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  • Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics

    John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth Ford

    Paperback

    Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award

    "This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review

  • Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil

    David Mas Masumoto

    Paperback

    "[E]vocative and lyrical. . . . Masumoto writes with a keen sense of indebtedness and gratitude to the many individuals who make up the entity he calls his family."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

  • Hemingway: The Paris Years

    Michael Reynolds

    Paperback

    "Excellent…Reynolds is as good on the Paris writing as he is on the Paris life." —Times Literary Supplement

  • The Hemingway Women

    Bernice Kert

    Paperback

    A unique view of Hemingway, the man and the writer, through the women he loved and who loved him. 

  • An Autobiography

    Igor Stravinsky

    Paperback

    While many hundred thousands of pages have been written about Stravinsky, in this book—the composer's first—we hear from the man himself.