Max F. Perutz Book order

This delightful collection of essays by Nobel Laureate Max Perutz explores a wide range of scientific and personal topics with great insight and lucidity. This ... is a wholly captivating book; it has warmth, wit, and style, and not a dull sentence. Walter Grazer, Nature.

Sharply diverging rates of population growth in the 20th century have been accompanied by increasing disparities in income and quality of life. These papers examine the relationship between physical and human resources and population within a context of mass poverty and environmental deterioration.