Good "boxed set" of seminal contemporary science books?

[mbeeby]

Hi All,

 

I'm looking to see if there's a "boxed set" or otherwise cohesive series of important contemporary science books (for example, featuring the likes of Richard Dawkins or Stephen Hawking). However, a pretty serious search on my local large independent bookstore's website, amazon, and google, turned up nothing (the closest was TimeLife's set from the 60's!). Can anyone help me out? My intention is to give these to my dad, an avid science reader, as a 65th birthday present.

 

Thanks!

[Swedgen]

Hi All,

 

I'm looking to see if there's a "boxed set" or otherwise cohesive series of important contemporary science books (for example, featuring the likes of Richard Dawkins or Stephen Hawking). However, a pretty serious search on my local large independent bookstore's website, amazon, and google, turned up nothing (the closest was TimeLife's set from the 60's!). Can anyone help me out? My intention is to give these to my dad, an avid science reader, as a 65th birthday present.

 

Thanks!

 

I'm not aware of anything of that ilk.

 

Depending on him scientific interest, there's a very good boxed set of Darwin's books that came out a few years ago called "From So Simple a Beginning". It's a single volume of over 1700 pages with his 4 most well-known books - "Voyage of the Beagle", "Origin of Species", "Descent of Man", and "The Expression and Emotions of Man and Animals". I've read the first 2 and I'm about to tackle "Descent of Man". They're all 1st editions too.