Matematica e fisica

More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions.

GARDNER, MARTIN. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1980. "From Diophantine brain-teasers to diabolic squares, these arithmetical, geometrical, logical, topological, mechanical, and probability problems are designed to beguile the weary leisure-hours and sharpen blunted wits". Pp 186, some b/w illustrati...

Mathematical Circus.

GARDNER, MARTIN. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.94 | ¥949)

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1981. "Here are puzzles and paradoxes, games and entertainments of every kind, ranging from the swift and simple (including a few that are pure tease) to the mind-boggling". Pp 272, some b/w illustrations, slight toning to pages. P/b. Illustrated cover....

Let Newton Be! A New Perspective on his Life and Works.

FAUVEL, JOHN. FLOOD, RAYMOND. SHORTLAND, MICHAEL AND WILSON, ROBIN. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. "This lucidly written and richly illustrated book explores the many facets of Newton's life and labours and assesses how he came to influence posterity so profoundly". 24.5cms x 18.5cms. Pp 272, many b/w illustrations. P/b. Illustrated co...

Mathematics: The New Golden Age.

DEVLIN, KEITH. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1988 (rep). "Offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: the theory of knots and secret codes, Hitler's Tenth Problem and the Four-Colour Theorem, business planning techniques and strange ...

Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions (Unabridged).

ABBOTT, EDWIN A. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York: Dover Publications, 1992. 048627263X. "The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A Abbott (1836-1926), it describes the journeys of A.Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women - thin, straight line...

Time to Change. Challenge for an Endangered Planet.

MONTEFIORE, HUGH. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Oxford: The Bible Reading Fellowship. 1997. 1st ed. "This book is about the vital environmental issues of our day. Global warming, the pollution of the world's oceans and rivers, pesticides, the alleged falling of sperm count in many parts of the world, and the thinning of the...

Failure Mechanisms in Semiconductor Devices.

AMERASEKERA, E.A., & CAMPBELL, D.S. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1987. 1st ed. "All the major aspects of semiconductor device reliability receive coverage in this text." Pp. 13/205, figures and diagrams throughout, fep top corner clipped. Illustrated laminated boards. G+.

The Friction and Lubrication of Solids.

BOWDEN, F.P. AND TABOR, D. · 1950 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

Oxford:Clarendon Press,1950. "This monograph describes an experimental study of the physical and, to a lesser extent, of the chemical processes that occur during the sliding of solids - particularly of metals - and an investigation into the mechanism of friction and boundary l...

Quarks Chaos and Christianity. Questions to Science and Religion.

POLKINGHORNE, JOHN. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: SPCK, 1997. 0281047790. 2nd impression. "Is science fact and religion just opinion? Is there the mind of a Creator behind the universe? Can a scientist pray? The author has spent many years thinking and writing about such questions. Now he distils that insight and expe...

Questions of Science and Faith.

HAWTHORNE, J.N. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship. 1972. "Science seems to be giving more and more answers about life: doesn't it look as though Christianity is on the way out anyway?". Pp 62, discreet owners inkstamp to verso front cover. P/b, slight rubbing to spine. G+.

UFO Quest. In Search of the Mystery Machines.

WATTS, ALAN. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.94 | ¥949)

London: Blanford. 1994. 1st ed. "Not only provides a detailed and scientifically based survey of UFOs but also promotes the author's conviction that UFOs are real, flying mystery machines". Pp 192, many b/w illustrations, name to title page. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

The Edge of Infinity. Where the Universe came from and how it will end.

DAVIES, PAUL. · 1982 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York: Simon and Schuster. 1982. "Intoduces us to an entirely new era in physics - more elegant and more fundamental than anything that has gone before - and in doing so presents an awesome, startling and ultimately beautiful image of the universe". 23 cms x 15 cms. Pp 194,...

Scientists Look at the Bible. (Key Books No.1).

BOYD, ROBERT L.F AND OTHERS. · 1959 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: United Society for Christian Literature. 1959. 1st ed. "This book is based on broadcasts in the BBC Overseas Religious Broadcasting Service, given to meet the difficulties of people who imagine that science has 'proved' the Bible wrong". Pp 47, inscrip. to fep. P/b, sl...

Medicine and the Christian Mind.

VALE, J.A. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: C.M.F. 1975. 1st ed. "Looks at some of the areas where the Christian can speak with a distinctive voice. Written with the needs of medical students and junior doctors in mind". Pp 142, discreet owners inkstamp to verso front cover. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+.

Christianity and the Mechanists.

GREENWOOD, W. OSBORNE. · 1942 · Chilton Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London: The Religious Book Club, 1942. 1st ed. "It is the author's contention that the actual findings of modern biological research do not in themselves establish the mechanistic conception." Pp. 296, top corner of fep clipped. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/...

The Frontiers of Knowledge. (With contributions by Derek D. Dempster, M.A., and a Foreword by Patrick Moore.)

GATLAND, KENNETH W. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: Allan Wingate, 1974. 1st ed. "This Odyssey in Science, writes Patrick Moore in his Foreword, is thought-provoking in the extreme .." Pp. 228/1 (ad), 19 b/w illustrations, 32 figures, inscrip. to fep. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w. G+/G+.

The Collapse of Evolution.

HUSE, SCOTT M. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Grand Rapids: Baker Book House. 2000. "Has long been one of the most successful books on flaws in the evolutionary theory. It confronts evolutionists on a turf they have claimed as their own - the sciences - as it explains the weaknesses of Darwinian and other naturalistic evo...

Love and Thought in Animals and Men.

VORONOFF, DR SERGE. · 1937 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London:Methuen,1937. 1st ed. "Dr Serge Voronoff (1866-1951), was a Russian who was trained and spent all his working life in Paris. Today he is noted as one of the pioneers of the somewhat controversial hormone replacement therapy. He became famous in the 1920's, after he anno...

God. The Big Band and Stephen Hawking. An Exploration into Origins.

WILKINSON, DAVID. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Crowborough: Monarch. 1996. "Describes in popular terms the discoveries of modern cosmology. What is the evidence for the Big Bang? What is quantum gravity and how significant is the work of Stephen Hawking?". Pp 176, some b/w illustrations. P/b. VG.

The Earth, Humanity and God. (The Templeton Lectures Cambridge, 1993).

RUSSELL, COLIN A. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: UCL Press. 1994. 1st ed. "Examines the present condition and future prospects for our planet and argues forcefully that neither the conventional 'mechanistic' view nor 'New Age' philosophy helps alone in evaluating our relationship with the Earth". Pp 193, some b/w ill...