brocas brain romance science de sagan carl (89 resultados)

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.48.

Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Hardback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.68.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.68.

Paperback. Very Good with no dust jacket; Mass Market PB.

Condición: Good. CORNET EDITION 1980. COVER HAS SOME CREASING AND SHELF WEAR. 426 PAGE TEXT HAS LIGHT WEAR. SCIENCE. 4.5'' X 7''. WE USE BUBBLE MAILERS.

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good to Very Good-. [1st printing] Oct. 1980. Cover art by Jon Lomberg. Tanned; minor wet spot at upper front spien corner; creasing; edge and corner wear; rubbing.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good to Very Good-. [1st printing] Oct. 1980. Cover art by Jon Lomberg. Creasing; tanning; edgewear; minor tears to one pahe.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

First edition, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condición: VG/vg; Ex-library copy, dj bro.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition; Second Printing. 347 pages; foxing to the exterior edges of textblock. Light fading. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

name on flyleaf, very good in good dust jacket.

hardbound. Condición: VG/VG DJ. 2nd Edition.

8vo (24x16.5cm), hardback, xvi + 347pp. Good condition in good dustwrapper (bumped, lightly chipped edges, creased at upper left rear, scuff marks, small 1cm open tear to lower left front flap). Bumped, mild wear, some splash marks to upper edges. Pictures available on request.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Includes: White Dwarfs and Little Green Men, Venus and Dr Velikovsky, Life in the Solar System, The Climates of Planets, and In Defence of Robots. Second Imp. Coronet Books 1980. xvi + 426pp pb covers worn, pages browned, inscription, good.

Hardcover. Condición: FINE. A FINE bright tight copy in a VG+ bright MYLAR covered dust jacket!

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Stated first edition with the correct number sequence. A collection of astronomical and other scientific essays by the author of COSMOS and host of the famed PBS series. A near fine copy with tiny spine nicks clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: good. 1st edition. 347 p.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condición: Good/Good. Not Illustrated Ilustrador. First Edition. New York, NY: Random House. Good/Good. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 347pp., Cracked inner hinge; light shelf lean; light foxing on edges; slight shelf wear; pages clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing, with The Random House method of number line and "first edition" slug. Light shelf wear. Hinges intact but a bit stretched. Brief gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is price-clipped and worn at the spine ends. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Spine. The Book Has Moderate Wear.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. Stated first edition. The famed astronomer grapples with fundamental questions of science in the style he made famous with COSMOS. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Ink stamp to FEP. Tear to jacket base at rear panel with creasing. ; 9.20 X 6 X 1.10 inches; 347 pages.

Hardcover. First edition. 24 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. 347pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Stated first edition with number line beginning in 2 as is typical for Random House first printings. Original price of $12.95 present on front flap. Some edgewear to the jacke.t. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. The book explores the relationship between the exploration of the solar system and recent discoveries about the human mind. Fine in fine dw, from the library of writer Sigrid Nunez, with her signature at the bottom of the front end paper.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Lomberg, Jon (jacket illustration); Aulicino, Robert (jacket design) Ilustrador. Fine condition black cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Carl Sagan; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; Index and About the Author. The upper jacket spine edge is moderately chipped, some light scattered jacket edge rubbing (see photographs). All pages are in fine condition and the binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). " "We live in an extraordinary age," writes Carl Sagan, one of our leading astronomers. "As long as there have been human beings, we have posed deep and fundamental questions on the origins of consciousness; life on our planet; the beginnings of the Earth; the origins of the Sun; the possibility of intelligent beings somewhere up there, as well as the grandest inquiry of all, the advent, nature and ultimate destiny of the universe. For all but the last instant of human history, these issues have been the exclusive province of philosophers and poets, shamans and theologians. But today, as a result of knowledge painfully extracted from nature through generations of careful thinking, observing and experimenting, we are on the verge of glimpsing at least preliminary answers to many of them." It is with these preliminary solutions that this book is concerned. Our most eloquent spokesman for science to the layman, Dr. Sagan has the rare ability to make the reader share with him his enthusiasm and excitement over what we have found out in the past few years about "that vast universe in which we are embedded like a grain of sand in a cosmic ocean," and most particularly what we have learned about our own solar system. This is a wonderfully lucid account of recent astronomical discoveries, linked to discoveries about the human mind, which Dr. Sagan explored so dramatically in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dragons of Eden, and which he has used her as a touchstone against which to try age-old philosophical and theological concepts. Science, Dr. Sagan explains, is not a body of knowledge but a way of looking at the world -- a creative questioning, probing, testing of all things. Whenever we go below the surface, connect two facts, or refuse to accept blindly a piece of received information, we are practicing science. In these terms, the human affection for pseudoscience -- the pernicious belief, in the absence of good evidence, in ancient astronauts, UFO's, ESP, and so on -- becomes less and less tenable in an age that is hovering on the brink of astonishing scientific progress. Dr. Sagan examines the reasons that human beings cling so tenaciously to these notions and suggest a relationship to religious beliefs. He demolishes such borderline science in a model demonstration of the scientific method, and with equal style and vigor pays tribute to the achievements of real science. The true giant figures in this book are Paul Broca, the mid-nineteenth-century French surgeon, neurologist and anthropologist who discovered that different parts of the brain control different kinds of thinking; Robert Goddard, the father of modern space exploration; and Albert Einstein, whose centennial this is. But Dr. Sagan also acknowledges countless others who have pushed forward the frontiers of knowledge. This is a book on the joys of finding out how the world works, on the romance of the scientific endeavor." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.