Rees dai david (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to. (26 cm.) 176p. Foreword by Bernard Darwin. Frontispiece black and white captioned photo plus 60 other black and white captioned photos. Green cloth with gilt letters and gilt decorations, including a golf club, on the spine and with his signature in gilt on the lower right corner of the front cover. Only hints of wear to extremities, cloth clean, gilt bright, just a touch of foxing at bottom of free endpapers, a hint of mustiness (but no water damage), else near fine to fine with all photos in fine condition and no internal markings. Dust jacket slightly shelfworn and slightly soiled, Front panel of dust jacket is a large black and white photo of Dai Rees holding a golf club and looking straight at the camera. David James Rees, CBE [1913¿1983] was one of Britain's leading golfers. Rees may best be remembered as the captain of the Great Britain Ryder Cup team which defeated the United States at Lindrick Golf Club in Yorkshire, England in 1957. It was the only defeat which the United States suffered in the competition between 1933 and 1985. This book "is not, as the author says, a ook for beginners, but it is full of wise hints for those whose education is already well-advanced." [from the Foreword].…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

orig.boards A bump to spine. A 2cm tear to bottom rear exterior hinge. Good 23x15cm, xiv,301 pp Contains 16 papers. Includes: "Do we ever really act?" [Mary Midgley]; " The definition of human nature" [Merlin Donald]; "Consciousness and the limits of neurobiology" [Hilary Rose]; "Mind metaphors. Neurosciences and ethics" [Regine Kollek]; "Genetic and generic determinism. A new threat to free will?" [Peter Lipton]; "Human action, neuroscience and the law" [ Alexander McCall Smith]; "Responsibility and the law" [Stephen Sedley]; " Programmed or licensed to kill? The new biology of femicide" [Lorraine Radford]; "Genes, responsibility and the law" [Patrick Bateson]; "The neurosciences: the danger that we will think we have understood it all" [ Yadin Dudai]; "On dissecting the genetic basis of behaviour and intelligence" [Angus Clarke]; "Prospects and perils of stem cell research: a brief guide to current science" [Helen Pilcher]; "The use of human embryonic stem cells for research: an ethical evaluation" [Guido de Wert]; "The Prozac story" [John Cornwell]; "Psychopharmacology at the interface between the market and the new biology" [David Healy]; "Education in the age of Ritalin" [Paul Cooper] ["The last twenty years have seen huge advances in our understanding of how the brain works. Researchers are now trying to understand the nature of consciousness itself. This collection represents an accessible attempt to expose and question research boundaries of what is ethically, socially and legally acceptable in neuroscience research." -Publisher's description] A bump to spine. A 2cm tear to bottom rear exterior hinge. Good. …