Arcadia Publishing, October 2001. Paperback. Thomas Edison's love affair with the growing frontier town of Fort Myers, Florida is a little-known, but intriguing part of the Edison legacy. The man whose inventions changed the world and defined the future course of American life first visited the young and still untamed.....

Annual Reviews. Hardcover.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1962. Hardcover. Dust jacket is somewhat shelf worn, especially at corners and top and bottom of spine. Crease along middle of front panel (horizontal). Now in protective bro-dart. Ex-library, with associated stamps etc. Damage to rear end page from library sticker removal. Clean and tight. Dust.....

Princeton University Press, May 1981. Paperback. Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in these personal papers, most of them never before published, from the Einstein archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals.....

W. W. Norton & Company, June 2015. Hardcover. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, How to.....

4th Estate, January 2000. Mass Market Paperback.

Vintage Books, May 2006. Paperback. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD(R)-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic.....

Smithsonian Books, 2020. Paperback.

Hyperion, April 2008. Hardcover. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned--about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have--in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.".....

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2000. Hardcover. In 1996, Tom Ashbrook was an international reporter who, in a crisis of the soul, resolved to join an old college classmate on the Internet rocket ride. THE LEAP tells the story of how he walked away from an enviable career to launch a......

Alma Books, November 2014. Paperback. Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age and the author of the scientific bestseller A Brief History of Time, which has sold more than 25 million copies. In this compelling memoir, his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates.....

Columbia University Press, May 2005. Hardcover.