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1995Q-0805815368Psychology Press 1995-12-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Psychology Press hardcover
1954052515New York: Viking 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Jacket. Xii 290 Pp. Turquoise Cloth Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Fine No Marks Gilt Brilliant. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75 Slight Usage. Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas Robert M. Hutchins Paul B. Sears Harold C. Urey Albert Einstein H. J. Muller; Brown Was An Outstanding Scientist Himself; But Few World Politicians Or Business Leaders 1946 To Present Ever Tried To Seriously Address These Issues Apparently Because They're Not There Primarily For The General Welfare. Harrison Scott Brown 1917 - 1986 Was An American Nuclear Chemist And Geochemist. He Was A Political Activist Who Lectured And Wrote On The Issues Of Arms Limitation Natural Resources And World Hunger. During World War Ii Brown Worked At The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory And Clinton Engineer Works Where He Worked On Ways To Separate Plutonium From Uranium. The Techniques He Helped Develop Were Used At The Hanford Site To Produce The Plutonium Used In The Fat Man Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki. After The War He Lectured On The Dangers Of Nuclear Weapons. After The War He Worked At The University Of Chicago Where He Pioneered Nuclear Geochemistry. The Study Of Meteorites By Brown And His Students Led To The First Close Approximation Of The Age Of The Earth And The Solar System. In 1948 Brown Was Awarded The American Association For The Advancement Of Science Prize For His Work On Meteorites.Between 1951 And 1977 He Worked At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech Where He Contributed To Advances In Telescopic Instrumentation Jet Propulsion And Infrared Astronomy. While There He Attracted Several Former Colleagues And Highly Regarded Scientists To The Team. Together They Made Advancements In Telescopic Instrumentation Jet Propulsion Contributing To Nasa's Early Planetary Exploration Missions And Infrared Astronomy. In June 1954 He Was One Of Twenty Scientists Under The Age Of Forty Identified By Fortune Magazine As "Top Young Scientists In U. S. Universities And Industry". In The Early 1970S He Began Working More Directly On The Resource/Environment Issues That He Had Been Developing In His Books. In 1977 He Became Director Of The Newly Created Resource Systems Institute Of The East-West Center In Hawaii Where He Turned Full Time To Work On Understanding And Influencing The Interactions Of Energy Mineral And Food Systems In The Asia-Pacific Region Themes He Had Developed In His Books Since The 1950S. <br/> <br/> Viking hardcover
1954052602New York: Viking 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Xii 290 Pp. Turquoise Cloth Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Light Wear Gilt Brilliant Faint Dampstainig To Cloth. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75 Very Worn Dampstainied Extensive Tape Repairs To Inside Of Jacket Fair Only. Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas Robert M. Hutchins Paul B. Sears Harold C. Urey Albert Einstein H. J. Muller; Brown Was An Outstanding Scientist Himself; But Few World Politicians Or Business Leaders 1946-Present Out Of Hundreds Of Thousands Ever Tried To Seriously Address These Issues Apparently Because They're Not There For The General Welfare. Harrison Scott Brown 1917 - 1986 Was An American Nuclear Chemist And Geochemist. He Was A Political Activist Who Lectured And Wrote On The Issues Of Arms Limitation Natural Resources And World Hunger. During World War Ii Brown Worked At The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory And Clinton Engineer Works Where He Worked On Ways To Separate Plutonium From Uranium. The Techniques He Helped Develop Were Used At The Hanford Site To Produce The Plutonium Used In The Fat Man Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki. After The War He Lectured On The Dangers Of Nuclear Weapons. After The War He Worked At The University Of Chicago Where He Pioneered Nuclear Geochemistry. The Study Of Meteorites By Brown And His Students Led To The First Close Approximation Of The Age Of The Earth And The Solar System. In 1948 Brown Was Awarded The American Association For The Advancement Of Science Prize For His Work On Meteorites.Between 1951 And 1977 He Worked At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech Where He Contributed To Advances In Telescopic Instrumentation Jet Propulsion And Infrared Astronomy. While There He Attracted Several Former Colleagues And Highly Regarded Scientists To The Team. Together They Made Advancements In Telescopic Instrumentation Jet Propulsion Contributing To Nasa's Early Planetary Exploration Missions And Infrared Astronomy. In June 1954 He Was One Of Twenty Scientists Under The Age Of Forty Identified By Fortune Magazine As "Top Young Scientists In U. S. Universities And Industry". In The Early 1970S He Began Working More Directly On The Resource/Environment Issues That He Had Been Developing In His Books. In 1977 He Became Director Of The Newly Created Resource Systems Institute Of The East-West Center In Hawaii Where He Turned Full Time To Work On Understanding And Influencing The Interactions Of Energy Mineral And Food Systems In The Asia-Pacific Region Themes He Had Developed In His Books Since The 1950S. <br/> <br/> Viking hardcover
1954052601New York: Viking 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Xii 290 Pp. Turquoise Cloth Spine Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Near Fine No Marks Gilt Brilliant Bumping To Spine Ends. Dust Jacket Priced $3.75 Wear Chipping At Corners Short Edge Tears Good Only. Dust Jacket Blurbs By William O. Douglas Robert M. Hutchins Paul B. Sears Harold C. Urey Albert Einstein H. J. Muller; Brown Was An Outstanding Scientist Himself; But Few World Politicians Or Business Leaders 1946-Present Out Of Hundreds Of Thousands Ever Tried To Seriously Address These Issues Apparently Because They're Not There For Our General Welfare. Per Wikipedia Harrison Scott Brown 1917 - 1986 Was An American Nuclear Chemist And Geochemist. He Was A Political Activist Who Lectured And Wrote On The Issues Of Arms Limitation Natural Resources And World Hunger. During World War Ii Brown Worked At The Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory And Clinton Engineer Works Where He Worked On Ways To Separate Plutonium From Uranium. The Techniques He Helped Develop Were Used At The Hanford Site To Produce The Plutonium Used In The Fat Man Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki. After The War He Lectured On The Dangers Of Nuclear Weapons. After The War He Worked At The University Of Chicago Where He Pioneered Nuclear Geochemistry. The Study Of Meteorites By Brown And His Students Led To The First Close Approximation Of The Age Of The Earth And The Solar System. In 1948 Brown Was Awarded The American Association For The Advancement Of Science Prize For His Work On Meteorites.Between 1951 And 1977 He Worked At The California Institute Of Technology Caltech Where He Contributed To Advances In Telescopic Instrumentation Jet Propulsion And Infrared Astronomy. While There He Attracted Several Former Colleagues And Highly Regarded Scientists To The Team. Together They Made Advancements In Telescopic Instrumentation Jet Propulsion Contributing To Nasa's Early Planetary Exploration Missions And Infrared Astronomy. In June 1954 He Was One Of Twenty Scientists Under The Age Of Forty Identified By Fortune Magazine As "Top Young Scientists In U. S. Universities And Industry". In The Early 1970S He Began Working More Directly On The Resource/Environment Issues That He Had Been Developing In His Books. In 1977 He Became Director Of The Newly Created Resource Systems Institute Of The East-West Center In Hawaii Where He Turned Full Time To Work On Understanding And Influencing The Interactions Of Energy Mineral And Food Systems In The Asia-Pacific Region Themes He Had Developed In His Books Since The 1950S. <br/> <br/> Viking hardcover
193067602Paris: Edition de la Galerie Simon 1930. Fine. Edition de la Galerie Simon Paris 1930 19 x 25 cm relié Entwurf einer Landschaft Sketch of a Landscape Édition de la Galerie Simon Paris 1930 19 x 25 cm full calf First edition one of 90 numbered copies on Holland paper signed by Carl Einstein and Gaston-Louis Roux on the justification page the only issue with 10 copies on Japan paper and 10 on Chapelle paper. With five full page black lithographs by Gaston-Louis Roux one of which on the frontispiece. Binding in full brown-pink box spine with blue pink and green title in ser significant inlaid decoration on the boards four bands of five strips of pink purple green and blue calf arranged around a central piece of rectangular multi-colored marbled box endpapers in flesh-side pink suede wrappers and spine preserved all edges gilt dust jacket in half brown-pink box spine with blue pink and green title in ser slip case lined with brown-pink box binding signed by Georges Leroux and dated 1994. Carl Einstein is an anarchist writer art historian friend of George Grosz Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso collaborator of Jean Renoir lived through the wars and revolutions that shook Europe during the first part of the twentieth century. He volunteer during the Spanish civil revolution in 1936 and went to Barcelona to fight in the ranks of the Confédération nationale du tra vail National Labor Confederation before joining the Groupe international de la Colonne Durruti Durruti Column International Group. Of Jewish faith he committed suicide in 1940 to avoid failing into the hands of the Nazis. Magnificent copy perfectly set in a full inlaid box binding signed by Georges Leroux one of the greatest binders of the second part of the 20th century. Edition de la Galerie Simon hardcover
1996BN9428Fannei & Walz 1996. 1996. Hardcover. 271 x 191 x 56 cm. Autorenportrait: Carl Einstein Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller entstammte einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie. Er verfasste kunstwissenschaftliche Studien zu Expressionismus Kubismus Konstruktivismus und Surrealismus und beschäftigte sich als einer der ersten Kunsthistoriker mit afrikanischer Kunst. Er war in zahlreichen literarischen Zirkeln aktiv und veröffentlichte Artikel in literarischen sowie politischen Zeitschriften. Ab 1928 in Paris lebend war er mit Georges Bataille Mitbegründer der surrealistischen Künstlerzeitschrift "Documents". Als Teilnehmer am Spanischen Bürgerkrieg wurde er Mitglied der anarchosyndikalistischen CNT-FAI und wurde zum "téchnico de guerra" in der Kolonne Durruti gewählt. Nach dem Sieg Francos floh Einstein 1939 zurück nach Frankreich wo er für kurze Zeit interniert war. Nach der Niederlage Frankreichs nahm er sich am 5. Juli 1940 bei Pau nahe der spanischen Grenze das Leben. Dr. phil. Hermann Haarmann ist Professor für Kommunikationsgeschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Exilpublizistik sowie Direktor des Instituts für Kommunikationsgeschichte und angewandte Kulturwissenschaften an der FU Berlin. Klaus Siebenhaar Jg. 1952 ist Direktor des Instituts für Kultur- und Medienmanagement der Freien Universität Berlin und Verleger. Bisher erschienen zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Literatur- Kultur- und Theatergeschichte des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts sowie zum Kulturmanagement. Dr. phil. Hermann Haarmann ist Professor für Kommunikationsgeschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Exilpublizistik sowie Direktor des Instituts für Kommunikationsgeschichte und angewandte Kulturwissenschaften an der FU Berlin. Reihe/Serie Werke 5 Bde. ; Bd.5 Zusatzinfo 464 farb. u. schw.-w. Abb. Sprache deutsch Maße 270 x 190 mm Gewicht 2094 g Einbandart gebunden 20. Jahrhundert Kunst ISBN-10 3-927574-35-X / 392757435X ISBN-13 978-3-927574-35-9 / 9783927574359 Werke Berliner Ausgabe Band 5 Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts Gebundene Ausgabe Carl Einstein Autor Dr. phil. Hermann Haarmann Autor Professor für Kommunikationsgeschichte Schwerpunkt Exilpublizistik Direktor Institut für Kommunikationsgeschichte und angewandte Kulturwissenschaften FU Berlin Klaus Siebenhaar <br/><br/>angewandte Kulturwissenschaften Expressionismus Kubismus Konstruktivismus Surrealismus Exilpublizistik Kommunikationsgeschichte 20. Jahrhundert Literatur- Kultur- und Theatergeschichte des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts Kulturmanagement Medienmanagement Kunst ISBN-10 3-927574-35-X / 392757435X ISBN-13 978-3-927574-35-9 / 9783927574359 Werke Berliner Ausgabe Band 5 Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts Gebundene Ausgabe Carl Einstein Autor Dr. phil. Hermann Haarmann Autor Professor für Kommunikationsgeschichte Schwerpunkt Exilpublizistik Direktor Institut für Kommunikationsgeschichte und angewandte Kulturwissenschaften FU Berlin Klaus Siebenhaar Autorenportrait: Carl Einstein Kunsthistoriker und Schriftsteller entstammte einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie. Er verfasste kunstwissenschaftliche Studien zu Expressionismus Kubismus Konstruktivismus und Surrealismus und beschäftigte sich als einer der ersten Kunsthistoriker mit afrikanischer Kunst. Er war in zahlreichen literarischen Zirkeln aktiv und veröffentlichte Artikel in literarischen sowie politischen Zeitschriften. Ab 1928 in Paris lebend war er mit Georges Bataille Mitbegründer der surrealistischen Künstlerzeitschrift "Documents". Als Teilnehmer am Spanischen Bürgerkrieg wurde er Mitglied der anarchosyndikalistischen CNT-FAI und wurde zum "téchnico de guerra" in der Kolonne Durruti gewählt. Nach dem Sieg Francos floh Einstein 1939 zurück nach Frankreich wo er für kurze Zeit interniert war. Nach der Niederlage Frankreichs nahm er sich am 5. Juli 1940 bei Pau nahe der spanischen Grenze das Leben. Dr. phil. Hermann Haarmann ist Professor für Kommunikationsgeschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Exilpublizistik sowie Direktor des Instituts für Kommunikationsgeschichte und angewandte Kulturwissenschaften an der FU Berlin. Klaus Siebenhaar Jg. 1952 ist Direktor des Instituts für Kultur- und Medienmanagement der Freien Universität Berlin und Verleger. Bisher erschienen zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Literatur- Kultur- und Theatergeschichte des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts sowie zum Kulturmanagement. Dr. phil. Hermann Haarmann ist Professor für Kommunikationsgeschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Exilpublizistik sowie Direktor des Instituts für Kommunikationsgeschichte und angewandte Kulturwissenschaften an der FU Berlin. Reihe/Serie Werke 5 Bde. ; Bd.5 Zusatzinfo 464 farb. u. schw.-w. Abb. Sprache deutsch Maße 270 x 190 mm Gewicht 2094 g Einbandart gebunden Fannei & Walz hardcover
1968043649New York New York U. S. A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition/First Printing. Includes Index. The Book Is Bound In Tan Cloth Over Boards With Black Titling On The Front And Spine. Minor Wear. The Unclipped Jacket Has A Few Tiny Edge Tears And Is Moderately Age Toned. Foxing At The Flap Folds And The Inside. <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1968015659New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1968. Nice copy in its first printing. Unmarked tight and square. Tan boards with black lettering bright and fresh. Two short creases on spine. Light dusting to top page edges. Price intact jacket is bright and fresh with no sunnin. Rear panel has faint foxing. Minor wear at spine ends. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus to Near Fine/Very Good Plus to Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G.P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover
1968G0671200720I4N00Simon & Schuster 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Simon & Schuster hardcover
1980Q-0690018983Lippincott & Crowell 1980-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lippincott & Crowell hardcover
195625363Simon and Schuster 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 11th printing <br/> <br/> Simon and Schuster hardcover
1958100167Simon & Schuster 1958. New York. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition third printing. Two inch tear at top hinge of dust jacket and one-inch triangle missing from top spine of dust jacket. Otherwise DJ is fully intact with white background showing wear typical of age. 395 pp illustrated with more than 100 b/w photographs drawings and cartoons. Clean unmarked text with no owner attribution. A compilation of over 100 stories articles letters and spot reports and offbeat sidelights on the game of baseball from many famous writers and former players. Introduction by Ted Williams. Front free endpaper contains artistic representation of a ball player cast against the kaleidoscopic background of stadium and crowd by Edmond Kohn. Back free endpaper and pastedown depict a photograph of Opening Day 1958 in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Contributing authors include Babe Ruth Joe DiMaggio Grover Cleveland Alexander Whitey Ford and Birdie Tebbetts Zane Gray and many other writers poets and sports journalists. Simon & Schuster hardcover
192065164Munchen: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1920. second edntion. very good. Small quarto. 25cm x 19cm. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Lovely pictorial paper over boards of a grove of trees.25pp of text German &108 photographic plates. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. From the library of abstract artist R.Leroy Turner signed by him on front free endpaper. Some edge wear to boards. Ocassional light foxing. African. Kurt Wolff Verlag unknown
1942162740London: Allen & Unwin 1942. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. hardback in original cloth 335pp. index A collection of 20 essays on the meaning of freedom published in the midst of WW2 Allen & Unwin hardcover
1943NF0266RELATIVITY Privately published 1943 first edition a vg copy in flexible black leatherette. A seventy page treatise on energy as matter in motion culminating with the general law of relativity. Replete with many mathematical equations and forty-two figures. Privately published 1943 hardcover
1955058414New York: Pantheon Books 1955. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 86 Pp. Blue Cloth. First Edition. Book Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners Three Emphasis Marks Formulaic Marginalia Pp 40- 43. Dj Priced $4.50 Second State First State Is $4.00 With Wear 3/4" Chip Top Of Spine Panel Small Edge Tears And Minute Losses Small Ghosts From Some Tape Reinforcements Along Top And Bottom Edges. With Unrelated Receipt Found In This Book For "Nucleonics" Lent In 1956 At Pocatello Idaho To Clay Condit Nuclear Physicist For Ebr-1 An Historical Landmark Because It Was The First Power Plant To Produce Electricity Using Atomic Power. <br/> <br/> Pantheon Books hardcover
1955059673New York: Pantheon Books 1955. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 86 Pp. Blue Cloth. First Edition. Book Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners. Dj Priced $4.50 Second State First State Is $4.00 With Tiny Chip At Center Of Bottom Edge Of Spine. <br/> <br/> Pantheon Books hardcover
1955060140New York: Pantheon Books 1955. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good /Good. 86 Pp. Blue Cloth. First Edition. Book Very Good Dj First State Priced $4.00 Considerable Wear Chipping At Corners 2" Mostly Closed Tear Near Top Of Front Spine Edge No Marks. <br/> <br/> Pantheon Books hardcover
1957056866Amsterdam / New York 1957: North-Holland Publishing Company/ Interscience Publishers 1957. First Edition . Red Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Photographs. 172 Pp. Includes Einstein's 1953 Paper And Many Others. Always A Scarce Book Altho Not Rare. Near Fine Some Fading To Spine Cloth Ownership Name Of Joseph L. Snider Professor Of Physics At Oberlin. Original Clear Unprinted Dust Jacket Shrunken Rear Cover A Lirttle Ripply And With A Short Tear Near Center. <br/> <br/> North-Holland Publishing Company/ Interscience Publishers hardcover
1931016304Gordon D. Knox. Publisher's green cloth with bright gilt titles to front and spine. Large photo of a bust of Newton on front. Spine in tact but starting along seam. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1931. Gordon D. Knox hardcover
193134923Gordon D. Knox 1931. 1st edition. V.g./No Jacket. Pictorial hard covers Some Newtoniana loosely inserted. Gordon D. Knox hardcover
1979148235New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1979. First edition early printing of this curated collection of Einstein’s writings. Octavo original leather frontispiece. Boldly signed by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman on the front free endpaper. Helen Dukas 1896–1982 was Albert Einstein’s longtime secretary and trusted confidante serving in that role from 1928 until his death in 1955. Deeply involved in preserving and organizing Einstein’s legacy she co-edited several collections of his writings and letters and played a key role in curating the Einstein Archives at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Banesh Hoffmann 1906–1986 was a physicist and mathematician who collaborated with Albert Einstein and made significant contributions to relativity and quantum mechanics. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon signed by both contributors. Albert Einstein: The Human Side 1979 edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann offers a unique perspective on Einstein beyond his scientific achievements by compiling his personal letters reflections and anecdotes. Unlike traditional biographies that focus on his contributions to physics this collection highlights Einstein’s thoughts on philosophy politics ethics and personal relationships revealing his wit humility and deep moral convictions. Through carefully selected writings the book presents Einstein as both a brilliant scientist and a deeply introspective individual who grappled with the social and ethical implications of his work. Princeton University Press hardcover
1925140945616Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer 1925. First edition. First edition. xiv 377 1 4 pp. Bound in publisher's orangish yellow boards. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards tiny pen squiggle to front board. Contents bright and unmarked. An uncommon German-language physics text with an appendix by Einstein. Verlag von Julius Springer unknown
1916ABE-1748062254979Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth 1916 Pamphlet finely bound in Dark green quarter leather over marbled boards. Signed twice in ink either by Einstein or a decent forger. Signature faded. First separate edition for the first time with the introduction which did not appear in the "Annalen." - "The theory of relativity has turned astrophysics upside down even the entire scientific world view" Carter/Muir Books That Change the World p. 727. "This separate edition is printed on good strong paper the wrappers are of strong material too 163 x 243 and it is described now as 'the original edition' of this classic paper ." Weil. - Cover slightly browned with a few edge chips top and foredge. Minor repairs to rear cover. Carter/Muir Books That Change the World 408 in "Annals of Physics"; Boni 78; Weil 80a; Laurence 78; Norman 696; Horblitt 26c. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth hardcover
1998Q-1567312470Fine Communications 1998-04-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Fine Communications hardcover
