1981 BRITANNICA YEARBOOK OF SCIENCE & THE FUTURE
Published by Encyclopaedia Britannica
These Encyclopaedia Britannica Yearbooks offer a fantastic snapshot of a bygone era from a scientific and medical point of view - with fascinating predictions of how the future was perceived at the time. With articles written by experts in their field, they are interesting to read, well illustrated and very enjoyable.
Articles include:
- Frontiers for the 1980s by Kendrick Frazier
- Bards of the Sciences by Jerry Pournelle
- The Airship Returns by Norman J Mayer
- Primate Intelligence by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Duane M Rumbaugh
- Life in the Jungle Canopy by Donald R. Perry and Sylvia E Merschel
- Biological Pest Control by Richard L Ridgway
- The Chemistry of Good Cooking by Gary A Reineccius
- The Remarkable Cell Membrane by Stephen L Wolfe
- The Two Brains of Man by Monte S Buchsbaum
- How Fast is Fast? How High is High? by Marvin I Clein - Athletics
- Fractals and the Geometry of Nature by Benoit B Mandelbrot
- The Search for Gravitational Waves by Barry Parker
- Looking Deeper, Seeing Farther by Jay M Pasachoff and Naomi Pasachoff
- Hazards of Low-Level Radiation by Karl Z Morgan
- Surveyors of a Nation by Harold L Burstyn
The book is a large format hardback with burgundy leatherette boards with gilt text on the spine. The book measures 28.5 x 22 cm, and weighs around 1.8kg, with 448 pages
Condition: This second-hand hardback book is in excellent condition, some evidence of light reading wear, some minor ’spotting’ on the end papers, the pages are clean and tightly bound. There is no dust jacket. The book pictured below is the one you will receive.
Condition: This second-hand hardback book is in excellent condition, some evidence of light reading wear, some minor ’spotting’ on the end papers, the pages are clean and tightly bound. There is no dust jacket. The book pictured below is the one you will receive.
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