On the Brink of Tomorrow: Frontiers of Science. 1982. H/C with jacket. 200 pp.

If you are in your thirties, half of all the world's scientific knowledge has been produced since you left school!

A beautiful and knowledgeable book published by the National Geographic Society. The frontiers of our age of discovery stretch not over uncharted seas or through trackless jungles, but across the vast reaches of the universe and into the heart of the atom; around our neighbour planets in the solar system; along the shifting fault lines of our own planet earth; inside the cells of our bodies as they fight disease and reproduce; and within that most complex of instruments, the human brain. In clear, laymen's language, eminent scientists recount recent advances in their fields and explain how these findings may well bring changes into your own life tomorrow. With stunning full-size photographs, all in colour. Printed on thick, quality paper.

First published 1982 by the National Geographic Society, Washington DC, USA. Condition: Inside very good. Dust jacket worn with fraying at edges.