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The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen...
John Napier
Life, Logarithms, and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
John Napier (1550–1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms—an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon lead to the development of their mechanical equivalent in the slide rule: the two would serve humanity as the principal means of calculation until the mid-1970s....
Albert Einstein, The Human Side
Glimpses from His Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as...
by Richard Condit, Rolando Pérez, Nefertaris Daguerre
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This is the first field guide dedicated to the diverse tree species of Panama and Costa Rica. Featuring close to 500 tropical tree species, Trees of Panama and Costa Rica includes superb color photos, abundant color distribution maps, and concise descriptions of key characteristics, making this guide...
Finding Fibonacci
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's story
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives...
The Birds of New Jersey
Status and Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
New Jersey provides some of the most varied and exciting birding in North America, and more than 450 species have been recorded in the state. Yet there has been no comprehensive and readily available guide to the status and distribution of all these species--until now. The Birds of New Jersey is the...
Wind Wizard
Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
With Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth's natural and built environments--and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to...
Mammals of North America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
The best-selling field guide that "sets new standards" (New Scientist) and "makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States. . . and Canada obsolete" (Journal of Mammalogy) is now even better. Covering 20 species recognized since 2002 and including 13 new color plates,...
The First Serious Optimist
A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists
The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877–1959), a founder of welfare economics and one of the twentieth century's most important...
Leonhard Euler
Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707–83), one of the greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists of all time. In this comprehensive and authoritative account, Ronald Calinger connects the story of Euler's eventful life to the astonishing achievements that place him...
The Rebbe
The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that...
The Life of Walatta-Petros
A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This concise edition of the biography of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography of...
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler...
Taxing the Rich
A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you.
Taxing...