Maurice Ebison (13 results)

Condition: Fine. 192pp. Illustrated in black and white Edited by Maurice Ebison; foreword by Sir Peter Medawar.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 192 Pages Indexed. No defects noted. Interior text pages are near flawless. This is a personal selection of over 1200 scientific quotations including graffiti, lines of song and proverbs together with the more recognised forms of quotation not only from scientists but from artists, poets, philosophers, theologians, politicians and other miscellaneous mortals. Scientists have often been reproached for their apparent unfamiliarity with the rest of our cultural inheritance. Inasmuch as science represents one way of dealing with the world, it does tend to separate its practitioners from the rest. Being a scientist resembles membership of a religious order and a scientist usually finds that he has more in common with a colleague on the other side of the world than with his next-door neighbour. Scientists do live in the real world and share in developing and unifying its culture. Many scientists, especially biologists, are able to communicate more widely than to their professional colleagues their sense of wonder at the workings of nature. This collection of quotations is intended to show the wholeness of our culture by demonstrating that scientists contribute to the humanities, and that from Chaucer to Auden, the great humanists have also been concerned with science in all its aspects. A quotation is a polished prefabricated unit of thought or discourse which has many connotations and associations built in to it. Quotations are, in effect, thoughts embedded in memorable phraseology and polished by use.…

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Hardcover with dustjacket : fine minus / very good plus. Book: mild bump to tail of spine, otherwise like new. Jacket : slight flaws, very nice. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

hardcover and dustwrapper in good condition, remnants of sticker on front endpaper; 192 pages, b/w illusts.

Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Some mild age-toning to DJ edges. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations. Foreword by Sir Peter Medawar. xii, 192 pages. This book illustrates what has been said about sciences and its practitioners over the centuries. As well aas quotations by scientitists and philosophers it also includes quotes by humanists and poets, graffits, lines of songs, proverbs and signs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. some light browning to the edges of the pages some light marking to the front of the dust jacket illustrated 192 pages, signed inscription from the author on the second pages. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 192pp. B/w illustrations. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (60/4).…

Condition: Gebraucht / Used. Hrdcover with discoloured dustjacket. Xii,192pp.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original chocolate brown paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, dark green end papers, green dyed top edge. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 192 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations. Ink name dated 1978 to the half title page. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0854980318 PHILOSOPHY.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: New. Previously published as "Newtonian Mechanics", this book is a condensed version aimed at the undergraduate. The text presents ideas in both classical and modern physics, from basic observations about space, time and motion to an elementary treatment of some problems in rotational dynamics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 188 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PHD; TGB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 483. . 1986. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. Previously published as "Newtonian Mechanics", this book is a condensed version aimed at the undergraduate. The text presents ideas in both classical and modern physics, from basic observations about space, time and motion to an elementary treatment of some problems in rotational dynamics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 188 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PHD; TGB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 483. . 1986. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Wokingham 1986. vii, 310 pp. Paperback. Bookplate. Fine condition.