I passed my photographic material exam in Britain after having reviewed this excellently-pictured book.

The front cover says "Everything you ever wanted to know about the unknown"
They were not kidding. This is a series of short essays packed with profound questions and a powerful amount of knowledge to back the questions up. If you are a Gary Zukav fan then this will defiantly be to complex for you.
The contributors are too numerous to mention; however they include information from Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Just as you think this is a past cutting edge physics book, it switches to "What is consciousness and do we really need it?" You will find augments for and against your favorite theories.

Some of the Contents are

Why
O. R. Frich

The Lure of Completeness
Sir Hermann Bondi

Nature of Knowledge
R. A. Lyttlen

Is Physics Legislated by Cosmogony?
J. A. Wheeler and C. M. Patton

Is Space Curved?
I.W. Roxburgh

Relativity and Time
T. Gold

Mathematics in Social Science
C. W. Kilmister

Learning and Memory and the Nervous System

H.A. Buchtel and G. Berlucchi

Sleep
W.B. Webb

The Veils of Gaia
P. Cloud

The Design of Novel Replicating Polymers
A.G. Cairns-Smith and C.J. Davis

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Plan on some thinking time.

This book had a great influence on me when I was growing up. The copyright is 1979, and many of the scientific details are now outdated. The book is a collection of technical/scientific papers on what is UNKNOWN. The papers were written by prominent researchers in the physical and life sciences. Some of the problems are so difficult, however, that not that much progress has been made in 20 plus years. What would be really nice would be to see this kind of book redone today.

The first chapters are more philosophical, then are followed by mind-bending papers, in clear English but with challenging concepts and some math, by P.C.W. Davies, Roger Penrose, et al. This was where I first learned that no theory of quantum gravity has been developed, where I was introduced to Mach's principle, the "coincidental large numbers" linking cosmology to particle physics, etc.

Terrific book great for helping to get a finance job! A must buy for any MBA.

I help manage the career center an elite business school in the Northeast - and this is one of our most popular books. Along with the VaultReports.com Guides, this book is essential preparation for a career in investment banking.

Terrific book great help for getting a job in finance. Great information direct for a huge number of the top finance firms.

I would recommend this book to some students of veterinary science and veterinary pathology, but it is hard to keep pace with such a rapidly changing field - and in some sections, this book hasn't even tried. Glaring errors and out of date references are present in some sections (e.g. the section on Swine Influenza does not mention the zoonotic potential of the virus or its presence in avian species). Other sections contain information and figures which are hard to obtain elsewhere. Use this book - but with caution.

I would like to recommend this book to any vet students who wish to buy this book. This book may be a little heavy to carry around but the it's good as a back-up reference book. The explanation on the topic of inflammation and neoplasia is good and to the point. On inflammation, it's divided to the groups of inflammation and and in the topic of neoplasia differentiates benign and malignant tumours very detail. I like this this.