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A collection of essays by a Nobel Prize Laureate on a wide range of critical issues facing the world, and the role of scientists in solving these problems. Kendall has been closely involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that began as an informal assocation at MIT in 1969 to protest US involvement in Vietnam and is today an organization with an annual budget exceeding $6 million, with 100,000 supporters worldwide. UCD is today a voice of authority in US government science policy, particularly with regard to environment issues, most recently the worldwide initiatives on global warming. Together, these essays represent both the sucessses and failures of science to impact public policy, the challenges facing scientists, and offers practical guidelines for involvement in science policy.

The essays are roughly chronological, organized by subject with introductions, beginning with the controversies on nuclear power safety and Three Mile Island,then followed by sections on national security issues, global environmental and resource problems,and radioactive cleanup and other current issues. Kendall's Nobel Prize lecture as well as a more popular version thereof is also included (and is the only really technical material in the book).The photos in the book are Kendall's, from an 1992 exhibition of his work.

Henry Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics (jointly with J.I.Friedman and R.E. Taylor) in 1990 for his research in the structure of the proton and netron. In 1969, he was one of a group of physicist who founded the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and is currently Chairman of its Board of Directors. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1880 edition by William Maddock; Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Sydney; London. ... Read more

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Chapters: W. S. Gilbert, John Caird, Jonathan Miller, Peter Gill, Julie Anne Robinson, Sheridan Morley, Henry Kendall, Edith Craig, Jack Shepherd, Theodore Komisarjevsky, Eleanor Evans, Edward Wilson, Michael Bogdanov, Sol B River, Jonathan Holloway, Gavin Richards, Cicely Berry, Mary Luckhurst, Stephen Henry, Anna Bethell, Lindsay Posner, Michael Boyd, Irina Brook, Gerald Chapman, Christopher Renshaw, Richard Digby Day, Terence de Marney, Derrick Goodwin, Peter Alexander, Matthew Warchus, Kate Saxon, Jeremy Sams, Les Waters, Frith Banbury, Hugh Wooldridge, Howard Davies, Ian Rickson, James T. Tanner, Ted Craig, Chris Harris (Actor, Director and Writer), David Lan, Bijan Sheibani, Clifford Williams, Carrie Cracknell, Paulette Randall, James Roose-Evans, Harper Ray, Paul Blackman, Chris Parr, Nicholas Wright, Ramin Gray, Malachi Bogdanov, Anna Mackmin, Jude Kelly, Andy Sinclair-Harris, Paul Stebbings, Jane Prowse, Steven Rumbelow, John Ashford, Sean Holmes, Philip Franks, Nick Winston, Thomas Wignell, Paul King, Josette Bushell-Mingo, Tom Littler, Mary Roscoe, Martin Bergman, Stephen Macdonald, Toni Arthur, Dominic Allen, Gordon Mcdougall, Sarah Benson, Walter Sutcliffe, Tarek Antoine El Kik, Paul Unwin, Glen Byam Shaw, James Wilkes, Josie Rourke, Jackie Smith-Wood, Stella Baker, Steven Atkinson, Polly Teale, Nancy Meckler, Kenneth Barnes, Jonathan Church, Andrew Bowker. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 315. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7993134 ... Read more