5596 results for '"David T. Johnson'

Already excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their...

The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.You've likely heard of the historic Apollo...

Here Thoreau's thoughts on freedom, which ring as true today as they did 150 years ago, have been gathered in a single volume.

First published in 1972, this volume shows the potency, and the limitations of Nonconformity in shaping the beginning of modern Britain. It draws upon a wide range of sources including the writings...

This is the first volume in Oxford's famous "Companion" series on a scientific subject. A nonspecialist introduction to current scientific thought on all aspects of animal behavior, it contains over...

Growth is a process which affects every individual from the hour of conception to the hour of death, and forms a background to almost every medical discipline. Yet the scientific study of growth...

Snchez's subject is the power of imperial myths - and thesubversive power unleashed when resistance movements takeover those myths for their own purposes. Moving from Johnof Patmos's inversion of...

Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men is the first book to reveal the shocking problem of anti-gay/lesbian violence. Beginning with an overview of the emergence of lesbian and gay neighborhoods in...

Mathematical Analysis (often called Advanced Calculus) is generally found by students to be one of their hardest courses in Mathematics. This text uses the so-called sequential approach to...

Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, and the implications of the catastrophe for...

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the world’s most extraordinary animalsWith an astounding 3.5 million species occupying virtually every habitat on Earth, insects are one of the most diverse...

Half a century ago, a legion of young idealists dropped out of society and went "back to the land," creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Handmade Utopia:...

The final volume of the definitive edition of Thoreau's correspondence This is the third and final volume of the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a...

The impact that computers has had on mathematics and mathematicians is profound. This volume presents a survey of the many ways in which this influence has been felt and the implications these have...