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  • THE HOPE OF PROGRESS
    P.B. MEDAWAR
    First published in 1972, The Hope of Progress presents collection of essays and lectures dealing with the history of scientific ideas and the impact of science on society. The principle piece in this volume is the author’s 1969 presidential address to the British Association ‘On The Effecting of All Things Possible’, an argument for believing in the ability of science to solve ...

    $860.00

  • THE ART OF THE SOLUBLE
    P.B. MEDAWAR
    First published in 1967, The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on the logical connections between creative and critical thought. It is also a pioneering study of the ethology of the scientists – of the anatomy of scientific behaviour. Is it true that scientists are detached or dispassiona...

    $860.00

  • THE FUTURE OF MAN
    P.B. MEDAWAR
    Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar’s Reith lectures of 1959. The book outlines his predictions about the future estate of man, with the ‘process of foretelling, rather than with what is actually foretold’. He asks, can we predict the future size of populations? What is the evidence and theoretical background for the belief that hu...

    $2,540.00

  • THE UNIQUENESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
    P.B. MEDAWAR
    Originally published in 1957, The Uniqueness of the Individual is a collection of 9 essays published from the ten years preceding publication. The essays deal with some of the central problems of biology. These are among the questions put and answered from the standpoint of modern experimental biology. What is ageing and how is it measured? What theories have been held to accou...

    $940.00

  • INDUCTION AND INTUITION IN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT
    P B MEDAWAR
    Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks. ...

    $1,420.00

  • CONSEJOS A UN JOVEN CIENTIFICO
    MEDAWAR P.B.
    Agotado

    $469.00