{"product_id":"2026100010185-secondhand-the-ascent-of-man","title":"The Ascent Of Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: repr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; faded and creased spine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first tools shaped by ancient hands to the splitting of the atom, The Ascent of Man chronicles humanity's extraordinary intellectual and scientific journey across one hundred thousand years of civilisation. Jacob Bronowski, mathematician, poet, and one of the twentieth century's most gifted scientific humanists, presents the history of science not as a cold accumulation of facts, but as the most profound and deeply personal expression of what it means to be human — a story of curiosity, courage, and the relentless drive to understand the world.\n\nWritten as the companion volume to the landmark BBC television series, the work argues with passionate conviction that science and the arts are not opposing forces but twin expressions of the human imagination. Bronowski's prose is at once rigorous and lyrical, capable of illuminating the abstractions of mathematics and the revolutions of Darwin or Einstein with equal clarity and wonder. Ranging from the ancient plains of Africa to the laboratories of Los Alamos, The Ascent of Man remains a monumental and deeply moving testament to human ingenuity — one that compels the reader to ask not only where we have been, but how far we have yet to climb.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022567833819,"sku":"2026100010185-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/496cc5fc-7215-4c8e-a599-0d9c345247db.png?v=1793665074","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010185-secondhand-the-ascent-of-man","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}