Joseph needham editor (8 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : N/A. xii, 244pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, rubbed spine ends with cloth wearing. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers starting to tan, volume a little loose, pages starting to age. Otherwise internally neat and clean. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. pp 361 illus d/j.

Essays include: Magic Science and Religion by Bronislaw Malinowski; Historical Relations of Religion and Science by Charles Singer; Science and Religion in the Nineteeth Century by Antonio Aliotta; The Domain of Physical Science by Arthur S.Eddington; Mechanistic Biology and the Religious Consciousness by Joseph Needham; The Sphere of Religion by John W. Oman; Religion and Psychology by William Brown; Science Christianity and Modern Civilization by Clement C.J. Webb. Pp.396, minor spotting to endpapers. Grey/green cloth, d/w rubbed with sunning to spine. G+/G.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black gilt-lettered spine and illustrated boards. f/[iece (Chinese with one red character)+ t.p. with red pub. logo. xxvii (inc. all prelims) + 724 + (4 blank), 271 figrues of various kinds inc. many full page; this is virtually As New but for small scrap of adhesion between last blank and recto rear end-paper of trivial significance. Apparently one of the scarcest titles in this series, perhaps the greatest scholarship project of the 20th century. 19.5 cm x 25 cm.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. [A massive 46 volume set] Interesting provenance, previously owned by Owsei Temkin, and later Owen and Caroline Hannaway. Mixed set with mostly softcovers, printed 1959-1978. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Light edge wear. Bookplates of Temkin inside hardcovers. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Contents: Vol. 3, 1959-1960; Vol. 6, 1962-1963; Vol. 11, No. 1, Autumn 1967; Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1968; Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring 1968; Vol. 11, No. 4, Summer 1968; Vol. 12, No. 1, Autumn 1968; Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter 1969; Vol. 12, No. 3, Spring 1969; Vol. 12, No. 4, Summer 1969; Vol. 13, No. 1, Autumn 1969; Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 1970; Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 1970; Vol. 13, No. 4, Summer 1970; Vol. 14, No. 1, Autumn 1970; Vol. 14, No. 2, Winter 1971; Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring 1971; Vol. 14, No. 4, Summer 1971; Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn 1971; Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 1972; Vol. 15, No. 3, Spring 1972; Vol. 15, No. 4, Summer 1972; Vol. 16, No. 1, Autumn 1972; Vol. 16, No. 2, Winter 1973; Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring 1973; Vol. 16, No. 4, Summer 1973; Vol. 17, No. 1, Autumn 1973; Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 1974; Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring 1974; Vol. 17, No. 4, Summer 1974; Vol. 18, No. 1, Autumn 1974; Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1975; Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring 1975; Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1975; Vol. 19, No. 1, Autumn 1975; Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 1976; Vol. 19, No. 3, Spring 1976; Vol. 19, No. 4, Summer 1976; Vol. 20, No. 1, Autumn 1976; Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 1977; Vol. 20, No. 3, Spring 1977; Vol. 20, No. 4, Summer 1977; Vol. 21, No. 1, Autumn 1977; Vol. 21, No. 2, Winter 1978; Vol. 21, No. 3, Spring 1978; Vol. 21, No. 4; Summer 1978. Interesting articles in this collection include: The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Intelligence by Arthur J. Jensen; On the Treatment of Stimulant Abuse by Pierre Renault and Charles R. Schuster; The Normal, and the Perils of the Sylleptic Argument by Edmond A. Murphy; The Interdeterminacies of the Brain by Donald O. Walter; The Prometheus Experiment by Bernard L. Strehler; Scientific Medicine and Historical Research by Owsei Temkin; The Origins of Life by Hans Gaffron; Viruses and Evolution by E.A. Evans Jr.; Observations on the Comparative Anatomy of the Avian Brain; Frederick Gowland Hopkins by Joseph Needham; Eugenics in Evolutionary Perspective by Sir Julian Huxley; Critical Brain Size and Language by John C. Lilly; Linguistic Habits of Science by Irwin D.J. Bross; The Evolution of Modern Cardiology by Werner Forssmann; Some Possible Genetic Implications of Carthaginian Child Sacrifice by Nathaniel Weyl; In Search of Homunculus by George T. Jacobi; Experimental Tumor of the Interstitial Gland of the Testicle by Robert Courrier; Differential Evolutionary Patters of Experimentally Induced Ovarian Tumors by Alexander Lipschutz; Delight in Evil by Orville T. Bailey; The Origins of DNA by M. Sluyser; Darwinian Evolution and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Theodosius Dobzhansky; Fallacies and Errors in the Wonderlands of Biology, Medicine, and Lewis Carroll by Dwight J. Ingle; A Case of Recurrent Pseudocyesis by C. Knight Aldrich; Medicare in Utopia by Ilza Veith; Malignant Transformation of Cells by Viruses by Howard M. Temin; Natural Selection and the Origin of Life by Gordon Allen; Lasting Biological Effects of Early Influences by Rene Dubos; A Cell Is Not an Island Entire of Itself by Paul A. Weiss; Some Genetic Aspects of Plantations Slavery by Nathaniel Weyl; The Possible Vascular Regulation of Luteal Function by Bruce B. Pharriss; Race, Reality, and Experimental Psychology by Clyde E. Noble; Divine Humor by E. Gellhorn; The Discovery of Serotonin by Irvine H. Page; Lessons from the Discovery of Modern Diuretic Therapy by Karl H. Beyer Jr.; On the Nature of Consciousness and of Physical Reality by David L. Wilson; The Potential of Negative Pions for Cancer Radiation Therapy by Richard Madey; Trends in Current Research on t. …

Hardcover. Etat : As New.

orig.cloth. 23x16cm, xi,361 pp. Full title reads: "Hopkins and Biochemistry, 1861-1947 : Papers concerning Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins O.M.,P.R.S. with a selection of his Addresses and a Bibliography of his Publications". Hopkins shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine with Christian Eijkman for his pioneering work on vitamins. An authority on carbohydrate metabolism and muscular activity. minor rubbing,minor fading to spine, VG. 11 photoplates (illustrateur).…

orig.boards. 24x15cm, xi,326 pp., Volume I [Volumes 1 & 2 of the major series]. Some minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.