Title Human Body (11 results)

Condition: Good. Some light wear to the jacket edges. The book is clean and readable throughout, a decent hardback copy.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Photographs copyright by the National Geographic S (illustrator). Presumed First Edition/First Printing. 16 pages, including covers. Illustrations (some in color). The average press run was approximately 45,000--few copies typically survived. This issue addressed in large part the National Geographic Society's television special program "The Incredible Machine", which was aired on the Public Broadcasting System by WQED/Pittsburgh on October 28, 1975. The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, also known as AG Bell, is a resource, support network and advocate for listening, learning, talking and living independently with hearing loss. Through publications, advocacy, training, scholarships and financial aid, AG Bell promotes the use of spoken language as well as hearing technology for children with hearing loss. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with chapters located throughout the United States and a network of international affiliates. The Association also sponsors the AG Bell College Scholarship Awards Program. In 2010, 18 awards were granted ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. The Association was originally created as the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (AAPTSD). It was renamed as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf in 1956. In 1999 the Association was finally renamed to the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Man: The Incredible Machine is a 1975 American documentary film directed by Irwin Rosten and Ed Spiegel. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. E. G. Marshall narrated the film, which was produced by Rosten, together with Dennis B. Kane and Alex Pomansanof. Man: The Incredible Machine, which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body and presented on film, using some of the earliest film that medical researchers had taken inside the human digestive tract and bloodstream. It ranked as the most-watched program in Public Broadcasting Service until 1982, when it was overtaken by The Sharks. Rosten's collaborator Nicholas Noxon described the "extraordinary impact" that the film had as a National Geographic special, noting that it was "groundbreaking for its time" and "opened people's eyes to what could be done with a documentary". The New York Times reviewer John J. O'Connor cited the film's ability to allow PBS to compete with the major networks, saying that "commercial television should now be reeling from the success of [the] National Geographic documentary", which garnered 36% of the total television audience in the New York City area when it was shown on WNET Channel 13. Rosten was criticized by some for using film that had been taken inside monkeys and rabbits. The New York Times noted criticism that viewers had been led to believe that the film was composed entirely of shots taken inside the human body, while nearly 5% was actually taken inside animals for details of the lungs, blood circulation and the reproductive system. Rosten had used film of human subjects wherever possible but that when "it was impossible to get inside the body we used film of mammals that would be exact representations of what we wanted to show". The National Geographic Society had been informed by Rosten that animal footage was included, but a disclaimer was not included in the film.

Original wrappers. Condition: Fair. New York: Falstaff Press, [copyright 1937]. 14 x 5 7/8". 27pp. Illustrations, including 12 full-page, color illustrations. Original wrappers. A fair, sound copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 318 pages. Published in 2014. The author's second novel. One of Paolo Giordano's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Paolo Giordano's "Il corpo umano" in a felicitous English translation. His war novel. Its real focus, however, is human pain, bodily and otherwise, what it does to one's character and what it means, if any: "A heartrending, at times darkly comic, but ultimately redemptive novel. An exploration of brotherhood and family, modern war and the war we wage within ourselves" (Publisher's blurb). Giordano did not go to any MFA school of writing and instead, earned a doctorate in Particle Physics, which makes his literary standing and achievement all the more singular and impressive. An absolute "must-have" title for Paolo Giordano collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Seattle, 10/18/19, Paolo Giordano". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Premio Strega, the most important literary prize in Italy, for "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" in 2008. Paolo Giordano is the youngest winner ever in the Prize's history. One of the most brilliant new voices in contemporary literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PAOLO GIORDANO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0670021482. Signed by Author.

paperback. Condition: Good. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Potential of the human body (88 years 1 edition printed only printed 5000) title page handwritingFour Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SCARCE SIGNED UK EDITION! FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by the author, Cat Bohannon, directly to the full title page. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting!  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today "A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center. The book is engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail." Sarah Lyall, The New York Times "A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman's body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens." Bonnie Garmus, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Lessons in Chemistry How did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? Why do women live longer than men? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? Is sexism useful for evolution? And why, seriously why, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause? These questions are producing some truly exciting science and in Eve, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: "We need a kind of user's manual for the female mammal. A no-nonsense, hard-hitting, seriously researched (but readable) account of what we are. How female bodies evolved, how they work, what it really means to biologically be a woman. Something that would rewrite the story of womanhood. This book is that story. We have to put the female body in the picture. If we don't, it's not just feminism that's compromised. Modern medicine, neurobiology, paleoanthropology, even evolutionary biology all take a hit when we ignore the fact that half of us have breasts. So it's time we talk about breasts. Breasts, and blood, and fat, and vaginas, and wombsall of it. How they came to be and how we live with them now, no matter how weird or hilarious the truth is." Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens has become such a successful and dominant species. Signed by Author(s).

paperback. Condition: Good. The beauty of the human body - the pen to write the word of life drawing. 180 (book title page).

paperback. Condition: Good. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Medical anthology mysteries of the human body [title page the handwriting book a handwriting drawing a line]Four Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back.

paperback. Condition: Good. Richard Secretary Qimi De painting the human body (oil pen word book title page).

paperback. Condition: Good. World human body photography (the Liu Haisu title).

[ title continued]:for bodily perfections or defects; collected from the writings of the most approved historians, philosophers, and physicians, of all ages and countries. Forming a complete system of the mental and corporeal powers and defects of human nature; and intended to increase knowledge, to promote virtue, to discourage vice, and to furnish topics for innocent and ingenious conversation. / By Nathaniel Wanley, late M.A. And Vicar of Trinity Parish, Coventry. A new edition, with the addition of much new and curious matter, . the whole revised and corrected by W.M. Johnston, . In two volumes.Two volumes. Engraved frontispiece and plates to each volume (foxed), 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches), pages 552 & 403, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Very rubbed, 1 cover detached, pale damp tide mark to upper marging of plates else internally very sound.