Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski, First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 5th printing. An unread book in a complete dust jacket. Prior owner inscription to flyleaf.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. 1ª Edición. 448 p. ; 24x17 cms., ilustraciones b/n y color. Bibliografía. 900 grs. (A-305-EE).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Seventh Printing. Color and B&W Photographs and Illustrations; 448 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Otherwise in Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

First edition in Folio Society. London, 2012. Hardback. Dark blue cloth, gilt type to spine and gilt and silver illustrations to upper board. Colour and black and white illustrations througbout. Index. Very clean and sound in matching blue slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 3rd printing. DJ complete, spine sunned, book believed unread.

Trade paperback. Condition: Good. Anthony de Gesu (Author photograph) (illustrator). 448 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. Some cover wear and soiling. Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 - 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues alike by the nickname Bruno. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to science, and as the presenter and writer of the thirteen-part 1973 BBC television documentary series, and accompanying book, The Ascent of Man, which led to his regard as "one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals". Bronowski's family moved from Congress Poland to Germany and then to England while he was a child. He won a scholarship to study mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His interests have been described as ranging "widely, from biology to poetry and from chess to Humanism". He taught mathematics at the University College Hull between 1934 and 1942. During World War II he led the field of operations research and worked to increase the effectiveness of Allied bombing. After the war he headed the projects division of UNESCO. Bronowski wrote poetry and had a deep affinity with William Blake. From 1950 to 1963 he worked for the National Coal Board in the UK. From 1963 he was a resident fellow of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, until his death in 1974 in East Hampton, New York, just a year after the airing of his Ascent of Man. An account of the history and philosophy of science drawn from the BBC television series created by Dr. Bronowski. Dr. Jacob Bronowksi's classic traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of "popular science," illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr. Bronowski discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they all are expressions of our ability to understand and control nature. The Ascent of Man inspires, influences, and informs us profoundly. Derived from a Kirkus review: Another of those beautifully produced BBC lecture courses that have been bringing Western culture -- a dazzling and welcome shock -- to TV audiences, translated into a handsome and substantial text. The topic is big: taking off from Darwin's title The Descent of Man, Bronowski goes ahead to chronicle the development of the sciences and allied, imaginative and uniquely human activities by which man managed to obscure and transcend his ancestry. The accomplishment tends to be undervalued in the present atmosphere of ecological guilt, and particularly in books pitched at this educated lay level; but Bronowski goes a long way toward redeeming the traditional Crown-of-Creation attitude, with a stunning and varied range of information, and in a style so suavely entertaining and well ordered that one doesn't immediately appreciate how many recent, even in some cases radical, assumptions about the nature of man and science it incorporates. For example, the broadened consideration of cultural and psychological factors, such as the analytic implications of architecture, and the importance of techniques as analogues; and a conception of historical process that readmits such shady figures as Paracelsus and mundane pursuits as farming. Beginning with the bare hands and ready, three-pound brain of the earliest hominids, he traces the gradual, self-accelerating profusion of means -- tools, techniques, theories -- which have extended our intellectual grasp now to the point of encompassing intellect itself. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing {"A" on verso].

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Pub by The Folio Society, 2012. NOT exLib. As-New cond. hardcover in As-New original blue slipcase. Ornate blue, gilt & silver bds w/ bright & colorful dec & lettering on cover & spine. Book is complete, intact & unmarked. 302pp. Square, straight, tight, bright & clean, overall As-New cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Pub by The Folio Society, 2012. NOT exLib. As-New cond. hardcover in As-New original blue slipcase. Ornate blue, gilt & silver bds w/ bright & colorful dec & lettering on cover & spine. Book is complete, intact & unmarked. 302pp. Square, straight, tight, bright & clean, overall As-New cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to opne in blue buckram spine and illustrated paper boards; about new. In sturdy clean blue slipcase. ; 302 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First thus, A Fine example of this lovely Folio Society edition of the author's most celebrated title, based on his BBC television series. Quarter-Bound in buckram and blocked with a design by Neil Gower. pp. xvii, 302, introduction by Melvyn Bragg. A Fine copy in slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Thus. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by The Folio Society, 2012. Quarto in slipcase. Book is like new; clean with no bookplates or ownership markings. Slipcase is like new. A nice copy of Bronowski's landmark full scale history of science. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

19 cm x 26 cm. XVII, 302 pages. With colour illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition, first folio edition with protective slipcase and only very minor signs of external wear. The title alludes to The Descent of Man, the second book on evolution by Charles Darwin. Over the TV series' 13 episodes frst broadcast in 1973, the writer Jacob Bronowski travelled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science. It was commissioned specifically to complement Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (1969), in which Clark argued that art reflected and was informed by the major driving forces in cultural evolution. Bronowski wrote in his 1951 book The Commonsense of Science: "It has been one of the most destructive modern prejudices that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests". The 13-part series was shot on 16mm film. The Executive Producer was Adrian Malone, film directors were Dick Gilling, Mick Jackson, David Kennard and David Paterson. Quotations were read by actors Roy Dotrice and Joss Ackland. Series music was by Dudley Simpson with Brian Hodgson and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Additional music includes, amongst others, music by Pink Floyd. Apart from Bronowski, the only other named person appearing is the sculptor Henry Moore. The book of the series, The Ascent of Man: A Personal View, is an almost word-for-word transcript from the television episodes, diverging from Bronowski's original narration only where the lack of images might make its meaning unclear. A few details of the film version were omitted from the book, notably Episode 11, "Knowledge or Certainty." (Amazon) Sprache: english.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A superb production from Folio, in a beautiful sturdy slipcase, with colour illustrations throughout. Excellent as new condition, first printing. The title alludes to The Descent of Man, the second book on evolution by Charles Darwin. Jacob Bronowski travelled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science.