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Science and Medicine : Physics


Farewell to Reality - How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth

Constable, London
8vo Paperback. 338pp
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The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
8vo in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 185pp
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Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines

Science Museum, London Paperback Book Condition - Brand New in Stock Bookseller Inventory # Zk0901805459
Landscape 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 48pp, colour plates, etc
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy (inscription on verso of front cover)
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Children of Light - How Electrification Changed Britain Forever

Atlantic Books, London
Large 8vo in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 282pp, illustrations in text, index etc
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Physics in Mind - A Quantum View of the Brain

Basic Books, New York
8vo in yellow boards, silver lettering to spine, 325pp, illustrations in text, index etc
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Energy Technology Agency - Prospects for CO2 Capture and Storage

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / International Energy Agency, Paris
4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 249pp. Text in English throughout
Almost AS NEW, a very clean and tight copy (slight flat crease to a few leaves from poor handling)
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Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

Bantam Press, London
Large 8vo in black faux cloth, grey lettering to spine. 323pp, plates, bibliography, index etc
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Reminiscences About A Great Physicist

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
8vo in photo illustrated stiff glossy card covers, 297pp, plates, index etc
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Energy and the Unexpected

Oxford University Press, Oxford
Large 8vo in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 146pp, illustrations in text, bibliography, index etc
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Paradox - The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

Bantam Press, London
8vo in blue faux cloth, white lettering to spine. 234pp
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The Acoustical Foundations of Music

John Murray, London
8vo in green faux leather, gilt lettering to spine, 312pp, numerous illustrations in text, bibliography, index etc
Name on fly-leaf. Top edge of page block slightly tanned else FINE, a well preserved very clean and tight copy in a VG publisher-price-clipped Dust Jacket with publishers price sticker to inner flap (thin sliver of wear to top edges, two barely noticeable short closed tears to front panel, looks very presentable in its protector)
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Time

Prentice Hall, London
Square 4to in colour printed laminated boards, 110pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc
Mild rub and slight loss of surface laminate to spine ends, top edge of page block dusty and foxed else VERY GOOD+, an otherwise well preserved and very clean and tight copy
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The Language of Time

Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
8vo in red cloth, 248pp, index
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Microcognition - Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Parallel Distributed Processing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8vo in grey cloth. 226pp, bibliography, index
Name on fly-leaf. Faint rub to bottom edge of front cover else FINE, a very clean and tight copy in not far from new condition in a near FINE Dust Jacket (short closed tear to head of spine panel, few spots of light rub, looks fine in its protector)
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Physics and Philosophy

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Hardback 8vo, 222pp, index
Top edge of page block slightly dusty. Prelims lightly foxed else near FINE, a well preserved, very clean and tight copy in a slightly dusty VERY GOOD price-clipped Dust Jacket (tiny chips to head of spine panel and bottom corners of flap folds, looks very presentable in its protector)
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Thoughts on Natural Philosophy (With a new reading of Newton's First Law) and the Origin of Life

Printed for the author by Ward, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Hardback 1st Complete Edition. 8vo in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 78pp. Biddlecombe first published this book in 1907 in a much shorter form (24pp) and it was reprinted a number of times during the next few months, (all in very small editions). This copy is one of the last printings by Ward and being the first complete edition at 78pp. It was re-published in a (still quite small) trade edition by the Walter Scott company in 1910 (having more preliminary pages, but no additional text). All these editions are scarce
Small minor soil to rear cover else VERY GOOD+, an otherwise well preserved clean and tight copy
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Sound Waves and Their Uses - Six Lectures delivered before a 'juvenile audotory' under the auspices of The Royal Institution, Christmas, 1928

Blackie, London
Hardback. 152pp, illus., diagrams, bibliography, etc. Much on contemporary recording instruments, gramophones etc
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The Anatomy of Freedom - Feminism, Physics and Global Politics

Anchor Press / Doubleday, New York
8vo, 365pp, notes, bibliography, index
FINE copy (tiny bump to very bottom corner tip of rear cover) in a slightly edge-creased and faintly tanned but otherwise FINE Dust Jacket (looks almost as new in its protector)
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Between the Lines - A Personal History of the British Public Telephone and Telecommunications Service 1870 - 1990

Just Write, London
Large 8vo in grey faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 127pp, approx 50 photos in text, etc
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The New Background of Science

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
8vo in blue cloth. 303pp, index
VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy (prize Bookplate on paste-down end-paper, spine and cover margins moderately faded, few spots of mild soil to spine)
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Signor Marconi's Magic Box - The Invention That Sparked the Radio Revolution

Harper Collins, London
8vo 312pp, plates, index. Publishers review request slip loosely inserted
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Microscopium (English Edition)

Rijksmuseum Voor De Geschiedenis Der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden
Tall 4to in blue cloth. 59pp, plates in colour and b/w. Printed note from author laid in (as issued). Text in English throughout
A well preserved, very clean and tight FINE copy (name and tiny name stamp on front blank fly-leaf, slight shelf-rub to cover bottom edges)
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The Practical Telephone Handbook and Guide to the Telephonic Exchange (1918 edition)

Pitman, London
Thoroughly Revised and Enlarged. Thick 8vo in cloth. 725pp, many illustrations in text, folding diagram, index etc (collated complete)
A well preserved, clean and tight VERY GOOD+ copy (name on fly-leaf, covers faintly spotted, spine ends very slightly nicked, tiny speck of wear to cover corner tips)
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Progress in Nuclear Physics 1

Butterworth-Springer, London
Large 8vo 224pp, index etc
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Progress in Nuclear Physics Vol / Volume 7

Pergamon Press, London
Large 8vo. 326pp, illus., index etc
An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy in a slightly edge-creased and slightly rubbed but otherwise FINE Dust Jacket (looks fine in its protector)
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Talking Machines 1877-1914 - Some Aspects of the Early History of the Gramophone

Science Museum / HMSO, London
8vo Paperback. 81pp, plates, index etc
Covers slightly edge-rubbed else FIINE, a clean and tight copy still close to new
1st editionSoftcover
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William Shipley Founder of the Royal Society of Arts - A Biography with Documents

Hutchinson, London
240pp, colour frontis, plates, tables, bibliography, iconography, index
Near FINE, a well preserved, very clean and tight copy in a lightly rubbed VERY GOOD+ Dust Jacket (crease to front inner flap, looks fine in its protector)
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