1284 results for '"Adam Zachary Newton'

A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious contributions written by and about scientists. The book records...

Both historical treatment and critical analysis, this work by a noted physicist takes a fascinating look at a fundamental of physics, tracing its development from ancient to modern times. Kepler's...

The perfect introduction to French fashion photographer GuyBourdin, best known for his highly stylized andprovocative images. Guy Bourdin (1928-1991) was a fashion photographer whose talent...

Gianni Versace's homes--the lakeside villa near Como, the baroque palazzo in Milan, and the sun-filled Art Deco fantasy in Miami--reflect his sensual appreciation of style, comfort, and beauty. His...

The Revolutionary War! The Americans fight for freedom in From Colonies to Country. In this enthralling story we meet George Washington, King George III, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, Eliza Pinckney, and...

With race and policing once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power One of America’s most historic political...

R.I.G Hughes presents a series of eight philosophical essays on the theoretical practices of physics. The first two essays examine these practices as they appear in physicists' treatises (e.g...

"A thoughtful, philosophically rich story that probes a still-open wound." --Kirkus Reviews "Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor." --The New York Times Book ReviewOne night, a...

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday—”a sharply intelligent novel of ideas” (The New York Times) that asks whether a machine can understand the human heart,...

The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative...

“Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever.”—Douglas Adams A Brazil nut playfully flung through the window of the Drones Club catapults Uncle Fred into action in P. G. Wodehouse’s jab at the...

In 1852, young Walt Whitman—a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn—was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse...

Book Five of Johannes Kepler's great masterpiece on planetary motion is presented with an introduction by the ultimate authority on this topic, noted physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking...

Now a Netflix animated series!The New York Times bestselling debut by Adam Gidwitz, the Newbery Honor-winning author of The Inquisitor's Tale.“A wonderful sense of humor and narrative voice …...

This book analyzes India's social crisis from the perspective of a number of disciplines and schools of thought. Drawing particularly on the theories of Manu, Kautilya, Adam Smith, John S. Mill,...

About two hundred years ago, largely as a result of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, free trade achieved an intellectual status unrivaled by any other doctrine in the field of economics. What accounts...

This work is a controversial collection of interrelated papers investigating and arguing about issues of concern to lawyers and politicians today. MacCormick combines a scholarly concern with leading...

Newton's laws of motion and his universal law of gravitation described mathematically the motion of two bodies undergoing mutual gravitational attraction. However, it is impossible to solve...

From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of...

Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge who presides over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude, and sensitivity. But her professional success belies...