Buy this book on-line Hammond, Edited By Allen L : Passion to Know, A : 20 Profiles in ScienceCharles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1984 ISBN 0684182092
FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A fascinating in-depth look at modern science's cutting edge research and the various personalities doing it, they resolving mysteries with a 'passion to know', the editor presenting twenty profiles of such minds and their work: brain biology, atomic physics, genetics, galactic black holes, moon samples, bees, higher mathematics, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, illustrations, reading list, indexed, 240pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hammond, Edited By Allen L : Passion to Know, A : 20 Profiles in Science. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, livres illustrées, first editions, livres d'occasion and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |