Discount used books
SEARCH 50 MILLION USED & NEW BOOKS:



Note: Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

by Boorstin, Daniel J



  • Bookseller: Rainy Day Paperback Exchange US (US)
  • Seller Inventory #: 4NH004

  • Format: Hardbound
  • Book condition: GOOD/Good
  • Edition: 1st Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0394402294
  • ISBN 13: 9780394402291
  • Publisher: Random House
  • Place: NY
  • Date published: 1983
  • Pages: 745
  • Size: 6.5 x 10 x 2.25 inches
  • Weight: 2.65 pounds

Description

NY: Random House, 1983. Hardbound. GOOD/Good. Tight bright, clean and square. DJ has serious edgewear, several small rips on edge have been taped. How and why discoveries occurred or didn't. Insight into the people who made them. ISBN: 0394402294.



Save on shipping!
Learn how Biblio.com can save you money on shipping!

HACKER SAFE certified sites prevent over 99.9% of hacker crime.

Book summary

In THE DISCOVERERS, historian Boorstin explores the major scientific and technical inquiries and inventions of the West and how they contributed to mankind. THE DISCOVERERS is the first of a trilogy; it is followed by THE CREATORS and THE SEEKERS.


Similar books from this bookseller

From this bookseller's SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY catalog.

The Denial of Death
by Becker, Ernest
NY: Free Press, 1975. (13th printing). Trade paperback. VERY GOOD. Curl to covers. Small chip on spine bottom. 3 dog-eared pgs...


The Woman's Guide to Sex on the Web
by Semans, Anne and Cathy Winks 
San Francisco: Harper-Collins , 1999. (1st edition-stated). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. Small chip on top of spine, mark on ...


The Chemicals of Life
by Asimov, Isaac, Illustrated by John Bradford 
NY: Mentor(MW1606), 1954. (reprint) . Paperback. NEAR FINE. Asimov, the scientist & professor of biochemistry, give nonte...


The world of Copernicus
by Armitage, Angus. 
NY: Signet(#P2370), 1951. (9th printing). Paperback. GOOD. The life and work of the great astronomer. Tight and square. Cover...


Other Recommended Books


The Discoverers
Daniel Boorstin


The Western Experience
Mortimer Chambers, David Herlihy, Theodore K. Rabb, Isser Woloch, Raymond Grew


The Heritage of World Civilizations
Albert M. Craig, Donald Kagan, Steven E. Ozment, Frank M. Turner, William A. Graham