The Life of Wagner by Ernest Newman — Greatness and Monstrousness in the Same Skin
Few figures in the history of Western art invite such contradictory feelings as Richard Wagner….
E=mc²: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis — A Review
Five letters and a superscript. No punctuation. No explanation required. Of all the intellectual achievements…
101 Things You Don’t Know About Science and No One Else Does Either by James Trefil — A Book Review
What a scientist doesn’t know is more interesting than what he does. That’s not a…
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence — Richard Wrangham & Dale Peterson (Book Review)
Few books announce their subject as bluntly as Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of…
The Giant Leap by Adrian Berry — Mankind Has Always Been Leaving
Adrian Berry | The Giant Leap: Mankind Heads for the Stars | Tor Books, 2001…
Newton’s Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed
David H. Clark and Stephen P.H. Clark — W.H. Freeman & Co., 2001 Most of…
