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The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
"This is the story of the Allied codebreakers puzzling through the most difficult codebreaking problems that ever existed....
NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agen...
The Life of Kurt Gödel
A remarkable account of Kurt Gödel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil o...
The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, pred...
The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
A Washington Post Notable Book In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohe...
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Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness
Master science writer Stephen Budiansky takes us inside the startling world of animal behavior and finds that we are not the smartest animals on Earth...
How Animals Think
The study of animal intelligence has developed enormously over the last decade. Herons fish' using twigs as bait, monkeys add and subtract, dolphins h...
Why Animals Chose Domestication
Animal rights extremists argue that eating meat is murder & that pets are slaves. This compelling reappraisal of the human-animal bond, however, shows...
From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II : a History of the People, Ideas and Machines that Transformed War in the Century of Flight
Arguably no single human invention has transformed war more than the aeroplane. The potential of airpower to change the very nature - perhaps even the...
Unlike every other domestic animal, the cat evolved as a solitary animal, not a group-dweller. A cat in a household is almost literally a fish out of ...
In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who...
Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel
Mad Music is the story of Charles Edward Ives (1874Ð1954), the innovative American composer who achieved international recognition, but only after he...
“Consistently gripping.… [I]t’s possessed of a zest and omnivorous curiosity that reflects the boundless energy of its subject.” —Steve Dono...
Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s f...
The Complete Story of Code Breaking in World War II
In the 1990s a million pages of new WW2 codebreaking records were released by the U.S. mil. and the British gov't. This volume presents the history of...
Why Animals Chose Domestication : with a New Preface
Animal rights extremists argue that eating meat is murder and that pets are slaves. This compelling reappraisal of the human-animal bond, however, sho...
There are no seeing-eye cats, guard cats, or sled cats--and for very good reason. In "The Character of Cats, " acclaimed author and scientist Budiansk...
Terror After the Civil War
“Effective in showing the sheer depth and virulence of white supremacy in the South . . . This book and the story it tells should keep us vigilant a...
Terror After Appomattox
A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in a fast-paced analysis t...
A panoramic account of the fateful Civil War battle and its far-reaching consequences for American society and culture. The Battle of Antietam, which ...
The New Science of Nature Management
For more than a century, nature lovers have held fast to the belief that preserving the wild means keeping people out. Today, policies that dictate ev...
The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis Silvestris Catus
Ecological science has begun to make sense of the baffling paradoxes of natural systems, finding the answers in a mathematical ecology - the mathemati...
How They Run, See, and Think
How horses experience the world-and how we know it. "People have been training and riding horses for thousands of years without the help of science. B...
Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, wh...
The Intimate Family Letters of Kurt Gödel
The mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) wrote some 280 letters to his mother Marianne and brother Rudolf from 1940, the year he arrive...