Sciences from Goldring Books

London: The Institute of Physics, 1973. Gold titles and motif on red cloth boards which are clean unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name and address label to front pastedown and another to front endpaper else contents are Fine and unmarked. The dustjacket is a clear plastic cover which has ripples along the spine. 206 pages.… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 149 pages. In the past 40 years the whole spectrum of light - the radio and microwave bands, infrared and ultraviolet light, X-rays and gamma rays - has been opened up for astronomy. Suddenly there is a whole new cosmic… Read more about this item

New York: Free Press, 2009. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First US Edition, First Printing. ix + 47 pages. Illustrated throughout. The book is a stunning counter-attack on advocates of 'Intelligent Design', explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist 'argument'. Dawkins sifts… Read more about this item

London: George G. Harrap, 1959. Gilt title on -blue boards which have some light marks and a little wear to spine head and tail and to corner tips. Internally there is age toning to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. 256 pages. 118 photographs and some line drawings. The collection of photographs covers a scale ranging from… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1990. An As New Copy with an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. a large format book of 128 pages. Patrick Moore, one of the astronomers who provided maps of the moon in the period before probes were launched, has provided commentaries for television and radio from the very beginning; as one who has been personally… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy apart from an inscription to front endpaper with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 360 pages printed on glossy paper. A lavishly produced work illustrated throughout with colour photographs and maps. This exceptional book celebrates the inevitability of global change and highlights our need as human beings to recognize and adjust to… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1990. A near Fine copy in laminated boards which has a small name to front endpaper else unmarked. xvii + 373 pages. The book is a comprehensive and flexible text that is suitable for a wide variety of teaching styles and orientations toward the subject matter. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 207 pages. Profusely illustrated. Why are we fascinated by a starlit sky? With this single question, Sir Patrick Moore sets out on a journey of exploration and investigation which takes the reader to the edge of the universe and back in… Read more about this item

New York: Exposition Press, 1976. SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO front endpaper with dedication ALSO a SIGNED LETTER enclosing the book. A near Fine copy unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 71 pages. The book outlines a practical course of action for personal lives that has a twofold purpose - 1) to conserve our precious and… Read more about this item

Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy in laminated boards (Fine apart from a mark left from removal of a label to lower spine and very small indentation to front side. viii + 159 pages. What qualifies such seemingly disparate disciplines as paleontology, high energy physics, industrial chemistry and genetic engineering as 'sciences', and hence worthy of… Read more about this item

London: Bloomsbury, 1996. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a tippexed out name to top margin of title page) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 352 pages. First edition, First printing. The author's fascinating and persuasive book argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, and that emotions play a much… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley, 1943. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a neat contemporary name to front pastedown with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. vii + 275 pages. 43 figures in the text. This volume presents practical material concerning the role and use of enzymes in industry, their preparation, and their use in medicine. A… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. Gilt title to spine on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a little wear to spine head and tail and to lower corner tips. Internally there is a small name and year to front endpaper, some remnats of tape to endpapers and just a few marks also to endpapers else very… Read more about this item

Prague: Artia, 1954. Gilt title on cloth boards which have foxing to front and fading to spine but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Map endpapers. Internally a Very Good+ copy. A large format volume, unpaginated, profusely illustrated with stunning photographs of the caves with their unique stalactites and stalagmites and fascinating geological structures. Note: A LARGE… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1971. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a little wear to top edge. 240 pages. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. The author, a leading authority on primates and their functional behaviour, was a pioneer in the teaching of primate biology, and in this book he approaches evolution from a… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. ix + 286 pages. In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Professor Burling not only presents the most convincing account of the origins of language yet published: he sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other. He gives… Read more about this item

London: David Fulton, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy. 217 pages. First published in 1998. Cognitive style may well turn out to be the missing element in the study of individual differences. The book reviews and integrates research on style differences in learning and behaviour and describes the 'Cognitive Styles Analysis' which provides a simple and effective method of assessing… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1977. A Very Good+ clean and tight copy which has a name to front endpaper and an ink correction to a formula on one page. Dustjacket is also VG+ and is not price clipped. First UK edition. Asimov explores the implications of black holes, with lucid excursions into related questions. Was the mysterious 30-megaton blast that flattened… Read more about this item

Llandeilo, Wales: Cygnus, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy. First published in the USA. The author, a cell biologist, performed pioneering studies at Stanford University's School of Medicine, and is an internationally recognised authority on bridging science and spirit. The book presents scientific evidence showing that genes and DNA do not control our biology, instead, Bruce Lipton shows that our genes… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy which has age darkening to page edges with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. xvii + 254 pages. 9 illustrations. The eminent psychiatrist shows, with characteristic and humane insight, how gurus cast doubt upon current psychiatric distinctions between sanity and madness, and how all of these have more in common than meets… Read more about this item