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paperback. Etat : Very Good.

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : Good. Johnny Atomic (illustrateur).

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Revised Edition. 69 pp. Very good.; 4to.

Hard cover. p. cm. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder marks. BB 70 Very good in very good dust jacket.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 32 pages. Wilson Harris "Atomic Bombs First" / The Rt.Hon.L S Amery "The Churchillian Epic" / Walter Taplin "Steel's Silent War - II" / Rawle Knox "Eire's Final Break" / Francis Williams "Emauel Shinwell" / Philip Carr "The Comedie-Francaise" Richard Hughes "Star Tiger Down" (Papers).

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Etat : Very Good. A clear summary of modern ideas on atomic structure, discussing electrons, nuclei, and the theoretical shifts that reshaped early twentiethâ'century physics. 9 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Smithsonian Institution; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 288 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Xi, 384 Pp. Green Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Losses Along Upper Front Flap Fold And Left Top Edge Of Rear Panel.

RED CLOTH. Etat : NEAR FINE-. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. 706 PAGES, ILLUSTRATIONS, CHARTS TABLES, CHRONOLOGY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX. SLIGHT STAIN TO FIRST BLANK END PAGE, OTHERWISE A NEAR FINE COPY. Size: OCTAVO.

Etat : Fine. Number of books: 1.

39pp., small 4to. Stud-bound in brown card printed wraps. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with crease to front cover, to which the enamel badge is also attached, beside the ownership signature of 'E J Sayer' (Downing Street secretary Elizabeth Sayer, later Cooper.). First page dated in pencil '8th Sept', and pencil note in text of the 'permitted dose' of radiation. At head of front cover: 'ESTACIDVOL Code 5-96-0', and at foot: 'RESTRICTED | The information given in this document is not to be communicated, either directly or indirectly, to the Press or to any person not authorised to receive it.' Printed inside the front cover: 'The accompanying notes have been prepared for your guidance. Additional information is contained in the Home Office Civil Defence Training Manuals which may be obtained on loan through your Instructor.' Divided into the main sections: Civil Defence Organisation; Fire Fighting; High Explosive Missiles; Atomic Warfare; Biological Warfare; Chemical Warfare; Protective Measures. Also present is a full-page 'Civil Defence Report Form'. The first section begins: 'Civil Defence is the responsibility of the Central Government and needs the assistance of Local Authorities, Industry and public bodies of many kinds. It includes all measures short of actual combat necessary to mitigate the effects of enemy attack.' The 'Atomic Warfare' section is divided into four subsections: Features of Atomic Explosion; Delayed Radiation Risks; Radiation Sickness; Individual Dosimeter. The enamel badge is roughly 2.5 x 2cm, and features red and blue enamel on brass. It consists of a crown topping a circle, the latter having an image of a lion surrounded by a blue border with 'I.C.D.S.' The pamphlet is scarce: no copy on OCLC WorldCat and the only copy on COPAC at the Imperial War Museum.

Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 1981. Large 8vo. XLV+706 Pages. Illustrations in b/w. Orig. boards in dust jacket. Spine of jacket evenly sunned and with light edge wear. Near fine / Very good jacket.

Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo 1981. Large 8vo. XLV+706 Pages. Illustrations in b/w. Orig. boards in dust jacket. Name on fly leaf. Spine of jacket evenly sunned and with light edge wear. Near fine / Very good jacket.

Not Bound. Etat : Very Good. Manuscript. One page, hand-written in ink on International Atomic Energy Agency Vienna letterhead; dated April 7, 1975 to friends, concerning their coming trip to Europe and where to visit: "We have visited Budapest and enjoyed it very much. Instead of Dubrovnik you might want to consider Bulgaria. Those who are in the know around here seem to feel Jugoslavia has gotten expensive with poor service to the touristwe can't really recommend Vienna in the summer. Another nice place you would like in Hungary is Tihany on Lake Balaton. Also in Budapest it is possible to stay in private homes rather than hotels. It is more interesting and much cheaper" and signed "Eli & Ailene"; approx. 8 ¼" x 11 ¾" size, old fold lines, a little edge-wear, with the original canceled airmail envelope, also with the Agency imprint; Eli I. Goodman (1929 - 2005) American nuclear engineer and consultant; researcher in nuclear engineering, fuel cycle and waste disposal, computerization of complex economic calculations, domestic and international high-technology transfer. A Fellow of the American Nuclear Society; engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Nuclear Science & Engineering Corporation, Westinghouse Electric Company and the U.S. Dept. of Energy, with special assignments to Tokyo, 1970-1972 and the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1974-1978.

Tall 8vo. 48 pp. With photo illustrations, text illustrations, diagrams, maps. Photo-illustrated softcovers, cover art of post-Atomic Bomb drop devastation (minor shelfwear, slight soiling), still VG copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon Exhibition Catalogue prepared for Nagasaki at the end of 1972 deploring Nuclear Weapons proliferation during the Cold War, and presenting artifacts, personal accounts, and a ream of photos on the devastating effects of the Atomic Bomb dropped on the city at the close of World War II.

Manila card wrapper containing three sets of notes in typescript and ink. 1. A 16 page list of nuclear energy terminology from lessons on terminolgy, in Chinese characters and English. 21 x 17.5 cm. 2. A 4 page list of Chinese aeronautical terminogy marked "Secret" in a mixture of romanisations and English. 34 x 21.2cm. 3. A 4 page list of conversion tables for speeds and altitudes in kilometres, metres, feet and knots. Card wrapper chipped at fold, repaired with archival paper. All lists browned and creased, conversion tables half a page removed, where it states "Do not remove". 34 x 21.2cm. Text in English, traditional Chinese characters and romanisation. Some wear and browning, card folder torn and repaired. An interesting working collection. An intriguing undated collection relating to aeronautical training and the development of nuclear capabilities, most likely in Taiwan in the 1960s. The list of nuclear terminology refers to a 1948 glossary issued by the United Nations, and concludes with a short discussion relating to the organisation of bomber air wings titled 'New Rifle Section'. Said rifles are noted as "TSMG" - presumably Thompson submachine guns, though these would have most likely been deliberately phased out of the ROC's arsenal by the 1950s. Although the presence of English translations and Wade-Giles transcriptions seems to strongly lend preference to the collection's relation to the Kuomintang regime, the implicit connection between nuclear arms, air power, and anachronistic Tommy guns has clouded a more comprehensive understanding of the collection. A potential trove for a sufficiently motivated researcher.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1902. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", tome 134, No 2. Pp. (69-) 132. With titlepage to volume 134. (Entire issue offered). The Curie's paper: pp. 85-87. A stamp to titlepage. Sewing loosening. First appearance of an importent paper on the radioactive elements, in which Pierre and Marie Curie were the first to show, that the radioactive emissions from uranium and thorium was an INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF THEIR ATOMS.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1866 a. 1877. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 156 - Part II a. vol. 167 - Part I. Pp. 781-859 a. pp. 35-116. Clean and fine. First appearance of both papers, controversial as Brodie here tries to established a new chemical philosophy, refusing atomism and founding the calculation of chemical processes on Boolean Algebra, defining chemical symbols with mathematical terms and notations. The work is a remarkable attempt to set chemistry on a rational deductive basis. - The introduction in the second paper meets the main points raised by his critics."In 1866 the Royal Society began to publish Brodie?s "The Calculus of Chemical Operations" (Philosophical Transactions, 156 [1866], 781-859" 167 [1877], 35-116) which introduced Greek symbols for the chemical elements to replace the roman alphabet (Berzelian) symbols that contemporary chemists used to represent atomic weights. Brodie?s symbols, however, represented operations on space (volumes), not weights for, besides its revolutionary symbolism, the calculus also demanded an appreciation of George Boole?s algebraic logic, which Brodie had studied after the publication of Boole?s Investigation of the Laws of Thought in 1854. In this an equation such as y = xy is a symbolic statement that y is a subset of x in which the symbol x is an operator on y. Although professional mathematicians like William Donkin and Henry Smith later advised Brodie, it appears that he developed the system without professional help. The principal difficulty about the calculus for the present-day historian and philosopher of science is the need to explain it before going on to discuss it and the difficulty of giving any concise description of it. Boole had developed the concept of symbolic operators in algebraic analysis. These provided a code as to how the symbols were to be understood and manipulated. Brodie exploited this in the idea of a chemical operator, or chemical operations, that he symbolized by Greek letters. It is probably unwise, therefore, to interpret Brodie?s philosophy as analogous to Percy Bridgman?s later operationism. He proposed that if two substances with the empirically-derived weights, x and y combined to form a new compound with weight xy, then x + y = xy. From such weight equations he constructed a symbolic algebra that bypassed any atomistic interpretation."(William H. Brock in "Hyle Biography").

4to. [194 pp (sections all separately paginated I-XIII, A1-A5).], w/ first 4 leaves litho-printed on recto only. Cream-coloured litho-printed softcovers, w/ "Released for Publication _________" on lower front cover, dittoed notice at lower right corner of "Distributed by Technical Information Section of the Bureau of Aeronautics," stapled at gutter margin as issued (minor soiling & spotting to front cover, minor rust to staples, minor bumping to corners, light scuff to fore-edge of textblock printed in multiple grades of paper as issued w/ some sections more toned than others), still a VG- copy, numbered in ink at lower right corner. First lithoprint edition, 3rd printing of 6000 total copies prepared by secretly lithoprinting in the Pentagon (NOT 1000 copies as previously posited by Coleman & others), in sections from modified dittoed versions which had been distributed under General Groves's orders to correct the master copies with eventually whole paragraphs deleted, or added in some chapters. This copy is entirely complete, with none of the often missing pages (especially p. VI-12), duplicates, or misbound signatures which often appear due to the speed and paper requirements, and also bears the colophon 25-56388-2M on page A5-1 at the rear, indicating this was one of those printed on the high-sulphide paper often bearing signatures of varying toning. As per Arnold Kramish (1923-2010), nuclear physicist who worked Oak Ridge, TN on the Manhattan Project, and at the behest of Harry Smyth, researched the printing history before 1985 of the original report, and determined that there were 2000 copies released initially past the dittoed and mimeograph versions to the press, and senior lab people. Due to early complaints of lack of access, another 2000 were released, followed by the much demanded 3rd release, all before Princeton University Press released their published print run less than 1 month later in 1945. The famed Smyth report, released to the public just after the United States had obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using the first two atomic bombs at the end of World War II -- is "a remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out. . . by the American-directed by internationally recruited team of physicists, under the code name of Manhattan District. . . ." The introduction opens with statement that "The purpose of this report is to describe the scientific and technical developments in this country since 1940 directed toward the military use of energy from Atomic nuclei." As an aside, it should be noted that Michael Zinman has the original Arnold Kramish TLS identifying the printing history, and an article is being prepared by Brett Tomlinson, noted historian of science. See: Printing and Mind of Man, 422e; Coleman, The Smyth Report: A Descriptive Checklist, Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring, 1976), No. 3 (pp. 206-207); For fuller explication of Linus Pauling's dittoed version at OSU (1 of 2 known survivor copies), see blog by Ann Bahde, Serifs and Secrecy: The Smyth Report in SCARC, Nov. 2, 2021.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1898. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 126, No 15). Entire issue offered. With htitle and titlepage to vol. 126. Pp. 1059-1110. Curie's paper: pp. 1101-1103. Clean and fine. A punched stamp in lower margin of title-page. First printing of this milestone paper, being the first "Note" from Marie Curie about "radioactivity". This same "Note" contains a the fundamental observation: "Two uranium ores. are much more active than uranium itself. This fact. leads one to believe that these ores may contain an element much more active than uranium." This paper gives the first proof of the fact that radiation is an atomic property."Henri Becquerel, discovered (1896) that uranium salts shielded from light for several months spontaneously emit rays related in their effects to Roentgen rays. Mme. Curie became enthusiastic about this subject filled with the unknown and, as she later acknowledged, involving no bibliographic research.The first step in the research was to determine whether there existed other elements capable, like uranium, of emitting radiation. Abandoning the idea of hyperfluorescence, couldn?t one calculate by electrical measurement the effects on the conductivity of air that were revealed by the gold-leaf electroscope? Pierre Curie and his brother Jacques had constructed an extremely sensitive apparatus to measure weak currents" Mme. Curie employed it in testing both pure substances and various ores. In her first "Note" in the Comptes rendus"de l Académie des sciences (12 April 1898) she described the method that she followed throughout her life, the method that enabled her to make comparisons through time and crosschecks with other techniques:"I employed. a plate condenser, one of the plates being covered with a uniform layer of uranium or of another finely pulverized substance [(diameter of the plates, eight centimeters" distance between them, three centimeters). A potential difference of 100 volts was established between the plates.]. The current that traversed the condenser was measured in absolute value by means of an electrometer and a piezoelectric quartz. In general she preferred the zero method, in which the operator compensates for the current created by the active material by manipulating the quartz. All of her students followed this procedure."(DSB).The first results came in 1898: the measurements varied between 83 × 10-12 amperes for pitch blende to less than 0.3 × 10-12 for almost inactive salts, passing through 53 × 10-12 for thorium oxide and for chalcolite (double phosphate of uranium and copper). Thorium would thus be "radioactive" (the term is Mme. Curie?s" its radioactive properties were discovered at the same time, independently, by Schmidt in Germany.

Paris, Chez Fuchs, An IX(1801). Boundin 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spuines. Light wear along edges. In: "Annales de Chimie, ou Recueil de Mémoires concernant la Chemie" Tome 36, 37 and 38. (Entire volumes offered). 336"330,(2)"334,(2) pp. and 5 engraved plates. Berthollet's paper: pp. 302-317, pp. 151-181, 221-252, pp. 3-29, 113-134. Together with the memoir printed at the same time in "Mémoires de l'Institut." this is the first appearance of B's groundbreaking work on the nature of chemical affinity and the fact that many factors influence chemical reactions, comparing chemical affinity to the force of gravity. The paper was at the end of the year published separately.The theory set forth here "led directly to Prout's investigations which yielded a knowledge of definite chemical proportions and thus played a very importent part in preparing the way for the development of the Atomic Theory on which the whole modern chemistry is based."(Duveen, p. 75)."Berthollet read a memoir on the general theory of affinities while he was still in Egypt. This was the starting point of his complete new system of chemistry, first briefly sketched in Recherches sur les lois de l?affinité (1801) and later developed into the comprehensive, two volume Essai de statique chimique. Here he attempted to provide a proper basis for chemistry, so that its experimental results could be viewed in the light of theoretical first principles. Berthollet developed a theory and a model adequate for the understanding and the interpretation of the rapidly growing body of chemical knowledge in his time. He was aware that the positive work of constructing a new theory had yet to be performed after the shock of Lavoisier?s criticism of the old chemistry.(DSB).Parkinson "Breakthroughs", 1801 C.