This Gifted Age: Science and Technology at the Millennium [signed by Gibbons to Thomas Lovejoy] [Thomas Lovejoy's copy]

Gibbons, John H. [signed by Gibbons to Thomas Lovejoy] [Thomas Lovejoy's copy]

ISBN 10: 1563961296 / ISBN 13: 9781563961298

Published by Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997

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Hardcover with DJ. Gray cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine. Binding clean and tight. Color DJ lightly spotted, only visible on white back. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1997. Number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. 346 pages. Black and white diagrams in the text; pages clean throughout. Signed on FFE by John H. Gibbons to Thomas Lovejoy with inscription, "For Tom Lovejoy - trusted friend, astute advisor, esteemed colleague - all the best John Gibbons 1/98." A very good signed copy. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term biological diversity to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it.

Seller Inventory # Lovejoy-428

Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Gifted Age: Science and Technology at the Millennium [signed by Gibbons to Thomas Lovejoy] [Thomas Lovejoy's copy]
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563961296
• ISBN 13: 9781563961298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lovejoy

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Synopsis

The essays in this collection of John Gibbons's non-technical writings show both the limiting and liberating influence of government on technological research and development. Gibbons addresses the issues involved in the government's directing as well as supporting technological and scientific advance; he discusses the ways in which government and science join in serving society; and provides a look behind the scenes of the making of science policy. Active in Washington since 1972, when he was appointed to the Office of Energy Conservation by President Nixon, he was the head of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1979 until 1992, when President Clinton named him Science Advisor.