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Vendeur : LIVREAUTRESORSAS, LA BAZOCHE GOUET, France
Etat : 3. 1965.
Edité par Plon, Paris, 1965
Vendeur : CARON Bibliopole / Bouquiniste, Montreal, QC, Canada
Couverture souple. Etat : État convenable. 268 p. Quelques soulignés. Size: Grand In-12.
Edité par Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1979
ISBN 10 : 0408713119ISBN 13 : 9780408713115
Vendeur : Zane W. Gray, BOOKSELLERS, Fairfield, PA, Etats-Unis
Livre
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Left upper corner bumped, some creasing along the spine. ; 56 pages.
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Edité par Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975
Vendeur : Bij tij en ontij ..., Kloosterburen, NL, Pays-Bas
Stapled, 21 cm, 25 pp. Cond.: goed / good.
Edité par Macmillan and Co
Vendeur : WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition book. First reprint. An ex-library copy with the usual amount of stamps. Includes a dust jacket in good shape within protective plastic. A very well-preserved copy with only one logged check-out, this copy remains clean and sound with a sturdy and neatly aligned binding.
Edité par From the Proceedings of The British Academy, London, 1975
Vendeur : beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, Royaume-Uni
Livre Signé
Printed Card Wrappers. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : None. Oxford University Press. From the Proceedings of the Royal Academy, London Volume LX1 (1975) Signed presentation copy from the Author to the head of the front cover "Mac /with thanks/Margaret Cowling" Photographic portrait of the subject as a frontispiece by Bassano & Vandyke Studios. Signed by Author(s).
Couverture souple. Etat : bon. RO30370887: 1965. In-8. Broché. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Papier jauni. 268 pages. Couverture contrepliée. Coins frottés. Quelques rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 940.53-Seconde Guerre mondiale 1939-1945.
Edité par Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 1974
ISBN 10 : 0333157818ISBN 13 : 9780333157817
Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
Livre
Etat : Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Edité par Macmillan & Co Ltd/St Martin's Press, 1964
Vendeur : The Armadillo's Pillow, Chicago, IL, Etats-Unis
Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. The covers have rubbed edges. The pages are lightly tanned. The jacket has edge-wear with nicks and small tears. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Edité par Palgrave Macmillan, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0333026853ISBN 13 : 9780333026854
Vendeur : booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, Etats-Unis
Livre impression à la demande
Hardcover. Etat : new. This item is printed on demand.
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Edité par Palgrave Macmillan, 1974
ISBN 10 : 0333166957ISBN 13 : 9780333166956
Vendeur : booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, Etats-Unis
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : new.
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Edité par London & Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis, 1986., 1986
ISBN 10 : 0850663334ISBN 13 : 9780850663334
Vendeur : Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, viii, 198 pp; 19 figs. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed: 'To Magaret [Gowing]/who made me feel that it/was warm while ???/book/from/Nevill/May 1986'. With Gowing s bookplate. 'I am particularly indebted to Margaret Gowing, Professor of the History of Science at Oxford University, who encouraged me to write the book in the first place and who has throughout given most valuable help and advice' (Preface, p. viii). The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 was awarded jointly to Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck 'for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.'. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Macmillan, London, 1964
Vendeur : No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale Signé
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. A presentation copy of her seminal work to George Cyril Allen and his wife Nell. Allen was an eminent economist and fellow member of the British Academy along with Gowing, in fact she wrote his memoir for the Academy in 1982. He and his wife Nell were also friends of Gowing. Margaret Gowing became only the third person to become a member of both the British Academy and The Royal Society after Sir Karl Popper and Joseph Needham. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par London Macmillan & Co. Ltd. & the Authority Historian's Office 1964, 1974 & 1980, 1964
Vendeur : Alembic Rare Books, Aberlour, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945: Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in copper on black ground and in gilt. With the dust jacket that is price-clipped and has contemporary Macmillan price tickets to the front flap. Cloth only very lightly rubbed at the extremities, a little spotting to the top edge of the text block, minor creasing to the lower corner of the prefatory leaves. An excellent, fresh copy in the price-clipped jacket that is a little rubbed, toned, and creased along the edges. Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945: References to Official Papers: 32-page photocopied pamphlet, wire-stitched, in green wrappers printed in black. Fine condition. Britain and Atomic Energy 1945-1952: Independence and Deterrence, volume I: Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, blue endpapers and top edge. Corners bumped, spine slightly rolled, short closed tears affecting the margin of pages 97-100. An excellent copy in the jacket that is lightly rubbed along the edges. Britain and Atomic Energy 1945-1952: Independence and Deterrence, volume 2: Original dark blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, blue endpapers and top edge. Corners bumped, spine slightly rolled. An excellent copy in the jacket that is lightly rubbed along the edges. 4 double-sided plates from photographs in each of the three primary volumes. First editions, first impressions. The complete set of this important work by the foremost historian of Britain's nuclear policy, together with the uncommon guide to the unpublished government papers cited in the first book, Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945. Rare in such nice condition. Margaret Gowing (1921-1998) "was at once a distinguished historian and a redoubtable champion of a variety of causes that reflected her keen perception of what constituted the public interest. Her scholarly reputation rested primarily on her magisterial studies of atomic energy in Britain during and after the Second World War" (obituary in the Independent, November 20, 1998). Gowing took a First in economic history at the London School of Economics in 1941, then held posts at the Ministry of Supply and Board of Trade, followed by the Cabinet Office, where she spent fourteen years as part of the team producing civil histories of the Second World War. In 1959 she joined the Atomic Energy Authority as historian and archivist. "In Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945 (1964) and its two-volume sequel, Independence and Deterrence (1974, written with the assistance of her friend and collaborator Lorna Arnold), she offered a characteristically clear-eyed account of the fashioning and implementation of British policy with regard to atomic energy from the outbreak of the war until October 1952, when "Hurricane" - the test of a rather primitive bomb at Monte Bello, a group of islands off the north-west coast of Australia - propelled Britain to the status of the world's third nuclear power. These books, along with her many articles, major public lectures, and penetrating reviews, established her not merely as a peerless chronicler and analyst of a crucial facet of the war effort and of Britain's subsequent struggles to maintain great power status, but also as a leading commentator on the relations between science and government. Her election first to the British Academy in 1975 and 13 years later to the Royal Society recognised equally the quality and the breadth of her work and placed her, with Sir Karl Popper and Joseph Needham, among the tiny handful of those who have been Fellows of both bodies" (the Independent).
Edité par London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1964, 1964
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale Signé
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title verso, "Sir Henry Dale, in gratitude and admiration, Margaret Gowing, September 1964"; with Dale's ownership signature on the front pastedown. This is Gowing's first work in nuclear history, gifted to Dale, a member of the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy as the wartime President of the Royal Society. Conceived by Gowing (1921-1998), an historian and civil servant, as the first of three chronological volumes, "Britain and Atomic Energy was a triumph. [Keith] Hancock, who had read the text in draft, pronounced it 'first rate'. Its success inspired Sir Mark Oliphant FRS - the distinguished Australian veteran of the Manhattan Project, and Hancock's former colleague at Birmingham, now returned to Australia - to seek the appointment of a historian to work with the new Australian Academy of Science in Canberra. The philosopher of science Stephen Toulmin, then exploring new frontiers at the Nuffield Foundation and the University of Sussex, thought that 'no better example of contemporary narrative history of science has yet appeared'. Amidst the grey precincts of official history traditionally dominated by worthy accounts of transport policy and export controls, hers was possibly the most interesting book" (MacLeod, pp. 78-9). In her preparations, Gowing was granted unlimited access to classified papers by the UK Atomic Energy Authority and befriended many of the key players in the field, including Bohr. Britain and Atomic Energy was followed in 1974 by a two-volume sequel, Independence and Deterrence. A pharmacologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Dale (1875-1968) became the chairman of the post-war committee on the medical and biological application of nuclear physics and the radioactive substances advisory committee. Laid in are two typescripts in photostat copy: a two-page letter from Dale to Churchill encouraging him to meet with Niels Bohr - a proposition described on pages 346 to 366 in the book - and a single-page letter from Dale to Lord Cherwell, Churchill's scientific advisor, about delivering the former missive. Dated 11 May 1944, the letter begins with an apology for Dale's "intrusion of this letter upon your notice, at a time of your known tremendous preoccupation with tremendous responsibilities" and the assurance that "nothing could excuse my doing so but the deepest sense of obligation to science and to the world". Dale explains that he felt duty-bound to ask Churchill to meet with Bohr "as one of only two men in whose power it may yet lie to take effective action [and] take decisions which will determine the future course of human history" (the other man being Roosevelt). Bohr, here described by Dale as "second to no authority in the world in theoretical physics", was extremely concerned with the political implications of atomic weapons and sought to encourage collaboration between the major powers in formalizing their control. Dale's efforts were successful, and Bohr was granted an audience with the prime minister on 16 May 1944. However, the meeting did not go well, and ended with Churchill's assertion that in the future "he would always be honoured to receive a letter from Professor Bohr but hoped that it would not be about politics" (p. 355). Provenance: from the library of Alexander R. Todd, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957 and a President of the Royal Society. Todd was married to Dale's daughter, Alison, a pharmacologist. Laid in is a 16-page booklet of an obituary speech delivered by Todd for Dale, printed in both English and German. Roy MacLeod, "Margaret Mary Gowing CBE FBA. 26 April 1921 - 7 November 1998", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 5867-111, 2012. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black ground framed in gilt. With dust jacket. Offered together with a 16-page booklet in original blue wrappers and near-contemporary reproductions of two typescript letters. With 4 double-sided leaves of photographic plates, diagram. Extremities gently rubbed, spine ends and corners bruised, gauze visible at p. 321, paperclip rust stain at pp. 353-4 else contents clean; toning to unclipped jacket, nicks, chips, and creasing at spine and extremities, paper tape repairs on verso: a very good copy in good jacket.