Product Description: The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel This book reveals how and why, almost without exception, American presidents sought to protect Jews at home and abroad from their often deadly enemies...read more

A group portrait sheds light on one extraordinary family of scientists that lived in a unique time, where passions and ideals weighed heavily on people’s lives.

Product Description: This book vividly presents the gripping history of one of America’s most notorious prisons.  Based on extensive research with original sources, the author’s narrative covers every period of the prison’s checkered history, from the awful conditions of the 19th century to the relative improvements of the 20th century to today...read more

A intimate look at the lives of this most important scientific family retraces the important work in radium by Pierre and Marie Curie, as well as the subsequent careers and scandals of their children, including Eve Curie, the writer and war correspondant.

A revealing look at the iconic scientist overturns a series of myths about Einstein while using previously unpublished interviews and photographs to illuminate a side to the 'genius' seldom seen.

Product Description: En la primera biografía completa de Albert Einstein escrita con acceso a todos sus archivos, Walter Isaacson logra un extraordinario retrato del personaje y de su época y un fascinante relato de su vida. Albert Einstein es uno de los científicos más importantes de la historia y un icono del siglo XX...read more

The first comprehensive biography of the 'Father of American Journalism' chronicles Pulitzer's rise from humble Hungarian immigrant beginnings to the pinnacle of media power, overcoming financial adversity, fierce competition, and even early blindness to secure his position in history.

In this unique book, celebrated biographer Denis Brian draws on some of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth century, in pursuit of their distinct views on life, knowledge, and the cosmos. A provocative and revealing interviewer, Brian weaves together the insights and personal stories of a stellar cast of Nobel Prize winners and other luminaries, including Linus Pauling's ill-fated support of Vitamin C as a cure for cancer, Ashley Montagu's explanation of why the sex drive is not innate, and various personal recollections of the making of the atomic bomb, Heisenberg's role in Nazi Germany, and the spy case of Klaus Fuchs. (view table of contents)

Looks at the events in the life of physicist Albert Einstein, including his childhood in Germany, his trip to America, and his winning of the Nobel Prize (view table of contents)

Presents interviews with Nobel Prize winners and other intellectual leaders, including Linus Pauling, Richard Feynman, Hans Bethe, George Wald, Paul Dirac, Arno Penzias, and Ashley Montagu

Discusses the truthfulness and reliability of a variety of modern biographers, including Truman Capote, Kitty Kelley, Charles Higham, Bob Woodward, and Joe McGinniss, and argues that tape recorders, the Freedom of Information Act, and computers do not guarantee accurate biographies

This portrait of Ernest Hemingway features the recollections of his wives, children, colleagues, neighbors, doctors, biographers, critics, and companions to reveal the many aspects of his chameleonic personality

Tells the stories of murderers and their executions, discusses the issue of capital punishment, and describes miscarriages of justice

A revealing biography of the headstrong and wildly unpredictable actress adds new insight into both the public and private lives of the earthy woman who managed to scandalize even Hollywood