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Radioactive Transformations
Radioactive Transformations describes Ernest Rutherford’s Nobel Prize-winning investigations into the mysteries of radioactive matter. In this historic work, Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to...
Letters from America
A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville’s later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for...
Elementary Particles
First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi’s Elementary Particles remains a valuable guide for physicists and scholars. Fermi’s descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow...
The Realm of the Nebulae
In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, composed entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from...
Evangelical Disenchantment
Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt
Insightful portraits of nine public figures who became enchanted and then disenchanted with evangelical religion In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at...
The Most Musical Nation
Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an insightful account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through...
The Terror Courts
Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay
The first inside account of America’s continuing legal experiment at Guantanamo Bay—a permanent, offshore justice system designed to assure convictions by denying constitutional rights Soon after the...
Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies
The Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda
The first history of invisible ink revealed through thrilling stories about scoundrels and heroes and their ingenious methods for concealing messages.Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies is a book about...
Founders as Fathers
The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
As the bold fathers of the American Revolution left behind their private lives to become public nation-builders, what happened to their families? Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family...
Deliberation Day
Two leading political thinkers offer an audacious proposal to energize the electoral process Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of...