A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between ...
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Einstein was simply ahead of his time. More than a half a century later, his dream of a unified theory has become the Holy Grail of modern physics. And a sizeable part of the physics and mathematics community is becoming increasingly convinced that string theory may provide the answer. From one prin ...
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Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimers, accidents, heart ...
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The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
The racial turmoil of late 1960s and early '70s Boston is expertly conjured in J. Anthony Lukas's COMMON GROUND, which explores the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968. The book chronicles the attempts to bring the black and white communities together, both th ...
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Chronicling the long career of a prime mover in America's nascent civil rights movement, a Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning biography shows the major impact this great and controversial thinker had on America.