Preface Albert Einstein (12 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION thus; 10987654pt line. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S20.95) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright; BLACK spine titles on BLUE-GREY hard covers.BLACK TITLES on orange & grey dust jacket, showing pointelist facial portrait of Einstein .Black endpapers.; 120pg pages; many 2 dimentional graph chart presentations of Albert's ideas.Theory., equations, and explanations,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. In Yiddish. 354 pages. 245 x 165 mm. Dated inscription in Yiddish by the author. Top edge gilt. Other edges untrimmed. With black silk page marker. Many Duotone full page photographic illustrations. Includes English title page on verso of Hebrew title page. Illustrated with a number of b/w facsimile photographs of important figures and historical casts from certain plays performed by Habimah.The book is a history of Habimah ("The Stage") which was founded in Moscow in 1917 under the Moscow Art Theatre. Habimah was the first professional group to ever perform their plays in Hebrew. Led by Nahum Zemach, the company aspired to portray the problems of the Jewish people. Habimah had a few problems of its own; many members of the Communist Party opposed the existence of Habimah. Stalin, however, allowed the group to continue to operate. In 1926, the company went abroad on tour. The following year, in the United States, Habimah split. Zemach and several additional actors remained in the U.S., while others decided to settle in the British Mandate of Palestine (Eretz Israel). Tel Aviv was the new home for Habimah. In 1945, Habimah moved into the building in which it now resides, in the heart of Tel Aviv. Thirteen years later, it became the National Theater of Israel. Each photo has Yiddish and English description.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (Ref.U5 ) Black cloth boards with silver spine titles. Boards very slightly faded and one or two light scuffs. Slightly dusty top edge with one very small stain. Endpapers a little darkened at hinge. Main contents are very good and unmarked. No DJ.

Condition: Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. " The best publisher alive or dead". C P Snow.Good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.First edition. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. " The best publisher alive or dead". C P Snow.Good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.First edition. First edition copy. . . .

Hardcover. Condition: New. Special Edition. Full leather bound edition. Raised bands on spine with gilt lettering. Gilt page edges and cover design. Ribbon page marker. Marble design endpapers. Book is new and sealed in publishers shrinkwrap. Book.

Paper Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 214 x 138 mm, 13 pages. Early Statehood-period critique of this American Jewish Anti-Zionist organization. Accuses the ACJ of affiliating with such anti-Semitic extremists as Gerald LK Smith and Merwin K. Hart. With a brief foreword by Albert Einstein in which he compares the ACJ to the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith in pre-War Europe. Not in Singerman.

2. Cambridge (USA), Harvard U.P. , 1957 , in-8°, 196 pp, index, bibliography in the notes, publisher's half cloth with dustwrapper (spine discoloired, small tear in dustwrapper).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN Oversized, Heavy, Hardback in original cardboard box/slipcase. Very Good condition book with slight bit of foxing to reverse side of front free endpaper in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. All text in Italian. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

in-8vo, XXII + 119 p.,qqs soulignures au crayon blue au début de l?ouvrage brochure originale. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. Large 8vo. xvi + 60 + (4)pp. Publisher's green printed paper covers, black lettering on front & spine. Original white eps. Neat pencil signature on front " H H Dixon ". Covers : browning around edges,chips along spine, small 0.5cm chip front top corner. Contents : faint browning to pages else very clean & tight & unfoxed. VG-.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1955. [offered with:]BLACKETT, Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. [London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for] 'Fabian Publications ltd, in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd'. September 1946. [offered with:]BLACKETT, Patrick Maynard Stuart. The Atom and the Charter. [London and Hereford: the Hereford Times for] 'Fabian Publications Ltd, in conjunction with Victor Gollancz Ltd'. September 1946.8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, in yellow dust-jacket printed in red and black; pp. 22, [2 (blank)]; maps and tables in the text, spine of jacket sunned, a little spotting to back cover, small closed tear to back flap hinge (c. 10 mm), lettering to spine rubbed, small chip to upper joint; very good; contemporary Foyles label to pastedown 'P. M. S. Blackett' (see below), with Blackett's ownership inscription in blue ink to front free endpaper.First English edition, with a preface by Einstein, of this work arguing for nuclear disarmament, translated by the gardener, novelist, and anarchist Edward Byams, this copy from the library of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Patrick Blackett, whose own work is discussed at length in the book.Jules Moch (1893-1985) worked as a French Resistance organiser during the war, later became a senior minister in several post-war governments, and was France's delegate to the UN Disarmament Committee for 1951-1960. It was this latter role that informed the principles he sets forth in Human Folly which argue for multilateral nuclear disarmament. Divided into two parts, the first examines the destructive capacities of modern warfare before tracing the recent history of disarmament negotiations. Moch attempts to represent both Soviet and Western positions with fairness, concluding that the divisions between the two are gradually narrowing. Though he does not regard the situation as entirely hopeless, he presents it as one of pressing urgency. The preface by Albert Einstein, one of Moch's most eminent supporters, makes clear peace can only arise from political will: 'Those who do not believe in the possibility of the attainment of a lasting and assured peace, or have not the courage to act accordingly, are ripe for destruction' (p. 8). Provenance: front free endpaper with the ownership inscription of Patrick Blackett (1897-1974) with his occasional underlining throughout and one word ('Target?') in pencil to the top of p. 10. Blackett was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation, including experiments demonstrating nuclear transmutation and important early research into the positron. During the Second World War, he headed Operational Research at the Admiralty, where his statistical criticism of the RAF blanket bombing campaigns led to increasing ostracism from the military authority. His opposition to mass destruction later informed his belief that Britain should not develop nuclear weapons. Combined with his openly socialist views, this attracted the attention of MI5 and led to his inclusion on George Orwell's list of alleged 'crypto-communists', contributing to his marginalisation by the post-war Labour government. Blackett's book The Military and Economic Consequences of Atomic Energy (1948) is discussed at length by Moch (pp. 117-19). Written before the development of second-generation thermonuclear weapons, Blackett had estimated that thousands of atomic bombs would be required to destroy the United States or the Soviet Union when at the time, only a few dozen existed. As Moch observes on p. 121, however, 'today a few dozen thermonuclear bombs would produce the same results'. It is particularly notable that Blackett has not annotated the passages explicitly discussing his work. This copy of Human Folly is offered with Blackett's pamphlet The Atom and the Charter, which discusses the extent to which 'the advent of atomic bombs necessitates changes in the procedure for the application of sanctions under the Charter of the United Nations Organisation', issued by Victor Gollancz and the socialist Fabian Society on behalf of the Association of Scientific Workers, a scientific trade union of which Blackett was president.