Letters to a Young Scientist [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Wilson, Edward O.

Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2013

Beschreibung

As new condition green boards with a forest green spine, gold front cover decoration, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Edward O. Wilson; Author Dedication; Prologue: You Made the Right Choice; Acknowledgments; Photograph Credits; and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings. "First and foremost, I urge you to stay on the path you've chosen, and to travel on it as far as you can. The world needs you -- badly." - Edward O. Wilson, from the Prologue and rear outer jacket. "At a time when the survival of our species and the rest of the living world is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, both young and old alike. Throughout his storied career, Wilson has counseled thousands of talented young people, and as a result has gleaned a deep knowledge, indeed a philosophy, of what one needs to know to have have a successful career in science. In Letters to a Young Scientist, he lays out not just his practical advice for how the next generation can succeed, but why it is so vitally important that they do. Wilson threads these twenty letters with richly illustrated autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career -- both his successes and his failures -- and his motivations for becoming a biologist. Beginning with his own coming-of-age in Mobile, Alabama, Wilson reflects on his adolescence as an enthusiastic Boy Scout, resolved to spend as much of his free time as possible outdoors, exploring the swamps and forests of the Gulf Coast and cataloging its many spiders, ants, snakes, and butterflies. Determined at first to reach the rank of Eagle Scout and then later to become an entomologist, Wilson describes an early passion tempered by education as being a guiding force in forging the arc of a career. Letters to a Young Scientist includes advice on choosing a field of study, finding a mentor, and the application of scientific theory in the real world. Yet Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill or even a high IQ, but rather a passion for finding a problem and solving it. He calls more broadly for a synthesis of the sciences and humanities in the twenty-first century that can inspire a generation of young people, encourage their innate creativity, and set them to work solving the problems that previous generations have woefully ignored. Whether describing the collapse of stars or the exploration of rain forests, Wilson ultimately instills in his readers a love of the infinite wonders of science and an abiding respect for the human being's modest place in the planet's ecosystem." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward O. Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize winner who is recognized as one of the world's leading scientists, is an emeritus professor of biology at Harvard University. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006244

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Letters to a Young Scientist [FIRST EDITION,...

Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition