Haslett Editor (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light creases on the cover. Light shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Providence: Department of English / Providence College. Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], 312 pages, illustrated. Very good copy with light creasing to covers. bx14.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pencil note on upper right corner of front cover, else minor wear to covers; pages clean; binding tight. 137 pages. Science News 27. Size: 5" x 7".

Paperback. Condition: Good ++. First Edition. August 1951. 128 pages. B&W plates. Lightly grimed beige covers. Light wear to covers' corners & spine-ends. Page-edges/margins browned o/w contents clean.

Paperback. Condition: Good +. First Edition. February 1953. 137 pages. B&W plates. Lightly grimed mustard-coloured covers. Light wear to covers' corners & spine-ends. Page-edges/margins browned o/w pages clean.

First Printing. Very Good condition. Price tag residue to the cover.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Photographs (illustrator). Former owner's inked name along upper edge of ffep, age toned gutters, worn end pages, smudge on half title page, else textblock is clean and tight. Moderately shelf soiled top page edges. Blue cloth binding, rubbed and worn at the tips, bordering and decoration on front cover, rubbing to head and foot of spine. 149pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

First Penguin paperback printing. Owner signature to the cover. Very Good condition. Includes "Cosmic Ages" by P. Reasbeck, "Zone Melting" by C.H.L. Goodman, "More about Theoretical Entities" by Bernard Mayo, "The Modern Theory of Liquids" by G.H.A. Cole, "Mnemonic Systems and Devices" by Ian M.L. Hunter, "Testing Significance and Making Decisions" by J.A. Nelder, "Singing Sands" by E.R. Yarham, and "Research Report" by A.W. Haslett.

First Penguin printing. Tanning to pages. Very Good condition. Includes "Ocean-Bed Prospecting" by Gaskell & Hill, "The Movement of Individual Atoms in Metals" by Barnes, "Methods in Psychology" by George, "Cheese Biology" by Barnett, "Germination" by Mayer, "Phenomena of Supersonic Flight" by Lance, and "Research Report" by Haslett.

Very Good condition. Owner signature. Price tag to the cover. First printing. Tanning to pages. Includes "The Measurement of Mental Images" by Short, "The Chemistry of Cells and Chromosomes" by Woodhouse and Sherratt, "Double Stars" by Marshall, "The Periodic System and the Reduction of Chemistry to Physics" by Paneth, "Hydroelectric and Irrigation Development in the U.S.S.R.", "Statistics as an Aid to Literary Studies" by Williams, and "Taking a Sample" by Nelder.

First Penguin printing. Very Good condition. Tanning to pages. Owner signature. Includes "Report from Geneva" (Haslett), "More Fluorine or Less? (Banus), "Diversion of Drainage by Ice" (Dury), "The Physiology of Survival by Sea" (Hervey), "The Algebra of Permutations" (Thurston).

First Penguin printing. Tanning to pages. Owner signature. Price sticker to the cover. Very Good condition. Includes "Concepts out of Context, The Pied Pipers of Science" by N.W. Pirie, "Radio-Frequency Methods in the Study of Atoms & Molecules" by J. Little, "Dietary Self-Selection Experiments" by D.E. Tribe, "The Mechanism of Mineral Salts Absorption by Plants" by J.F. Sutcliffe, "Colour Vision" by Katharine Tansley and R.A. Weale, "Current Lines of Research and Development in Gas Turbines" by J. Hodge, "Under-Water Television", "Consciousness and the Brain" by Margaret Knight, and "Research Report" by A.W. Haslett.

First Penguin Books Printing. Very Good condition.

First Penguin Printing. Owner signature to the cover. Good condition. Contents Listed on the Cover: ? Cortisone ? Antibiotics and Growth ? Models of the Atomic Nucleus ? Concert Hall Acoustics ? A Century of Joule-Thomson Experiments ? Millipedes in Agriculture ? Problems of Bird Orientation ? Central Cerebral Processes ? West African Experiment ? Research Report These topics suggest a broad survey of then-current scientific developments in medicine, physics, biology, agriculture, and psychology. Publisher: Penguin Books was well known for publishing affordable and accessible nonfiction through series like Pelican Books and Science News. This volume belonged to a periodical-style series aiming to keep lay readers informed about recent scientific discoveries and debates.

First Penguin Printing. Owner signature to the top right corner. Very Good condition. Some tanning.

A.W. Haslett, editor Science News 22 1st Printing, 1951, Penguin Books, price sticker to the cover, Very Good condition.

First Printing. Owner signature to the top edge. Very Good condition. Bernard Mayo : The existence of theoretical entities - Sir Harold Spencer Jones : Continuous creation - P. Howard-Flanders and A.W. Haslett : Linear accelerators in use - Michaela Leitner : Large molecules - N.V. Tsitsin : Rejuvenated wheat : hybridization with couch grass - A.M. Mayer : The mass culture of Chlorella - Britain atomic factory - G.N. Lance : Water Bells.

First Printing. Owner name to cover. Very Good condition. Includes "Astronomy Today" (Evans), "Guidance Devices for the Blind" (Cooper), "Fifty Years of Physics", "Studying Plants with X-Rays" (Born), "Elusive Chemicals" (Porter), "Research Report" (Haslett), "Lightning and the Spark Discharge" (Connor", "Controlled Corrosion" (Fox), and "Hormones and Carbohydrate Metabolism" (Reid).

First Printing. Owner signature. Very Good condition. Includes "The Energy of the Stars" - C.M. Bondi and H. Bondi; "Interstellar Material" - F.D. Kahn; "The Boiling of Liquids" - J.W. Westwater; "Uses of Mass Spectrometers" -M.P. Barnett; "Biological Individuality" - G.M. Wyburn; "Insect Pigments and Coloration" - B. Nickerson; "Mind and Matter: A Monist View" - J.A.V. Butler; "Milk Out of Africa" - C.H. Waddington, F.R.S.; "Mathematics in Industry" - N.W. Fox;.

First Printing. Very Good condition. Owner signature to the cover. Includes "The Shape of Inorganic Molecules" - R.S. Nyholm; "Colours of the Stars" - William H. Marshall; "Advances in Anaesthesia" - V. Keating; "Control of Insect Populations" - A.G. Thompson; "Photogeology; - No Author Noted; "A Definition of Man" - Kenneth Oakley; "The Origin of Language" - R.A.S. Paget; "The Science of Lubricating Greases" - T.D. Smith.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 595 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 355 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Voume 1: A-K & Volume 2: L-Z.

1st ed. Scientific articles. Pp. 128, 26 b./w photos, 22 diagrams + 1 map. Toning to pages. P/b. G.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 409 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Third Edition. 1187, [1] pages. Abbreviations. Ex-library with usual library markings. The first edition of Who's Who in Atoms contained 8,500 names, the second 12,500. This book has now been revised and again enlarged to include over 17,000 entries with over 700 cross-references, and has been entirely reset. This includes entries from over 70 countries. This is a wonderful reference work and a snapshot in time. One of the enduring values of works such as this is that it contains information not carried forward in later editions.

1st ed. 10 Articles: The Energy of the Stars, Interstellar Material, The Boiling of Liquids, Uses of Spectrometers, Biological Individuality, Insect Pigments & Coloration, Mind & Matter: a Monist view, Milk out of Africa, Mathematics in Industry, Research Report. Pp. 128, 22 b/w illustns., 14 figs. Toning to pages. P/b. G+.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [From the library of Brian R. Judd] 27 volume set, printed 1950-1958. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Mild toning. Contemporary signature of Judd on some versos. Contents: Volumes 16-37; 43-45, 49-50. Interesting essays in this collection include: Robots Which Play Games by Stanley Byard; My Attitude to Quantum Theory by Albert Einstein; Plant Hormones and the Control of Flowering by Joyce A. Bentley; The Origin of Language by R.A.S. Pages; Cosmic Radiation by R.N. Elston; The Movement of Individual Atoms in Metals by R.S. Barnes; Weather, Climate, and River Erosion in the Ice Age by G.H. Dury; Fifty Years of Relativity by W.B. Bonnor; Ultrasonics in Industry by A. Linford; Inductive Methods in Palaeontology by W.E. Swinton. Brian R. Judd is the Gerhard H. Dieke Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Judd's books include Operator Techniques in Atomic Spectroscopy, published by McGraw-Hill in 1963 and reprinted by Princeton University Press in 1998, Second Quantization and Atomic Spectroscopy, published by Johns Hopkins in 1967, Topics in Atomic and Nuclear Theory (with J. P. Elliott), published by Caxton Press in 1971, and Angular Momentum Theory for Diatomic Molecules, published by Academic Press in 1975. Judd is an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford University, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.