Keeping Cool, and Other Essays.

Haldane (J.B.S.)

Keeping Cool, and Other Essays.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a few leaves with faint crease to top corner, pp. 280, crown 8vo, original mid-blue cloth, the backstrip lettered in blind against a dark blue ground and slightly faded at tips, a few spots to edges, dustjacket with some light handling, the backstrip panel gently sunned, a few nicks and chips to extremities, very good

Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1940

Notes: A collection of essays that attempt, the author states in his Preface, 'to popularize all kinds of science'; the author there evinces a forward-looking mindset - he is at that moment 'waiting to be bombed', and whilst 'history is a record of pretty nasty facts', it is through science that the necessary advances can be made.His subjects here are various: Life and Death, Weather, Blood Royal, Darwin, Town Planning, Marxism, et al.