Davis Philip Park David (35 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 165 x 233 x 24mm. (xvi) + 325pp. No significant signs of age or use - apparently unopened and unread. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Schutzumschlag. N.Y., Freeman (1987). gr.8°. XVI, 325 p. Hardbound with dust jacket. In very good condition.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide Bon état. 16 256x2 54x22 606cm. 1988. Broché. 325 pages. Good.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Like new hard cover edition with like new dust jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Several pages of photos. Clean. Tight binding. No markings. 325 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bumped tips, some light edgewear, Fine interior. Pages clean, binding tight.

Soft Cover. Condition: vg-. BCE. 325pp; text clean; b/w illustrations & photos; binding solid; 9.25" tall; light wear to edges of cover. Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. No printing stated (1987). Trade sized. Edge and corner wear; minor bumps and dings.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. Contains nearly a score of original, thought-provoking essays on impossibility by authorities in fields ranging from artificial intelligence and mountaineering to politics and childrearing. 325 pages including index. Lovely copy.

Condition: Fine unmarked. Book Club Edition (BMOC). Twenty writers in different fields explore the frontiers of human endeavor. Mint unread copy. 6-3/4 x 9-1/4, 325 pp, index, notes. Trade paperback in b/w-photo wraps.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Possibility, Anthology).

Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket First Printing hardbound.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The Nature of the Impossible. CONTENTS: Introduction; MOUNTAINEERING 1. Everest and the Impossible - Scott Lankford BIOLOGY 2. Are There Biological Impossibilities? - Michael J. Katz 3. On Impossibility in Biology - Michael Yarmolinsky MEDICINE 4. Impossibility in Medicine - James S. Goodwin and Jean M. Goodwin 5. The Impossible in Medicine - Jeremiah A. Barondess 6. Impossibilities in Chemistry: Their Rise, Nature, and Some Great Falls - Walter J. Gensler COMPUTER SCIENCE 7. Limits and Inadequacies in Artificial Intelligence - Ernest Davis TECHNOLOGY 8. The Impossible in Technology: When the Expert Says no - M. D. Sturge PHYSICS 9. When Nature Says no - David Park MATHEMATICS 10. When Mathematics Says No - Philip J. Davis; Intermission; LAW 11. Promises and Impossibility - Thomas E. Foster POLITICS 12. Impossibility in Government and Foreign Policy - Adam Yarmolinsky ECONOMICS 13. An Impossible Economist - Juergen G. Backhaus PSYCHOLOGY 14. Paradoxes of Parenthood: On the Impossibility of Raising Children Perfectly - Sophie Freud EDUCATION 15. Is Education a Science? No Way! - Richard P. Iano POETRY 16. Poetry and the Impossible - Kinereth Gensler MUSIC 17. Largo Prestissimo Assai: The Outer Edges of Music - Everett Hafner PHILOSOPHY 18. What Can Be Known? - T. E. Burke; Taking Leave; About the Authors; Index. SYNOPSIS: What do we really mean when we say something is impossible? How does the prospect of impossibility shape our outlook and direct our struggles? In this unique, mind-opening book, twenty writers--from the poet to the mountain climber, the biologist to the chemist, the musician to the philosopher, the lawyer to the economist--probe the idea of the impossible. Each contributor explores the challenges, goals, limits, and illusions of the frontiers of human endeavor. The essays carry us into original, thought-provoking territory, where we discover that the notion of impossibility is surprisingly important to our visions and our very sense of self. Philip J. Davis is co-author, with Reuben Hersh, of Descartes' Dream and of The Mathematical Experience, which won an American Book Award. He teaches mathematics at Brown University. David Park, winner of a Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award for The Image of Eternity, teaches physics at Williams College. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by "Thomas", believed to be one of the book's contributors Thomas E. Foster. A collection of essays on the philosophy of impossibilities.

trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good trade paperback; tips/edges bumped; spine slightly slanting; Sm4to; 325 pages; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Paperback. Condition: As New.