Craig J. Hogan ; ISBN 0387983856 - Pages: 181; Publisher: Copernicus - Copyright © 1998; Condition: Hardback, as-new condition. Price: $5.00 + $2 S/H

"This delightful little primer brings you right up to the cutting edge of modern cosmology." — George Smoot (from dust jacket)
"This is the book I wish my dinner companions would read." — John Bahcall (from dust jacket).

John B. Alden; No ISBN: - Pages: 653; Publisher: John B. Alden - © 1882; Condition: Hardback, very good condition considering age, small number of pencilled marginal notations, cover nicked, binding tight. Price: $10.00 + $4 S/H

The age of this book and the quality of the authors make it an important contribution to the history of science. Articles by such people as George Matheson, Andrew Wilson, Herbert Spencer, and T. H. Huxley provide a historical account of the times, places, and ideas.

American University of Beirut; No ISBN: - Pages: 273; Publisher: American University of Beirut - © 1932; Condition: Hardback, very good condition considering age, small number of pencilled marginal notations. Price: $4.00 + $4 S/H

What this book demonstrates is the quality of science education at a time when only the best entered our colleges and universities. The level of science in each chapter is challenging and comprehensive.

Bernard D. Davis; ISBN: 0879753242 - Pages: 324; Publisher: Prometheus Books - © 1986. Condition: Hardback, excellent with very little use. Dust jacket slightly worn. Price: $7.00 + $4 S/H

"His is a lonely voice, but a powerful one. Bernard Davis's defense of reason and the possibility of objectivity in science, and his utter honesty, make this book required reading for anyone who perceives the embrace between science and the future of our species and its planet." — Paul R. Gross

Freeman Dyson; ISBN: 0679413073 - Pages: 371; Publisher: Pantheon Books - © 1992. Condition: Hardback, excellent except for some underlining and marginal notes pp. 13-46 and inscriptions on first and last pages. Price: $3.00 + $4 S/H

"The aim of this book, as Dyson says, 'is to open windows, to let the experts inside the temple of science see out, and to let the ordinary citizens outside see in.' In this process an immensely broad range of ideas, people, contemporary history, and the discoveries of many sorts pass in review." — from the dust jacket

R. V. Fodor; ISBN: 0894900366 - Pages: 64; Publisher: Enslow - © 1981; Condition: Hardback, as-new condition. Price: $8.00 + $4 S/H

This is a neat, easy-to-read, well-edited small book for middle- and high-school students. The ice age is made clear and real within the Earth's movements in space and distance and time. The book is loaded with real science as theory. For the questioning mind, it makes possible all kinds of new research.

Martin Gardner, ed.; ISBN: 0879753242 - Pages: 324; Publisher: Prometheus Books - © 1986. Condition: Hardback, excellent with very little use. Dust jacket slightly worn. Price: $7.00 + $4 S/H

"Martin Gardner, author of numerous books on science and philosophy, has assembled 34 brilliant essays by eminent philosophers, scientists, and writers that deal with fundamental aspects of modern science. This is a rich store of good reading and an informal history of the men and ideas that have shaped our culture and transformed our everyday lives." — from the book cover

Paul Goodman; No ISBN - Pages: 208; Publisher: Random House - © 1970; Condition: Hardback, excellent except for inscription on first page. Price: $6.00 + $4 S/H

"If any writer anticipated the crisis in American culture during the late 60s and 70s, it was Paul Goodman. This, along with his Growing Up Absurd, still serve as indispensable guides to the rebellion of American youth." — from the dust jacket. He spoke with equal forcefulness to the young and their parents.

Karl R. Popper; ISBN: 061305766 - Pages: 479; Publisher: Harper Torchbooks - © 1968. Condition: Paperback, fair condition, heavily used with no markings but with damaged spine. Price: $8.00 + $4 S/H

"One cannot help feeling that if this book had been translated as soon as it was originally published, philosophy in this country [Great Britain] might have been saved some detours. Professor Popper's thesis has that quality of greatness that once seen appears simple and almost obvious." — Times (London)

Carl Sagan; Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345409469 - Pages: 457; Publisher: Ballantine Books - © 1996. Condition: paperback, good. Price: $5.00 + $4 S/H

"Skeptical books are . . . comparatively rare. Rarer still are those of the caliber of Carl Sagan's new work . . . impressive, Persuasive, Brave."
— Scientific American

If we are to attract future generations to the sciences we must locate another scientist with Carl Ssgan's ability to articulare what science can do and cannot do. when he spoke, the world of science went way beyond magic. — Jack Carter

Caleb Williams Saleeby, M.D.; No ISBN- Pages: 259; Publisher: Funk and Wagnalls - © 1914; Condition: Hardback, no dust jacket, ex-library, otherwise clean. Price: $10.00 + $4 S/H

This book sorts through the many definitions of eugenics at a time when people either despised or accepted the basic ideas and definitions.

Willis H. Truitt and T. W. Graham Solomons, Editors; No ISBN- Pages: 259; Publisher: Funk and Wagnalls - © 1914; Condition: Hardback, no dust jacket, ex-library, otherwise clean. Price: $10.00 + $4 S/H

"Science and technology have had an enormous impact on modern society and culture. This book raises some acute questions about this impact. It also provides a number of answers to these questions from varying points of view. The final decisions that are made about the uses of science and technology are shaping our future." — from the back cover