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The Acceleration of History By Gerard Piel

Knopf, 369 pp., $8.95 Gerard Piel, as one can see from the biography on the jacket of his new book, is one of the pillars of the American intellectual Establishment. Holder of a panoply of honorary degrees, he is a member or fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a trustee of Radcliffe College, Phillips Academy, the American Museum of Natural History and the Mayo Foundation. The publisher of Scientific American, he has been awarded a number of prizes for his work in the popularization of science. The essays collected in this book were composed over the last decade and delivered at a variety of academic occasions, conventions, symposia and congressional hearings, and they represent the thoughts of the author on what he believes to be the central issue of our times, the relation between scientific progress and the social problems of the era.

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The Acceleration of History By Gerard Piel

Knopf, 369 pp., $8.95 Gerard Piel, as one can see from the biography on the jacket of his new book, is one of the pillars of the American intellectual Establishment. Holder of a panoply of honorary degrees, he is a member or fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a trustee of Radcliffe College, Phillips Academy, the American Museum of Natural History and the Mayo Foundation. The publisher of Scientific American, he has been awarded a number of prizes for his work in the popularization of science. The essays collected in this book were composed over the last decade and delivered at a variety of academic occasions, conventions, symposia and congressional hearings, and they represent the thoughts of the author on what he believes to be the central issue of our times, the relation between scientific progress and the social problems of the era.