2009, ISBN: 9780670063901

Hardcover

New York: Springer, 2009. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book The Paris Meridian is the name … More...

New York: Springer, 2009. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind the founding of the Paris Observatory was to determine and measure this line. To that end, the French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries employing both astronomers - people who study and measure the stars - and geodesists - people who study and measure the Earth. This book is about what they did and why. Full Meridian of Glory is the first English language presentation of this historical material in its entirety. It is an attractively written story of the scientists who created the Paris Meridian. They collaborated and worked together in alliances, like scientists everywhere; they also split into warring factions. They transcended national and political disputes, as scientists do now, their eyes fixed on ideals of accuracy, truth and objectivity. Yet also when their work served national interests they were sometimes less than neutral, and if their work was questioned they sometimes blindly descended into petty politics. This book tells the story of the adventures in France, in Spain, in Lapland and in Ecuador of the scientists who worked through revolution, war, rebellion, piracy, fire, shipwreck, blockade, snow, tropical heat, kidnapping, murder and turbulent love affairs to pursue a problem of map making. They turned that practical problem into a crucial scientific test of one of the most important intellectual problems of their time - Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Their work changed their own lives, affected the course of science and politics, and left its mark on the landscape, the art and the literature of history and in our own age., Springer, 2009, 3, New York: International Review, 1937. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 64 Pages. Staple bound book with previous owner's Ex Libris. No other marks or stamps to the white, bright text pages. Light wear to cover edges and corners. The International Review was an independent radical magazine with left-socialist and anarchist sympathies. Yvon is a professional writer. Yvon is a worker. He went back to the bench upon his return to France, after spending eleven years in the U.S.S.R., where as a simple laborer, then as a manager, and as a member of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union, he contributed to the functioning of the Soviet social pyramid. His chief criterion is invariably the consideration of the workers' material interest. Yvon is able to cut clean through the ideologies that have enmeshed so many who have attempted to deal with the Soviet Experiment. Yvon pierces through the appearance of things because he always thinks as a class-conscious worker. Methodically, using simple language, he describes the conditions under which the Russian worker acts as a political person. Competition is dead within the USSR. There is no selling and buying from each other, competing with one another, within the confines of the Soviet Union. Contents in Three Parts: How The Soviet Worker Lives, The Level of Liberty of the Worker in USSR, and The State and Classes. There Are Nine Chapters: Lodging, Food, Wages, Conditions of Work, Personal Liberty, Collective Liberty, Official or Fictitious Power, The Real Power, and The New Classes., International Review, 1937, 2.5, New York: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670063908 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, light chipping top edge.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; ""I have decided to embark on a very different project. Something unique that I hope will interest you as much as it does me. I have written the official 6th book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. Most of you have probably already read Douglas Adams' insanely brilliant space series. If you haven't then you don't know funny. Take it from me, the Hitchhiker books are bar none the funniest sci-fi books ever written. People have laughed so much reading Hitchhikers that they have had to have organs removed. One guy in France popped an eyeball. I kid you not. So, what's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I hear you cry. Actually I don't hear you, if I did I would be sitting outside in your driveway, which would be a bit freaky and show how few friends I have. What's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I imagine you cry. It's about Arthur Dent, one of the last humans left alive after the Earth has been destroyed by the remorseless Vogons. Arthur manages to hitch a ride on a spaceship and go planet hopping with his friends Ford Prefect, the Betelgeusean journalist. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two headed president of the galaxy, pirate and worst dressed man in the universe. And Marvin, the paranoid android. All this hitching and adventuring went on for five books and then Douglas Adams passed away before he could write book six. Hitchhiker has been heard on radio, seen on tv and enjoyed on the cinema screen, there was even a musical version. But the story could never end, until now. I am going to continue on where Douglas left off. Unfortunately for me, he left off on rather a large cliffhanger. Everyone was dead. Which means I have rather a large challenge ahead of me, but it is one I am looking forward to. I really hope you will board the spaceship with me so we can travel through Douglas Adams' hilarious galaxy together, which will save me having to hang around in your driveway. See you at Barnard's Star."" ., Viking, 2009, 4<

2009, ISBN: 9780670063901

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670063908 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, light chipping top edge.; A … More...

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670063908 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, light chipping top edge.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; ""I have decided to embark on a very different project. Something unique that I hope will interest you as much as it does me. I have written the official 6th book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. Most of you have probably already read Douglas Adams' insanely brilliant space series. If you haven't then you don't know funny. Take it from me, the Hitchhiker books are bar none the funniest sci-fi books ever written. People have laughed so much reading Hitchhikers that they have had to have organs removed. One guy in France popped an eyeball. I kid you not. So, what's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I hear you cry. Actually I don't hear you, if I did I would be sitting outside in your driveway, which would be a bit freaky and show how few friends I have. What's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I imagine you cry. It's about Arthur Dent, one of the last humans left alive after the Earth has been destroyed by the remorseless Vogons. Arthur manages to hitch a ride on a spaceship and go planet hopping with his friends Ford Prefect, the Betelgeusean journalist. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two headed president of the galaxy, pirate and worst dressed man in the universe. And Marvin, the paranoid android. All this hitching and adventuring went on for five books and then Douglas Adams passed away before he could write book six. Hitchhiker has been heard on radio, seen on tv and enjoyed on the cinema screen, there was even a musical version. But the story could never end, until now. I am going to continue on where Douglas left off. Unfortunately for me, he left off on rather a large cliffhanger. Everyone was dead. Which means I have rather a large challenge ahead of me, but it is one I am looking forward to. I really hope you will board the spaceship with me so we can travel through Douglas Adams' hilarious galaxy together, which will save me having to hang around in your driveway. See you at Barnard's Star."" ., Viking, 2009, 4<

2009, ISBN: 0670063908

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780670063901], Near Fine, [PU: Viking, New York], ARTHUR DENT ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX HITCHHIKER VOGONS FICTION::SCIENCE FICTION::SERIES, Jacket, DJ and boards show very light shelf wear… More...

[EAN: 9780670063901], Near Fine, [PU: Viking, New York], ARTHUR DENT ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX HITCHHIKER VOGONS FICTION::SCIENCE FICTION::SERIES, Jacket, DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, light chipping top edge.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 340 pages; "I have decided to embark on a very different project. Something unique that I hope will interest you as much as it does me. I have written the official 6th book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. Most of you have probably already read Douglas Adams' insanely brilliant space series. If you haven't then you don't know funny. Take it from me, the Hitchhiker books are bar none the funniest sci-fi books ever written. People have laughed so much reading Hitchhikers that they have had to have organs removed. One guy in France popped an eyeball. I kid you not. So, what's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I hear you cry. Actually I don't hear you, if I did I would be sitting outside in your driveway, which would be a bit freaky and show how few friends I have. What's it all about, this Hitchhikers, I imagine you cry. It's about Arthur Dent, one of the last humans left alive after the Earth has been destroyed by the remorseless Vogons. Arthur manages to hitch a ride on a spaceship and go planet hopping with his friends Ford Prefect, the Betelgeusean journalist. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two headed president of the galaxy, pirate and worst dressed man in the universe. And Marvin, the paranoid android. All this hitching and adventuring went on for five books and then Douglas Adams passed away before he could write book six. Hitchhiker has been heard on radio, seen on tv and enjoyed on the cinema screen, there was even a musical version. But the story could never end, until now. I am going to continue on where Douglas left off. Unfortunately for me, he left off on rather a large cliffhanger. Everyone was dead. Which means I have rather a large challenge ahead of me, but it is one I am looking forward to. I really hope you will board the spaceship with me so we can travel through Douglas Adams' hilarious galaxy together, which will save me having to hang around in your driveway. See you at Barnard's Star.", Books<

2009, ISBN: 9780670063901

Penguin Publishing Group, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust ja… More...

Penguin Publishing Group, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Penguin Publishing Group, 2007, 3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Viking Penguin Group, 2009. First Canadian printing (complete number line), Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three. Light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 16 x 24.2 x 2.9cm, wt750g. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Viking Penguin Group, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 0670063908

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780670063901], Used, very good, [PU: Viking Penguin Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada], Jacket, First Canadian printing (complete number line), Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to t… More...

[EAN: 9780670063901], Used, very good, [PU: Viking Penguin Group, Toronto, Ontario, Canada], Jacket, First Canadian printing (complete number line), Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three. Light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 16 x 24.2 x 2.9cm, wt750g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Books<