The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century (for Kindle)
Review “Hargittai has carefully read the published literature and weaves useful, analytical patterns that indicate knowledge of scientific comunities while generally approving the relationship of postwar physics, mathematics, and engineerings in teh US with US cold war politics.”– Physics Today “What a story! Five brilliant Jewish-Hungarian kids burst out of the great secondary schools of [...]
The 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays) (in Hardcover)
“I objurgate the centipede,/ A bug we do not really need,” writes Ogden Nash. Carl Sandburg hums and strums, while pages later, William Jay Smith compares a toaster to a silver-scaled dragon. And of course A.A. Milne must add his two cents’ worth, “tiddely pom, tiddely pom.” What a labor of love! Children’s poet and [...]