Published by University of NM Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1986
ISBN 10: 0826308562 ISBN 13: 9780826308566
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: very good, good. First Edition. First? Printing. 213, index, DJ somewhat sunned/faded. Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould. This book evolved from a thesis on science and mankind at the University of Chicago in 1959. The last book by the great Harvard geologist Kirtley F. Mather (1888-1978), a posthumously-published discourse concerning his notion of a permissive universe in which the expansion of knowledge offers almost unlimited opportunities for human development and suggests the ways and means wherebymen and women, both individually and collectively, may achieve a richer andfuller life. Afterwords by Dr. Archie Bahm and Dr. Donald H. Rhoades.