Einstein and Oppenheimer examines the lives of two of the 20th century’s most consequential physicists. The book is not a conventional biographical treatment of the two men, but instead takes...
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This is a book about a mathematical formula that nearly everyone—even those who are science-phobic—can recite, but almost no one can actually explain with the slightest degree of coherence. If...
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This is the latest offering from Richard Schickel, a renowned film critic who probably knows more—and writes with greater incision—about the history of film than any contemporary reviewer. Best known...
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