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GENEROSITY: An Enhancement.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's tenth novel, short listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Best Science Fiction Award in 2011. A book which explores the idea of a genetic basis of happiness through the story of a luminous young woman from Algeria, a refugee from political terror, who nevertheless maintains her blissful exuberance, and the professor who is entranced by her but ultimately fails to protect her. ISBN: 0-374-234612.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89520More details Price: $17.50 -
A FEELING FOR THE ORGANISM: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Near fine (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 82323More details Price: $12.50 -
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 -
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 -
THE MIRACLE STRAIN: A Genetic Thriller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A medical thriller set in the near future which "explores the no-man's land where science and religion meet" 367 pp. ISBN: 0-688-155081.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63248More details Price: $16.50 -
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1953: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30 1953.
Edition: First edition.
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Hardcover first edition - Publication 4149. In addition to the usual financial reports, and reports on operations, this includes articles on radioisotopes, musical instruments, genetics and an early discussion of factory robotics - the push-button factory by Frank K. Shallenberger, and also the geological history and evolution of insects by F.M. Carpenter, Norsemen in North America before Columbus by Johannes Bronstad, to Colonial Williamsburg; and Charles Bird King, painter of Indian visitors to the nation's capital by John C. Ewers, The mountain village of Dahr Lebanon by Raymond E. Crist, an article on dating the Dead Sea scrolls, on climate and race and more. Illustrated. 481 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations (prev owner's name inside front cover.)
Book ID: 32753More details Price: $25.00 -
HEREDITY AND HUMAN AFFAIRS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover - A study of heredity and genetics, includes two chapters on the race problem. index. 325 pp
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine.
Book ID: 29773More details Price: $18.00