Constructed in 11 months, the Empire State Building, the world's tallest skyscraper for 40 years, was a marvel of modern engineering. In this book, a rediscovered notebook from the 1930s charts the co...
Tracing the rise of two great theories, relativity and quantum mechanics, which meet head on in black holes, "Empire of the Stars" is the dramatic story of an intellectual feud and its implications fo...
As the United States casts an increasingly dominant shadow in world affairs, resentment from the international community widens. In "The State of the American Empire", Stephen Burman lays bare the glo...
Nelson A. Rockefeller, one of the greatest art patrons of the recent past and as yet unheralded for the extraordinary legacy he left behind, had an inspired vision for New York State's capital. While ...