Edmund Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

The first volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt covers his life up to 1901, when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President McKinley. Morris explores ...

Life Studies: An Analytic Reader

Philip J. Davis, Elena Marchisotto, Reuben Hersh - The Mathematical Experience

This is the classic introduction for the educated lay reader to the richly diverse world of mathematics: its history, philosophy, principles, and personalities.

Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Library Edition

This comprehensive history of the Central Intelligence Agency, from the Cold War through the War on Terror, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, who interviewed ...

William Meredith - Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems

This, the definitive collection of Meredith's life work, contains poems chosen by Meredith from Love Letter from an Impossible Land, Ships and Other Figures, the Open Sea, and etc. Several new poems ...

Lewis Thomas - The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher

Continuing the exploration of humanity and its world he began in The Lives of a Cell, the acclaimed scientist examines disease and natural death, cloning, making mistakes, and other timely topics with ...

Robert J. Lifton - Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima

In Japan, 'hibakusha means 'the people affected by the explosion'----specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, Robert Jay Lifton studies the ...

Frank Edward Manuel - Utopian Thought in the Western World

Ranging over several centuries, this history of utopian thought describes the thinkers and the dreamers (and their visions of an ideal social order) who have left their mark on the thought of later ...