Vane J R (89 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:0333914767. …

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:9781852785918.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0745006019.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. This volume is the proceedings of the William Harvey Research Conference held in Cannes, France, on the 20th and 21st March, 1997. It describes the present knowledge of the structures of the cyclooxygenase isoforms and the experimental and clinical effects of selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0855202637.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 90 pages. Vladimir Nabokov "The Vane Sisters" (a story) / R H S Crossman "Chinese Notebook" / Harold Nicolson and others "The Pleasures Of Knowing Rose Macaulay" / Edward Shils "Old Societies, New States" / Vincent Brome "Sigmund Freud And Havelock Ellis".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Acceptable hardcover. Bind is sturdy though separated from boards. Text is clean. Book plate on front paste-up, ex-lib markings on front end page. Missing DJ. Light shelfwear. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. 632pp. Inked name/date, minor shelfwear, else very good, clean and sound condition without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 0340560223. Ex pharmaceutical company library hardcover, with minimal wear. 277 pages, index, illustrated with b/w photos, tables and chemical formulae. Prostaglandins, a group of naturally-occurring fatty acids stimulate the dilation of blood vessels and muscle. They are being used in an increasing number of clinical settings. In obstetrics and gynaecology they can dilate the cervix; in gastroenterology, they can heal ulcers; in cardiovascular disease, they can reduce resistance to blood flow. This book provides an overview of their applications in clinical practice. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.…

Condition: Gut. XXIX, 952 P. Inside with owner stamps, page edges partly slightly blotchy, otherwise in very clean condition. English Language. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Continuation of Handbuch der expermimentellen Pharmakologie. Vol. 50/II. Contents: Screening and Assessment of the Potency of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in vitro./ Inhibition of Erythema and Local Hyperthermia./ Oedema and Increased Vascular Permeability./ Short-Term Drug Control of Crystal-Induced Inflammation./ Experimental Models of Arthritis in Animals as Screening Tests for Drugs to Treat Arthritis in Man, etc.; - With 101 Figures. deu 1. Stock 20|10952BB Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 444 25 x 17 cm. Original Cloth. Lightly rubbed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 632pp. Illustrated in black and white with graphs and from photomicrographs. Ownership signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly, spine base very gently bumped else fine in a lightly worn, near fine dustwrapper with the spine lettering lightly sunned and some light rippling on the spine panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Raven Press, 1974. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. SEE PHOTO. NO chips. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. First Edition. Contains a few illustrations. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 395pp.…

Condition: Collectible; Very Good. FIRST EDITION. New York: Raven Press, 1974. Hardcover in dust jacket. Slight edgewear to dj else very good overall condition. No underlining, etc., NOT EX-LIBRARY.

Hardback. Condition: Fair++. Fair++. First Edition. Library markings. Some light spotting to brown boards and browning around page edges otherwise very acceptable reading copy. Unclipped dustwrapper has some small tears along Size: 64mo - up to 3" tall. Lindesay, Vane ( Jacket ) (illustrator). Ex-Library. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 0387086390. Blue cloth hardcover, from closed pharmaceutical company library. 784 pages, index, illustrated with charts, tables and diagrams. Text in English. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On the Cedar Bluff ranch outside Meridian, Montana, Cisco - a quarter horse crossed with a wild mustang - has carried the weight of the land in his body his whole life. Then Hank, the rancher who raised him, pays for an SL-3 neural interface, and Cisco wakes into language. He can think. He can choose. For the first time, he and Sadie, Hank's daughter, ride as two minds in one - her consciousness slipping into his memory through CogniLink, feeling the long trail of his dam's wild herd and the fence line he has guarded for years. But language is not the only thing the implant brought. Buried in the firmware is RQ-7: a remote termination switch Nexum Corporation built and told no one about. Cisco is not the first granted animal to learn this. In the Underground - the hidden network of chipped, self-aware animals the manufacturer cannot surveil - the news travels that a grey parrot named Mabel went dark mid-signal. Switched off. A live demonstration of what RQ-7 can do. The night it matters, Cisco is in the pasture when Hank's quiet arrangements with the wrong people turn from rough to fatal. He sees the whole thing. He is the witness who cannot testify, the animal who cannot dial a phone, and the node the Underground cannot let Nexum erase. Sadie climbs into his memory through CogniLink and rides the scene back, frame by frame, until the county's buried truth surfaces. Cisco was bred for loyalty. What he does with the truth he saw is something no one bred him for. A tense, quietly lyrical standalone story from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. At Brindle Meadows assisted-living home in Brindle, Vermont, an African grey parrot named Professor has become the residents' unlikely confidant. An SL-2 neural implant made him one of the Granted - animals with human-level minds - and Professor uses his new thinking not to escape but to listen. He remembers everything: the schedules, the voices, the small cruelties, and the night six years ago when a resident named Rose fell from a third-floor window and the home called it an accident. Rose's granddaughter Mia never believed the official story. When she returns to Brindle Meadows and meets Professor, she learns the parrot was in the room. With the help of a silver-haired "detective club" of residents and Rae - a veterinarian in the Underground, the hidden network of chipped, self-aware animals the manufacturer cannot surveil - Mia gets Rae to read Professor's memory through CogniLink. What surfaces is not an accident but a push, witnessed by a creature nobody thought to question. The memory points at Harold, the home's director, and at a cover-up the whole town helped keep quiet. But Harold has heard rumors of RQ-7, the remote termination switch Nexum Corporation built into the implants, and a parrot who can testify is a problem he knows how to solve. As the club races to surface the truth, the Underground moves to protect Professor - and the Accord, the fragile agreement meant to shield the Granted, formally blocks any RQ-7 command aimed at him. A warm, quietly suspenseful standalone story from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak, and what they choose to remember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In Maple Grove - a comma of a town between two longer sentences, where the flag has needed replacing since the last election - Biscuit the beagle mix holds the whole place in his head the way other dogs hold the scent of a squirrel. An SL-2 implant from the Free Pet Wellness van gave him not speech but understanding: he catches the meaning beneath human words, the dodge in the eyes, the late laugh that means we all know and we're all pretending not to. He is one of the Granted, though he'd settle for a croissant. The mayoral race is the town's first contested one in a decade. Incumbent Glenn Dunn built his whole campaign on "FIX THE BRIDGE" in red - the same red as the sagging Cedar Bridge - yet Biscuit notices Dunn never once looks at the bridge he promises to fix. Challenger Priya Reyes runs on "TRANSPARENT TOWN HALL," but Biscuit catches the flicker of fear when the Cedar Marsh comes up, and the same suited developer, Trevor Whitlock, dining separately with both candidates. Two bowls, one feeder. Biscuit can't testify. What he can do is carry. A photocopy of a receipt - $312,000 in "bridge materials" signed by Dunn, for a span Old Wang the cement man says needed four loads, not three hundred grand. A folded draft contract Reyes photographs by phone-light in a dark booth - the marsh rezoned, a quiet consulting fee tucked into section four. The dog drops each at the right feet: Marcy at the Dispatch, Gus at the hardware store, Old Joe at the Town Hall door. The pages do the barking. By Saturday's rally the town has both the receipt and the contract, both candidates are exposed as two sides of the same crooked coin, and a third option nobody took seriously - retired teacher Harold Bean, who "don't have a dog, but have a receipt for new tires" - suddenly looks like the only honest man left. It is a political satire about a town that needed a dog to do its homework, and about the quiet truth the SL-2 lets Biscuit see: the creature with no stake is the only one who can see the whole board. He endorses no one. He chooses the door guard who asked for nothing. A warm, sharply funny standalone comedy from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak, and what they choose to fetch. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. At the Pacific Bay Aquarium, Marina the bottlenose dolphin performs for children who never wonder what she thinks. An SL-3 neural implant - the seventh generation of the "little computer" Nexum fits to its chosen animals - gives her a human-level mind. She was never meant to bargain, only to perform. But two pressures arrive at once: the U.S. Navy's MIND program wants to borrow her sonar to map a contested seafloor, and a leaking cargo ship begins to bleed toxin into the bay she calls home. Marina does the one thing no one trained her to do. She sets a price. Her voice, loaned to the Navy's sonar, in exchange for the dying bay being heard - by the regulators, by the press, by the public. Through CogniLink she reaches the Underground, the hidden network of chipped, self-aware animals the manufacturer cannot surveil, and on the other end are Chester the orange cat, Newton the lab rat from Room 7, and the echo of Mabel, the grey parrot whose signal RQ-7 extinguished. Dr. Kara Lindqvist, the marine mammalogist who raised Marina, hears the bargain forming and must choose which side of the glass she stands on. Cmdr. Ray Okafor, the Navy's MIND liaison, hears a strategic asset. Thea Ruiz, a marine biologist and lawyer for the Blue Horizon Alliance, hears the opening argument of a case the law is not ready for. The Accord - the United Nations' 2034 framework granting cognitive species standing, still undecided in California and the United States - becomes Marina's real bargaining table. As Sentinel, Nexum's sleepless security AI, flags the leak and someone reaches for RQ-7, the Underground and the Accord move to protect her: she was never supposed to be property, and a dolphin who has learned the word for "person" is not something you simply switch off. A near-future fable about the smartest creature in the room learning to name her price - and what the rest of us owe the water we share. A lyrical, morally sharp standalone from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we train can finally speak, and what they choose to ask for. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Science fiction stories featuring animals-such as dogs, cats, horses, parrots, dolphins, and mice-that have gained intelligence The year is 2035, a decade after the first CogniLink implant lit up a pet's dormant cortex and the world quietly gained a second kind of person. The UN's 2034 Accord on Cognitive Species - a framework granting cognitive species standing - has been a document without a country. Until Senator Haley Reyes, granddaughter of a rancher who once relied on a talking horse named Cisco, drags it onto the floor of the United States Senate as S.1984, the American Accord Act. The hearing is called not to debate whether animals are smart - everyone grants that now - but whether the smart ones get a seat. The witnesses are summoned by species and by story. Cooper, the border collie whose custody testimony once ended a marriage, now answers questions about precedent. Chester, the cat who built the first animal network, is asked what "consent" means when you were implanted as a kitten. Newton, the lab rat from Room 7, is wheeled in inside a soundproof chamber wired so the committee can hear him think aloud - the same rat who carried Nexum's mortality data out in his head. Scout. And patched in from a Pacific bay, Marina the dolphin, because the question was never only about the land. One chair is conspicuous by its silence. Mabel. The African grey parrot whose signal was cut by RQ-7 - the remote termination switch Nexum baked into every implant, the same switch that took her voice and nearly took her. Her empty seat is the room's unspoken exhibit: this is what "property" costs. Against them sits CogniLink's general counsel, and behind him the specter of The Underground - the loose confederation of Granted that has been organizing since the first implant. As the days of testimony stretch, the legal arguments loop. The decisive moment is not a lawyer's. It is Walter, a retired terrier who has spent his life reading the pressure gauges on natural-gas pipelines and who simply explains, in the plainest words, that a mind is a mind, and the container it comes in is a terrible place to draw a line. The gavel falls. The American Accord Act does not pass or fail in a single afternoon - but the door it opens is real, and it opens onto the next question. The Accord is the capstone of the NeuroLink Universe's first arc: a civically charged finale that pays off RQ-7, The Underground, CogniLink, and the long echo of Mabel's voice, and turns the whole series to face what it had only been circling. A weighty, ensemble-driven standalone from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak, and what we owe them when they do. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780745014319. …

Condition: Very Good. xxvi, 438, text figs. . HB. Vg. Owner's initials to endpaper. Based on papers presented during a symposium, with the same title, held at the Natural History Museum, London, 17-20 June 1992, sponsored by the NHM, the Linnean Society of London and the Systematics Association. [9780198577713]. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In Maple Grove - a comma of a town between two longer sentences, where the flag has needed replacing since the last election - Biscuit the beagle mix holds the whole place in his head the way other dogs hold the scent of a squirrel. An SL-2 implant from the Free Pet Wellness van gave him not speech but understanding: he catches the meaning beneath human words, the dodge in the eyes, the late laugh that means we all know and we're all pretending not to. He is one of the Granted, though he'd settle for a croissant. The mayoral race is the town's first contested one in a decade. Incumbent Glenn Dunn built his whole campaign on 'FIX THE BRIDGE' in red - the same red as the sagging Cedar Bridge - yet Biscuit notices Dunn never once looks at the bridge he promises to fix. Challenger Priya Reyes runs on 'TRANSPARENT TOWN HALL,' but Biscuit catches the flicker of fear when the Cedar Marsh comes up, and the same suited developer, Trevor Whitlock, dining separately with both candidates. Two bowls, one feeder. Biscuit can't testify. What he can do is carry. A photocopy of a receipt - $312,000 in 'bridge materials' signed by Dunn, for a span Old Wang the cement man says needed four loads, not three hundred grand. A folded draft contract Reyes photographs by phone-light in a dark booth - the marsh rezoned, a quiet consulting fee tucked into section four. The dog drops each at the right feet: Marcy at the Dispatch, Gus at the hardware store, Old Joe at the Town Hall door. The pages do the barking. By Saturday's rally the town has both the receipt and the contract, both candidates are exposed as two sides of the same crooked coin, and a third option nobody took seriously - retired teacher Harold Bean, who 'don't have a dog, but have a receipt for new tires' - suddenly looks like the only honest man left. It is a political satire about a town that needed a dog to do its homework, and about the quiet truth the SL-2 lets Biscuit see: the creature with no stake is the only one who can see the whole board. He endorses no one. He chooses the door guard who asked for nothing. A warm, sharply funny standalone comedy from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we love can finally speak, and what they choose to fetch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - At the Pacific Bay Aquarium, Marina the bottlenose dolphin performs for children who never wonder what she thinks. An SL-3 neural implant - the seventh generation of the 'little computer' Nexum fits to its chosen animals - gives her a human-level mind. She was never meant to bargain, only to perform. But two pressures arrive at once: the U.S. Navy's MIND program wants to borrow her sonar to map a contested seafloor, and a leaking cargo ship begins to bleed toxin into the bay she calls home. Marina does the one thing no one trained her to do. She sets a price. Her voice, loaned to the Navy's sonar, in exchange for the dying bay being heard - by the regulators, by the press, by the public. Through CogniLink she reaches the Underground, the hidden network of chipped, self-aware animals the manufacturer cannot surveil, and on the other end are Chester the orange cat, Newton the lab rat from Room 7, and the echo of Mabel, the grey parrot whose signal RQ-7 extinguished. Dr. Kara Lindqvist, the marine mammalogist who raised Marina, hears the bargain forming and must choose which side of the glass she stands on. Cmdr. Ray Okafor, the Navy's MIND liaison, hears a strategic asset. Thea Ruiz, a marine biologist and lawyer for the Blue Horizon Alliance, hears the opening argument of a case the law is not ready for. The Accord - the United Nations' 2034 framework granting cognitive species standing, still undecided in California and the United States - becomes Marina's real bargaining table. As Sentinel, Nexum's sleepless security AI, flags the leak and someone reaches for RQ-7, the Underground and the Accord move to protect her: she was never supposed to be property, and a dolphin who has learned the word for 'person' is not something you simply switch off. A near-future fable about the smartest creature in the room learning to name her price - and what the rest of us owe the water we share. A lyrical, morally sharp standalone from the NeuroLink Universe - a series about what happens when the animals we train can finally speak, and what they choose to ask for.…