Stephen Budiansky
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking achievements from World War II through the Cold War shares insights into the challenges faced by cryptanalysts and their role in some of the most complicated events of the twentieth century,"--NoveList.
Author
Language
English
Description
In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet called upon an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of simple mathematics and probability theory. This is the...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 579 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age sixty-one, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has...
6) The character of cats: the origins, intelligence, behavior, and stratagems of Felis silvestris catus
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
x, 227 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
322 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., ports., facsim. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in an analysis that traces the period through the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America's history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000 were wounded. As a turning point in the Civil War, the narrow Union victory is well-known as the key catalyst for Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation. Yet Antietam was not only a battle that dramatically changed the fortunes and meaning of...
