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Amos, James H. Focus or Failure? America at the
Crossroads -- Where Are You? Mechanicsburg, PA: Executive
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Signed and inscribed by author.
Asimov, Isaac. Asimov on Numbers. 1997.
New York: Pocket, 1978. Mass market paperback, 286 pages with index.
---. The Universe: From Flat Earthy to Quasar.
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Beasley, W. G. The Japanese Experience: A Short History
of Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
1999. Hardback, 299 pages with index. New.
Beckmann, Petr. The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear.
Coloraro: The Golem Press, 1976. Hardback, 190 pages.
Some wear to edges of dust jacket. Bookseller code/price on
first page.
Bernstein, Jeremy. Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos.
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index.
Bruce, Robert V. Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the
Conquest of Solitude. 1974. Ithaca, NY: Cornell,
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Bryson, Bill. Notes from a Small Island.
London: Black Swan-Transworld, 1995. Trade paperback, 352
pages.
Burke, Clifford. Printing It. Berkeley, CA:
Wingbow, 1972. Paperback, 127 pages.
Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1987. Trade paperback, 253 pages.
"Presented to Lucy Day Werts On the occasion of her induction into
The Antient and Honourable Edmund Burke Society. 28 February,
2003."
Clason, George S. The Richest Man in Babylon.
New York: Signet, 1988. Trade paperback, 144 pages. Cut
in back cover and some pages.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of
Human Societies. 1997. New York: Notron, 1999.
Trade paperback, 480 pages with index. Written on spine in
black marker: "$1."
Dikkers, Scott and the Staff of The Onion. Our
Dumb Century. Philadelphia, PA: The Running Press, 1999.
Miniature hardback, ??? pages. Remainder mark. Green
ribbon bookmark with metal onion weight. Very very cute.
Durrell, Gerald. Beasts in my Belfry. London:
Book Club Associates,1973. Hardback, 191 pages.
Ehrlich, Robert. 8 Preposterous Propositions: From the
Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Hardcover,
342 pages with index. New.
Feldman, Noah. What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of
Nation Building. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 2004. Advance reading copy, paperback, 171 pages with
notes.
Feynman, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Adventures of Curious Character. As told to Ralph
Leighton. Ed. Edward Hutchings. 1985.New York: Bantam,
1986. Mass market paperback, 317 pages. Worn.
---. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985. Trade
paperback,158 pages with index.
---. What Do You Care What Other People Think?
New York: Bantam, 1989.255 pages with index. Spine tilt and
creasing, previous owner inscription inside cover, bookseller price
in pencil on first page.
Flesch, Rudolf. The Art of Clear Thinking. New
York: Harper, 1951. Hardcover, 212 pages with index.
Price clipped. Dust jacket in mylar.
Frankfurt, Harry G. On Bullshit. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Hardcover, 67 pages.
Black cloth with red/silver stamping, no dj. Signed by the
author at the Princeton Barnes & Noble on June 9, 2005.
---. The Reasons of Love. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2004. Paperback, 100 pages. New.
Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. New York: Viking,
1995. Hardback, first edition, 286 pages. Looks new,
complete with unopened CD-Rom.
Gleick, James. Faster: The Acceleration of Just About
Everything. New York: Pantheon-Random, 1999.
Hardback, 324 pages with index. First edition. Dust
jacket scratched, small stain on edge of pages.
Griffiths, Sian, Ed. Predictions. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1999. Hardback, 328 pages with index.
With and introduction by Jonathan Weiner.
Haig, Diana Reid. Walks Through Napoleon and Josephine's
Paris. New York: The Little Bookroom, 2004.
Hardback, 137 pages. New.
Jackson, Paul and Vivien Frank. Make It with Paper.
Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet, 1992. Hardback, no dust jacket, 175
pages with index. Faded spine, cover.
Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. 1954.
New York: Dell, 1971. Mass market paperback, 416 pages.
Pages yellowing, damage to cover, edges show waterstains, previous
owner name inside cover.
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine.
1981. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 2000. Trade
paperback, 293 pages.
Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.
New York: Basic, 1999. Hardback, 297 pages with index.
Ex-library.
Levi, Primo. The Periodic Table. New York:
Schocken, 1984. Trade paperback, 233 pages. Translated
from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal. Written on spine with
marker: "$1" Pages browning. Previous owner inscription
inside front cover.
---. Survival in Auschwitz. New York:
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Translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf.
Libbrecht, Kenneth and Patricia Rasmussen. The
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Lowell, Juliet. Dear Sir: Letters of ribaldry and
desperation culled from war plants, draft boards, government
agencies... New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1944.
Hardback, 75 pages. Pages loose/detached. Dust jacket in
mylar.
Mankiewicz, Richard. The Story of Mathematics.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Paperback
(rip and rebind!), 192 pages. Color throughout. New.
Manion, Dean Clarence. Let's Face It! Why Is Our
Freedom Fading Out? South Bend, IN: Manion, 1956.
Paperback, 275 pages.
Mayle, Peter. A Year in Provence. New York:
Vintage-Random, 1991. Trade paperback, 207 pages.
Milly, Dorothy. The Book of the Ancient Greeks.
New York: Putnam, 1925. Twenty-third impression.
Hardback, no dj, 420 pages with index.
Minton, Arthur J. and Thomas A Shipka. Philosophy:
Paradox and Discovery, 3rd Edition. New York: McGraw Hill,
1990. Paperback, 525 pages.
Myerson, Daniel. The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon
and Champollion's Quest ot Decipher the Rosetta Stone. New
York: Random House, 2004. Hardback, first edition, 271 pages,
new.
Ortner, Sherry B. Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and
Himalayan Mountaineering. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1999. Trade paperback, 376 pages with index.
New.
Ornstein, Robert E., editor. The Nature of Human
Consciousness: A Book of Readings. New York: Viking, 1974.
Hardback, 514 pages with index.
Parra, Derek. Reflections in the Ice: Inside the Heart
and Mind of an Olympic Champion. Discovery Bay,
California: Podium, 2003. Trade paperback, 294 pages.
Metallic silver cover.
Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things.
1992. New York: Vintage-Random, 1994. Trade paperback,
288 pages with index.
Pinsky, Robert. The Life of David. New York:
Nextbook & Schocken, 2005. Trade paperback, 209 pages.
Advance reader's edition. Signed and inscribed by the author
at BEA 2005: "Very good wishes to Lucy Hobor! Robert Pinsky."
Princeton University Press. A Century in Books.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Hardback, 167 pages with index.
---. Princeton University Press 1905-2005.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Paperback, 84 pages.
Polya. G. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical
Method. 1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
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Second edition.
---. How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical
Method. 1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University Press, 2004. Trade paperback 253 pages.
Expanded Princeton Science Library edition. Cover design by
Carmina Alvarez-Gaffin. Foreword by John H. Conway.
Signed and inscribed to me by John H. Conway.
Reischauer, Edwin O. Japan: The Story of a Nation.
1964. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990. Paperback, 401 pages
with index. Fourth edition. Previously published under
the title of: Japan: Past an dPresent.
Seabright, Paul. The Company of Strangers: A Natural
History of Economic Life. Princeton: Princeton 2004.
Hardback, 257 pages plus notes, bibliography and index. New.
Starkey, David. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne.
New York: HarperCollins, 2001. Trade paperback, 363 pages with
index. Spine creased, remainder mark, wear to covers and
edges.
Threulsen, Richard and John Kobler. Adventures of the
Mind. New York: Knopf, 1961. Hardback, 654 pages.
Dust jacket in mylar.
Tribble, Alan C. A Tribble's Guide to Space: How to Get
to Space and What to do When You're There. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2000. Hardcover, 174 pages with
index.
Usborne, Richard. The Penguin Wodehouse Companion.
London: Penguin, 1988. Trade paperback, 273 pages with index.
Walton, Sam. Made in America: My Story. New
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First edition. Dust jacket in mylar.
Wilson, Edward O. Naturalist. 1994. New
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Winchester, Simon. The Fracture Zone: My Return to the
Balkans. 1999. New York: Perennial-HarperCollins,
2000. Trade paperback, 255 pages.
---. Pacific Rising. 1991. New York:
Touchstone-Simon & Schuster, 1992. Large paperback, 496 pages
with index.
---. The Sun Never Sets. 1991. New York:
Prentice Hall, 1985. Hardback, 317 pages
with index. First American edition. Dust jacket worn.
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