English but with some information in Hungarian. ... Read More
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, Garden City
Date published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780385073530ISBN:0385073534
Description: Good. 384 pages Illustrations. Index of people. The book has some wear as well as some staining to the cover and some pages. Inscribed by the editor on the half-title. The inscription reads: "For Chris, Thanks for being a fan of our work! Eliot Wigginton Oct. 16, 1983". Embossed seal of former owner on half-title page. Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator. He is known for developing with his ... Read More
