Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution
If you have ever had the notion that science is dull business, this book will change your mind. Hardly your stereotypical scientist in a white lab coat, James Watson in his prime
View ArticleSpy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan
*This is the remarkable biography of Noor Inayat Khan, code named ""Madeleine"". The first woman wireless transmitter in occupied France during WWII, she was trained by Britain's SOE and assumed the most
View ArticleFallen Soviet Generals: Soviet General Officers Killed in Battle, 1941-1945...
No war has caused greater suffering than World War II on Germany's Eastern Front. Victory in the war cost the Red Army over 29 million casualties, whose collective fate was not properly
View ArticlePerfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard...
Finding out about someone by reading their correspondence is a fundamentally different thing than reading their biography. Letters offer both more intimacy with the subject and at the same time a crucial
View ArticleJarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the mythos of the marines, and
View ArticleNationalizing Science: Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry...
In 1869, Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) called chemistry "a French science." In fact, however, Wurtz was the most internationalist of French chemists. Born in Strasbourg and educated partly in the...
View ArticleThe Wild Blue : The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany
Long before he entered politics, when he was just in his early 20s, South Dakotan George McGovern flew 35 bomber missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery under
View ArticleAlexander A Friedmann: The Man who Made the Universe Expand
Our universe can be described mathematically by a simple model developed in 1922 at Petrograd (St. Petersburg) by Alexander Friedmann (1888-1925). Without the benefit of observational evidence,...
View ArticleThe Enlightenment's Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society...
The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested individuals is a dominant modern concern, but one first systematically articulated during the Enlightenment. This book approaches this...
View ArticleCitadel on the Mountain: A Memoir of Father and Son
A warped dream, an overbearing father, and his sonA handsome, brilliant man, the author's father-irascible, strong-willed, a compulsive womanizer-stands at the center of this strangely compelling...
View ArticleTuesdays with Morrie
This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude
View ArticleDefending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
he year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is just a nine-year-old boy living in Baltimore. As the war rages somewhere far beyond the
View ArticleHans Krebs: Volume 2: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism, 1933-1937 (Hans...
This comprehensive volume completes Frederic Holmes' notable and detailed biography of Hans Krebs, from the investigator's early development through the major phase of his groundbreaking investigation,...
View ArticleWalter Benjamin: A Biography
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the United States, in particular, he has acquired a status
View ArticleFlorence Nightingale's European Travels: Collected Works of Florence...
This seventh volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale consists of letters, observations, and notes from Florence Nightingale's many trips to Europe, beginning with a family journey when...
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