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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the …
Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)
The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to …
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
The definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard …
Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, …
How to Write: Advice and Reflections
Combines literary advice with a collection of personal vignettes in a guide that places the desire to write over perceived talent
The Politics of Human Rights
This volume sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings of the idea of human rights by bringing together a collection of original essays by a group of highly …
A Hole in the World
When he first published this text, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes helped to launch and legitimate the memoir of abused childhood. In this tenth anniversary edition, he offers …
Adding Flesh to Bones
This collection of seventeen essays situates modern Shin Buddhist thinker Kiyozawa Manshi (1863–1903) and his new form of spirituality, Seishinshugi, in the broader context of …
The BBC National Short Story Award 2021
A group of teenage boys take turns assessing each other’s changing bodies before a Friday night disco… A grieving woman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow traveller …
The Inland Ground
This text examines the Mid West of America, covering such diverse topics as coyote hunting, wheat growing and hog butchering and considers individuals such as Truman and …
The Prison-Ship Adventure of James Forten, Revolutionary War Captive
Captured at sea . . . a young man must choose between his country and his freedom. The Atlantic Ocean, 1781. James Forten is a free African American sailor on an American ship, the …