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New York: Academic Press, 1947-1965. First editions (first and second printings). SEMINAL PAPERS BY LEADING POSTWAR GENETICISTS IN THE YEARS SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF DNA STRUCTURE. 13… Altro …

New York: Academic Press, 1947-1965. First editions (first and second printings). SEMINAL PAPERS BY LEADING POSTWAR GENETICISTS IN THE YEARS SURROUNDING THE DISCOVERY OF DNA STRUCTURE. 13 volumes 9 1/4 inchs tall, original green cloth binding, gilt titles to spine, library labels removed from spines, bookplate of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on front paste-down of some volumes, library handstamp to top edge of some volumes, handstamp of Library of Congress to front free endpapers (canceled), library pocket and handstamps to rear paste-down, text pages clean and unmarked. Overall good+. PREFACE to Volume 1: As material for their research geneticists use higher and lower plants, higher and lower animals, and recently also viruses and bacteriophages. They study heredity in man. In their experiments they may use biophysical methods, they may investigate the chemical synthesis of organic compounds, they may study the components of living cells. A considerable part of genetic research deals with practical problems related to the breeding of plants and animals. As a consequence of these several aspects of research in genetics, the results of such research are published in a wide variety of journals, and summary reviews are scattered among a considerable number of review periodicals. This series of review articles. Advances in Genetics, has been started in order that critical summaries of outstanding genetic problems, written by competent geneticists, may appear in a single publication. The articles are expected to deal with both theoretical and practical problems, and to cover plant breeding, animal breeding, and human heredity, as well as the related fields of biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, and immunology. The aim is to have the articles written in such form that they will be useful as reference material for geneticists and also as a source of information to nongeneticists. M. Demerec. Cold Spring Harbor, New York. MILISLAV DEMEREC (1895 1966) was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey. He became a prominent Drosophila researcher and established the Drosophila Information Service newsletter in 1934 with Calvin Bridges. In the 1940s the direction of Demerec's research changed to the genetics of bacteria and their viruses after a symposium given by Max Delbrück. In 1946 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1947 became the founding editor of Advances in Genetics, the first journal to review the finding of modern genetics. ERNEST BROWN BABCOCK (1877 1954) was an United States plant geneticist who pioneered the understanding of plant evolution in terms of genetics. He is particularly known for seeking to understand by field investigations and extensive experiments, the entire polyploid apomictic genus Crepis, in which he recognize 196 species. In his career he published more than 100 articles and books explaining plant genetics, including the seminal textbook (with Roy Elwood Clausen) Genetics in relation to agriculture. JAY LAURENCE LUSH (1896 1982) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979. Lush advocated breeding not based on subjective appearance of the animal, but on quantitative statistics and genetic information. Lush authored a classic book 'Animal Breeding Plans' in 1937 which greatly influenced animal breeding around the world. From 1930 to 1966, Lush was the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture at Iowa State University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1967. TRACY MORTON SONNEBORN (1905 1981) was an American biologist. His life's study was of the Paramecium. In the late 1950s he conducted an elegant series of experiments in his endeavors to discover what it is that mediates the synchronized movement of the paramecium's cilia. Sonneborn surgically removed a small section of cell wall and replaced it rotated by 180 degrees. The cilia in the replaced section continued to 'wave' in the same direction as they had before surgery, i.e. now in antiphase to the others. What was remarkable is that both daughters of paramecia on which this operation had been performed also showed the same trait of a reverse phase wave in a similar area of their cell wall, as did, to a lesser extent, the granddaughter cells. This clear evidence for non-Mendelian inheritance was largely overlooked by the scientific community. ERNST WOLFGANG CASPARI (1909 - 1988) was a German-American zoologist and geneticist. Caspari was the first researcher to use methods of developmental biology to analyze the action of a gene. By transplanting larval tissue between the wild type and a red-eyed mutant of the moth, Ephestia, he demonstrated that wild-type larvae produce a diffusible "substance" that is lacking in the mutant and is necessary for the development of eye pigmentation. Further characterization of the substance and an approach to isolate it were interrupted by the Nazi government: he escaped to Turkey and later to the United States but did not get a chance to further contribute to the rapid development in the field, which led to the "one-gene-one-enzyme" hypothesis. Caspari's results, published in 1933, represent the first step toward this hypothesis of gene action. ERNST WALTER MAYR (1904 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept. ERNEST R. SEARS (1910-1991) was a geneticist with the United States Department of Agriculture at the University of Missouri in Columbia, working on the origin, evolution, and cytogenetics of wheat for 55 years. Over the years Sears became one of the most respected names in wheat cytogenetics in the world. Probably his most important early achievement was to develop, over a 15-year period, a complete series of aneuploids--nullisomics, monosomics, trisomics and tetrasomics--for all 21 chromosomes of wheat. DAVID GUTHRIE CATCHESIDE (1907-1994) was one of the seminal figures in the post-war development of genetics, both in the United Kingdom and Australia. As a teacher and postgraduate supervisor he played a large part in launching the next generation of geneticists in both hemispheres. The implications of this integrationist view for university teaching were set out in a letter that he had published in Nature in 1963. NORMAN HAROLD HOROWITZ (1915 2005) was a geneticist at Caltech who achieved national fame as the scientist who devised experiments to determine whether life might exist on Mars. His experiments were carried out by the Viking Lander of 1976, the first U.S. mission to successfully land an unmanned probe on the surface of Mars. As a scientist, Horowitz is best known for his discovery and demonstration in 1944 that a metabolic pathway is a series of steps, each catalyzed by a single enzyme. His discovery helped to clinch the case for George Beadle and Edward Tatum's "one gene-one enzyme hypothesis" (a term Horowitz coined for their concept). Another important contribution of Horowitz was his 1945 proposal on the "backward evolution" of biosynthetic pathways. This proposal provided a framework for understanding the evolution of biosynthetic pathways and presaged the study of molecular evolution. EDWARD BUTTS LEWIS (1918 2004) was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His Nobel Prizewinning studies with Drosophila, (including the discovery of the Drosophila Bithorax complex of homeotic genes, and elucidation of its function), founded the field of evolutionary developmental biology and laid the groundwork for our current understanding of the universal, evolutionarily conserved strategies controlling animal development. He is credited with development of the complementation test. His key publications in the fields of genetics, developmental biology, radiation and cancer are presented in the book Genes, Development and Cancer, which was released in 2004. ALAN ROBERT GEORGE OWEN (19192003) was a university lecturer in genetics (Cambridge, 1950-70) and mathematics (Fellow, Trinity College, 1962-70), but resigned those positions to emigrate to Canada in 1970. He wrote about 40 scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, statistics, genetics, and population theory, that were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Heredity, Biometrics, Biometrika, Sanhkya, and Nature. In 1969 the Owens were invited to immigrate to Canada where Dr. Owen was to direct the parapsychology research of the Toronto-based New Horizons Research Foundation, a non-profit organization incorporated "to promote research on the frontiers of science and disseminate information." SALOME GLUECKSOHN-WAELSCH (1907 2007) was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of the field of developmental genetics studied chemistry and zoology in Königsberg and Berlin before she joined Spemann's laboratory at the University of Freiburg in 1928. In 1932 she received her doctorate for her work on the embryological limb development of aquatic salamanders. She went on to become a lecturer at Columbia University in 1936, bringing embryological acumen to Leslie C. Dunn's genetics laboratory, where she remained for 17 years. She left Columbia University in 1953 to commence a professorship in anatomy at the newly founded Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she held the chair of molecular genetics from 1963 to 1976. As Gluecksohn-Waelsch combined the embryological expertise she had acquired at Spemann´s lab with methods of classical mouse genetics, she is considered the founder of mammalian developmental genetics. ERNST HADORN (1902-1976) was a Swiss geneticist. In 1937, Hadorn applied for a Rockefeller fellowship and spent a year at Rochester University where he met Curt Stern and Drosophila Two years later, he accepted a position as Professor of Zoology at the University of Zurich, where he remained until he retired in 1972. He was a pioneer of developmental genetics who recognized the analytical power of genetic mosaics. In 1972, Hadorn organized an international conference at Boldern, a rural site just South of Zurich. Hadorn had a dream: he wanted to build a bridge and bring together developmental genetics and molecular biology. To this end, he selected and invited an illustrious group of some 15 molecular biologists plus an equal number of "Drosophilists" from all over the world, truly "the best and the brightest". And the names read like a list from the Hall of Fame: François Jacob, Gerald Edelman, Manfred Eigen, Francis Crick, Charles Weissmann, Max Birnstiel, Sol Spiegelman, Sydney Brenner, Boris Ephrussi, Peter Lawrence, Antonio Garcia-Bellido, Klaus Sander, John Gurdon, Conrad Waddington, Jean Brachet, Tuneo Yamada, and many others. MICHAEL JAMES DENHAM WHITE (1910 1983) was a zoologist and cytologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961, and won the Linnaean Medal of the Linnaean Society of London in 1983. White made important contributions to the development of cytology and cytogenetics. His work was influential in the study of speciation in biology. WILLIAM FRANKLIN BLAIR (19121985) developed an international reputation in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology and conducted major research projects on subjects such as the genus Bufo and its parallels in the faunas of desert regions in North and South America. EDMUND BRISCO FORD (1901 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. He went on to study the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Ford was awarded the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1954. ALFRED DAY HEERSHEY (1908 1997) was an American Nobel Prizewinning bacteriologist and geneticist. He began performing experiments with bacteriophages with Italian-American Salvador Luria and German Max Delbrück in 1940, and observed that when two different strains of bacteriophage have infected the same bacteria, the two viruses may exchange genetic information. He moved with his assistant Martha to Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1950 to join the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Genetics, where he performed the famous Hershey-Chase experiment with Martha Chase in 1952. This experiment provided additional evidence that DNA, not protein, was the genetic material of life. He became director of the Carnegie Institution in 1962 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, shared with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück for their discovery on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure. HIRAM BENTLEY GLASS (1906 2005) was an American geneticist and noted columnist. His first major academic appointment was at Johns Hopkins University, at which time he was also a regular columnist for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. Like his doctoral mentor H. J. Muller, Bentley Glass was deeply concerned about eugenics. In response to the destructive racist views of Charles Davenport and others, Glass wrote "Geneticists Embattled: Their Stand Against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America During the 1920s and 1930s". PHILIP LEVINE (1900 1987) was an imuno-hematologist whose clinical research advanced knowledge on the Rhesus factor, Hemolytic disease of the newborn and blood transfusion. About 1925 Levine became assistant to Karl Landsteiner at the Rockefeller Institute, New York. In 1935, he worked as a bacteriologist and serologist at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, New Jersey where, in 1939, Levine and Rufus E. Stetson published their findings about a family who had a stillborn baby in 1937 who had died of hemolytic disease of the newborn. This publication included the first suggestion that a mother could make blood group antibodies owing to immune sensitization to her fetus's red blood cells. ALAN ROBERTSON (1920 1989) was an English population geneticist. Originally a chemist, he was recruited after the Second World War to work on animal genetics on behalf of the British government, and continued in this sphere until his retirement in 1985. He was a major influence in the widespread adoption of artificial insemination of cattle. In addition to his work on agricultural genetics, Robertson under, Academic Press, 1947-1965, 0, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor, 1831. First edition (later printing--1st 1830). 1831 EARLY PRINTING OF HERSCHEL'S LANDMARK GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION THAT STRONGLY INFLUENCED DARWIN IN CRAFTING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 11x18 cm red cloth boards, paper spine label, armorial bookplate of Jas. R. Holcome, Jes. Coll. Oxford, laid-in list of Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library , Vol 1, and Advertisement future volumes; 12 pp publisher's advertisements, vii, 372 pp, [1], 12 pp publisher's advertisements dated January 1831. Cover edges faded, edges worn, corners bumped, spine faded. unopened, text clean and unmarked, very good minus. SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1792 - 1871) was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, and botanist. His Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy as part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopedia set out methods of scientific investigation with an orderly relationship between observation and theorizing. It became an authoritative statement of the methods of scientific investigation, anticipating John Stuart Mill in the formulation of the famous four methods of scientific investigation. He described nature as being governed by laws which were difficult to discern or to state mathematically, and the highest aim of natural philosophy was understanding these laws through inductive reasoning, finding a single unifying explanation for a phenomenon. This became an authoritative statement with wide influence on science, particularly at the University of Cambridge where it inspired the student Charles Darwin with "a burning zeal" to contribute to this work. He arrived in Cape Town on 15 January 1834 and set up a private 21 ft telescope. Amongst his other observations during this time was that of the return of Comet Halley. Herschel himself thought catastrophic extinction and renewal "an inadequate conception of the Creator" and by analogy with other intermediate causes, "the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process". When HMS Beagle called at Cape Town, Captain Robert FitzRoy and the young naturalist Charles Darwin visited Herschel on 3 June 1836. Later on, Darwin would be influenced by Herschel's writings in developing his theory advanced in The Origin of Species. In the opening lines of that work, Darwin writes that his intent is "to throw some light on the origin of species - that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers", referring to Herschel. Herschel returned to England in 1838, was created a baronet and published Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope in 1847. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy is one of seven early 19th century science books described in James Secord's Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age (2014). "Science was pervasively bound up with defining and maintaining canons of behaviour, from cultivating appropriate modes for discussion to encouraging the avoidance of outright fraud. Spelt out for the first time in an accessible book at an affordable price, these qualities could now provide a foundation for good character across the social spectrum. The Preliminary Discourse is thus seen as the expression of a set of precepts relating to scientific method, with positions uneasily poised between those of the metropolitan empiricist John Stuart Mill on the one hand and the idealist Master of Trinity College, William Whewell, on the other. As a philosophical work advocating induction from particular facts to general theories, the book is also seen to underwrite a hierarchical vision of social organization within science, in which networks of observers pass their findings to a limited circle of authoritative specialists. The first issue, of over 7,000 copies, sold out in a few months. 2,000 more were printed in March 1831, and 2,000 more in June. The years 1832 and 1833 saw further issues of 2,000, and the imprint dates of further issues show that the work sold well for many years--at least until the middle of the nineteenth century and later than that in the United States. The Preliminary Discourse recommends that we be constantly aware of our sensory limitations. Previous opinions need not be abandoned, but they cannot be considered as dogmas, and we must be willing to consider instances to the contrary.", Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and John Taylor, 1831, 0, (1828-1896, Headmaster of Grosvenor College, Bath, and of St. Peter's College, Eaton Square), saying he believes "I am to give a lecture at your Athenaeum on the 29th & at some time in the coming year... I shall cheerfully place my services at your disposal", 1 side 8vo., 3 Windsor Terrace, Clifton, 6th October slight traces of laying down on blank verso Sir John's bent for languages was nurtured in a mercantile house in Exeter. At 19 he was in the Peninsula and then studied the public accounts of many European countries. The Government sent him on many commercial missions in the Middle East, and later the Far East, where he was Plenipotentiary to China (1854) and Governor of Hong Kong, and established diplomatic and commercial relations with Siam (1855). He was also responsible for introducing the florin, our first decimal coin. At the time of this letter Sir John was investigating relations with the new Kingdom of Italy. Gibsone had been Professor of Mathematics at Queen's College, Birmingham, 1855-1857., 0, Dublin: J Christie, 1812. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 8 vols. bound as 4 vols. Tan, leather-covered boards with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Each volume illustrated with fascinating engravings. Vols 1 and 2 (297pp. + 247pp.): Endpapers loose, otherwise text block in excellent condition. Frontispiece and single plate to first volume. 4 plates to second. Vols 3 and 4 (295pp. + 280pp.): leather to boards worn in places, particularly at base of spine but again, all still secure and attractive. Some of numerous plates are loose (but all still present), otherwise text block in good condition. 22 plates to third vol. and 37 plates to fourth. Vols 5 and 6 (278pp. and 284pp.): leather to boards worn at edges, particularly head of spine, otherwise rather good. Text block in very good condition. 16 plates to fifth vol. 11 plates to sixth. Vols 7 and 8 (282pp. + 174pp. + index): leather to boards worn and cracked in places, small section has come away at top of spine. Still nice volume to complete set. Text block again, in very good condition. 6 plates to seventh vol. Eighth volume published without plates. All books are bumped and worn at ends of spine and corners. Vol 1&2 binding is further scuffed on back board with small patches where leather has worn away.Vol 3&4 has small patch of leather missing in spine covering; Vol 7&8 has small patch of leather missing at top of spine covering, small patch missing in centre of front board covering. Scattered foxing to page ends, visible when books are closed but inside mostly unaffected. Please contact us for further information, photographs. As this is a mltiple set, it will need extra postage. Please contact us for best rate., J Christie, 1812, 2.5, Zittau: Verlegts Joh. Jacob Schöpss. Very Good-. 1730. Second Edition. Hardcover. 568 pages; Contemporary pattern-printed paper-covered boards, portions of a paper spine label titled in ink MS survive, edges stained red. Engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black. Collation: [-]8 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8 Nn4. Frontispiece, 7 p.l., 568 pp. Second edition, [Andere Auflage] of one of the three great mathematical texts by Christian Pescheck (1676 in Hradec Kralove - 1744 in Zittau ) -- a mathematics teacher, astronomer and writer. He was one of the greatest human calculators of his time, and an influential teacher of mathematical sciences at the high school in Zittau from 1704 until his death. He also wrote about astronomy, geology and the art of poetry and published works in German, Latin and Czech. He is mainly remembered for his three extensive texts in mathematical calculations and reckoning, of which this is the second edition of the first of the three. The useful German wikipedia entry makes note of the excessively long titles of his works, in the manner of their time. For the record, the full title of the present work is: M. Christian Peschecks, Gymnas. Zitt. & Praecept. Mathes. Allen dreyen Haupt-Ständen Nöthige Rechen-Stunden : Darinnen Sowohl die gedoppelte Regel Detri, nemlich Regula quinque directa und indirecta vel conversa, als auch Zinß- oder Interesse- Rabatt- Zeit- oder Termin- Licitation oder Subhastation- Thara- Fusti- Gewinn- und Verlust- Stich- oder Baratt- Gesellschaft- Erbtheil- Factorey- Caßir- Reduction- Gemeine- und Haupt- Wechsel- Alligation- Cöci- und Falsi-Rechnung, auf das deutlichste und einfältigste erkläret sind ; Wobey zugleich Ein deutlicher Unterricht von Pari und dem Cours derer vornehmsten Wechsel-Plätze, ingleichen eine aus- und inländische, als auch biblische curiöse Müntz- Maaß- und Gewicht-Vergleichung beygefüget. [The other two major works were: "Allgemeine deutsche rechenstunden, oder 1. theil" and "Italienische rechenstuden, oder 2. theil"]. David Smith [in Rara Arithmetica, 502] states the following: "In the field of elementary education, Germany produced a number of important writers, but few whose names can be rated as international. Among the most industrious of the group was Christian Pescheck, who wrote a large number of textbooks and was one of the first of the German writers to consider seriously the methods of teaching the subject." Although much of his city, Zittau (on the eastern edge of Germany, where Poland and the Czech Republic come together), was destroyed in the Seven Years' War, Pescheck's Gymnasium survives today. A decent, and complete copy, with the interesting engraved frontispiece (which depicts a small globe, with the continents identified, including America). Various signatures and writing on the blank recto of the frontispiece, including a date of MDCCLVI. With an inscription in Latin on the front paste-down: "pro memoria gratia / Carl Ludwig Christian / Weber a Schlitz." Beneath this is an impression from a signet ring in red wax. Scribbing and a few ink notes on a few early leaves (along with a faint ink smudge). None affects the legibility of the text, which is complete. OCLC has two accession numbers for this 1730 edition; each with just a single copy located: [OCLC: 312316835 - UNIVERSITAT LEIPZIG, UNIVERSITATSBIBLIO; and OCLC: 179969327 - HOCHSCHUL- UND LANDESBIBLIOTHEK FULDA]. ., Verlegts Joh. Jacob Schöpss, 1730, 3, New York, N.Y.: Crown Forum, 2013. First Edition [stated]. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Frank Longhitano (Jacket photograph). x, [2], 387, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: To John & Donolly. Best, Charles Krauthammer. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, and Index. Includes chapters on The Good and the Great; Manners; Pride and Prejudices; Follies; Passions and Pastimes; Heaven and Earth; Citizen and State; Conundrums; Body and Soul; Man and God; Memory and Monuments; The Jewish Question, Again; The Golden Age; The Age of Holy Terror; The Age to Come; and Three Essays on America and the World. Charles Krauthammer (March 13, 1950 - June 21, 2018) was an American political columnist. Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for his column in The Washington Post in 1987. His weekly column was syndicated to more than 400 publications worldwide. While in his first year studying medicine at Harvard Medical School, Krauthammer became permanently paralyzed from the waist down after suffering a diving board accident that severed his spinal cord at cervical spinal nerve 5. After spending 14 months recovering in a hospital, he returned to medical school, graduating to become a psychiatrist involved in the creation of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III in 1980. He joined the Carter administration in 1978 as a director of psychiatric research, eventually becoming the speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Krauthammer embarked on a career as a columnist and political commentator. In 1985, he began writing a weekly editorial for The Washington Post. Now, at last, the best of Charles Krauthammer's essential, timeless writings have been collected in this book. For years, Krauthammer has dazzled readers with his keen insight into politics and government. Now, finally, the best of Krauthammer's intelligence, erudition, and wit are collected in one volume. Readers will find here not only the country's leading conservative thinker offering a passionate defense of limited government, but also a highly independent mind whose views--on feminism, evolution, and the death penalty, for example--defy ideological convention. This book also features several of Krauthammer's major path-breaking essays--on bioethics, on Jewish destiny, and on America's role as the world's superpower--that have profoundly influenced the nation's thoughts and policies. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused reflections on everything from border collies to Halley's Comet, from Woody Allen to Winston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist. With a special, highly autobiographical introduction in which Krauthammer reflects on the events that shaped his career and political philosophy, this indispensable chronicle takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the fashions and follies, the tragedies and triumphs, of the last three decades of American life. Derived from a Kirkus review: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Krauthammer collects 30 years of his work. The author is well-known for the pungency and forcefulness with which he expresses his political views, which have led some, like the Financial Times, to rate him "the most influential columnist in America." His starting point is the reaffirmation of his commitment to politics. Krauthammer's autobiography emerges in chapters organized around themes like "Follies," "Man and God," "The Jewish Question, Again" and "Three Essays on America and the World." Educated in medicine and psychiatry, the author came to Washington, D.C., to work for the Carter administration. He began to write for the New Republic and the Washington Post and found a new direction for his career. Presenting himself as a charming polymath, he writes on a variety of subjects, not just politics-e.g., a defense of the border collie as a working breed from the American Kennel Club, where it was admitted in 1994. Krauthammer draws on his scientific training to examine the arguments surrounding both creationism and global warming, and his interest in world championship chess and mathematics helps him ably convey the magic of the convergence of science and art in monumental expressions of man's political concerns and strivings. Among other topics, Krauthammer explores Washington's Holocaust Museum, New York's Hayden Planetarium, NASA, Winston Churchill, the Transportation Security Administration, Woody Allen, ground zero and Social Security, which is not just "a Ponzi scheme," but "also the most vital, humane and fixable of all social programs." A sparkling collection that frames each of the particular contributions anew., Crown Forum, 2013, 3, A GENUINE DAE-STAMPED 1936 EDITION THAT HAS BEEN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED FOR 88 YEARSHERE ARE "SOME" OF THE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: THE NATURAL WORLD, RARE INSECTS, ENTOMOLOGY, THE SACRED BEETLE, THE PREYING MANTIS, WASPS, MOTHS, GRASSHOPPERS, THE SPANISH CORPIS, CRICKETS, THE CAPRICORN, LOCUSTS, THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, AND MORETHIS EDITION INCLUDES AN INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF FULLY REMOVABLE COLOR PLATES BY EDWARD JULIUS DETMOLD (1883-1957)This is an incredibly beautiful and well-kept all-original 1936 edition of this incredible Book of Insects. The artwork is vibrant and colorful, and the copious writings on the Natural World are about as good as possible. This is the nicest condition I have ever owned. They don't make them this good anymore; I don't think they ever will. I would snag this one before it's gone."Hailed by Darwin as "The Homer of Insects," famed French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre (18231915) devoted hours of rapt attention to insects while they hunted, built nests, and fed their families. Working in barren, sun-scorched fields inhabited by countless wasps and bees in Provence, he observed their intricate and fascinating world, recounting their activities in simple, beautifully written essays.Based on the translations of Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques, this volume blends folklore and mythology with factual explanation. For example, Fabre's absorbing account of the scarab beetle's existence begins with the ancient Egyptians' symbolic view of this busy creature, eventually leading to a careful discussion of its characteristic method of rolling a carefully sculpted ball of food to its den. Elsewhere, he discusses with infectious enthusiasm the physiologic secrets behind the luminosity of fireflies, the musical talents of the locust, the comfortable home of the field cricket, and the cannibalism of the pious-looking praying mantis, among other topics. These charmingly related stories of insect life are a rare combination of scientific study and literary classic that will delight entomologists, naturalists, and nature lovers alike."The Book of Insects, also known as Souvenirs entomologiques (Entomological Memories), is a famous work by the French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre. It is a series of essays and observations about various insects and their behaviors.Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was a renowned naturalist and writer who dedicated his life to studying insects. His observations and experiments in the field of entomology significantly contributed to our understanding of insect behavior and ecology.Fabre describes insects' life cycles, habits, and peculiarities, including beetles, bees, wasps, butterflies, and many others. He provides detailed accounts of their behaviors, such as mating rituals, hunting techniques, and the construction of nests.What sets Fabre's work apart is his vivid storytelling style, which brings the world of insects to life. He captures the reader's imagination with engaging narratives, making the study of insects informative and entertaining.Fabre's Book of Insects is considered a classic in the field of entomology and a valuable resource for anyone interested in the fascinating world of insects. It continues to be widely read and appreciated by naturalists, scientists, and nature enthusiasts worldwide."MY WORK AND MY WORKSHOP."(INTRODUCTION)"We all have our own talents, our special gifts. Sometimes these gifts seem to come to us from our forefathers, but more often, it isdifficult to trace their origin. A goatherd, amuses himself by counting little pebbles and doing sums with them. He becomes an astoundingly quick reckoner and, ultimately, is a mathematics professor. Another boy, at an age when most of us care only for play, leaves his schoolfellows at their games and listens to the imaginary sounds of an organ, a secret concert heard by him alone. He has a genius for music. A thirdso small, perhaps, that he cannot eat his bread and jam without smearing his face- takes a keen delight in fashioning clay into little amazingly lifelike figures. If he is fortunate, he will someday be a famous sculptor. I know that talking about oneself is hateful, but perhaps I may be allowed to do so for a moment to introduce myself and my studies."From my earliest childhood, I have felt drawn towards the things of Nature. It would be ridiculous to suppose that this gift, this love of observing plants and insects, was inherited from my ancestors, who were uneducated people of the soil and observed little but their own cows and sheep. Of my four grandparents, only one ever opened a book, and even he was very uncertain about his spelling. Nor do I owe anything to scientific training. Without masters, without guides, and often without books, I have gone forward with one aim always before me: to add a few pages to the history of insects. As I look backso many years back!I can see myself as a tiny boy, extremely proud of my first braces and of my attempts to learn the alphabet. And very well, I remember the delight of finding my first bird's nest and gathering my first mushroom. One day, I was climbing a hill. At the top of it was a row of trees that had long interested me very much. From the little window at home, I could see them against the sky, tossing before the wind or writhing madly in the snow, and I wished to have a closer view of them. It was a long climbever so long; and my legs were very short. I clambered up slowly and tediously, for the grassy slope was as steep as a roof.There was a hiding place under a big stone. In a moment, I had found the nest, which was made of hair and fine straw and had six eggs laid side by side in it. The eggs were a magnificent azure blue, very bright. This was the first nest I ever found, the first of the many joys which the birds were to bring me. Overpowered with pleasure, I lay down on the grass and stared at it.Meanwhile, the mother bird was flying about uneasily from stone to stone, crying "Tack! Tack!" in a voice of the greatest anxiety. I was too small to understand what she was suffering. I made a plan worthy of a little beast of prey. I would carry away just one of the pretty blue eggs as a trophy, and then, in a fortnight, I would come back and take the tiny birds before they could fly away. Fortunately, as I walked carefully home, carrying my blue egg on a bed of moss, I met the priest. "Ah!" said he. "A Saxicola's egg! Where did you get it?" I told him the whole story. "I shall go back for the others," I said, "when the young birds have got their quill feathers." "Oh, but you mustn't do that!" cried the priest. "You mustn't be so cruel as to rob the poor mother of all her little birds. Be a good boy, now, and promise not to touch the nest.", Tudor Publishing Company, 1936, 0<

1936, ISBN: 0048964316c4914f0979d6c71ffb627a

Tudor Publishing Co. Good. 1935. Hardcover. 271 pages. Easy to read larger print, illustrated with 12 tipped-in plates in full color, over captioned tissue guards. Green cloth boards wit… Altro …

Tudor Publishing Co. Good. 1935. Hardcover. 271 pages. Easy to read larger print, illustrated with 12 tipped-in plates in full color, over captioned tissue guards. Green cloth boards with gilt decorations and writing, good binding, inscription on endpaper. DJ has heavy tears and creases. Chapters include The Sacred Beelte, Cicada, Praying Mantis, Glow-Worm, Mason-Was, Psyches, Spanish Copris, Grasshoppers, Wasps, Grub, Cricket, Sisyphus, capricorn, Locusts, Anthrax Fly . Illustrations include: The Sacred Beetle, The Cicada, Praying Mantis, The Psyches, The Spanish Copris, The White-Faced Decticus, Common Wasps, The Field Cricket - all the illustrations are present ., Tudor Publishing Co, 1935, 2.5, New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936 . Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 10.5" by 8". EJ Detmold. A bright example of the fifth printing of Fabre's 'Book of Insects', with tipped in colour plates by Detmold. A retelling of Jean-Henri Fabre's 'Souvenirs entomologiques' English translation of Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Dutch-English journalist, literary critic and publisher, who gained his greatest fame as a translator. Here retold by Mrs Rodolph Stawell. The fifth printing of this work, first published the year prior. In the publisher's original dust wrapper, clipped to each corner.A fascinating collection of essays detailing Fabre's observations of all kinds of insects in his homeland of France combined with folklore, storytelling, and cultural reference. Jean-Henri Fabre was a French naturalist, entomologist and author known for his popular books on the lives of insects.This edition features illustrations by Victorian illustrator E. J. Detmold, with a tipped in colour frontispiece and eleven further tipped in colour plates, each retaining the original tissue guard. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with original dust wrapper, clipped to each corner. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Dust wrapper age toned to back strip. Significant loss and closed tears to front wrap head, with chipping to back strip head, and closed tear to head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine, Tudor Publishing Company, 1936, 3.25<

1936, ISBN: 0048964316c4914f0979d6c71ffb627a

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". E. J. Detmold. A smart fifth printing of Mrs. R. Stawell's retelling of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques… Altro …

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". E. J. Detmold. A smart fifth printing of Mrs. R. Stawell's retelling of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques" with illustrations throughout. Fifth printing, originally published 1935. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece and eleven colour tipped in plates. Collated complete. A comprehensive entomological study with chapters on various insects, including: the sacred beetle, the cicada, the praying mantis, the glow-worm, and many others. A retelling of the works of Jean-Henri Fabre, a French naturalist, entomologist, and author. From Alexander Teixeira del Mattos' translation, a Dutch-English journalist, literary critic, publisher, and translator. Written by Mrs. Maud Margaret Key Stawell, an English author and wife of Rodolph Stawell, a British surgeon. Illustrated by Edward Julius Detmold, a prolific English Victorian book illustrator who often worked alongside his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good, Tudor Publishing Company, 1936, 3<