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This is a brand new, undread first edition of A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine, written by the Wall Street Journal's Gregory Zuckerman and published in 2021.355 pages, including a detailed Cast of Characters.Unread, mint condition.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 – 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General, as Lord Chancellor of England and as legal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.
Bacon argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by use of a skeptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his practical ideas about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have a long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a skeptical methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific method.
Bacon published three volumes of essays; the last contained 58 essays—all are contained in this book. It also contains his famous The New Atlantis, an incomplete… Leer más

Vanity Fair April 2011
Cover: Robert Pattinson
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200 Pages
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This is a first edition of With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D., by the British author Rudyard Kipling. In 1905, Kipling began serializing this science fiction novella in the American monthly McClure's Magazine.
The story follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather, while a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control enforces a rigid system of command and control, not only in the skies (which are increasingly crowded with every manner of zeppelin) but also in world affairs.Kipling got so excited by his own utopian vision that he wrote and placed phony ads in McClure's for dirigible and aeronautical products. He also wrote and placed phony news items, e.g. that the Aerial Board of Control outlawed war in 1967 — by "reserving to every nation the right of waging war so long as it does not interfere with traffic and all that that implies."
In 1909, Doubleday Page gathered all of this together--the story, the ads, and the phony articles, then added reviews and… Leer más