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One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, Paul Dirac helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. "The Strangest Man" uses previously undiscovered archives to reveal the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind.

Brookhiser has done the seemingly impossible: He has written a life of Lincoln that is fresh, original, and ideal for those new to the subject.... Founders'son is a superb introduction to the greatest human being ever to live in the White House."-National Review

For baseball fans young, old, and in between comes a sequel to "Baseball Between the Numbers"--the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game.

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A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevance.

We can t stop natural disasters, but we can stop them from being disastrous. One of the world s foremost risk experts

One of Amazon's Best Science Books of 2016On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: the first total eclipse of the sun in America in almost forty years. In Sun Moon Earth , astronomer Tyler Nordgren illustrates how this most seemingly unnatural of natural phenomena was transformed from a fearsome omen to a tourist attraction. From the astrologers of ancient China and Babylon to the high pr...

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Beautifully written and unfailingly informative: scholarship has rarely conveyed such a sense of visceral excitement."-Tom Holland, author of Rubicon

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Despite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enumerate all of the rules and rights, principles and procedures that actually govern modern America. The document makes no explicit mention of cherished concepts like the separation of powers and the rule of law. On some issues, the plain meaning of the text misleads. For example, the text seems to say that the vice president presides over his own im...

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A computer scientist presents a theory of the theoryless. The key is "probably approximately correct" learning, Valiant's model of how effective behavior can be learned even in this complex world. Sure to revolutionize the way that the universe's greatest mysteries are examined.

Eminent biophysicist Loewenstein seeks an answer in the mechanisms of physics. Bringing information theory--the idea that all information can be quantified and encoded in bits--to bear on recent advances in the neurosciences, he reveals a web of immense computational power inside the brain.

In this autobiography, Woiwode does two things at once: he survives the winter of 1996, the worst in North Dakota's history, and tells the story of his beginnings as a writer, especially the early days at "The New Yorker" and leading up to the publication of his first book.

The first complete book on one of the oldest cosmic mysteries.

For the 30 million business partners and co-owners, the essential guide for building, launching, and sustaining successful ventures

In a series of encounters before, after, and even during neurosurgery, an epileptic patient--Neil--his surgeon, George Ojemann, and a neuroscientist, William Calvin, explore the landscape of the brain to reveal the incredibly complex mystery of human consciousness. An absorbing medical drama.