Needham Ronan (43 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. The history, the art, and the science. 1st ptg. thus; 10-7/8" tall; 520 pages; color & b/w maps, photos, & ils; red dust jacket. Hardcover (dj).

Trade Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good++. Very Good (in mylar). First Edition/1st Printing. Textblock immaculate and tight. Red cloth binding with bumped head and foot of spine and corners are a bit bumped as well. Price-clipped dust jacket, lightly rubbed head and foot of spine and creased corners, mylar sleeved. 519pp., including bibliographical references and index. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Photographs/Pictures/Maps (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition; Reprint. B&W Illustrations and Maps; 326 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Scuff marks to exterior edge of pages. Creasing to spine. Protective plastic around paper covers has reinforced covers. No markings on text pages or major defects. Yellowing (light) to pages and covers.; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback edition. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 326pp. An abridgement of volumes I and Ii of the original. Illustrations, bibliography index. Some creasing to spine. Name stamp on foredge and inside front and back cover.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 326 p. Book.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 326 pages with 29 illustrations and 18 tables. Includes a bibliography and index. This volume one is an abridgement of volumes one and two of the original series. First paperback edition. Fine, as new. Photos provided upon request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear on edges. Lightly yellowed inside.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 9in. ix. 326pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself shows a former owner name neatly on the front endpaper, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows the slightest hint of shelf rubbing along the edges, else Fine/As New. As pictured.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Standard paperback binding. Just some light shelf wear. - Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker than the general reader. This paperback version, abridged and re-written by Colin Ronan, makes this extremely important study accessible to a wider public. The present book covers the material treated in volumes I and II of Dr Needham's original work. The reader is introduced to the country of China, its history, geography and language, and an account is given of how scientific knowledge travelled between China and Europe. The major part of the book is then devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the milieu in which arose the schools of the Confucians, Taoists, Mohists, Logicians and Legalists. We are thus brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese Middle Ages, to the doctrines of the Two Forces (Yin and Yang) and the Five Elements (wu hsing), to the impact of the sceptical tradition and Buddhist and Neo-Confucian thought. Size: Octavo. 340 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Asia - Civilization; Asian Studies - East Asia - China; General & Miscellaneous Chinese History; Medicine & Health. ISBN: 0521292867. ISBN/EAN: 9780521292863. Library of Congress No: 77082513. Dewey Code: 509/.51. Inventory No: 92382.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A wonderful classic. pp.ix.map.326. Nice condition; contemporary archival sleeve, so rather well preserved.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 326pp an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in sleeve-protected dj almost as new.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. pp. 340, 5 Maps, Index.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. As New. Please contact me for further information/photos if required. We have Vols 1-4 if you would like all 4 please contact me for a price.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. As new. Please contact me for further information/photos if required. We have Vols 1-4 if you would like all 4 please contact me for a price.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 312 p. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. abridged ed edition. 337 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 480 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ix, Map, 326 Pp. Black Boards, Spine Gilt. First Printing Of Volume I Of The Condensed Version Of Needham's Classic, Exhaustive Study. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket, No Marks, Some Browning To Flaps.

perfect. Condition: Sehr gut. Seiten; Band 1. Umschlag an den Rändern leicht berieben/bestossen. Innenteil tadellos - u n g e l e s e n - keine Risse, Knicke, Anmerkungen. ! Altersbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt! Im Vorsatz Name und ExLibris-Stempel. KEIN Mängelexemplar! Versand aus München V2347 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.…