Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (14 volume set)

The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. 14 volume set. From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. <br> Interesting essays in this collection include: On a Scientific Approach to Prediction by Simon Ramo; Los Tapiales: A Paleo-Indian Campside in the Guatemalan Highlands by Ruth Gruhn and Alan L. Bryan; On Promoting Useful Knowledge by Gerard Piel; Indian Astronomy by David Pingree; Variations in the Sun and Their Effects on Weather and Climate by Walter Orr Roberts; Ascorbate and Caner by Linus Pauling and Ewan Cameron; Radium, Radioactivity, and the Popularity of Scientific Discovery by Lawrence Badash; and Mendeleev and the Scientific Claims of Spiritualism by Don C. Rawson. <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University <br> Contents: Vol. 121, No. 3, 1977; Vol. 121, No. 4, 1977; Vol. 121, No. 5, 1977; Vol. 122, No. 1, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 2, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 3 1978; Vol. 122, No. 4, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 5, 1978; Vol. 122, No. 6, 1978; Vol. 123, No. 1, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 2, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 3, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 4, 1979; Vol. 123, No. 6, 1979. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.