helix books reading massachusetts (17 results)

Quarter Bound Yellow Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Authoritative account of the relationships between humans and insects. 377pp with index. illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs. Bound in yellow cloth over black paper covered boards. Red lettering to spine. Top board slightly bowed, minor creasing to fore-edges of a couple of early pages and ex libris label to endpaper, otherwise very good copy in very good unclipped DJ. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

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. Black & white illustrations by Karen Jacobsen. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 183 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light bumps and shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; The date is 1949, the venue is Christ's College, Cambridge, and guess who's coming for dinner? The guest are some of the greatest intellects have twisted their minds around the problem of making machines that think. John Casti has invented an evening of spirited over-dinner argument to unveil the problems faced by machine intelligence. A new way to explain science and an intellectual feast in every sense.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A nice, fine copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ, 1st edition; 8vo., 254 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Dark blue binding with bronze print on spine. Sound and unmarked. 308 pages including index. Dust jacket has light shelfwear. Not price clipped. Interviews with forty noted scientists to examine their views of science's future.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. One of the most creative and original of contemporary scientists draws together recent advances in astrophysics and up-to-the-minute research to cast a piercing light on man's place in the cosmos. As new,first edition, first printing in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder=marked or price-clipped] NFBS2.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are an imaginative leap from the ancient bee and its 40-million-year-old preserved DNA that George and Roberta Poinar discovered in 1991. Here they describe in detail the miracle and beauty of the preserved invertebrates they found, frozen forever in their everyday tasks - worker ants carrying food, bees with outstretched wings carrying pollen, flies mating - in the mummification process that tree sap provides. In passages that read more like an Indiana Jones screenplay than a story about scientific research, the Poinars describe how what began as a hobby grew into a semi obsession which ultimately led to a breakthrough scientific discovery. Along the way they encounter all manner of unusual characters, from threatening black marketeers and gun-toting guerrillas to talented scientists, and, of course, the luminously beautiful specimens captured in the still-life of amber. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NFS2.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, March 1997, stated; full number line. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $25.00); slight fading to the spine; Brodart protected.

[0-7382-0061-1] 1998. (hardcover) Fine in very good dust jacket. xi, 340pp. 8vo. Jacket lightly rubbed. Faint wear at the upper and lower edges. Book is flawless.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in fine dj with slight scuffing. Jacket has no chips or tears. Book has no bookplates or markings. Tight and clean. Jacket not price-clipped. Book.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Bound in black cloth with a pictorial Dust Jacket. This book is an imaginary scenario where 5 great minds get together and discuss whether they could build a machine that could duplicate the human mind and its processes. The author uses actual historical figures, and attempts to show what they would have argued in this situation. First edition, first printing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. 1st Paperback Edition / 1st Printing. Inscribed & signed on the title-page by the author to Performer, Weird Al Yankovic : "To Weird Al / Yankovic / with great / admiration -- / If you ever need / an entomologist, please / call! / May Berenbaum". There are about 20 pages with yellow highlighting & yellow self-sticking pieces of paper some with pen notes & a loose 1 page sheet of hendwritten notes. Good to very good. 16 x 24. soft cover. 377pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Reading, Massachusetts: Helix Books / Addison-Wesley, 1998. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the front free endpaper. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($26.00). NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original orange boards and black cloth spine, stamped in shiny copper. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master storyteller and respected archaeologist Brian Fagan explains how cutting-edge science can now take us beyond the artifacts into the mystical realm of shamans and spirit mediums, ancestor worship, and ritual sacrifice. From the Nile's black land to the Aztec's world of the Fifth Sun, from Stonehenge to Jericho, Fagan describes how Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Geographic Information Systems, Computer Automated Design-mapping and other sophisticated scientific methods are helping us to decode the religious and spiritual beliefs of our forebears. This new archaeology of the mind blends a wealth of scientific disciplines from botany, zoology, and geology to neuropsychology, palynology, and nuclear physics. With vivid imagery and a transporting voice, Fagan revolutionizes our understanding of the inner lives of ancient people.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. ix, 403pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 403pp. Illustrated. Fine in lightly worn, near fine dust jacket slightly sunned at the foredge.

1/4 Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition in an equal dust-jacket; In The Shoulders of Giants, award-winning author Scott details the human journey from the earliest attempts to fly through the pioneering years of aviation, and on to the development of heavier-than-air flight and its subsequent impact on society. This comprehensive history is a must-read for anyone interested in aeronautics and human achievement.; 8vo; 337 pages.