Only One World: Our Own to Make and to Keep

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR--FOUNDER OF SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN--A PERSPECTIVE OF HUMANITY AND OUR PLANET BEFORE THE ESCALATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE.

16.5x24 cm hardcover, beige paper covered boards, title to cover, beige cloth spine, endpapers with two views of the world map, Inscribed and signed in ink by author on title page: to Scott Ward see next page for my wishes for you. Gerard Piel. Thanksgiving Day 1992, i-xii, 367 pp, maps and charts from Scientific American. Very good in very good jacket in protective mylar sleeve.

GERALD PIEL (1915-2004) was the publisher of the new Scientific American magazine starting in 1948. He wrote for magazines, including The Nation, and published books on science for the general public. Piel graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with a bachelor of arts degree in 1937. He was the science editor of Life Magazine from 1939 to 1945. In 1946 and 1947, he worked at the Henry Kaiser Company as assistant to the president. In 1948, in association with two colleagues, he launched a new version of Scientific American, to promote science literacy for the general public in the postwar era.

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Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Co.

Year: 1992

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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