“robert kanigel”

This is an inspiring tale of a scholarly pursuit that reads like an adventurous thriller. In 1913 a young, unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G.H. Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers and setting in motion one of the most producti... More

From the author of the bestselling "The Man Who Knew Infinity" comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprenticeship relationship alive today in modern science. Along the way, using interviews and anecdotes, Kanigel takes readers into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientist... More

"In the past man has been first. In the future the System will be first", predicted Frederick Winslow Taylor, the first efficiency expert and model for all the stopwatch-clicking engineers who stalk the factories and offices of the industrial world. In 1874, eighteen-year-old Taylor abandoned his we... More

What makes real things real? By tracing the anatomy and physiology of animal skin, Kanigel explores the borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.... More

"I am so proud to be Elise's student. Read this book and I suspect you will be too." -- from the foreword by Robert Kanigel, author of The Man Who Knew Infinity"In Ideas into Words, Elise Hancock has managed to write a guide to science writing that is not only comprehensive -- she answers every ques... More

"The Student Newspaper Survival Guide" is a handbook for student reporters, editors, page designers, photographers, Webmasters, advertising sales representatives -- and the advisers and business managers who counsel them -- on all aspects of putting out a college newspaper.In these pages, students w... More

To those who see Freud solely as a psychologist and a psychotherapist it may be surprising to find him discussed as a major contributor to sociology. Bocock demonstrates Freud's central relevance to sociological discussions about gender, sexuality, the family, religion, ideology and symbolism, polit... More

The first in a brand new series charting the adventures of the Oathsworn, a band of Vikings on the chase for the secret hoard of Attila the Hun.   Life is savage aboard a Viking raider. When young Orm Rurikson is plucked from the snows of Norway to join his estranged father on the Fjord Elk,... More