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Facing the future's risks : studies toward predicting the unforeseen edited by Lyman Bryson, with the collaboration of Ralph H. Blanchard [and others] ; with comments on insurance by Lawrence A. Fitzgerald
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Tn .659
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--United States--History.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 318 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- [1st ed.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, [1953]
- Contents:
- The conference on risks of the future / L. Bryson
- American society, 1752-1952 : comparison and contrast / L.B. Wright
- Probability and statistics / W. Weaver
- Physical science and the future / L.N. Ridenour
- Psychology : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / W. Dennis
- From spirits to mechanism : two centuries of biology / R.W. Gerard
- Population trends in the United States / F.W. Notestein
- American women and American values / F.R. Kluckhohn
- Crime in America, two hundred years ago and today / A.H. MacCormick
- Two centuries of political change / R.M. MacIver
- Foundations of America's economic greatness / D.M. Keezer
- Risk and insurance / R.H. Blanchard
- Mutual insurance and the risks of the future / L.A. Fitzgerald.
- Notes:
- "Report of a conference marking the 200th anniversary of the successful establishment of mutual insurance in America, New York City, 1952."
- Includes bibliographies.
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