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VIOLENT UNIVERSE: An Eyewitness Account of the New Astronomyby Calder, NigelCompass Edition
Book desription: NY: The Viking Press, 1972 Hardcover with unclipped ($10.95) dust jacket. Sm 4to. 160 pp. Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over gray cloth boards, gilt (bronze, silver and green) lettering on spine. Illustrated with 115 B&W and 14 color photographs and numerous drawings. EX-LIBRARY COPY with the usual markings. Dust jacket slightly shelf-worn in Mylar. Based on material gathered for the award-winning BBC-TV program, though in much more detail. Nigel Calder has edited many books on various scientific subjects and is the author of Robots (1958) ; Eden Was No Garden (1967) ; Unless Peace Comes (1968) ; Technopolis (1970) ; Mind of Man (1970) ; The Restless Earth (1972) ; The Life Game (1974) ; The Weather Machine (1974) ; The Human Conspiracy (1976) ; The Key to the Universe (1977) ; Spaceships of the Mind (1978) ; Einstein's Universe (1979) ; Nuclear Nightmare (1979) ; The Comet is Coming (1981) ; Timescale (1983) ; The English Channel (1985) ; Spaceship Earth (1992) ; Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science (2003) ; and several others. . Compass Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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