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Title: Fifteen books on science and society
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Date Published: 1912-2010
Description: 15 volumes. Publisher's bindings, all but 2 in jackets. Chiefly first editions.Thought-provoking collection of literature on scientific themes, generally produced for a broad readership, though some on specific topics. Some are strictly scientific investigations, though most venture to explain the science as well as its implications for society. Several by greats such as Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, and Max Born, and more.Lot includes:
Bragg, W.H. Studies in Radioactivity.. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1912. First Edition. No jacket, possibly as issued(?).
Fabre, Jean-Henri. The Story-Book of Science. New York: The Century Co., 1917. Translated from the Nineteenth French edition by Florence Constable Bicknell. No jacket.
Born, Max. The Constitution of Matter: Modern Atomic and Electron Theories. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1923. Translated from the German by E.W. Blair and T.S. Wheeler. Front free endpaper clipped.
Mott, N.F. An Outline of Wave Mechanics. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1930. First Edition. Jacket worn, volume with light annotation.
Lawrence, James Cooper. The World's Struggle with Rubber 1905-1931. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition.
Jeans, James, Sir. Through Space & Time. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First U.S. Edition. Jacket clipped.
Haldane, J.B.S. Heredity and Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938. First Edition.
Pauling, Linus. The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1945. Second edition.
Fulton, John F. and Elizabeth H. Thomson. Benjamin Silliman 1779-1864. Pathfinder in American Science. New York: Henry Schuman, 1947. First Edition.
Koestler, Arthur. Insight and Outlook: An Inquiry into the Common Foundations of Science, Art, and Social Ethics. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Inscribed and signed by author at half-title. First U.S. Edition. Jacket clipped.
Gamow, G. and C.L. Critchfield. Theory of Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Energy-Sources. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1951. Third edition, first printing. Jacket price-clipped.
Feynman, Richard F. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985. First Edition. Bookplate.
Gell-Mann, Murray. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1994. Signed by author at title; inscribed in different ink, uncertain whether by author. First Edition.
Kane, Gordon. Supersymmetry: Squarks, Photinos, and the Unveiling of the Ultimate Laws of Nature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2000. Third printing.
Hawking Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. New York: Bantam Books, 2010. First Edition.
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Some volumes with minor wear, older jackets darkening; near fine to fine.