Antony Gesu (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Presume 1st Edition. Signed by Author. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0933071078. DJ is price clipped. Owners inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. SIGNED by Cousins on ffep. No jacket. Some shelf/reading wear. Pages clean.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on front endpage. Dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed attractively, with inscription, by author Norman Cousins. With full page color photographs and facing brief text of inspiration. Clean pages in sturdy covers. Soroptimist gift label on pastedown. Little spot to endpage and fingerprint residue on shiny black page areas. Jacket with a large closed tear at side edge. No longer a fresh copy but serviceable. Heavy & oversize. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Antony di Gesu (Author photo) (illustrator). Book Club Edition. 448 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling and tears. 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. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Norman Cousins. Large or heavy book and may require extra postage. No AMAZON international order on this title. Inscribed By Author and Photog.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Image size about 18 x 22 inches, in an old frame, 24 x 28 inches overall. Very fine original condition. Portrait photographer Antony de Gesu recalled his encounter with J. D. Salinger in a 1982 San Diego Historical Society exhibition, "Thirty Years of Color and J.D. Salinger" and in an unpublished memoir, describing the author's expression as "rigid and self-conscious" until the photographer sat him down with at a table with an ashtray, with a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" open in front of him.