Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) is one of the most well-known non-fiction works written by an American. It chronicles Thoreau’s life in the second-growth forest along the shores of Walden Pond for two years and two months, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was […]
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely, quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory describing the interactions of light with charged particles. Using
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The New York Times best-selling sequel to “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Like the “funny, brilliant, bawdy” (The New Yorker) “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” this book’s many stories—some funny, others intensely moving—display Richard P. Feynman’s unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life. Here we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman—from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science in our culture to
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One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote, and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, the winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the
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