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paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

paperback. Condition: Softcover. Softcover. Gently used. underlining pencil throughout, tight binding, For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition! Subscriber edition (label pasted neatly on cover). All magazines shipped in sealed plastic wrapper with protective cardboard insert.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition! Newsstand edition -- NO label on cover. All magazines shipped in sealed plastic wrapper with protective cardboard insert.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2007. The February, 2007 issue of Scientific American, volume 296, number 2. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 96 pp. Very Good; some signs of use, but no chips, cuts, creases, abrasions or other damage or loss. See scans (the white dots in the scans are intended by SA to represent background stars). Pre-printed mailing label on front cover. Feature articles: The Cosmic Grip of Dark Energy (The Universe's Invisible Hand); Can Plants Cause Global Warming ? (Methane, Plants and Climate Change); Prehistoric CSI: Asteroids Did Not Kill These Dinosaurs (Tracking an Ancient Killer); Digital TV's Analog Curse and What It Means For You (Digital TV At Last?); Making Silicon Lase; Spice Healer (Curry); Molecular Lego. Departments: SA Perspectives, On the Web, Letters, 50,100, and 150 Years Ago, News Scan, Insights, Working Knowledge, Technicalities, Reviews, Skeptic, Sustainable Developments, Anti Gravity, Ask the Experts. LPR3.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2006. The December, 2006 issue of Scientific American, volume 295, number 6. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 124 pp. Near Fine; mailing label, and crossword in rear is lightly penciled in, else flawless. See scan. Feature articles: The Scientific American 50; The Red Planet's Watery Past; Seeking the Neural Code; Lucy's Baby; The Ultimate White Light; Cancer Clues from Pet Dogs; Weighty Matters; Set Theory. Departments: SA Perspectives, On the Web, Letters, News Scan, Insights, Working Knowledge, 50,100, and 150 Years Ago, Reviews, Skeptic, Sustainable Developments, Anti Gravity, Ask the Experts. LPR2. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2007. The July, 2007 issue of Scientific American, volume 297, number1. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 104 pp. Near Fine; mailing label at front cover, one rear cover ding also affecting last few pages. Otherwise, As New. Feature articles: The Memory Code; Super Hurricanes; Hijacked Cells; Light Communication; Earth Without People; Evolution of Cats; Chronic Inflammation. Departments: From the Editor; Letters; 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; Updates; News Scan; SciAm Perspectives; Sustainable Developments; Forum; Skeptic; Anti Gravity; Q&A; Insights; Working Knowledge; Reviews; Ask the Experts; Fact or Fiction? LPR46. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2006. The October, 2006 issue of Scientific American, volume 295, number 4. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 100 pp. Near Fine; mailing label at front cover, and some spine stress (see scans); internally flawless. Feature articles: Catastrophysics; Supernovae; Peacekeeper Immune Cells; Rolling Ballbots; Nnowires from Viruses; Global Warming and Mass Extinction; Molecular Imprinting; Who Owns Body Tissue?; Prehistoric Mexican Hydraulic Engineering Impact from the Deep. Departments: SA Perspectives, On the Web, Letters, News Scan, Forum, Working Knowledge, Reviews, Skeptic, Sustainable Developments, Anti Gravity, Ask the Experts. LPR46.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine, with preprinted address label. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2006. The November, 2006 issue of Scientific American, volume 295, number52. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 108 pp. Near Fine. Preprinted mailing label on front cover, otherwise this example is As New. Feature articles: Mirror Neurons and Autism; Dark Ages of the Universe; Malware Goes Mobile; Reviving Oxygen-Dead Zones; Seeing with Superconductors; Astroarchaeology and Ancient Origins of Constellations; more. See scans of contents page. Ships in stout protection. LPR41. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine; see scans and description. New York: Scientific American - August, 2007 issue, that being Volume 297, Number 2. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 104 pp. Near Fine; some rubbing at rear cover, no other flaws. See scans. Laid-in and tipped in cardstock subscriber offers remain, also flawless. Feature articles: Windows on the Mind; Case for Global Warming; Ethnic Food; New Crops; Wildfires; Sharks' Electric Sense; Data Center in Shipping Containers. LPR36.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good; see description and scan. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 1998. Scientific American Presents Magnificent Cosmos. A quarterly from SA, this is the Volume 9, Number One (Spring, 1998) issue of Scientific American Presents. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 116 pp. Very Good; this example has been read, and shows cover and corner creasing and rubbing, and a faint old stain on the cover as well, not visible in the scan. Contents are near fine. A scarce piece, an examination of the 1998 state of affairs with regard to such topics as Gamma Ray Bursts, Dark Matter, SOHO, V1974 Cygni 1992 Nova, the Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe, and a whole lot more. See scan of contents pages for more detail. Collectible science history already. LPR5. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2007. The May, 2007 issue of Scientific American, volume 296, number 5. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 104 pp. Fine; immaculate but for mailing label. See scan. Feature articles: The Mystery of Methane on Mars and Titan; Chromosomal Chaos and Cancer; Preventing Blackouts; South America's Missing Mammals; Carbon Nanonets Spark New Electronics; Eyes Open, Brain Shut; A Do-It-Yourself Quantum Eraser. Departments: SA Perspectives, On the Web, Letters, News Scan, Insights, Working Knowledge, 50,100, and 150 Years Ago, Reviews, Skeptic, Sustainable Developments, Anti Gravity, Ask the Experts. LPR2.…

Condition: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2007. The June, 2007 issue of Scientific American, volume 296, number 6. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 104 pp. Fine; no salient flaws. See scan. Feature articles: A Simpler Origin for Life; Lifting the Fog Around Anesthesia; When Fields Collide; Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals; Breaking Network Logjams; Seeing Triple; The Traveler's Dilemma. Departments: SA Perspectives, On the Web, Letters, News Scan, Insights, Working Knowledge, 50,100, and 150 Years Ago, Reviews, Skeptic, Sustainable Developments, Anti Gravity, Ask the Experts. LPR2.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Minor to moderate shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very Good. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 2007. The February, 2007 issue of Scientific American, volume 296, number 2. Quarto, photo-illustrated wraps, 94 pp. Very Good; pre-printed mailing label on front cover has been removed; otherwise this example is As New. Feature articles: Dawn of Robots; Evolution & Cancer; Riboswitches; What is a Planet?; Mississippi Mountains Sank; Better Analgesics; Teen Sex in America; Future of Ethanol; X-Mice; Seismic Sentries, more. See scans of contents pages. LPR15.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. New York: Scientific American, 2007. The April, 2007 issue of Scientific American, that being Volume 296, Number 4. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 108 pp. Near Fine; in fact new, but with 1/4" nick at spine top; no other exterior flaws, and no interior flaws whatsoever, in this gleaming example which still retains all laid-in subscriber offers. Plasmonics; Dark Energy; Galaxy Ghosts; Alcoholism & Genes; Smart Ravens; Retinal "Movie" Processing; Hydrogen Fuel Cells; Rabies Cure. Outstanding condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR36.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This Special Issue, the 150th Anniversary of Scientific American,is filled with predictions and discussions for new technology in the general subjects of Information, Transportation, Medicine, Machines,Materials and Manufacturing,Energy and the Environment, and Living With the New Technologies.This copy is in very good condition, EX-LIB with a barely visible stamp on the front cover and a torn corner of the inside page, an ad as the only issues. The magazine will be carefully wrapped for safe shipping.…

Special Issue. Volume 300,No. 1, January 2009. 92 PP. Contains 10 articles between pages 24 to 85, with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.3 x 21. Darwin's Living Legacy, by Gary Stix. Testing Natural selection, by H. Allen Orr. From Atoms to Traits, by David M. Kingsley. The Human Pedugree, by Kate Wong. This Old Body, by Neil H. Shubin. . The science of Spore, by Ed Regis. …

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New. See description and scans. New York: Scientific American, Inc., 1998. The Summer, 1998 issue of Scientific American Presents Women's Health Quarterly, that being Volume 9, Number 2 of the series. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 120 pp. New; immaculate. Better than if you'd just picked one off the rack - but this is from 1998. All tipped-in / loose-laid cardstock subscription and other offers remain, untouched. See scans. Unperused, ever, but for scanning and description for this listing. A quickly-becoming-vintage issue in the course of this women's health series. See scan of both contents pages for details on what's herein - they have it all covered, and with plenty of the high-quality photos and other graphics for which SA is so well-known. A true genre collectible, in superb condition. See scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LPR19. …

Wraps. Condition: Very good. 116 pages. Wraps. Illustrations (some in color). Slight wear and soiling to covers. This issue contains a major Special Report on The Future of Space Exploration. It also contains articles on Conservation, Consciousness, Diamonds, Spintronics, Biodiversity, Neuroscience, Electronic Devices, Experimental Drugs, and Antibiotic Resistance. Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American science magazine. Many scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it, with more than 150 Nobel Prize-winners having been featured since its inception. In print since 1845, it is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Space exploration, the investigation of the universe beyond Earth via crewed and uncrewed spacecraft, is currently driven by private companies like SpaceX and international missions aiming for the Moon and Mars. The future focuses on human missions to Mars, establishing lunar bases via NASA's Artemis program, and potential advancements like space elevators. Significant actors include NASA, SpaceX, Russia, China, India, Japan, and the European Space Agency. Types of Exploration: Includes robotic probes (e.g., Parker Solar Probe), satellite constellations for communication (Starlink), space telescopes, and human spaceflights: Major challenges include the high cost of spaceflight, the physical dangers of space to humans, and the growing danger of orbital debris. Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 as a four-page weekly newspaper. The first issue of the large-format New York City newspaper was released on August 28, 1845. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office. It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint, which now can be found in nearly every automobile manufactured. Current issues include a "this date in history" section, featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier. Topics include humorous incidents, wrong-headed theories, and noteworthy advances in the history of science and technology. It started as a weekly publication in August 1845 before turning into a monthly in November 1921. Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach, son of media magnate Moses Yale Beach, and Orson Desaix Munn, a mere ten months after founding it. Editors and co-owners from the Yale family included Frederick C. Beach and his son, Stanley Yale Beach, and from the Munn family, Charles Allen Munn and his nephew, Orson Desaix Munn II. Until 1948, it remained owned by the families under Munn & Company. In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new science magazine, to be called The Sciences, purchased the assets of the old Scientific American instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine. Thus the partnerspublisher Gerard Piel, editor Dennis Flanagan, and general manager Donald H. Miller Jr. essentially created a new magazine. Since 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and editor; circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 292 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In excellent condition.

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

Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover, large octavo bound full genuine black gilt-stamped leather binding. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Deluxe Limited Edition. published by Easton Press A pristine copy, gift quality, new in shrink wrap. A heavy book, Priority and International orders will be charged postage at actual cost.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 208 pages. 9.69x8.90x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Periodical. Stapled softocover, 2008. This copy is in Good condtion, decent, but not perfect, it has wear to edges and corners. RARE Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 383 Pp. Black Cloth, Stamped In White And In Blind. Book Fine Except For Previous Owner's Information On Front Pastedown Hidden By The Dj Flap. Dj With Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners, Price Clipped, 1/8" Tear At Bottom Of Rear Spine Edge. Book Signed By Alan Crawford, Pamela Robertson, And One Other (Indecipherable Name). With A 1" Thick Group Of Softcover Books And Booklets, Other Publications, Announcements, And Extracted And Photocopied Articles, All Recent And Around The Time Of The Exhibition. Color And B/W Photographs Throughout (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 160 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.