Unity Universe, First Edition (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 370 pp.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 370 pages; Physical desc. : 370 p. : illus. , map, ports. ; 24 cm. Subject: Science - History. Physical sciences - History. Science - Miscellanea. Science: general issues ; History of ideas, intellectual history. Summary: From quarks to quasars, this stimulating survey of the main branches of science provides lay readers with a broad scientific understanding of our fascinating universe. Award-winning scientist and popular science writer, Keith Laidler explains the major facts, principles, and theories of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. 3 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 370 pages; Physical desc. : 370 p. : illus. , map, ports. ; 24 cm. Subject: Science - History. Physical sciences - History. Science - Miscellanea. Science: general issues ; History of ideas, intellectual history. Summary: From quarks to quasars, this stimulating survey of the main branches of science provides lay readers with a broad scientific understanding of our fascinating universe. Award-winning scientist and popular science writer, Keith Laidler explains the major facts, principles, and theories of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Wedge, Joan (illustrator). First Edition. 228 pages. Ex-university library marks, light wear to the edges; pages yellowed; a solid binding. No jacket. The two parts of the book are The Universe in Observation and The Universe in Theory. Illustrator: Wedge, Joan. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Nature; Inventory No: 219834.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL ISSUE. First edition (no additional printings listed). Original green cloth, stamped gilt lettering, top edge gilt, preface + 66 pp, no illustrations. Hardcover, very good, no dustjacket. Light soil on cloth, corners bumped, rubbed at head and foot, pencil marks on front endpapers, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Discourse on free will, consciousness, and so forth. Philosophy; cosmic consciousness.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers New book tall octavo xix + 213pp., b/w plates, text ills., index, Originally published 1959.

Condition: Good. 1959. First Edition. 186 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Front panel detached from spine. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. This book is in very good condition. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. There is a name written on the inside of the front cover. The cover has bumps and scuffs. The dust jacket has bumps scuffs and edge chips.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Joan Wedge (illustrator). 1st. First edition hardback, 1959, with no jacket. In overall good-to-very good used condition with some minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed to to edges and slightly soiled - an excellent reading or study copy of this scarce text. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no inscriptions but some neat annotation and underling to several pages; slight toning to page-ends but text, diagrams and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 228 Pp. Black Cloth. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, No Marks, Bumping To Upper Front Tip, Ownership/Gift Label. . Dust Jacket Priced $3.95, Wear, Small Losses At Ends Of Spine. Per Wikipedia, Dennis William Siahou Sciama, Frs (1926 -1999) Was A British Physicist Who, Through His Own Work And That Of His Students, Played A Major Role In Developing British Physics After The Second World War, And He Is Considered One Of The Fathers Of Modern Cosmology. Sciama Earned His Phd In 1953 At The University Of Cambridge Supervised By Paul Dirac With A Dissertation On Mach's Principle And Inertia. His Work Later Influenced The Formulation Of Scalar-Tensor Theories Of Gravity. Sciama Taught At Cornell University, King's College London, Harvard University And The University Of Texas At Austin, But Spent Most Of His Career At The University Of Cambridge (1950S And 1960S) And The University Of Oxford As A Senior Research Fellow In All Souls College, Oxford (1970S And Early 1980S). In 1983, He Moved From Oxford To Trieste, Becoming Professor Of Astrophysics At The International School For Advanced Studies (Sissa), And A Consultant With The International Centre For Theoretical Physics. He Also Taught At The Scuola Normale Superiore Of Pisa. From 1972 To 1973 He Was The Donegall Lecturer In Mathematics At Trinity College Dublin. Sciama Made Connections Among Some Topics In Astronomy And Astrophysics. He Wrote On Radio Astronomy, X-Ray Astronomy, Quasars, The Anisotropies Of The Cosmic Microwave Radiation, The Interstellar And Intergalactic Medium, Astroparticle Physics And The Nature Of Dark Matter. Most Significant Was His Work In General Relativity, With And Without Quantum Theory, And Black Holes. He Helped Revitalize The Classical Relativistic Extension To General Relativity Known As Einstein-Cartan Gravity. Early In His Career, He Supported Fred Hoyle's Steady State Cosmology, And Interacted With Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, And Thomas Gold. When Evidence Against The Steady State Theory, E.G., The Cosmic Microwave Radiation, Mounted In The 1960S, Sciama Abandoned It And Worked On The Big Bang Cosmology; He Was Perhaps The Only Prominent Steady-State Supporter To Switch Sides (Hoyle Continued To Work On Modifications Of Steady-State For The Rest Of His Life, While Bondi And Gold Moved Away From Cosmology During The 1960S). During His Last Years, Sciama Became Interested In The Issue Of Dark Matter In Galaxies. Among Other Aspects He Pursued A Theory Of Dark Matter That Consists Of A Heavy Neutrino, Certainly Disfavored In His Realization, But Still Possible In A More Complicated Scenario. Several Leading Astrophysicists And Cosmologists Of The Modern Era Completed Their Doctorates Under Sciama's Supervision, Notably:George Ellis (1964), Stephen Hawking (1966) Brandon Carter (1967) Martin Rees (1967) Gary Gibbons (1973) James Binney (1975) John D. Barrow (1977) Philip Candelas (1977) David Deutsch (1978) Adrian Melott (1981) Antony Valentini (1992). Sciama Also Strongly Influenced Roger Penrose, Who Dedicated His The Road To Reality To Sciama's Memory. The 1960S Group He Led In Cambridge (Which Included Ellis, Hawking, Rees, And Carter), Has Proved Of Lasting Influence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With dust jacket, and some interesting newspaper clippings. Unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Creasing\/wear to the edges and corners and slight discoloration to the cover. DJ has wear and tear. Writing on the first page, old price, 1st Ed, 1959.