New York: Basic Books, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at the emergence of life on earth, and of four billion years of history, by this biochemist and Nobel Laureate. Richard Lerner of the Scripps Institute describes this as "told with authority and wit by one of the greatest scientists of our time." Christian de Duve shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George Palade "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted book collector Larry Owens. Notes, glossary, additional reading, index. xix, 362 pp. ISBN: 0-465090443.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Informal speculations - startling, amusing, provocative - about man's present and future role on earth." Introduction by Isaac Asimov. 187 pp.

New York: Catapult, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book which looks at art and science together to examine how innovations from Picasso's paintings to Steve Jobs's iPhone build on what already exists, as the brain bends, breaks and blends different ideas. Examining hundreds of examples of human creativity is "a celebration of the human spirit, and a vision of how we can improve our future by understanding and embracing our ability to innovate." A beautiful book, illustrated throughout, mostly in full color. SIGNED by David Eagleman on the title page. Bibliography, notes, index. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-1936787524.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, (1962). Hardcover first edition - A book in which the focus has moved to the philosophy behind the physical sciences. Includes essays by Hilary Putnam (The Analytical and the Synthetic), Carl G. Hempel, Michael Scriven (Explanations, Predictions and Laws), Wilfrid Sellars (Time and the World Order), P. K. Feyerabend, May Brodbeck, William W. Rozeboom, Adolf Grunbaum and Grover Maxwell (The Onotological Status of Theoretical Entities & The Necessary and the Contingent.) Name and subject index. xv, 628 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "lucid, nontechnical overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to in the 21st century." INSCRIBED on a preliminary page to noted book collector Larry Owens. Graphs, notes, glossary, index. 393 pp.

New York: TV Books, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Describing both the near and far future of space exploration, [this book] provides the latest news from the last great frontier--the realms of space that have fascinated humans for centuries, and may hold the keys to our future survival." SIGNED on the half title page. Illustrated with a section of color photographs. Further reading, index. 255 pp. ISBN: 1575000466.

New York: Dutton, 1997. Hardcover first edition - The complete story behind the August 1996 NASA announcement that a meteorite from Mars revealed evidence of primitive life, written for the layman. 267 pgs including index and glossary.

New York TV Books, (1999.). First edition - Book about future space travel, author is an award-winning astronomer, analyzes our impulse to colonize the solar system.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984.). An exploration of what it means to be a scientist, based on interviews with more than 100 women scientists. Bibliography, index. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-671-417398.

New York: William H. Morrow, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of "the use of the shuttle in our future space programs - the dreams, the battles, and the personalities involved." Enterprise was the name given to the first US space shuttle.. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Chronology, acronyms, index. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-688034624.

Boston: Little Brown, 1969. Hardcover first edition - Book written for older children projecting a future world and the uses of nuclear energy in it. Illustrated with photographs. 154 pp including an index and glossary.

New York: Addison-Wesley, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book - a fresh look at the mind-body problem. Although rooted in the sciences of biology and physics, this is a book which celebrates the messy intuitive nature of human consciousness. unprepared." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens, and dated in 1995 at Syracuse NY. Illustrated. Notes, bibliography, index.xxv, 196 pp. ISBN: 0-201-570793.

Boston: Little Brown, (1990) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book - a look at how humans' development has been outpaced by the complex technological society they have created - "Humans, with Stone Age bodies and Stone Age brains, face tasks for which we are genetically unprepared." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens, and dated in 1995 at Syracuse NY. Notes, index. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-316348511.

New York: Viking, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of often humorous essays that reveal the answers to such questions as "will you stay drier by running instead of walking through the rain" and "why in yawning contagious." Serious science presented in a lively and engaging way. Suggestions for further reading. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-670-828327.

New York: W. H. Freeman, (2000). First edition - A collection of 21 essays written with a light touch, but based on serious science" - from "why we laugh, to why moths fly to the light, to how slinging drinks affects both memory and perception in a barmaid's brain .. . investigations from the very edges of science that . . explores how science adds to a re-examination of history with startling new theories about the Salem witches and a psychiatric profile of Joan of Arc." Illustrated with some small drawings. Bibliography. 271 pp.

New York: Warner, 1979. Includes black-and-white and color photographs and illustrations.

New York: Harper Collins, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A research geneticist and a psychiatrist investigate the questions Star Trek raises about 'new life and new civilizations'. Examines the bio-technology aspects of Star Trek in detail and relate these to contempory discoveries including human cloning, implants and prosthetics and more. Selected readings, glossary. xiii, 189 pp. ISBN: 0-060191546.

Franklin Lakes, NJ: New Page Books / Career Press, (2008). First edition - A book which "offers a bold, scientific analysis of Mayan teachings and other worldly predictions and prophecies dealing with the end of time in 2012 through a review of economic shifts, strides in technology, sunspot cycles and mass extinction." In the light of the covid pandemic, it is especially interesting to read the chapter on infectious diseases. Illustrated, bibliography, index. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-1601630070.

New Haven: Yale University Press, (1955) dj. Hardcover first edition - The influence of scientific research on human events. Divided into 3 sections - the age of transition from the era of electricity to the discovery of atoms, exploration of cosmic space and creation and creatures. A rather uncommon book by this German theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, but whose reputation was diminished by his right wing views, including joining the Nazi Party in 1933, although he continued to support Einstein's theories. This book was published after he was declared "rehabilitated' and returned to his position as a tenured professor at the University of Hamburg. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Index. vii, 139 pp.

New York: Villard, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographs, index. 325 pages. ISBN: 0-679-413049.

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - O'Leary, a former NASA astronaut, describes his vision of a combined Soviet and US mission. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "To-- Science fiction and reality bump. Happy future" with a cartoon of a shark-faced rocket. Illustrated with photographs, drawing and charts. Open letter to President Reagan, glossary, index. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-8117-09825.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. Hardcover first edition - Large format, bound in blue cloth with silver stamping. 96 pages, including references. Illustrated with many maps, charts and graphs.

Paris: Librarie de Firmin Diderot Freres, Fils et Cie. 1865. Hardcover first edition - Volume 2. Illustrated with many drawings. 641 pages, including index. Errata page bound in at rear of book. Text in French. Bound in stiff marbled boards with leather spine, and marbled endpapers.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - A compact volume on this subject, translated and with an introduction by Wade Baskin.

New York: Putnam, (1960) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book written for young adults at the time when the world was just at the beginning of space exploration. Covers the history of rockets from China at the beginning of the 13th century to imagining what it would be like to be an astronaut. Illustrated with drawings by Denny McMains. A title in the Science Survey Books series. Index. 106 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965. dj. Here is a panoramic view of the modern man's universe, drawn from almost a hundred sources, containing information on current developments in rocketry and space exploration, nuclear physics, radio astronomy, evolution, and human heredity. Includes selections from writers ranging from Charles Darwin to Alexander Fleming, Eve Curie, Benjamin Franklin, George Sarton, Albert Einstein, Arthur C. Clarke, Francis P. Shepard and many more.

London: Elek, nd [1958] dj. Hardcover first edition - A non-technical discussion by this noted astronomer (among other things he was the head of the Harvard College Observatory for over 30 years and discoverer of a large galaxy supercluster named after him) which concludes that it is time to write an obituary for anthropocentrism when it comes to the universe - not only is there very likely life elsewhere in the universe, but it may be smarter than we are. He concludes with the note that man's greatest enemy is himself - but also optimism that man will continue to learn about the universe, that rationalism will prevail, and that man can create beauty. Illustrated with photographs. 145 pp.