The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

"... peerless... " ―The Key Reporter
"... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." ―Choice
"... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." ―The Journal of the History of Ideas 
"... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." ―The American Scholar
"The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." ―Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago

Literature & Fiction

Richardson Jr., Robert D.

Feldman, Burton

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

"... peerless... " —The Key Reporter
"... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." —Choice
"... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." —The Journal of the History of Ideas 
"... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." —The American Scholar
"The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." —Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago

Religion & Spirituality

A lively history of the world's most prestigious award traces the history of the Nobel Prize, explaining how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures and discussing the six fields in which it is awarded--literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics--and its laureates. 15,000 first printing.

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius , Controversy and Prestige

Reference

Arcade Publishing

A lively history of the world's most prestigious award traces the history of the Nobel Prize, explaining how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures and discussing the six fields in which it is awarded--literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics--and its laureates. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige

History

Portrays four of science's top minds as reflected during the historic 1944 meetings between Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Wolfgang Pauli, and Kurt Gödel at Einstein's Princeton home, offering insight into their remarkable personalities as friends, colleagues, and rivals.

112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

The first comprehensive and critical survey ever written of the world's most famous award, The Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige

Americas

As World War II wound down and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends—all titans of contemporary science and philosophy—to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best—science and philosophy. His guests were the legendary philosopher and pacifist, Bertrand Russell; the boy wonder of quantum physics, Wolfgang Pauli; and the brilliant logician, Kurt Gödel. Their casual meetings took place far from the horrific battlefields of the war and the (then) secret lair of experimental atomic physicists in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Using these historic meetings as his launching pad, Feldman sketches the lives and contributions of the four friends, colleagues, and rivals—especially Einstein, innately self-confident but frustrated in his attempt to come up with a unified theory, and the aristocratic but self-doubting Lord Russell. Masterfully researched, this book accessibly illuminates the feelings of these notable men about the world of science that was then beginning to pass them by, and about the dawning atomic age that terrified them all.

Einstein's Genius Club: The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World

A piquant narrative restoring to modern science its full human meaning.

Founded by the brilliant, misanthropic inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize has for a hundred years claimed to identify the summit of human achievement. But what exactly is the Nobel Institution? How does it choose its winners? Has it ever made a mistake? And why does the prize hold such importance? With deft insight and sparkling wit, Burton Feldman considers these questions while taking us on a fascinating tour of every aspect of Alfred Nobel's grand legacy: its founder, its aura, its fields of award—literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics—and its laureates' personalities and rivalries, as well as its biases, controversies, and blunders. The first comprehensive and critical survey ever written of the world's most famous award, The Nobel Prize is a masterly synthesis of biography, storytelling, and interdisciplinary analysis, ranging easily and confidently from literature to science to politics to economics. This monumental, witty, and eloquent book will remain the definitive work on the prize for decades to come, remarkable for its comprehensiveness, depth of insight, and never-failing capacity to surprise and entertain.

Science & Math

Arcade

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The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius , Controversy and Prestige

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige

112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige

Einstein's Genius Club: The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World

112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige