LEADER 00000cam 2200409 i 4500 001 sky254075134 003 SKY 005 20141231193134.0 008 130408s2013 nyu 001 0deng 010 2012051412 020 9780871403773 (hardcover) 020 0871403773 (hardcover) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dYDXCP|dBTCTA|dBDX|dUKMGB|dIAD|dKLP |dABG|dVP@|dMLY|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 082 00 570.92|223 092 570.92|bWIL 100 1 Wilson, Edward O. 240 10 Correspondence.|kSelections 245 10 Letters to a young scientist /|cEdward O. Wilson. 250 First edition. 264 1 New York :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company,|c[2013] 300 244 pages :|billustrations ;|c20 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent. 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 500 Includes index. 505 0 First passion, then training -- Mathematics -- The path to follow -- What is science? -- The creative process -- What it takes -- Most likely to succeed -- I never changed -- Archetypes of the scientific mind -- Scientists as explorers of the universe -- A mentor and the start of a career -- The grails of field biology -- A celebration of audacity -- Know your subject, thoroughly -- Science as universal knowledge -- Searching for new worlds on Earth - - The making of theories -- Biological theory on a grand scale -- Theory in the real world -- The scientific ethic. 520 Weaves together more than twenty letters that illuminate the author's career and his motivations for becoming a biologist, explaining how success in the sciences depends on a passion for finding a problem and solving it. 600 10 Wilson, Edward O.|vCorrespondence. 650 0 Biologists|vCorrespondence. 650 0 Naturalists|vCorrespondence. 650 0 Science|xVocational guidance. 650 0 Science|vMiscellanea. 650 0 Science.
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