Scientists Confront Velikovsky (55 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Third Printing. 183 pages. Purple binding with red lettering on spine. Dust Jacket covers heavily rubbed, with small tears to top corner tips and top edges of front and back covers. Photos of book on request.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Third Printing. A bit of sticker residue on front of dust jacket and a small section of material missing at bottom back corner.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number taped to spine; fading, shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in good condition with clean text, tight binding.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 183pp.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [A Group of Eminent Scholars Reply to Velikovsky's Theory of Worlds in Collision] Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Foxing to edges. Pages unmarked. "Immanuel Velikovsky was the Russian born writer whose theories about colliding planets entertained and outraged the scientific world while mesmerizing millions of science buffs. Trained as a physician and psychiatrist in Moscow during the early 1900's, Dr. Velikovsky studied Freud's analysis of the subconscious mind of Moses. That work, coupled with his own vast knowledge of mythology and Biblical lore, led him to embark on an unorthodox lifelong course of study summarized in his now famous 'Worlds in Collision,' published in 1950. Dr. Velikovsky's fanciful theories centered on his belief that a fragment of the planet Jupiter, later identified as Venus, careered through the heavens around 1500 B.C., and lightly brushed against the planet Earth, causing a series of catastrophic consequences earthlings have since tried to forget, hence the origin of a Velikovsky notion he called 'collective amnesia.' Among the effects of the collision, according to the writer, were these: interruption of the Earth's rotation, causing the oceans to spill; the leveling of mountains in some places and their sudden establishment in other locations. According to Dr. Velikovsky, before Venus proceeded on its troubled course, disturbing the heavenly peace for at least another 52 years, it sprinkled a trail of hydrocarbons in its wake. Turning aside the body of conventional scientific knowledge in many disciplines whose domains his ideas touched, Dr. Velikovsky, for instance, rebutted the argument of geologists who pointed to fossil tree rings as proof of an uninterrupted diurnal cycle in the world's history for the last 360 million years. Dr. Velikovsky's controversial theory and his popularity with much of the lay public led some of his critics to threaten his publishers with boycotts and caused others to dismiss him affectionately as the 'Grand old man of the fringe. With near religious zeal, his supporters point proudly to his acceptance by others such as his close friend, Dr. Albert Einstein, with whom he exchanged a lively correspondence and personal visits. An annotated copy of 'Worlds in Collison' was found at Dr. Einstein's bedside after his death, the Velikovsky supporters say proudly." - NY Times Obit.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, graded in hand. A Cornell University Press hardcover in its original dust jacket. The jacket shows corner bumping and creasing at the top corners of the front panel, general edge wear, and some small tears and creases; the rear panel has light surface wear and slight wrinkling. The binding is intact and tight and the boards are sound. Interior pages are white and clean throughout with no writing, no highlighting and no foxing observed. NOT ex-library: no spine labels, stamps, card pockets, date-due slips, barcodes or protective wrap were found on any surface. The copyright page shows this to be the third printing, 1980. Book.…

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Scientists Confront Velikovsky. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Lucid and informative, this book not only shows the deficiencies of Velikovsky's views, but also makes clear why these views have attracted such a strong public following. This is accomplished through essays written by Storer, Sagan, Mulholland, Huber, and Morrison. Each of the essays discusses Velikovsky's views' weaknesses from a different discipline or perspective. Included are endnotes and index. This copy is clean and solid. …

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Text is unmarked. I13.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Criticisms of Velikovsky's landmark work "Worlds in Collision". Dust jacket in protective mylar. 183pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 183pp., Stated: "Second printing 1978". Purple cloth with orange lettering on spine; orange endpapers. Purple dustwrapper not price-clipped ($8.95) with title lettering in white and orange across top front cover, just above editor name in orange, book description in smaller white letters across middle front cover, contributors' names in orange across bottom front cover; 1/2" closed tear on rear cover at top edge near middle (now backed with archival tape); mere hint of wear at spine ends and at only two of the four cover corners (book corners NOT rubbed, dw did its job). Tight spine, sharp corners, two previous owner names discreetly written on inside front cover top left and on orange ffep near top right corner, respectively, else Clean text. Despite two previous owner names inscribed, book looks Unread. New York Times Letters to the editor (clipping from 5 16 87) laid in: "Immanuel Velikovsky 40 Years Later: Not to Be Taken Seriously (C. Leroy Ellenberger). . .Or Vindicated Prophet? (Robert Hearn)".…

Paperback. Condition: New. In this book, Velikovsky's ideas are seriously discussed and criticized by three astronomers, a sociologist, and an expert on ancient astronomical records. The result is a full-scale critique of Velikovsky's work from several perspectives. Lucid and informative, the book not only shows the deficiencies of Velikovsky's views, but also makes clear why these views have attracted such a strong public following.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Contribution by Carl Sagan, among others. First edition. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 183 pages, Foreword by Isaac Asimov, with contributions by Carl Sagan and others. Dust jacket has a one inch closed tear at the bottom and a couple of other small closed tears, all of which have been tape reinforced on the inside.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition Thus. 1. Publisher's full purple cloth, red lettering on spine, red endpapers. 8vo. 183, (2) pp. Illustrated with B&W photographs, charts and tables. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Contributions by Carl Sagan, J. Derral Mulholland, David Morrison, Norman W. Storer and Peter J. Huber. This is an unmarked, unread copy, tight, square and clean, small band of sunning along top edge of boards only, else as new. The unclipped dust jacket, now in mylar, has one small chip at the top of the front panel, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Purple cloth in mylar-protected dust jacket. 183pp. Foreward by Isaac Asimov.

VG, unmarked Hardback; DJ-G. 183 pp.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 188 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.