Search Results: SEPTEMBER SALE from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

New York: Creative Age Press, 1945. Hardcover. Fine. Originally pubishined in England as "The Golden Fleece:" "A story full of sly humor and bawdy detail, in this case with a bit more casual slaughter and mass copulation" than other historical novels set in Greece. Purports to tell the true story of the voyage of the Argo and Jason and the Golden Fleece. Ex-library as shown by a couple of stamps on the flront endpaper and the top of the book.

Archimedes [287 - 212 BC] as an adult was the greatest mathematician and inventor of antiquity, best known in popular culture for running naked from his bath shouting "Eureka" after solving a difficult problem. This highly praised novel invents his life as a child. experiencing adventures that prepare him for his famous discoveries. The adventures involve kidnapping, threats of death, fights at sea, and athletic contests. Throughout his if aided by his good friend Phyllis and perhaps by her goddess, Artemis.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good. No other volume printed--volume I is it. Slight bumps at top and bottom of spine; several small stains on cover

New York: Macmillan, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Part of the International Enyclopedia of Physial CHemistry and Chemical Physics Ex-Library from a publisher's in-house library. Mylar cover. Faint stain on edge of pages, but not on pages themselves

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine.

Like new. An analysis of why anthropologists reach the conclusions the do.

Darwin published 6 revisions of the 1859 Origin of Species in response to critics. This volume provides the story of those revisions. Note that the book would be "like new" except for a previous owner's name in ink on the front endpaper and two very small rips in the dust jacket'

New York: Cupples & Leon COmpany, 1915. hardcover cloth. Very Good. An illustrated book describing in simple terms and with illustrations the automobile of 1915--chapter 1 is a history of the automobile and quite short! Ex-Library from Brooklyn, but otherwise in great shape. Slight staining on the cover, which features a drawing of a 1915 autombile

The first comprehensive survey of the heated debate over human evolution in the 1ith and 20th centuries.

Scottish Geologist James Geike was an early interpreter of climate change, favoring an ice age of glaciers on land. This is a classic work, originally published in 1874,

STEM Chronology is the descendant of earlier chronologies by Bryan Bunch with Alexander Hellemans. Some excerpts from reviews of those chronologies reveal the useful and enjoyable aspects of the method of presentation in those books, all of which apply to the STEM Chronology as well.

"The History of Science and Technology: The scope of this monumental work is immense, stretching from the earliest use of tools to the present age of technology."
Roy Herbert in The New Scientist

"Timetables of Science: In addition to being a useful reference book, this chronology is eminently suited for browsing and is difficult to put down once you have dipped into its engrossing contents. … I recommend this varied, authoritative, and scholarly yet entertaining chronology to science instructors and students as well as to anyone interested in the history of science in general and of individual sciences in particular."
George B. Kauffman in an American Chemical Society publication

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New York: Scientific American Library (W.H. Freeman), 1984. First edition. hardcover: Beige cloth with silver type. Fine/very good. This profusely illustrated book explains the simple language this fundamental idea of the way the world works. When you hear the word "entropy," think of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and why such events happen as coffee becoming cold and bouncing objects coming to rest. Tells the history of the idea as well as the modern interpretation. The bright white of the dust jacket has faded somewhat, but otherwise, the book appears like new.

Upper Saddle RIver, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A comprehenisive coverage of the critical foundation of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic and a broad overview of the applications of each. Written at a graduate-sfcchool level, the book is alwso suitable for self-study. Like new.

Boston: Prindle, Weber, & Schmidt, 1969, 1971, & 1972. First edition. hardcover cloth. Fine/Revisited and Squared have original boxes in fine condition. Three of the four "Mathematical Circles" collections of the best and most interesting stories from the history of mathematics (regrettably missing volume 2 of the first collection. An indispensable collection for anyone writing about this history of mathematics, but a delight for anyone who is mathematically inclined In addition to missing volume 2 of the first set, volume 1 is missing a slipcase.

From the first telegraph to national radio networks in the 1920s. A previous owner's bookplate and signature are on the endpapers along with a card showing that this copy was given to Benjamin F. McClany by famed radio pioneer DAVID SARNOFF. Scratch on front cover is only flaw and looks worse in the photo than it does in reality.

An analysis of Darwin and religion by a professor of history at Georgia State University in the context of why Darwin rejected creation on a theological basis/ Previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper, otherwise like new.

A new interpretation of Greek mathematics, an important departure from received wisdom.

The history of chemistry including alchemy, the scientific revolution, and 19th-20th century chemistry as told with the instruments used and the experiments conducted

Ancient and non-Western traditions; Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Calculus and mathematical analysis; Functions. Logic, set theory, and foundations; Algebras and number theory; Geometries and topology; Mechanics and mechanical engineering; Physics; Probability and statistics; Higher education; Mathematics and culture

Would be "FIne" but for faded spine. The life of the inventor of the kind of radio that we know, an advance on Marconi's first wireless telegraphy