Mackay Alan Editor (9 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 192 Pages Indexed. No defects noted. Interior text pages are near flawless. This is a personal selection of over 1200 scientific quotations including graffiti, lines of song and proverbs together with the more recognised forms of quotation not only from scientists but from artists, poets, philosophers, theologians, politicians and other miscellaneous mortals. Scientists have often been reproached for their apparent unfamiliarity with the rest of our cultural inheritance. Inasmuch as science represents one way of dealing with the world, it does tend to separate its practitioners from the rest. Being a scientist resembles membership of a religious order and a scientist usually finds that he has more in common with a colleague on the other side of the world than with his next-door neighbour. Scientists do live in the real world and share in developing and unifying its culture. Many scientists, especially biologists, are able to communicate more widely than to their professional colleagues their sense of wonder at the workings of nature. This collection of quotations is intended to show the wholeness of our culture by demonstrating that scientists contribute to the humanities, and that from Chaucer to Auden, the great humanists have also been concerned with science in all its aspects. A quotation is a polished prefabricated unit of thought or discourse which has many connotations and associations built in to it. Quotations are, in effect, thoughts embedded in memorable phraseology and polished by use.

Paperback. Condition: Good. London, 1982; illustrated paper covers; edge and corner wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior notations; 192 pages.

Magazine. pp.147-197p., 7.5x10.5 inches, about fifty pages of text, photos, and illustrations on semi-coated ivory paperstock, literary arts journal in stapled decorated green pictorial wraps. Slight edgewear, a very good copy. Bills itself as "magazine," but has ear-marks of "yearbook" minus mugshots of lower classmen. Find a three-page story with photographs by an amateur but persistent puppeteer, one Gilbert MacKay.

1967. (Oversize paperback) Very good. 74pp. Notes, bibliography. Contributors include Alan Artibise (The Crucial Decade: Red River at the Outbreak of the American Civil War), Hartwell Bowsfield (The United States and Red River Settlement), Donald Creighton (John A. MacDonald, Confederation and the Canadian West), Anne Matheson Henderson (From Fort Douglas to the Forks). Article about John A. MacDonald. Locale: Forks, the; Fort Douglas--Manitoba; Red River Settlement; United States; Western Canada. Series: Manitoba Historical Society Series III 23. (Manitoba, American Civil War, Confederation, Prime Ministers).

First Edition. Contributors include: MacCAIG, Norman; BROWN, George Mackay etc. Softcovers 48pp, VG.

First Edition. Contributors include: GRAY, Alasdair; BROWN, George Mackay etc. Softcovers 48pp, VG.

First Edition. Contributors include: MCILVANEY, William, BROWN, George Mackay; GRAY, Alasdair; MORGAN, Edwin etc. Copy of the poet and politician Douglas Young with his signature . Softcovers 56pp, VG.

First Edition. Contributors include: SMITH Ian Crichton; and a short story by BROWN, George Mackay Softcovers 48pp, Copy of the poet and politician Douglas Young with his signature . Some spotting to covers otherwise VG.

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