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UK,12mo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,p/back original,p/b 1st edn. [Paperback/softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but paperback/softback originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued,an unread copy with no spine/backstrip creases.Colour imaging by Black Sheep to original colour artwork wraps and TVM logo; with negligible shelf-wear to edges,no bumping/creasing to either head or foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore- edges slightly aged - but generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to page corners.UK,12mo p/back original, 1st edn,1-282pp [paginated] includes prologue,epilogue,16 chapters, plus [unpaginated] title page and dedication. In June 1996,the BBC started their range with Terrance Dicks series 'The Eight Doctors',a series of original adventures for the eighth Doctor and Keith Topping+Martin Day's 'The Devil Goblins from Neptune',of which this is the 13th title in this series. A glib remark from the Doctor to a desperate scientist has had far- reaching effects on the empire of Morestra.Eminent Morestran scientist Sorenson,attempting to find a new power source for his planet,risked a universal catastrophe by attempting to steal anti-matter crystals from the distant planet of Zeta Minor.The Doctor averted disaster,but has in effect sent all Morestra up a technological cul-de-sac.Now in his fifth regeneration,the Doctor becomes involved once again in Morestra's future.The empire has become a theocracy,and the all-powerful Church, finally discovering the Sorenson's world-spanning energy tower will never work,is attempting to save face by covertly returning to Zeta Minor to steal the powerful minerals they need.This time,they believe they are prepared for all eventualities. . . . With his companions embroiled in the ever-shifting loyalties and intrigues of the Morestran court,only the Doctor accepts that the forces of the anti-matter universe can never interact with our own.Can he stop something he started two thousand years ago? Featuring the 5th Doctor,Nyssa and Tegan,this adventure takes place between the TV stories 'ARC OF INFINITY' and 'SNAKEDANCE',and is a sequel to the TV story 'PLANET OF EVIL.' Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.BBC,1998., 5, Pan Books, UK, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 597 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 2002. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Remainder mark on page edges. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In tomorrow's world of super-technology, a corporate colossus fights off the relentless machinations of its countless political and corporate rivals. Imagine a near-future world where one giant corporation has become so influential that no single government dare oppose it - not even the mighty USA. A company so powerful that it can establish an independent country to serve as its unassailable headquarters. That company is Tycom, and its founder - Thomas Tye - has made it his evangelical mission to save the Earth from ecological ruin. Already the orbital installations that can manipulate this battered planet's climate are near completion - while the military backing of an erstwhile superpower is guaranteed. But Tom Tye's seeming altruism carriers a price that the rest of the developed world is no longer prepared to pay...Emergence is the dramatic and multi-layered story of a hydra-headed fight against Tycom and its despotic master. But will our planet be a better place without him? *** Quantity Available: 2. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0330485954. ISBN/EAN: 9780330485951. Inventory No: 17100013.. 9780330485951, Pan Books, 2002, 2.5, Simon & Schuster, 2001. Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Trade Paperback. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Simon & Schuster, 2001. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has minor lean and moderate reading creases. . Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the 1950s, the British carried out atomic bomb testing at Maralinga. Afterwards they blew up 23 kg of plutonium with explosives, and left the fragments lying in the South Australian desert. Thirty years later, two students, Ryn and Hercus, decided to steal a huge piece of plutonium - one of the deadliest substances on the planet - and bury it in a backyard. Years after the prank, Hercus is a middle-aged failure obsessed with the continuing destruction of the environment. In a desperate attempt to redeem himself, he digs up the plutonium and blackmails his friend Ryn to help him achieve the ultimate act of terrorism and save the world from humanity. Jemma, Ryn's wife, narrates the story as the couple desperately tries to stop Hercus without incriminating Ryn. Against the backdrop of technological wizardry, political intrigue and environmental lobby groups battling for control of society, Jemma and Ryn race against time to stop Hercus from fulfilling his deadly dream. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0731810449. ISBN/EAN: 9780731810444. Inventory No: 09080133.. 9780731810444, Simon & Schuster, 2001, 2.5, Port Orchard, WA: Blue Works, 2008-01-01. Trade Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Signed. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. edge wear, small edge tear in cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Simon Kent is just an ordinary 12-year-old trying to cope with the loss of his parents and the bullies at school . . . or so he thinks. After meeting an outspoken girl with strange hair that changes colors with her mood, he is swept into a futuristic world filled with dragonlike creatures, vast technology, and enslaved giants.But Simon also stumbles upon a secret: He can perform magic in this parallel world! While fighting mystical creatures, unraveling an ancient mystery, and even experiencing his first kiss, Simon discovers that he, an outsider from Earth, is the only person who can save the high-tech planet from an impending doom., Blue Works, 2008-01-01, 2.5, St. Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2017. first edition,1pt; 10987654321pt line. Hardcover. 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S26.99) DUST JACKET, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT; silver titles COVERS WITH PHOTO OF both authors, NYCity, & Central Park background..Book itself has white titles on green hard covers.. ; 272 pages; entrepreneur and Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous... an optimistic look ., St. Martin's Press, 2017, 3, Knopf. Very Good. 6 x 1.25 x 10 inches. Hardcover. 1999. 448 pages. <br>No contemporary scientist has done more to shape o ur understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his g eneration. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way wer e cornerstones for all that has followed in particle physics, the effort to explain the very stuff of creation. In this first biog raphy of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkabl e life. Born on New York's Lower East Side, Gell-Mann was quickl y recognized as a child prodigy. Propelled by an intense boyhood curiosity and a love for nature, he entered Yale at fifteen. By a ge twenty-three he had ignited a revolution, laying bare in his g roundbreaking work the strange beauty of the minute particles tha t constitute the ultimate components of physical reality. Partic le physics is the most competitive of sports, and Johnson shows u s the precocious polymath holding his own with giants like Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Richard Feynman -- Gell-Mann's fa vorite intellectual sparring partner and sometimes antagonistic r ival. We see Gell-Mann the self-taught linguist (who couldn't res ist correcting visitors on the pronunciation of their own names); Gell-Mann the birdwatcher and amateur archaeologist; Gell-Mann t he Aspen socialite, world traveler, and environmental crusader. We watch him making his scientific breakthroughs, his abrasive, c ompetitive drive leaving behind a growing trail of enemies. The e arly death of his first wife and a family crisis sent him veering in new directions. Turning from the physics of simple particles, like quarks, he began exploring how complex phenomena like life can be understood scientifically. George Johnson's informed and insightful biography goes far in helping us understand the comple xities of both the man and the science in which he has loomed so large. Editorial Reviews Review Murray Gell-Mann is a leading light in 20th-century physics, yet his name rings bells only for those interested in particle physics. Science writer Ge orge Johnson was fortunate enough to develop a friendly relations hip with the great scientist, and his biography, Strange Beauty, glows with a rare intimacy gained from a notoriously private and irascible man. From his childhood in New York City to his current scientific elder-statesman status in New Mexico, Johnson explore s Gell-Mann's life in glorious detail. A passionate, jealous, and brilliant man, he was capable of both profound insight and bitte r lifelong rivalries, but Johnson finds there's much more to the man than these two simple poles; Gell-Mann's volatile family life and deft academic maneuvering also find room in this expansive b iography. The reader finds that Johnson's careful attention to d etail shows more than it tells through enlightening stories of Ge ll-Mann's troubled, romantic, or pretentious dealings with peers, family, and even strangers. Explaining his strange surname means investigating old phone books, scientific legend, and family his tory, as the scientist is unwilling to shed light on the mystery (it turns out that his father hyphenated it, and Murray dreamed u p etymologies as needed--giving rise to the tangled web of myths) . Johnson is up to the challenge of recording the life story of a man nearly as strange as the quarks he discovered and named, and Strange Beauty lives up to the promise of its title. --Rob Light ner From Publishers Weekly Up, down, top, bottom, strange and c harm aren't just states of mind: they're kinds of quarks, the min d-bending, omnipresent sub-subatomic particles co-discovered and named in the early 1960s by the American physicist Murray Gell-Ma nn. New York Times science reporter Johnson (Fire in the Mind) ha s written a brisk, accessible life of the Nobel-winning scientist , who will turn 70 next month. Gell-Mann grew up poor in New York City, the son of Eastern European Jews. Still in his teens, he a ttended Yale and MIT, and soon afterward won notice for his work on cosmic rays. Gell-Mann followed up his insights about quarks w ith important work at Caltech and elsewhere on superstrings, supe rgravity and mathematical complexity. His adult life has had its hardships: his daughter gave much of her life to an American Stal inist fringe group, and his wife died of cancer in 1981. (He's si nce remarried.) Johnson makes clear that Gell-Mann's direct, some times arrogant manner could make him difficult to work with; admi red by physicists, he failed to achieve the wider fame of his med ia-friendly colleague, the late Richard Feynman. While Johnson re lates such troubles sympathetically, the story of Gell-Mann's lif e is in large part the story of his and others' researches and di scoveries. Explaining difficult fields like quantum physics, John son uses as many analogies, and as little math, as he can, while trying always to give some picture of what scientific problems Ge ll-Mann and his fellow scientists solved. The result is a careful if colloquial biography, perfect for readers who aren'tAor aren' t yetAworking scientists. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business In formation, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Up, down, top, bottom, st range and charm aren't just states of mind: they're kinds of quar ks, the mind-bending, omnipresent sub-subatomic particles co-disc overed and named in the early 1960s by the American physicist Mur ray Gell-Mann. New York Times science reporter Johnson (Fire in t he Mind) has written a brisk, accessible life of the Nobel-winnin g scientist, who will turn 70 next month. Gell-Mann grew up poor in New York City, the son of Eastern European Jews. Still in his teens, he attended Yale and MIT, and soon afterward won notice fo r his work on cosmic rays. Gell-Mann followed up his insights abo ut quarks with important work at Caltech and elsewhere on superst rings, supergravity and mathematical complexity. His adult life h as had its hardships: his daughter gave much of her life to an Am erican Stalinist fringe group, and his wife died of cancer in 198 1. (He's since remarried.) Johnson makes clear that Gell-Mann's d irect, sometimes arrogant manner could make him difficult to work with; admired by physicists, he failed to achieve the wider fame of his media-friendly colleague, the late Richard Feynman. While Johnson relates such troubles sympathetically, the story of Gell -Mann's life is in large part the story of his and others' resear ches and discoveries. Explaining difficult fields like quantum ph ysics, Johnson uses as many analogies, and as little math, as he can, while trying always to give some picture of what scientific problems Gell-Mann and his fellow scientists solved. The result i s a careful if colloquial biography, perfect for readers who aren 'tAor aren't yetAworking scientists. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal One of the most notable physicists of the Nuclear Age, Murray Gell-Mann worked cl osely with Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynmann, and others to help unl ock the secrets of the subatomic world. In 1969, he received a No bel prize for his work on the interaction of elementary particles and their classification. Now New York Times science writer John son (Fire in the Mind) has written a well-balanced biography of t his renowned scientist's complex life and work. Noting Gell-Mann' s idiosyncrasies, his faults, and his accomplishments, Johnson fo llows his subject through his passions (nature and conservation, art collection, anthropology, ornithology, and linguistics), his struggles with chronic writer's block, and his incredible scienti fic achievements. While it is necessarily dense in parts, this bo ok is free of mathematics and is accessible to the advanced lay r eader. Recommended for large public and academic libraries.AJames Olson, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Scientific American 'Stran ge Beauty' brings together an irresistible subject -- the difficu lt polymath Murray Gell-Mann -- and a talented writer who spins a n enthralling tale out of the kind of esoteric physics that gener ally flies right over our heads. Johnson is one of the best scien ce journalists writing today, known for his books 'Fire in the Mi nd' and 'In the Palaces of Memory' and for incisive reporting in the New York Times. This is his most ambitious project yet -- com municating the fascination of a kind of science that only an elit e of superbright people fully understands. He succeeds brilliantl y. From Kirkus Reviews Part biography, part textbook on quarks a nd other phenomena discovered by one of the great particle physic ists of the twentieth century. Johnson (a New York Times science writer) first introduces us to Murray Gell-Mann in the present da y, as a likable retiree living in Santa Fe. He sets his personal experiences with Gell-Mann against Gell-Mann the legend, cutting colleagues down to size if their viewpoints didn't coincide with his own, or calling them by unpleasant and sarcastic nicknames. G ell-Mann's broad scope of knowledge started in his youth in New Y ork City, where he would visit museums, the zoo, anywhere he coul d learn about the world around him. In school young Murray was al ways eager to show off his knowledge, winning a spelling bee at t he age of seven. At fourteen, he won a scholarship to Yale, movin g from there to MIT, where he reveled in the unsolved problems in physics. It was these problems, theories about particles yet to be discovered, that Gell-Mann would spend his career solving. Joh nson is not afraid to present these theories in great detail, giv ing crystal-clear descriptions of some of the most abstract and c onvoluted ideas in physics. Nor is he afraid to delve into the pe rsonal side of Gell-Mann, including his relationship with his col league Richard Feynman, a friendship at times strained by the fam e that Feynman achieved from his best-selling book of autobiograp hical anecdotes. Gell-Mann wanted to write one, too, but for all his knowledge he was crippled by a lifelong case of writer's bloc k. The limited success of his autobiography once it was finished presumably led to Strange Beauty. A must-read for anyone studying physics or its history, and for others not afraid to swim in the sometimes deep and murky waters of cutting-edge science. -- Copy right ®1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Review George Johnson has nailed this biography of the brilliant and ira scible Murray Gell-Mann. Strange Beauty is complex, mind-expandin g, beautiful, and true. -- James Gleick When you have one of the world's most accomplished science writers recounting the life an d times of one of the world's most accomplished scientists, reade rs' expectations are justifiably high. They are fully met. Johnso n gives us an extraordinary view of an extraordinary man, and nav igates through science that ordinarily would seem difficult, with such skill that it is not difficult at all. Strange Beauty is a masterpiece of modern biography. -- Roger Lewin Gell-Mann could not have written such a perceptive book about himself as Johnson has....Reads like a detective novel. Johnson does a wonderful job of describing the competition and cooperation among scientists, the egos and insecurities, the disappointments and triumphs, and the disputes, suspicions and shifting allegiances. -- The New Yor k Times Book Review Skillfully and engagingly written . . . John son paints a convincing portrait of Gell-Mann's personality, whic h is in turn charming, irritating, and generous . . . Johnson cap tures well his subject's inner scientific conflicts. -- Science Few physicists have displayed the poetic inspiration of the Nobel ist Murray Gell-Mann....In this biography he emerges as brilliant and often insufferable, relentlessly curious, hopelessly pedanti c, and one of the best synthetic thinkers in the history of his f ield. The book [offers] a vivid sense of Gell-Mann and his contem poraries (including his collaborator and competitor Richard Feynm an).... --The New Yorker From the Publisher A conversation with George Johnson, author of STRANGE BEAUTY: Murray Gell-Mann and t he Revolution in Twentieth Century Physics Q. Why do you call t he book Strange Beauty? A. When Gell-Mann was in his early 20s, physicists were baffled by cosmic-ray particles, bombarding the earth from outer space, that seemed to defy the known laws of phy sics. Gell-Mann solved the problem by proposing that the particle s were affected by a previously unknown phenomenon that he decide d to call strangeness. The theory, weird name and all, created a sensation. It was the first example of the strange beauty he kept finding in the universe -- mesmerizing patterns that lie beneath the surface of reality. Q. What happened next? A. From there h e went on to discover The Eightfold Way and quarks, always bestow ing his creations with whimsical names. There are top quarks, bot tom quarks, strange quarks, charmed quarks. They're held together by things called gluons. Physics was never again the same. Q. W hat is the Eightfold Way? And where do quarks fit in? A. Before Gell-Mann came onto the scene, there were hundreds of tiny subato mic particles of all shapes and sizes. Gell-Mann saw in a flash o f insight that they could all be arranged into patterns. He saw o rder where there had been confusion. The result was the Eightfold Way. Just as the Periodic Table of the Elements is used to arran ge all the different kinds of atoms, the Eightfold Way is used to arrange all the subatomic particles. A little later, Gell-Mann r ealized that the particles line up this way because they are made of tinier things called quarks. A Nobel prize was around the cor ner. Q. One of the classic rivalries in science is between Gell- Mann and Richard Feynman. Why was there so much friction between these two intellectual giants? A. A favorite pastime of physicis ts was arguing over who was smarter, Dick or Murray. At any unive rsity in the world, each would have been the unquestioned star. B ut at Caltech they were crowded into the same small department, j ust two doors from each other (with the same poor secretary in be tween.) Each was always trying to upstage the other. And they had strikingly different styles. Feynman would speak in an affected Brooklyn drawl and refuse to wear a coat and tie. Murray was as i mpeccable in his dress as he was in his pronunciation -- and not just in English but in dozens of other languages. He's famous for sitting down at Ch, Knopf, 1999, 3, Broadway Books, New York, New York, U.S.A, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 1st Printing. 274 pages. This book is in fine condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence-revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves. We buy "herbal" shampoos that contain industrial chemicals that can threaten our health or contaminate the environment. We dive down to see coral reefs, not realizing that an ingredient in our sunscreen feeds a virus that kills the reef. We wear organic cotton t-shirts, but don't know that its dyes may put factory workers at risk for leukemia. In Ecological Intelligence, Daniel Goleman reveals why so many of the products that are labeled green are a "mirage," and illuminates our wild inconsistencies in response to the ecological crisis. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Goleman explains why we as shoppers are in the dark over the hidden impacts of the goods and services we make and consume, victims of a blackout of information about the detrimental effects of producing, shipping, packaging, distributing, and discarding the goods we buy. But the balance of power is about to shift from seller to buyer, as a new generation of technologies informs us of the ecological facts about products at the point of purchase. This "radical transparency" will enable consumers to make smarter purchasing decisions, and will drive companies to rethink and reform their businesses, ushering in, Goleman claims, a new age of competitive advantage. Quantity Available: 1. 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[EAN: 9780385527835], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Broadway Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.], SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, FOOD SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE BZDB137 ECOLOGY, GREEN, CONSERVATION, FOOD, HABITAT SCIENCE; EAN: 9780385527835 GOLEMAN, DANIEL ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE: THE HIDDEN IMPACTS OF WHAT WE BUY, Science|Environmental Science, Technology|Agriculture|Sustainable Agriculture, Technology|Food Science, 1st Printing. 274 pages. This book is in fine condition. It has no tears to the pages and no pages are missing from the book. The spine of the book is in strong condition. The front cover has some bumps and marks. It has signs of previous use but overall is in really nice, tight condition. Items are shipped same day or next business day and are shipped directly from our Australian address. SYNOPSIS: The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence-revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves. We buy "herbal" shampoos that contain industrial chemicals that can threaten our health or contaminate the environment. We dive down to see coral reefs, not realizing that an ingredient in our sunscreen feeds a virus that kills the reef. We wear organic cotton t-shirts, but don't know that its dyes may put factory workers at risk for leukemia. In Ecological Intelligence, Daniel Goleman reveals why so many of the products that are labeled green are a "mirage," and illuminates our wild inconsistencies in response to the ecological crisis. Drawing on cutting-edge research, Goleman explains why we as shoppers are in the dark over the hidden impacts of the goods and services we make and consume, victims of a blackout of information about the detrimental effects of producing, shipping, packaging, distributing, and discarding the goods we buy. But the balance of power is about to shift from seller to buyer, as a new generation of technologies informs us of the ecological facts about products at the point of purchase. This "radical transparency" will enable consumers to make smarter purchasing decisions, and will drive companies to rethink and reform their businesses, ushering in, Goleman claims, a new age of competitive advantage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Science, Environmental Science; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9780385527835. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0001614., Books<

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