Ny Basic 1993 (11 results)

VG/VG. 358 pp. First printing. DJ rubbed with shallow edge creasing. Rear DJ panel has area of light blue ink smudges. Bottom corner page edges smudged with red ink. Bottom edges have remainder mark. Spine square, tight. Interior very clean and bright. No marks. Nice reading/reference copy.

Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Medical. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-465-00845-3. This large beautiful hardcover is all about cancer and explaining what it is, the words that are used and what hopes are present. The dustjacket is in near new condition. The beige and black hardcover looks new! The spine is quite tight. The pages are white and clear of marks! This is an absolutely fabulous book on the subject! 329 pages with a detailed index, glossary, appendix and a suggested reading list that is worth the price alone. …

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc. Very Good/Very Good. (1993). First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 220 pp., minor page edge foxing . Not Illustrated (illustrator).

VG, clean HB; marker line on bottom edge; DJ-VG. vii + 328 pp.

brown & black 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. fine cond. nice clean copy. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. previous owner's embossed blind stamp on 1/2 title pg, othw. contents free of all markings. dustwr. fine cond., not worn or torn or price clipped. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 275p. notes. index. science. physics. philosophy. cosmology. ontology. particle physics. ~" For more than a century physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modem science: a unifying theory that would make sense of the entire physical world, from the subnuclear realm of quarks and gluons to the very moment of creation of the universe. The End of Physics is a history of the attempts to find such a 'theory of everything,' a forceful argument that one will never be found, and a warning that the compromises necessary to produce a final theory may well undermine the rules of doing good science. At the heart of Lindley's story is the rise of the particle physicists and their attempts to reach far out into the cosmos for a unifying theory. Working beyond the grasp of the largest telescopes or the most powerful particle accelerators, and unable to subject their findings and theories to experimental scrutiny, they have moved into a world governed entirely by mathematical and highly speculative theorizing, none of which can be empirically verified. "What is the use of a theory that looks attractive but contains no additional power of prediction, and makes no statements that can be tested?" Lindley asks. "Does physics then become a branch of aesthetics ?" In a fascinating narrative focusing on the history of ideas, Lindley examines the failure of the strictly mechanical view of nature embodied in classical physics, explains why twentieth~century physics has become increasingly abstract, and discusses why particle physicists have become obsessed with cosmology. Finally, he charges that if physicists yield to the temptation to create a theory of everything derived from untested~and untestable~assumptions, the field will retreat from the high ground of science, becoming instead a modern mythology. This would surely mean the end of physics as we know it. ".…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good hard cover edition with very good dust jacket. 1st printing. 416 pages.

VG+, clean HB; DJ-VG. xi + 577 pp.

Fine, unmarked Hardback; DJ-VG+. ix + 422 pp.

Hard bound, first English translation, 213pp includes index. As new in fine dust jacket. 405 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 577 pages. History of the American criminal justice system from colonial times to today.