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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. eautifully good" tea. Keynes shows how the pain of her loss cast a shadow over Darwin's thinking about the natural world and the struggle for life. Her death also inflamed the mental turmoil over religion and the existence of God that he had experienced (illustrator). Large Size Book, 1st printing. In a chest of drawers left by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes found the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of ten. Within the box, among the typical keepsakes of a Victorian girlhood, were the notes Darwin kept as he cared for Annie through her final illness. For Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, Annie's writing case became the point of entry into the story of Darwin's family life and its influence on the development of his revolutionary understanding of man's place in nature. Keynes takes us into the family's private world and draws on a wealth of previously unseen material to show Darwin at home and trace his private struggle with his faith. Particularly fascinating is the revealing portrait of Emma, Darwin's wife- a complex woman, both tolerant and devout- who was in many ways ahead of her time. Emma and Charles were close and loving parents, and it was by observing his children that Darwin gleaned many of his insights into man's animal origins as he worked secretly on his theory of evolution. What emerges with fresh charity in these pages is the importance of Darwin's life with his family in his deepest thinking, and how his home was his most treasured laboratory- the place where his ground-breaking ideas were formulated, and could be tested, on his most precious subjects- his ten children. When Annie fell ill, Darwin was at her bedside day and night, doing all he could for her, making copious notes about her deteriorating health, bringing her "beautifully good" tea. Keynes shows how the pain of her loss cast a shadow over Darwin's thinking about the natural world and the struggle for life. Her death also inflamed the mental turmoil over religion and the existence of God that he had experienced since his return from the voyage of HMS Beagle. As Darwin's theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature, Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution reveals the personal experience from which he drew his most deeply held ideas. Keynes's rare insight gives us a fuller picture of one of our most maverick thinkers we will never separate the scientist from his home and family again.

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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Aceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Aceptable. COVER: Flaunting feathers once sought for the capes of Hawaiian royalty, an ·i·iwi clings to an existence made precarious by an army of imported predators. Fhotograph by Chris Johns (illustrator). NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. VOL. 188, NO.3. SEPTEMBER 1995. (Double map supplement: HAWAII) HAWAII´S VANISHING SPECIES by Elizabeth Royte and photographs by Chris Johns. THE DAWN OF HUMANS by Meave Leakey, photographs by Kenneth Garrett and art by John Gurche. ESSENCE OF PROVENCE by Bill Bryson and fhotographs by William Albert Allard. HUAUTLA CAVE QUEST By William C. Stone and photographs by author and Wes Skiles. GIANT CUTTLEFISH. Article ant photographs by Fred Bavebdan. EL SALVADOR by Mile Edwards and photographs by Tomasz Tomaszewski.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Nicolas Walter "Anarchism and Religion" / Tony Gibson "Should We Mock at Religion?" / Colin Ward "Anarchist entry for a theological dictionary" / Peter Lumsden "Only the atheist can understand religion" / George Walford "Through Religion to Anarchism" / Sebastien Faure "Twelve Proofs of the Non-Existence of God" / Brian Morris "Matriliny and mother goddess religion" (U.P.).

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book's exploration into the precise relationship between physical body size and central nervous system (CNS) mass adds to the ongoing and fascinating scientific study of biological scaling. The author demonstrates that a correlation exists, revealing the CNS of a frog can be calculated proportionally to the frog's length and weight. The author's approach and insights open doors for further investigation into the intricate connections between various animal species' physical attributes and the make-up of their nervous systems. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An original essay from the Monthly Review, 1770. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 12 x 21 cms. Category: Monthly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 24 pages. 284 x 220 mm. Very light water stains. Light soiling to covers. One double leaf detached.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 248. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1931 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 248.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original sea blue paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 225 pp with splendid archive monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition price clipped dust wrapper. Printed illustrated Beaufighter bookplate to the half-title page SIGNED in blue fountain ink 'John Cunningham' + No. 963 of 1142 'The Night Blitz 16-22 November 1940' flown cover SIGNED John Cunningham to the front cover | 30 December 1990 post office stamp, two further stamps to the rear | Royal Air Force Halton (15 March 1991) and Army Air Corps Centre (15 March 1991) | certification signed by Group Captain W. S. O. Randle. Three information card cachet inserts. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. AVIATION & AERONAUTICS.

orig. wrappers. Condition: Minor wear. VG, 30x21cm, ix,182 pages., A textbook for learning the Tamil alphabet. Trilingual English-Sinhala-Tamil text.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. "M. Liouville communique verbalement.remarques.à des classes très-étendues de quantités dont la valeur n'est ni rationelle ni méme réductible à des irratonnelles algébriques.à un passage du livre des principes ou Newton calcule l'action exercee par une sphere sur un point exterieur." AND WITH. Nouvelle démonstration d'un theorme sur les irrationnelles algebraiques." Both in: "Comptes Rendus des Seances de l Academie des Sciences, Paris, Bachelier, 13 and 20 May 1844, volumes 18 number 20 and 21,  pp 945-948 in the issue of pp 945-1043 AND pp 883-898. These are the first printings of the papers in which Liouville provided proof of the existence of transcendental numbers. [++] "Liouville invents a method for the constructing a set of transcendental numbers."--Claire Parkinson, "Breakthroughs", 1844. "In 1844, math genius Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) was the first to prove the existence of transcendental numbers. (More precisely, he was the first to prove that a specific number was transcendental.)"--Cliff Pickover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Street, J.C. , and E.C. Stevenson. +Existence of the Muon Confirmed+ "New Evidence for the Existence of a Particle Intermediate Between the Proton and Electron", Phys. Rev. vol 52 number 9, 1 November 1937, p.1003. In the original wrappers. VG copy. [+] "Muons were discovered by Carl D. Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer in a cloud chamber experiment at CalTech in 1936. Anderson had noticed particles in the cosmic radiation that curved differently from electrons and other known particles when they passed through a magnetic field. The particles were positively and negatively charged and curved less sharply than electrons, but more sharply than protons for the same velocity. To account for the difference in curvature, it was supposed that their mass was greater than that of an electron but smaller than that of a proton. The existence of such a particle was confirmed in 1937 [in this paper offered] by J. C. Street and E. C. Stevenson in a cloud chamber experiment."--European School of Instrumentation."The Detection of the Muon", online. [++] Also see Cahn and Goldhaber, "The Experimental Foundation of Particle Physics", 1989, where the article is reproduced in full (following the epochal Neddermeyer and Anderson paper on the nature of cosmic-ray particles from March of that year. [++] Also: Ezhela, Particle Physics, One Hundred Years of Discoveries.p. 78 (1937B).

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. GOUDSMIT, Samuel. "Present difficulties in the theory of hyperfine structure", in Convegno di Fisica Nucleare, Ottobre 1931,  Rome: Reale Academia d'Italia, 1932, with the Goudsmit on pp. 33-49 in the publication of 173, (1)pp. 10"x 7", Unopened. Original wrappers. There is some fair amount of dusting to the covers and some very minor chipping to the spine top and bottom; the binding is strong and the text is crisp. This is a solid VG copy. [++] Attendees to this conference were outstanding, including: Richardson, Millikan, Meitner, Stern, Debye, Compton, Curie, Anton, Brill, Fermi, and Goudsmit. [++] Pauli thought that his idea of the most elusive particle in existence the neutron/neutrino could not be detected; in this paper Goudsmit helped prove Pauli right on the neutrino and wrong on being-able-to-detect-it. According to Laurie Brown, Goldsmit said: "It was Maurice Goldhaber who some time ago pointed out that I was the first to put Pauli's idea on paper and in print"--Laurie Brown in "Physics Today", "The Idea of the Neutrino", 1978. The later-named "neutrino" would be detected by Reines and Cowan at the P Reactor at Savannah River on 14 June 1956, in one of the great experiments in 20th century physics.[++] At the request of Fermi, Goudsmit himself explains the background and Pauli's integral appearance at the meeting in Pasadena in 1931 on page 41 of this paper: "At a meeting at Pasadena in June 1931 [which G attended], Pauli expressed the idea that there might exist a third type of elementary particle besides protons and. electrons, namely "neutrons". ."  Pauli theorized that an undetected particle was carrying away the observed difference between the energy, momentum, and angular momentum of the initial and final particles [++] ("Pauli originally named his proposed light particle a neutron. When James Chadwick discovered a much more massive nuclear particle in 1932 and also named it a neutron, this left the two particles with the same name. Enrico Fermi, who developed the theory of beta decay, introduced the term neutrino in 1934.")--Science online, on the "neutrino."[++] Pauli did not publish on theory, though he did send a rather famous circular/letter to colleagues (addressing them as "dear radioactives" (!)): "But I don't feel secure enough to publish anything about this idea, so I first turn confidently to you, dear radioactives, with a question as to the situation concerning experimental proof of such a neutron, if it has something like about 10 times the penetrating capacity of a BETA-ray."[++] Goudsmit continues on page 41: "These neutrons should have an angular momentum ½ h/2pi and also a magnetic moment, but no charge. They are kept in the nucleus by magnetic forces and are emitted. together with BETA-rays in radioactive disintegration. This, according to Pauli, might remove present difficulties in nuclear structure and at the same time in the explanation of the BETA-ray spectrum, in which it seems that the law of conservation of energy is not fulfilled. If one would find experimentally that there is also no conservation of momentum, it would make it very probable that another particle is emitted at the same time with the BETA-particle. The mass of these neutrons has to be very much smaller than that of the proton, otherwise one would have detected the change in atomic weight after BETA-emission." [++] According to Laurie Brown, when Goudsmit was giving his paper and mentioned the word "neutron" Pauli who had been late in getting to the conference appeared for the first time in the lecture hall like "magic"! [++] Lastly, there is a GREAT group photo of the attendees as frontis. .

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1895 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 22 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.