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New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1958. Third Printing (stated). Hardcover. Very good/Good. xi, [1], 193, [3] pages. Includes Acknowledgments, Preface by Lee A. DuBridge, President of the California Institute of Technology, Notes, Tables, Charts, Bibliography, and Index. There is some wear, rippling, discoloration, and small chips to dust jacket edges. This book is a summary of some thirty conferences that were held with individual company groups, each conference confined to the top executives of the corporation. Their value and interest exceeded all expectations, and led to an insistent demand that the material be made publicly available. The authors hope that this publication will stimulate further discussions of matters pertaining to resources, important as they are to the future of our nation and the world. They also trust that this publication will serve as evidence that members of university and industrial staffs can profitably cooperate in examining many types of problems of…
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The Next Hundred Years
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London England: The Scientific Book Club, 1957. Hardback. First Edition. The Next Hundred Years. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Brown cloth with black lettering. With a Foreword and Postscript by Sir Solly Zuckerman. Contents: Acknowledgements. Foreword by Sir Solly Zuckerman. Preface by Lee A. DuBridge, President of the California Institute of Technology. Some Questions. On Forecasting the Future. Some Contrasts. Demands for Raw Materials in an Industrial Society. Technical Manpower in and Industrial Society. Rates of Industrialization. World Population. World Food Production. New Knowledge and New Food. Patterns of Agricultural Change. What is a Resource? Our Energy Resources. New Knowledge and New Energy. Technical Manpower, Present and Future. The Production of Scientists and Engineers. Increasing our Brainpower Output. Our Ultimage Brainpower Potential. The Long View. Postscript by Sir Solly Zuckerman. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 208 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.
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The Next Hundred Years; Man's Natural and Technological Resources A Discussion Prepared for Leaders of American Industry
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. With a Foreword and Postscript by Sir Solly Zuckerman. From the collection of Ex-library with their stamp marks, library sheet and pocket. Publication of 208 pages. The dust jacket is worn, the remains of the jacket are pasted onto the boards. The boards are frayed along the edges and a piece of the spine is missing. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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