Peter Kapitsa (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1968 hardcover. Wear and tear and staining to DJ and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked. Price sticker removed inside flap.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A beautiful (NEAR FINE) unread hardcover copy has faint shelf wear and remainder dot at lower edge. NEAR FINE DJ in mylar cover has faintest rubbing and edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A FINE tight copy in a Near FINE bright dj. , 1st Edition.

VG, clean HB; DJ-VG. 271 pp.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Science, Soviet Union).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 271 pages; Description: 271 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Kapitsa, Petr Leonidovich (1894-1984) . Physicists --Biography. Science --Collected works. Notes: Includes index. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, few tiny spots to top edge, otherwise a Near Fine copy in a lightly edgeworn, VG+ dustjacket which has a few short closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1968, first printing stated. Published by Macmillan. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition fine, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings no highlights, no bent pages, not a reminder. DJ near fine, no tears no chips, small rubbing on the spine, Price Not clipped. 8vo, 271 pages. ASIN: B0006D799G.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . Op. Prev. owner's name on ffep. Otherwise vg, incl dj. 271 pp.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 271 pages; Description: 271 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Kapitsa, Petr Leonidovich (1894-1984) . Physicists --Biography. Science --Collected works. Notes: Includes index. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Addresses and essays collected, translated from the Russian, and annotated with an introduction by Albert Parry. First printing. Remainder mark on bottom edge, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 271pp, edges browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper edges slightly frayed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Printing Thus. 236 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Black. Stated First Edition, But Actually First American Edition. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $6.00. Reason Demands That Science Be Used To Understand And Improve Society And In Particular Its Institutions And Government; But The Demand Is Unreasonable, As Science Has Boundless Universal Audience And Participation And Review And Analysis And Criticism Subject To Explicit Standards, Whereas Society Does Not- Its Standards Are Vaguely Philosophical But Essentially Clan-Specific And Religious. To The Everlasting Surprise Of Society, Its Standards Are Occasionally Revised By Popular Sentiment When Experience, Including Some Consideration Of Science, Is Overwhelmingly Indicative Of Its Failings. The Academicians Here Assert Some Scientific Expertise In General, Which Is Not The Way Scientific Expertise Works In Social Concerns.

4to.; 36 pp., 2 hs. Cubiertas originales.

Condition: very good. Adresses and essays collected, translated, and annotated with an introduction by Albert Parry. New York: Macmillan,1968. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. viii,271 pp. Condition : very good copy. Keywords : , history of science.