The New Explorers

Bill Kurtis (AUTHOR SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 0964745704 / ISBN 13: 9780964745704

Published by WTTW/Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1995

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WTTW/Chicago, Chicago, IL. 1995. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the half title page. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to edges; superficial scratching and rubbing to panels. No DJ. Pictorial card stock French wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 240 pp Folio. This book tells the stories of a remarkable group of scientists-men and women who have taken on the challenge of discovery, and who are prepared to risk their lives to ensure that the frontiers of science are constantly expanding. In twenty varied chapters, you can travel to the Amazon with a modern medicine-man, marvel as a neurosurgeon probes the human brain with a laser scalpel, share the success of conservationists whose work has saved the bald eagle from extinction, and join the scientific detectives who are solving the great puzzles of the past. Full color photographs and illustrations. A clean very presentable copy. No international sales.

Seller Inventory # 013458

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Explorers
• Publisher: WTTW/Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0964745704
• ISBN 13: 9780964745704
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Explorers/Archaeology/Anthropology
  • Technology
  • Science

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YA--Twenty essays, divided into four categories--medical advances, great mysteries, amazing creatures, and fragile earth--look at recent strides in neonatology, superconductors and laser use in neurosurgery, and physics in daily life; history of the dinosaurs, stone carvings, and lines of the ancient Nazca in South America; endangered species and dolphins; and rainforests, volcanoes, and pollution. This companion to the PBS program of the same name debunks the old lament that everything worth knowing is known and, in the process, expands YAs' understanding of some of the frontiers of today's scientific research. Text and visuals are sufficiently detailed for reports and sufficiently engaging for pleasure reading.

Barbara Hawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VA

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