The author asked 6 distinguished thinkers a series of questions including what do we human beings know about why we are here? This book contains personal interviews with the 6 people and their roundtable discussion. The 6 are Oliver Sacks, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Rupert Scheldrake, Freeman Dyson, and Stephen Toulmin. First US printing, the true first was in Holland. Book covers clean and bright. Both ends of spine gently bumped. Corners sharp. Page edges clean. Spine slightly slanted. No previous owner marks. Text clean. Dust Jacket has minor soiling on the spine. Bottom edge of DJ spine gently rubbed. DJ now protected in mylar. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 306 pages. Seller Inventory # 80598

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Title: A Glorious Accident Understanding Our Place ...

Publisher: W. H. Freeman & Company, New York

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First US Edition; First Printing.

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Six of today's greatest thinkers take on a plethora of issues and unanswered questions of late twentieth-century science, such as the boundaries of scientific inquiry, the possibility of conducting studies of creativity, and other topics.

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Wim Kayzer is a popular Dutch journalist, specializing in cultural and scientific topics. A Glorious Accident, the series comprising the interviews and discussion in this book, was shown in 1993 on Dutch television and in the United States on WNET TV in 1994.

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