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BARROW, John. The World Within the World - Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988. 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 23.00
BARTUSIAK, Marcia. Through a Universe Darkly - NY, Harper Collins, 1993, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 15.50
BATH, Geoffrey. The State of the Universe - Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Proceedings of a conference held at Wolfson College in the spring of 1979. --- US$ 21.50
BIALNICKI-BIRULA, Iwo; Marek CIEPLAK & Jerzy KAMINSKY. Theory of Quanta - Oxford University Press, 1992. Very fine (not issued with dust jacket). The presentation is confined to that portion of quantum theory based on the Shrodinger wave equation. --- US$ 52.00
BURROWS, William. Exploring Space: Voyages in the Solar System and Beyond - Random house, 1990, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 12.50
CAMBEL, A.B. Applied Chaos Theory: A Paradigm for Complexity - San Diego, Academic Press, 1993. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 45.00
CHAPMAN, Clark. The Inner Planets - New Light on the Rocky Worlds of Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the Asteroids - Scribners, 1977. Very good in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 7.50
CLARK, David. The Quest for SS433 - UK, Alger Hilger, Bristol, 1985, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The study of star SS433, which seemed to be simultaneously approaching and receding. --- US$ 15.00
COHEN, Paul and Edward FEIGENBAUM. The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Vols. 1,2,3 - Kaufman, 1982. Very good in very good dust jackets. --- US$ 30.00
[COMPTON] Marjorie Johnson, ed. The Cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton - NY, Knopf, 1967, 1st edition. Very good. Dust jacket very good except for a bit of chipping top and bottom of spine. Mylar covered. --- US$ 17.50
CRISTIANSON, Gale. This Wild Abyss: The Story of the Men who Made Modern Astronomy - Free Press, 1978, 1st edition. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Bookplate with handwritten name of William M. Herr, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Arizona State University. --- US$ 20.00
DAVIES, John. The Accidental Universe - Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983, 2nd printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 16.00
DAVIES, Paul. God and the New Physics - NY, Simon & Schuster, 1983, 2nd printing. Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. (Dust jacket has quarter-inch triangle missing from upper rear edge, but looks good in its mylar wrapper. --- US$ 11.50
DAVIES, Paul. The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World - NY, Simon & Schuster, 1992, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 23.50
DIBON-SMITH, Richard. STARLIST 2000 - Wiley, 1992, 1st printing. Plasticized cover, no dust jacket (as issued). Fine in (new) condition. Bottom of spine does, however, have a bump creasing the botton 1/4 inch of the spine. Intended to serve as a basic starlist for the coming millenium. --- US$ 30.00
FERMI, Enrico. Collected Papers (Note e memorie) Vol. 1, 1921-1938 - Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971, 3rd printing. Very fine (not issued with dust jacket). --- US$ 70.00
FINNEY, Ben & Eric JONES (editors). Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience - Univ. of California Press, 1985, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A collection of essays by twenty-five noted social and space sciences scholars stemming from the May 1983 Conference on Interstellar Migration held at Los Alamos. --- US$ 45.00
FRANK, Louis. The Big Splash - Birch Lane Press, 1990, 1st edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Offers the theory that the earth's lakes, rivers and oceans were fed by millenia of comet encounters with our upper atmosphere. Nice tight copy. --- US$ 13.50
GLASHOW, Sheldon (with BEN BOVA). Interactions: A Journey Through the Mind of a Particle Phycist - Warner, 1988, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. By one of the 1979 Nobel Prize recipients in Physics. --- US$ 12.00
GRIBBIN, John. Unveiling the Edge of Time - NY, Harmony Books, 1992, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jackets. --- US$ 21.00
GROSS, Franz. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory - Wiley Interscience, 1993, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A modernized textbook for the 2nd-year graduate-level physics major. --- US$ 60.00
GROSSINGER, Richard. The Night Sky - San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1981, 1st edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. --- US$ 14.50
GUEST, John with Paul BUTTERFIELD, John MURRAY and William O'DONNELL. Planetary Geology - Wiley, 1979. Fine in very fine dust jacket (like new but with previous owner's name inscribed in ink inside the front cover. --- US$ 20.00
HUDSON, Heather. Communication Satellites: Their Development and Impact - NY, The Free Press, 1990. Fine in fine dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. An analysis of the impact of American, Canadian, Australian, Western European and Japanese satellite technology on future developments of VSATs, DBS and optical fiber/VCR applications. --- US$ 22.50
JASTRO, Robert. Journey to the Stars - Bantam, 1989, 1st edition. --- US$ 14.50
KAKU, Michio. Hyperspace - NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1994, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A scientific odyssey through parallel universes, time warps and the 10th dimension. --- US$ 14.50
KAKU, Michio. Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction - Oxford Univ. Press, 1993, 1st edition. Very fine (not issued with dust jacket). --- US$ 32.00
LERNER, Rita & George TRIGG. Encyclopedia of Physics (2nd Edition) - NY, VCH Publishers, 1991. Fine (not issued with dust jacket). A reference for every physics or science bookshelf. (Published at $150.00) --- US$ 40.00
LOVELL, Bernard. Astronomer by Chance - NY, Basic Books, 1990, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 21.50
MACVEY, John. Colonizing Other Worlds: A Field Manual - NY, Stein & Day, 1984, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. "... unprecidented blueprints for mankind's future colonies in space." --- US$ 18.50
MAFFEI, Paolo. Monsters in the Sky - MIT Press, 1980, 1st American edition (translated from the second Italian edition, 1977). Fine in very good plus dust jacket (price-clipped, otherwise fine). --- US$ 9.50
MOTZ, Lloyd. The Universe: Its Beginning and End NY, Scribners, 1975, 2nd printing. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's name written on ffep. --- US$ 9.00
PEEBLES, P.J.E. Principles of Physical Cosmology - Princeton Univ. Press, 1993, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- #336: US$ 30.00
ROTSTEIN, Ronald. The Future: Trends and Developments Through the 21st Century - NY, Lyle Stuart, 1990, 1st edition. Based on hundreds of interviews with scientific and social planners on the cutting edge of the new generation of inventiveness. --- US$ 10.00
[Scientific American Library] ALEXANDER, R. McNeill. Exploring Biomechanics: Animals in Motion - NY, 1992. Number 40 of the series, 1st printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 17.00
[Scientific American Library] GOULD, James & Carol GRANT GOULD. Sexual Selection - NY, 1989. Number 29 of the series, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 17.00
[Scientific American Library] HOBSON, J. ALLAN. Sleep - NY, 1989. Number 27 of the series, 1st printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 17.00
[Scientific American Library] KALER, James. Stars - NY, 1992. Number 39 in the series. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 15.50
[Scientific American Library] KAUFMANN, William& Larry L. SMARR. Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science - NY, 1993. Number 43 in the series. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 15.50
[Scientific American Library] LEVINE, ARNOLD. Viruses - NY, 1992. Number 37 in the series. Fine in fine dust jacket. Tiny chip on back of dust jacket near spine - otherwise as new. --- US$ 15.50
[Scientific American Library] PIERCE, John & A. Michael KOLL. Signals: The Science of Telecommunications - NY, 1990. Number 32 of the series. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 15.50
SHEEHAN, William. Planets and Perception: Telescopic Views and Interpretations: 1609-1909 - Univ. of Arizona Press, 1988, 1st edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 25.00
STROKE, H. Henry (editor). The Physical Review: The First Hundred Years (with CD-ROM) - AIP/APS, 1995. 1266pp. + CD-ROM (The package is guaranteed absolutely NEW ... the CD-ROM has not been opened). A selection of papers and commentaries on the occasion of the 100th anniversity of the publication of "The Physical Review." Between the book and the CD-ROM over 1000 seminal publications are accessible. (Amazon.com sells the *paperback* edition for $99. We'll sell you this HARDCOVER edition - only one copy available - for the same money!!!) --- US$ 99.00
SZAMOSI, Geza. The Twin Dimensions: Inventing Time and Space - NY, McGraw-Hill, 1986, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 20.00
TUCKER, Wallace & Karen TUCKER. The Cosmic Inquirers: Modern Telescopes and Their Makers - Harvard Univ. Press, 1986. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 18.00
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