Therefore Choose Life - CBC Massey Lectures (Paperback)

George Wald (author), Lewis Auerbach (author of introduction)

£11.99

Paperback 104 Pages / Published: 21/12/2017

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Synopsis

This never before published found Massey Lecture will be released in paperback to complete the series.The subjects he touches upon are even more urgent and timely today - overpopulation, nuclear arms, the environment have progressed further into the twenty-first century.George Wald is a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, and a well-known, popular Harvard professor, who was featured in TIME magazine as "one of the ten best teachers in the country"Wald was also a political and social activist, and spoke out against the war in Vietnam and the nuclear arms raceA rebroadcast of this lecture is planned for mid-October 2017. The Massey Lectures airs on three select U.S. stations: KUOW Seattle, WBEZ Chicago, MPBN Maine.Therefore Choose Life will be available on NetGalley and Edelweiss.

Publisher: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
ISBN: 9781487003388
Number of pages: 104
Dimensions: 203 x 127 mm

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"In addition to being a superb scientist, Wald was a marvellous teacher, lecturer, and writer. TIME magazine's 300 Biographical Memoirs named him 'one of the ten best teachers in the country' in a cover story published in 1966. He wrote and lectured on a wide variety of topics from the 'Origin of Life' and 'Life and Mind in the Universe' to political issues. The Vietnam War horrified him and, beginning in the mid-1960s until shortly before his death, he was deeply involved in anti-war and anti-nuclear activities. He considered his political actions as part of being a biologist: one who is concerned with life." - John Dowling, Biologist, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, and author of Creating Mind: How the Brain Works