Hoskin M (214 results)

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library. Aside from library matter, this is a pristine copy that appears unread. 160 pages. 160 pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; ex-library; minor shelfwear w/ bumped corners; o/w in very good condition. ALSO INCLUDES: History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge; Presuppositions of Historians of Science; Action at Distance; Principle of Uniformity; Kepler the Mathematician; Inward Nature versus Objectivity; After the Principia; Science and Poetry; "Popularising Dead Science" two books from Schools.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Theories and Things: A Brief Study in Prescriptive Metaphysics. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. HARDBACK original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine pictorial dust-jacket - fine pages: vii 133 [viii] - adverts. 159mm x 235mm (6.25 x 9.25" 0.

3pp, 2 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Condition: New.

5pp, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

First Edition. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Physical description; vol. II (only): 177 pages. Subjects; History of Science. Literature of Review. Research of Review. Review of Teaching. 1 Kg.

6pp, figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. HARDBACK, blue cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, not price-clipped, as new. please contact me for photographs or further information if required.

Condition: Very Good. 1974. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1975. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1972. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1974. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1975. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1973. Journal. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1971. Journal. Academic Journal offprint. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1972. Journal. Academic Journal offprint. Good clean copy showing light shelf wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

6pp, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket has a little wear, foxing and scuffed edges. 135 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

8pp, 1 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Spotting to end papers and page edges. Previous owners signature to ffep. Darkening to D/J.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear only. Clean with no highlighting or writing. 30-day return policy and free shipping within Canada. For shipments outside of Canada, custom duties or other charges may be levied on receipt. ; 6.5 X 0.4 X 10 inches; 160 pages.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:0521411580.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Book Club Edition. B&W Illustrations & Charts; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. A bit of the laminate has started to pull on the front cover by the spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. "In Vegetable Staticks, Hales studied transpiration the loss of water from the leaves of plants. He estimated the surface area of the leaves of the plant and the length and surface area of the roots. This allowed Hales to compare the calculated influx of water into the plant with the amount of water leaving the plant by transpiration through the leaves. He also measured 'the force of the sap' or root pressure. Hales commented that "plants very probably draw through their leaves some part of their nourishment from the air". In Vegetable Staticks Hales prefigured the cohesion theory of water movement in plants, although his ideas were not understood at the time, so he did not influence the debate on water transport in plants in the 19th century. He also speculated that plants might use light as a source of energy for growth (i. E. Photosynthesis) , based on Isaac Newton's suggestion that "gross bodies and light" might be interconvertible. " (from Wikipedia).…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. CLXXI, No. 2. [Edited by Matthew White.] Cover by Stockton Mulford for "Convent or Crown?" (pt. 1 of 3) by Coralie Stanton & Heath Hosken. Includes "Faro's Daughter" (pt. 2 of 5) by Charles Alden Seltzer; "Bondage" (pt. 3 of 4) by Elizabeth York Miller; "The Son of Madame Butterfly" (pt. 4 of 4) by George F. Worts & William Elliott; "Something from Samarang" by Arthur Preston Hankins; "Knickers and Nocturnes" by John D. Swain; "Waste" by Douglas Durkin; "McKeever's Princess" by Alden Hatch; "Mademoiselle Sally" by H. M. Hamilton; "The Fourth Degree" by Jack Woodford. Rear cover re-gued at hinge; edges chipped - front has long shallow chip from lower corner to mid-foredge; spine heel chipped with a little separation at ends; pages supple and nice. Magazine.…

c.72 pp 8vo. Original wrappers, in very good condition.

10pp, 6 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

12pp, 2 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.