Convocation: November 11, 1981. The threat of nuclear war
Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1981. Four-panel brochure, tabloid newspaper format but on better quality paper, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 250676
Science
A course in scientific Chinese. Reading comprehension II
Beijing: Sinolingua, 1990. 304p., very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 176670
Facts you should know about man-made textile fibers
Boston: National Better Business Bureau, 1940. 16p., 5.5x8.25 inches, introduction, very good pamphlet in stapled wraps. Introduction to the composition and properties of rayon and other synthetics. More
Cat.No: 170773
Fusion [three issues; Nov. and Dec. 1978, January 1979]
New York: Fusion Energy Foundation, 1978-79. Three issues of the magazine published by the Lyndon LaRouche front group, 56, 64, 56 pages respectively, interior pages toned, otherwise very good; also included is a special report in similar format on the US space program in the 1980s. The Foundation was led..... More
Cat.No: 176958
George Washington Carver Foundation / Tuskegee Institute [six perforated stamps]
Tuskegee, AL: the Foundation, n.d. Group of six stamps of the same type, not yet separated along perforations, depicting Carver with chemistry lab equipment. Issued for use in fundraising rather than as postage, this type of stamp is known as a "cinderalla." Very good condition, each stamp 1.5x2 inches. Undated..... More
Cat.No: 180182
Great Black inventors: card pack & poster
Oakland: Quilombo ICM, 1995. Small box of ten cards with images of the ten inventors on front, biographical information on verso, a folded poster with the ten inventors' portraits, cover card with publication information, all very good. 4x5.5 inches, poster folds out to 12.25x16 inches, all b&w. More
Cat.No: 206840
The Measuring Cup [Vol. 1 no. 5 and no. 7, two issues]
Savannah, GA: Public Information and Research Services, Inc., 1979. Two issues of the newsletter critical of standardized school testing and IQ tests, eight pages each, 8.5x11 inches, pen scribble on one issue, minor handling wear and soil. More
Cat.No: 238040
Outline of the history of Polish science and technology
Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers, 1966. 68 p., stiff wraps w/ d.j., small tear near spine on d.j., illus. small library stamp on d.j. flap and inside wrap. More
Cat.No: 128277
Radical science journal [numbers 8, 11, and 17]
London: the Journal, 1979, 1981, 1985. Three issues of the paperback journal, each with an old price label on the cover; the third is a special issue titled "Issues in Radical Science." Includes a substantial article, "Science, technology, medicine and the socialist movement," by the collective that published the journal;..... More
Cat.No: 244592
Science as Culture [nine issues of the journal]
London: Free Association Books, 1987-92. Nine issues of the paperback journal, very good. Numbers present are the pilot issue, 1-5, 7, 11, and 15. More
Cat.No: 218673
Science for the benefit of all a report from the GDR
Berlin: Panorama DDR, 1984. 62 p., pocket sized wraps in very good condition. First Hand Information. More
Cat.No: 123376
Soviet Man in Space
London: Soviet Booklet, 1961. 71p., paperback, B&W photos. Back wrap creased, spine edgeworn. Soviet booklet no. 78. Celebration of Yuri Gagarin's first space flight, with several pages of black and white photos. More
Cat.No: 126939
Third Anti-Fascist Meeting of Soviet Scientists , Moscow June 1944
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1944. 100p., 6.5x4.5 inch wraps are foxed with chip at top of spine; includes messages from American and other international scientists. Records research and other equipment destroyed or sent as booty to Germany. More
Cat.No: 151499
Voyager 1986 [booklet and packet]
Pasadena: NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab, 1985. 9.5x12 inch folder containing a 16p., 8.5x11 inch glossy booklet about the Voyager 1 & 2 missions illustrated with drawings and photos, tables and chronology in stapled pictorial wraps and an 8.5x11 inch handbill printed both sides, lightly-worn. The two Voyager craft were launched in..... More
Cat.No: 244018
Women in science in Nineteenth-century America September 1978 - February 1979 National Museum of History & Technology, Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. [16p] includes covers, 7x10 inches, essay, photos, catalog, participants, mild toning otherwise good catalog/booklet for the exhibition in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 212757
Za politekhnizatsiyu shkoli [poster from Soviet-era Ukraine]
[Ukraine]: Radyans'ka shkola [Soviet School], n.d. 20x28.5 inch poster in support of polytechnic schools, depicting a laboratory scene with tractors outside. Several paper tape edge reinforcements to the reverse, not evident from the front. Includes a quotation from the poet Pavlo Tychyna's 1931 work, "Chernihiv." Text at bottom urges the..... More
Cat.No: 215059
Nigeria and the future of science education. Appreciation address in honour of Emeritus Professor Napoleon Bryant, Jr., Yenagoa, 28, August 2008
Ibadan, Nigeria: Science Teachers Association of Nigeria, 2008. Paperback. 130p., wraps, gift inscription on title page else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 190279
The peanut man; the life of George Washington Carver in story form
Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. 89p., all dates on title page and copyright page match, November 1948, small ownership label on fep, very good first edition in pictorial gray boards and price-clipped dj with very mild wear. More
Cat.No: 11174
Dokumentation der Vortragsreihe: Homosexualitat und wissenschaft
Berlin: Verlag rosa Winkel, 1985. Paperback. 288p., text in German, foreword, footnotes, biographies, illustrations, several short passages highlighted otherwise good first edition trade paperback in white pictorial wraps. Schwulenreferat im allgemeinen Studentenausschufs der FU Berlin (Hg). More
Cat.No: 221455
Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-Modern China
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. Hardcover. xiv, 441p., very good hardcover in dj. More
Cat.No: 159653
Cracking Rocks and Defending Democracy: Kirtley Fletcher Mather, scientist, teacher, social activist, 1888-1978
San Francisco: Pacific Division AAAS, 1994. Hardcover. vi, 336p., preface, epilog, chapter notes, references, index, illustrated with glossy plates from b&w photographs, limited first edition of 500 copies bound in red cloth boards and gilt. Has a mildly musty smell, otherwise a clean sound very good copy. Chicago-born and raised..... More
Cat.No: 214140
The Sex Researchers
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. Hardcover. xvii, 354p., foreword, introduction, bibliography and references, index, remainder mark on bottom otherwise very good first edition in boards. More
Cat.No: 39520
Lessons of science. "Whither Socialism? - Values in a Changing Civilisation."
London: Fabian Society, 1951. Pamphlet. 12 p., wraps, very good condition. Fourth in the Series of Fabian Autumn Lectures, 1950. Fabian tract 285. More
Cat.No: 119432
Science and religion
New York: International Publishers, 1946. 32p., wraps. Cachin was editor of l'Humanité. More
Cat.No: 96792
Orichalcum and Related Ancient alloys: origin, composition, and manufacture, with special reference to the coinage of the Roman Empire
New York: American Numismatic Society, 1964. 115p.; very good paperback. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 151. More
Cat.No: 161746