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The American Street Gang
Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1997
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the White House announced with great fanfare that 100 FBI counterintelligence agents would be reassigned. Their new target: street gangs. Americans--filled with fear of crack-dealing gangs--cheered the decision, as did many big-city police departments. But this highly...
by Matthew Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
What does it look like to read the texts we now call the gospels like first- and second-century readers? There is no evidence of anyone regarding the gospel as a book published by an author until the end of the second century. So, put differently, what does it mean to read the gospels "before the...
Guns across America
Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British were coming....
The Novelty of Newspapers
Victorian Fiction After the Invention of the News
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Arising in the 1800s and soon drawing a million readers a day, the commercial press profoundly influenced the work of Brontë, Braddon, Dickens, Conrad, James, Trollope, and others who mined print journalism for fictional techniques. Five of the most important of these narrative conventions--the shipping...
Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution
The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended...
Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Macromolecular Assemblies
Visualization of Biological Molecules in Their Native State
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
Cryoelectron microscopy of biological molecules is among the hottest growth areas in biophysics and structural biology at present, and Frank is arguably the most distinguished practitioner of this art. CryoEM is likely over the next few years to take over much of the structural approaches currently...
Synesthesia
Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding how brains work, synesthesia has recently received a lot of attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of research and discussion among scientists. The questions generated by these two communities are intriguing: Does...
Restless Ambition
Grace Hartigan, Painter
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter. Along the way, there...
by Vincent Curcio
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions...
The Man Behind the Microchip : Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor a leading entrepreneur and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now in The Man Behind the Microchip Leslie Berlin captures not only this colorful...
The Vital Few
The Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 1986
The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary...
A Generous Vision
The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as...
For The Love of Music
Invitations to Listening
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience....
Django
The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great...