To those of us on the EBASI Council who had the good fortune to meet Professor Salam, no biography could ever be sufficient to connote his brilliance and simultaneously his soft-spoken demeanor and concern for the well-being of humanity in general and the well-being of humanity in "Third World" developing nations in particular. To that end, a series of books entitled Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam (First, Second, and Third Editions, World Scientific Publishing Co.) will provide interesting and intriguing personal incite into the workings of his mind and his dreams of "what could be".