Foreword
Preface
1. International Association of Academies (1899-1914)
2. International Research Council (1919-1931)
3. ICSU: beginning and establishment
4. ICSU development (1931-1939)
5. ICSU in wartime
6. A new beginning (1945)
7. ICSU in a post-war world
8. The free conduct of science
9. Living machinery: officers and staff
10. Growth: within science and outwards
11. ICSU at mid-century
12. The International Geophysical Year and its heritage
13. Data and scientific information
14. World projects and the environment
15. ICSU and UNESCO
16. Membership
17. Ringberg (1985) to Visegrad (1990): self-examination
18. The road to Rio and beyond
19. ICSU at the end of a century
Appendices
Notes
Further reading
Index.
