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PRESSURE DROP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1989) dj
. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller in which two different story lines come together - that of a woman, a successful publicist in New York City whose baby is kidnapped from the hospital and a man, owner of a rustic resort in the Bahamas, on the verge of losing it all because of a lawsuit alleging negligence in a diving fatality. SIGNED on the title page. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-525248218.Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages) in a near fine dust jacket (crease to lower edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 81363More details Price: $30.00 -
SOCIAL BY NATURE: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics.
Edition: First printing.
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions its implications for the future. . . . By exposing the shocking parallels between sociogenomics and older, long-discredited, sciences, Bliss persuasively argues for a more thoughtful public reception of any study that reduces human nature to a mere sequence of genes." Extensive notes, index. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0804798341.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 73826More details Price: $25.00 -
SOCIAL BY NATURE: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018). First edition - A book which "recognizes the promise of this interdisciplinary young science, but also questions its implications for the future. . . . By exposing the shocking parallels between sociogenomics and older, long-discredited, sciences, Bliss persuasively argues for a more thoughtful public reception of any study that reduces human nature to a mere sequence of genes." Extensive notes, 272 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73827More details Price: $18.00 -
SEEKING TO SERVE.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with dark brown stamping on the front cover and spine (previous owner's name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 86497More details Price: $65.00 -
EVOLUTION OF RACISM: The Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book by this award-winning scientist and author, which "combines a history of evolutionary theory with a study of its impact on ideas about race and racism to explain how the fear of making politically unacceptable discoveries has prevented scientists from honestly exploring human racial differences." Includes a discussion of the work of Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Ashley Montagu as well as less well-known but influential figures like Ernst Haeckel, the father of the eugenics movement and Carleton Coons who became the subject of a bitter academic feud. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Notes, Bibliography, Index. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671754602.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82376More details Price: $35.00