Piel Gerald (7 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Peter Bradford (illustrator).

1st printing of 1st edition. Piel along with two colleagues founded the new Scientific American in 1948 and in this set of essays discusses a wide range of issues confronting humanity using as a backdrop the ethics of scientific investigation. Fine trade hard cover book/ small closed tears on front dust jacket panel otherwise near fine dust jacket.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good/Good. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 369pp. G/G. Book is clean and tight throughout. A collection of learned essays on science and the dilemmas facing the post-modern era, by a founder of Scientific American magazine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm. Peter Bradford (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. - Uncorrected Proof, dated July 1990. Blue card wrap with a couple of pen marks to the front cover. Glazed pictorial unclipped dust wrapper. Minor creasing to the edges and spine, now in a protective clear removable sleeve. No inscriptions, 418pp. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. xiii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0716714884; 9780716714880 ; LCCN: 82-23157 ; OCLC: 9084573 ; LC: QC793.2; Dewey: 539.7/21 ; blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; ". provides an historical account of key events in the physics of the twentieth century that led to the discoveries of the electron, proton and neutron.introduces the fundamentals of classical physics that played crucial roles in these discoveries. Connections are shown throughout the book between the historic discoveries of subatomic particles and contemporary research at the frontiers of physics, including the most current discoveries of new elementary particles. Steven Weinberg was Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard before moving to The University of Texas at Austin, where he founded its Theory Group. At Texas he holds the Josey Regental Chair of Science and is a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research has spanned a broad range of topics in quantum field theory, elementary particle physics, and cosmology, and has been honored with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Heinemann Prize in Mathematical Physics, the Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Madison Medal of Princeton University, and the Oppenheimer Prize. " ; Contents: A World of Particles -- The Discovery of the Electron -- The Atomic Scale -- The Nucleus -- More Particles -- Appendices -- Work and Kinetic Energy -- G Millikans OilDrop Experiment -- Potential Energy in the Atom -- K Momentum Conservation and Particle Collisions -- Sources of Illustrations ; FINE. Book.…

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. Good w/ Protective Cover. First Edition. This first edition has little corner bumping or edge wear. Light wear at head and tail of spine. Hinges and gutters are solid with no shadowing, illustrated endpapers. Very faint spotting of the textblock edges, opening and finishing pages. Interior text is clean and tight in it's binding, no ownership or other markings. 22 plates in full color, 102 in black and white. Unclipped DJ has little rubbing or wear, faint chipping at head and tail of spine section. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Porter, Rufus (illustrator).…