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Quantum Enigma : Physics Encounters Consciousness
Physics Encounters Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In trying to understand the atom physicists built quantum mechanics the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found to their embarrassment that with their theory physics encounters consciousness. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all this...
Wizardry:Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed
Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one...
by Sjeng Scheijen
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina,...
by James M. McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that...
Lone Star Lawmen : The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Hailed as "a rip-snortin' six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same" Robert M. Utley's Lone Star Justice captured the colorful first century of Texas Ranger history. Now in the eagerly anticipated conclusion Lone Star Lawmen Utley once again chronicles...
They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes Misquotes and Misleading Attributions
A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1989
Abraham Lincoln never said "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said "Go west young man." In They Never Said It Paul F. Boller Jr. and John George examine hundreds...
The Founder:Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1990
A tall, robust-looking, imposing figure, Cecil John Rhodes was a man of many contradictions. Rhodes, the dreamy idealist, called his copy of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius his "most precious possession," while Rhodes, the ruthless businessman, firmly believed in the adage, "every...
by Alyn Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab Calloway, whose...
by Caroline P. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
In Murder of a Medici Princess Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy the daughter of Duke Cosimo I ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a superb storyteller and her fast-paced...
by Manuel Antonio de Almeida; Ronald W. Sousa; Thomas H. Holloway; Flora Sussekind
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 1999
Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854-55, Memoirs...
by James L. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist,...
by Michael Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 1996
In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found a second focus in the state of Israel,...
Creating the Twentieth Century : Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels science and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite the telephone...
Boardwalk of Dreams:Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out...