Thomas Levenson: 5 books
The Hunt for Vulcan
. . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The captivating, all-but-forgotten story of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and the search for a planet that never existed
For more than fifty years, the world’s top scientists searched for the “missing” planet Vulcan, whose existence was mandated by Isaac Newton’s theories of gravity....
Newton y el falsificador
La desconocida carrera como detective del fundador de la ciencia moderna
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 8, 2011
«En el caso de Newton y el falsificador, las complejas explicaciones sobre la economía inglesa de la época se alternan con los cuadros narrativos que presentan a Newton moviéndose por callejones oscuros e interrogando a presos. Tras este viaje por las cárceles del Londres de finales del XVII,...
Newton and the Counterfeiter
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
A “thoroughly surprising” chapter in the life of Isaac Newton, with a “vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts” (Providence Journal).
When renowned scientist Isaac Newton takes up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint in London, another kind...
by Thomas Levenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In a book that is both biography and the most exciting form of history, here are eighteen years in the life of a man, Albert Einstein, and a city, Berlin, that were in many ways the defining years of the twentieth century.
Einstein in Berlin
In the spring of 1913 two of the giants of...
Securing the City
Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment...