The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias
by Dubos, Rene (signed)
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0231024932
- ISBN 13
- 9780231024938
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Columbia UP, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Russ, For deep--or relaxing--summer reading. Rene Dubos." Uncommon signed. Seven lectures exploring "the relationship between the scientific community and the lay public that impatiently awaits practical applications of scientific knowledge." Dubos (1901-1982) was a microbiologist and important environmental thinker. He would go to win the Pulitzer in 1969 for So Human an Animal and is credited with coining the essential enviro phrase, "Think globally, act locally." An about fine book in green cloth in a very good jacket with some wear and chipping to top edge..
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1023
- Title
- The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias
- Author
- Dubos, Rene (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0231024932
- ISBN 13
- 9780231024938
- Publisher
- Columbia UP
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Science, Pulitzer Prize
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
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La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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