The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler`s guide, you`ll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world`s largest science museum, watch Foucault`s pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton`s apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, & more. Each site in ” The Geek Atlas” focuses on discoveries or inventions, &

Includes:: information about the people & the science behind them. Full of interesting photos & illustrations, the book is organized geographically by country (and within the U.S. by state), complete with latitudes & longitudes for GPS devices. Notable destinations include: Bletchley Park in the UK, where the Enigma code was broken; The Horn Antenna in Holmdel, New Jersey, where the Big Bang theory was accidentally confirmed; The Trinity Test site in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was exploded; The Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester, England; The National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Maryland; &, The Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California You won`t find tedious, third-rate museums, or a tacky plaque stuck to a wall stating that ` Professor X slept here`. Every site in this book has real scientific, mathematical, or technological interest
- places guaranteed to make every geek`s heart pound a little faster. Plan a trip with ” The Geek Atlas” & make your own discoveries along the way.


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In this extraordinarily haunting, deeply moving novel, an old man comes face-to-face with the horrors of his past, & sets out to find the love of his life & beg her forgiveness. To those around him, Emmet Conn is a ninety-two-year-old man on the verge of senility. Now, at the end of his life, he suddenly finds himself tormented by dreams of a march across a foreign l&, of appalling acts of cruelty, & the anguish of a lost love. But these are no dreams & he is no prisoner. The Gendarme is a unique love story that explores the power of memory, & the ability of people, individually & collectively, to forget. Depicting how love can transcend nationalities & politics, how racism creates divisions where none truly exist, & how the human spirit fights to surviveeven in the face of hopelessness, this is a superbly transcendent novel. ...

” Mukherjee leaves you feeling as though you`ve just aced a college course for which you`d been afraid to register
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A superb yet neglected novel, ` The General` is the most vivid, moving
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No leader of modern times was more unique & more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder & first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself `carrying France on my shoulders`. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared impossibly arrogant for a recently promoted junior general who had never been elected to anything. But he personified many of the traits of his country which fascinate the rest of the world
- its pride in itself, its intransigence, its historical & cultural heritage & its quasi-religious belief in the state. Le General, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if carved from a single monumental block, but was, in fact, extremely complex, a man with deep personal feelings & recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family & often seeking reassurance from those around him. Though insisting on discipline & loyalty from others, he was a great rebel. A grand visionary with a vast geo-political grasp & elephantine memory, he was also a supreme tactician with a taste for secrecy & the ability to out-flank opponents. This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century & of the country with which he so identified himself. Written with terrific verve & narrative skill, & yet rigorous & detailed, it brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader through exhaustive research & astute analysis.
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In his younger days, Simon Bolivar swept the Spanish back to Europe, liberating South America with his youthful vitality. But lonely, embittered & sickly at the age of forty-six, his power has dwindled, coups abound & it's time for The Liberator to send himself into the exile of retirement. Wending his way down the Magdalena River towards the Caribbean with his faithful servant, Jose Palacios, Bolivar's journey is hindered by his own reluctance to let his power go. Despite the assassination attempts, jeering & humiliation he encounters, his fear of fading into the shadows keeps him clinging to the man he used to be. ...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country`s dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission, & their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror & guilt, newly exacerbated by their present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of their gruesome business, past & present, to suffering self-disgust, the author gives us glimpses of the lives of the people whose graves they are unearthing. ...

Yael Azoulay does the United Nations` dirty work. From the caves of Afghanistan & the slums of Baghdad to the world`s corporate boardrooms, Yael`s job is to broker the secret deals that grease the wheels of superpower diplomacy & big business. When a suspicious death at the UN headquarters in Manhattan is covered up, Yael decides that the ends no longer justify the means & she goes rogue. Events quickly spiral out of control as Yael is forced on the run in the streets of New York & Geneva. Hunted by the world`s intelligence & law enforcement agencies, Yael must ultimately learn that salvation means not just saving other`s lives but slaying her own inner demons. A gripping journey through the secret corridors of power. ...

The Genius in the Design is the true story of the great rivalry between two extraordinary men, the seventeenth-century architects Gianlorenzo Bernini & Francesco Borromini, & how their antagonism changed the city of Rome & created the Baroque. Talented, driven, & ambitious, each man spent his career trying to outdo the other to become the greatest architect of his time. Each, in his turn, succeeded, only to be brought down by the machinations of the other. In the end, one became the most lionized artist of his time & died a rich, happy family man. The other, consumed by internal demons, committed suicide. This book is the story of their hostility. Part history, part biography, part adventure story, The Genius in the Design is narrative non-fiction that reads like a novel & brings to vivid life the struggle between two giants of architecture, so different in outlook, so similar in purpose. ...