Thermodynamics, Signed (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 1st trade paperback edition, 1st printing, complete numberline. New, unread copy. Short fiction by the Hugo Award-, Asimov's Reader Poll-, SF Chronicle Award-,and Nebula Award-winning author of the Mariska Volochkova series and 'Burn'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in full on the title page (with nothing more), 342 pages, a very good hardback in a better than vg dust-jacket, the book is only vg because there's an ever so slight fwd lean [0091959195]. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition. TP original in pictorial wrappers. 1st Printing. Part of the Outspoken Authors series. Signed by Kelly. A fine copy in wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Macdonald and Co. Ltd, 1971. Detailed book on Chemical Thermodynamics, 211 pages in bright clean condition just the lightest of browning to extreme edges of pages. INSCRIBED by D J G Ives on front endpaper With Sincere regard from David J G Ives. Dustwrapper is bright and clean a very nice copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 9 ĵ x 6 Inches. Hardcover.

Condition: Very Good. An interesting set of ephemera from 1939 A completed test blue book from an apparent college student in thermodynamics He got a 90% score! More a curiosity piece than an antiquarian item, but was too intriguing to not offer For the eclectic physics fan 16 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Burgundy cloth covered boards with silver gilt lettering to front and spine.First Edition with matching dates to TP and CR page. SIGNED and INSCRIBED, " With best wishes and very highest regards, Bill. Henry ". This copy is NEAR FINE in a VG, unclipped ( no price) DJ designed by Al Lichtenberg. Exterior is rich. Gilt is bright. Very minor rubbing to tips/ spine ends. Inside is unmarked, crisp, and tight with very modest toning. DJ has modest/moderate chipping around the edges, a bit toned to rear, and modest overall rubbing. SCARCE in DJ. SCARCER SIGNED. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This is an excellent Association Copy, with a Signed inscription from one research chemist to another. The inscription is on the title page. It reads simply 'Paul Haake with best regards, Thor.' I believe this was Professor Bak's first book. Once listed, it will be the Only signed copy for sale on the Internet. As you can see from the photos, the covers are clean. The gilt lettering on the spine is still fairly bright. There isn't too much wear. There are bump/creases at both the front and rear top corners (happily, neither cover crease created what one would credit as a crease on any of the pages). That's really about it for wear, maybe a little crinkle at the top edge of the spine. The edges and corners are in solid condition. There's no rubbing or rub-through anywhere. The page edges are clean. The book is very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. There are no binding issues. The pages are very clean. I found only two very tiny spots, one on each of two facing pages, away from the print. There are no markings anywhere in the book. No attachments. And with the exception of the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. 'Thor Anders Bak was Danish chemist. He was professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen from 1963 to 1992, rector of the University of Copenhagen from 1972 to 1976 and chairman of the Danish Refugee Council from 1984 to 1989. He was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 1989 he received the HC Ĝrsted Medal in gold. In 1999 he became Commander of Dannebrog. His other books included Chemistry (1960), Mathematics for Scientists (1966), and A Dream of Science (1992). 'Paul Haake was a noted research chemist and educator. He received a graduate degree in chemistry from Harvard University. His doctoral research on hydrolysis and isotopic exchange involving esters of phosphoric acid was in the laboratory of Frank Westheimer. After postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, he started his faculty career at UCLA. In 1968 he came to Wesleyan University where he was a beloved teacher, colleague and researcher for almost 40 years. With Max Tishler, he enthusiatically developed the doctorate program in chemistry at Wesleyan. His research on the kinetics and mechanism of chemical reactions, particularly reactions of biochemically-interesting phosphorus compounds, resulted in 100 scholarly articles and books, including Hydrolysis and Exchange in Esters of Phosphoric Acid", which has been cited 250 times since it was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. This was and is a seminal paper in phosphorus chemistry. In 1986, he was a founding member and major force behind the formation of Wesleyan's Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, which at the time was considered both controversial and forward looking. Professor Haake devoted much of his career to teaching and was very proud of the extremely popular series of courses he taught at Wesleyan for non-science majors including, "Molecular Basis of Social Problems," and "Biochemical Basis of Nutrition. In 1975 he was appointed by Governor Ella T. Grasso to Connecticut's Nuclear Power Evaluation Council. The Council raised questions about the ability of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure the safety of nuclear power.'. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with an autobiographical inscription but no other name present. This is the draft of the second half of this seminal work by an authority in the field. Tall 4to original cloth backed printed blue wrappers. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. pp.viii, 278 pages, a Fine hardback in a fine dust-jacket [0472111744]. Signed (half) by the author 'Bruce' on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 22.5 x 15 cm. vi 200pp. Blue softcover. Dissertation submitted to the Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philsophy. Signed and inscribed by the author. Some shelf wear to covers.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. First Edition, First Printing. Xv, 502 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Scarce First Printing Of A Classic Work. This Book Was Reviewed By Einstein In The Journal "Science" In 1934. Fine, Gilt Very Bright, Although Edges Of Page Block Are Browned; Small Owner's Name Frank J. Steinebrey Jr., On Front Pastedown; He Was A Cal Tech Trained Physicist, Active In The Pacific Rocket Society Circa 1945-1946. Also With A Clipped Signature Of Richard C Tolman Laid In Loosely. In The Scarce Dj, Slightly Taller Than The Book, Browned, Light Wear, No Loss Of Lettering Except That Price Has Been Clipped At Bottom Of Front Flap, Small Losses At Corners, With 1/4" Chips At Two Upper Corners Of Spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Inscribed by Ilya Prigogine to Ali Bulent Cambel on front end page. Volume 1. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. Shelf wear. viii, 319 pages, illustrations, 24 cm. "Ilya Prigogine was a Russian-born Belgian physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1977 for contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Prigogine's work dealt with the application of the second law of thermodynamics to complex systems, including living organisms. The second law states that physical systems tend to slide spontaneously and irreversibly toward a state of disorder (a process driven by an increase in entropy); it does not, however, explain how complex systems could have arisen spontaneously from less-ordered states and have maintained themselves in defiance of the tendency toward maximum entropy. Prigogine argued that as long as systems receive energy and matter from an external source, nonlinear systems (or dissipative structures, as he called them) can go through periods of instability and then self-organization, resulting in more-complex systems whose characteristics cannot be predicted except as statistical probabilities. Prigogine's work was influential in a wide variety of fields, from physical chemistry to biology, and was fundamental to the new disciplines of chaos theory and complexity theory." "Ali Bulent Cambel taught mechanical engineering and gas dynamics at Northwestern University where he became the Walter P. Murphy Distinguished Professor. He advised the US government on energy projects and served as Vice President for Research for the Institute for Defense Analysis. Working for the government represented his way to give back to his adopted country.". Signed.

Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.wrappers Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, 104 pp, University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation. Inscribed by author on half-title. Contents: The Principle of Minimum Entropy Production in the Stationary State; Oscillating Reactions; The Theory of Electrodiffusion; The Mechanical Description of Irreversible Proceses; The Mechanical Theory of Chemical Reactions.

Condition: Very Good. 4to (23.5 cm); red cloth with titles in gilt on spine., Polaroid Corporation book plate present but detached from front pastedown, library card pocket with "Photography Library" stamp present but detached from rear pastedown, other usual library markings present, inscription on title page. Spine is square and tight, sharp edges, nudges to bottom corners, others sharp, clean throughout. Inscribed to Land by Keenan "To my good friend Edwin Land who can and does, from Joe Keenan who teaches.".

pp. 91-114. Original wrappers. Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY WILLIAM F. GIAUQUE (on front wrapper). Offprint of William F. Giauque's Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1949. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1949 was awarded to William Francis Giauque "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures." "Thermodynamics is about heat and its transformation into other forms of energy--basically involving statistical descriptions of atomic and molecular movements. An important but difficult to grasp concept in thermodynamics is entropy, which is a measure of disorder in a system. The third law of thermodynamics states that the entropy in a perfect crystal is zero when the absolute temperature is zero. In 1933 William Giauque used a magnetic field to attain an extremely low temperature and was able provide evidence for the law's validity" (Nobel Prize website).