Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1956). Nearly 1200 pages covering the International Symposium on Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, held in Princeton, NJ, in 1955. Edited by Thomas Williams. Organized by Lewis Mumford, Carl O. Sauer, and Martson Bates. From the Wenner Gren Foundation website: "Billed as the first large-scale evaluation of what has happened and what is happening to the earth under man’s impress," the symposium "brought together seventy scholars from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia--with specializations ranging across more than twenty conventionally defined disciplines, from anthropology to zoology--who were selected for their common interest and curiosity about what man has been doing to and with his habitat." Ownership signature of Evan C. Evans III, biophysicist, who (from his obituary) "spent his life marshalling mankind to heed the destruction being wrought on the waning world." Evans did research on the atmospheric distribution of radioactive fallout and the uptake of radiation into plants and ecosystems; he also helped develop ARPAnet (precursor of the internet) and created a relational database for use in environmental preservation and management. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A massive, landmark volume, and a highly notable copy of it. [#035881] SOLD