IDEALS AND REALITIES
Selected Essays of Abdus Salam

by C H Lai & Azim Kidwai

The latest edition of “Ideals and Realities” includes some of the most recent talks given by Professor Abdus Salam. They replace a few essays which were published in the second edition. An attempt has also been made to update some of the figures rendered absolete with the passage of time.

Contents:

Science and the World:

Ideals and Realities

International Commons: Sharing of International Resources

Nuclear Security, Disarmament and Development

Science and Technology in the Developing Countries:

Notes on Science, Technology and Science Education in the Development of the South

Technology and Pakistan’s Attack on Poverty

Highlights of Science for Turkey

The Isolation of the Scientist in Developing Countries

International Centre for Theoretical Physics:

Need for an International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Trieste-World Rendezvous for Physicists (Dan Behrman)

Other Initiatives:

A World Federation of Institutes of Advanced Study

Third World Higher Education and Italy

Address to UNESCO

A Proposal for the Creation of an International Centre for Science

The Third World Academy of Sciences:

Inaugural Address to the Third World Academy of Sciences by Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Javier Perez de Cuellar

The Founding of the Third World Academy of Sciences and the Third World Network of Scientific Organizations

Islam and Science:

Scientific Thinking: Between Secularisation and the Transcedent

The Future of Science in Islamic Countries

Perspectives on Physics:

Speech at the Nobel Banquet

Gauge Unification of Fundamental Forces

Physics and the Exellences of the Life it Brings

Particle Physics: Will Britain Kill its Own Creation?

Behind Reality: Professor Abdus Salam FRS (Paul Andersen)

Salam the Man:

The Lonely Scientists — Thinking Ahead with Abdus Salam

A Man of Science — Abdus Salam (Nigel Calder)

Man of Two Worlds (Robert Walgate)

Abdus Salam (John Ziman)

Science Sublime (Lewis Wolpert & Alison Richards)

Abdus Salam (Rushworth M Kidder)

Personal:

Homage to Chaudhri Muhammad Zafrulla Khan

Reviews:

Review of the Italian Edition of Ideals and Realities

Excerpt from the Foreword to the Rumanian Translation of Ideals and Realities (Ioan Ursu)

Review of Ideals and Realities in La Recherche

Readership: General.

530pp Pub. date: Dec 1989
ISBN: 978-981-02-0080-0
981-02-0080-3 US$82 / £54