9780716729549 - Privileged Hands: a Scientific Life by Vermeij, Geerat (18 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. In DJ; Hardback (white spine/gray boards) . Xii + 297 pp. B&W photos. Glossary, index. Autobio of blind biologist & mollusc expert; 8vo; xii + 297 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. B & W Photo Plates (illustrator). First Edition. Copyright Date: 1997 Octavo, , PP.297, Science Without Eyesight.

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Hard Cover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Freeman, 1996. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Condition: very good, very good. First Printing. 22 cm, 297, illus., glossary, index, sticker residue on plastic sleeve, pencil erasure on front endpaper. A remarkable memoir by the great marine biologist Geerat Vermeij, who is perhaps the world's leading authority on marine mollusks and who has been blind since the age of three.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Roberto Osti (illustrator). First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. COVER AND TEXT DESIGNER: Diana Blume. COVER PHOTOGRAPHER: Gerry Gropp. ACQUISITIONS EDITOR: Holly Hodder. PROJECT EDITOR: Diane Cimino Maass. ILLUSTRATION COORDINATOR: Susan Wein. PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Sheila E. Anderson. COMPOSITION: Digitype. MANUFACTURING: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company. CONTENTS: Foreword by Alfred G. Fischer; Chapter 1 The First Question; Chapter 2 A Glow of Yellow; Chapter 3 Cod-Liver Oil; Chapter 4 The New World; Chapter 5 A Princeton Dialectic; Chapter 6 The Olive and the Harp; Chapter 7 The Hot High Shore; Chapter 8 Skating on Ice; Chapter 9 Choices; Chapter 10 Risks, Rays, and Rambutans; Chapter 11 Claws; Chapter 12 The Struggle of Time; Chapter 13 Barriers Breaking Down; Chapter 14 Integration and the Knowledge Enterprise; Chapter 15 Curator; Glossary; Index. SYNOPSIS: His fingers move across the surface of a shell, feeling the ridges and contours, searching for clues, gathering information unnoticed by the untrained eye. For Dr. Geerat Vermeij's fingers are his eyes. One of the most accomplished evolutionary biologists of our time and the world's leading authority on an ancient "arms race" among mollusks, Dr. Vermeij is blind. No ordinary autobiography, Privileged Hands is the story of Dr. Vermeij's challenge and triumph. What makes his story so compelling is how he sees and what his insights reveal about the wonder of life on planet Earth. His exhaustive research of ancient and living mollusks, particularly shells, is extraordinary in its scope and perspective about how species arm themselves, compete, and survive. This is an intriguing irony for someone whose incomparable story is characterized by an unfailing determination to thrive in a sighted world and in the world of science. For Dr. Vermeij's self-portrait is also a portrait of the practice of science--his views on evolution and biodiversity, and the importance of observation are as much the story as are his family relationships, education, and position on affirmative action. Privileged Hands is provocative and intelligent storytelling: it reveals as much about our own lives as it does about this one, remarkable, scientist's life. Dr. Geerat Vermeij, a preeminent evolutionary biologist and paleontologist, is a professor at the University of California, Davis. He has been awarded MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was the editor Paleobiology and of Evolution, the field's foremost journals of natural history and is the author of A Natural History of Shells; Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life; and Biogeography and Adaptation: Patters of Marine Life. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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