Since mid-century, America has witnessed an ominous decline in presidential leadership, culminating in the failing presidency of George W. Bush today. How did this happen? In Running Alone, the disti
At some point during the inhumanly cold Himalayan winter straddling 1965 and 1966, a peculiar collection of box-shaped objects ? one sprouting a six-foot, insect-like antenna ? plummets nine thousand
Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s and continued to be published through most of the twentieth century, was a direct product as well as a major force
An evangelical Christian and author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory looks at the involvement of evangelical Christianity in modern-day American partisan politics, offering a searing indictment of the
The author of My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World provides a close-up look at the growing phenomenon of MMPORGs (Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games) and the subculture it h
As a mother, Lisa Guernsey wondered about the influence of television on her two young daughters. As a reporter, she resolved to find out. What she first encountered was tired advice, sensationalized
Traces the history of John F. Kennedy's civil rights record, arguing that his erratic handling of the issue led to his failure to enact genuine reform and to an increasingly violent battle over civil
When does physics depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble theology? Peter Woit argues that string theory isn’t just going in the wrong direction, it’s not even scienc
This powerful examination of the present and future of American politics, by one of America’s most distinguished political journalists, reveals how the Republican Party has gained a long-term i
Documents the dangerous excavation of history's longest military tunnel and the tragic subterranean assault on the Confederate line at the Battle of the Crater, evaluating the decisions and events tha
Television has taken firm hold of American life ever since the first flickering images replaced the disembodied voices innocently crackling from the radio. Ever present and evolving, television thrive
In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O’Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to
Lives of the Planets is a sweeping tour of our solar system, from the sun to recently demoted Pluto, to the Kuiper Belt and beyond the edge of the interstellar void. From the Neolithic computer that
The Renaissance may have emerged out of the upheavals of the fourteenth century-but when did it end? And why? The renowned historian Theodore Rabb tackles these questions in this engaging and deeply
The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory’s originator, that organism is now sick. It is r
In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the “constrained” vision, which see
Cites four trends that have altered current medical practices, including a rise in antidepressant use, increased dependency on alternate medicine, higher applications of endorphin-bolstering exercise
Spy, businessman, bon vivant, Nazi Party member, Righteous Gentile. This was Oskar Schindler, the controversial savior of almost 12,000 Jews during the Holocaust who struggled afterwards to rebuild hi
An analysis of what many considered to be FDR's failure to rescue imperiled Jewish Europeans during World War II challenges beliefs that depict the president as anti-Semitic, drawing on extensive rese
The Ninth Amendment lurks like an unexploded mine within the Bill of Rights. Its wording is direct: “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disp
Covering a range of issues, debates, and controversies, a distinguished author shares his reflections on the attitudes of the founding fathers--including Washington, Adams, Madison, Franklin, Jefferso
Traces the embittered seventeenth-century feud between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the invention of calculus, describing how each claimed the mathematical innovation's discover
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too oft
Documents major nuclear incidents throughout the past sixty years, from the accidental bombing of a South Carolina town in 1958 and the orbit failure of Russian spy satellite Cosmos 954 in 1978 to the
At the heart of relativity theory, quantum mechanics, string theory, and much of modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry. In Why Beauty Is Truth, world-famous mathematician Ian Stewart narrates t
Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin-he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. In this authoritative intellectual biography of America’s most brilliant and cosmopolitan Found
United States Senator Gordon H. Smith tells the heartbreaking but inspiring story of his son's embattled life, his death by suicide at age twenty-two, and how the Smiths finally carried on — fi
There are no simple answers, only oversimplified ones. But the cure to all social ills lies in uncovering the truth. In this timely, wide-ranging collection of essays, William Jelani Cobb uses cinema
Embodying the entire system of Robert Henri’s teaching, The Art Spirit contains much valuable advice, critical comment, and inspiration to every student of the arts.
From two of the world’s most distinguished experts in animal behavior, a radical, creative, and accessible new approach to understanding animal minds through the structures they build
The founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard’s American Repertory Theater, and a drama critic for more than thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in the
In Catholic Matters, Father Neuhaus addresses the many controversies that have marked recent decades of American Catholicism. Looking beyond these troubles to “the splendor of truth” that
Since the baseball statistics revolution began in the 1970s, no one had written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis
A unique oral history of the entire span of the Holocaust based on interviews from the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Halper (senior fellow, Centre of International Studies, Cambridge U., UK) and Clarke (senior fellow, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs) argue that foreign policy debates in the Amer
What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? Fish on Friday tells the story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history: the s
In Washington’s God Michael Novak-one of America’s leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover George Washington’s religious life. Finally the record is set stra
