For more than a century, nature lovers have held fast to the belief that preserving the wild means keeping people out. One of America's leading authorities on environmental issues dramatically shows how the new science of mathematical ecology is helping us rescue our natural resources.

Nature's keepers: The new science of nature management

Science & Math

Budiansky, Stephen

Biological Sciences

Free Press

Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

History

Europe

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The author uses new evidence from the fields of behavioral science, archaeology, and neuroscience to provide fresh insights into canine behavior and personality. Reprint.

The Truth about Dogs: An Inquiry into Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis familiaris

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Penguin

Draws on research and lore to elucidate the mysteries of domestic feline behavior, presenting a scientifically based examination of cat genetics, brain chemistry, evolution, social and predatory behavior, history and superstition, and hunting patterns.Reprint.

The Character of Cats: The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis silvestris catus

Penguin??Books

No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought—and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts—acclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane’s revolutionary transformation of modern warfare.
On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/

Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

Military

Penguin Publishing Group

A remarkable account of Kurt Gödel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval.\nAt age 24, a brilliant Austrian-born mathematician published a mathematical result that shook the world. Nearly a hundred years after Kurt Gödel's famous 1931 paper "On Formally Undecidable Propositions" appeared, his proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable within that system - continues to pose profound questions for mathematics, philosophy, computer science, and artificial intelligence. His close friend Albert Einstein, with whom he would walk home every day from Princeton's famous Institute for Advanced Study, called him "the greatest logician since Aristotle." He was also a man who felt profoundly out of place in his time, rejecting the entire current of 20th century philosophical thought in his belief that mathematical truths existed independent of the human mind, and beset by personal demons of anxiety and paranoid delusions that would ultimately lead to his tragic end from self-starvation.\nDrawing on previously unpublished letters, diaries, and medical records, Journey to the Edge of Reason offers the most complete portrait yet of the life of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers. Stephen Budiansky's account brings to life the remarkable world of philosophical and mathematical creativity of pre-war Vienna, and documents how it was barbarically extinguished by the s. He charts Gödel's own hair's-breadth escape from Germany to the scholarly idyll of Princeton; and the complex, gently humorous, sensitive, and tormented inner life of this iconic but previously enigmatic giant of modern science. Weaving together Gödel's public and private lives, this is a tale of creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval.

Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

OUP Oxford

Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal. The truth is far more complex and surprising. The Dog Genome Project is currently laying the groundwork for identifying the genetic basis of why our dogs behave in the way they do. Other research investigates canine intelligence, and some remarkable experiments reveal what dogs can and cannot see. Budiansky brings together the disciplines of behavioural science, genetics, neuroscience and archaeology to show us how wrong we have been about man's best friend.

THE TRUTH ABOUT DOGS.

Weidenfeld

Ecological science has begun to make sense of the baffling paradoxes of natural systems, finding the answers in a "mathematical ecology" - the mathematical relationships that link all creatures and plants in a natural community. This book introduces and examines this theory, aiming to bring to a general audience an understanding and appreciation of wildlife, as well as the means to make sense of and assess the steps society is taking to manage, preserve and protect species whose fate is increasingly in our hands.

Natures Keepers New Science of Nature Ma (Science Masters)

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Animal rights extremists argue that eating meat is murder and that pets are slaves. This compelling reappraisal of the human-animal bond, however, shows that domestication of animals is not an act of exploitation but a brilliantly successful evolutionary strategy that has benefited humans and animals alike. “Budiansky’s slim, elegant discourse is a persuasive counterweight to the pastoral delusions of sentimentalists intent on seeing humans as malevolently at odds with the noble animal kingdom.”―Manuela Hoelterhoff, Wall Street Journal “Forcefully argued and eloquent.”―Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times “A subtle look at the mysteries of evolution and a stinging response to animal-rights extremists. . . . Ambrosia for anyone―whether in agreement with Budiansky or not―who appreciates the beauty of an argument that combines careful scholarship with common sense.”―Kirkus Reviews “Budiansky argues his thesis clearly and cogently.”―Daily Telegraph

The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication

Yale University Press

In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation to hold off the legendary Royal Navy. Budiansky vividly demonstrates that far from an indecisive and unnecessary conflict—as historians have long dismissed the War of 1812—this “forgotten war” had profound consequences that would change the course of naval warfare, America’s place in the world, and the rules of international conflict forever. Never again would the great powers challenge the young republic’s sovereignty in the aftermath of the stunning performance of America’s navy and privateersmen in sea battles that ranged across half the globe. Their brilliant hit-and-run tactics against a far mightier foe would pioneer concepts of “asymmetric warfare” that would characterize the insurgency warfare of later centuries. Above all, the War of 1812 would be the making of the United States Navy. Even as the war began, the nation was bitterly divided over whether it should have a navy at all: Jeffersonian Republicans denounced the idea as a dangerous expansion of government power, while Federalists insisted that America could never protect its burgeoning seagoing commerce or command respect without a strong naval force. After the war, Americans would never again doubt that their might, respect, and very survival depended upon a permanent and professional navy. Drawing extensively on diaries, letters, and personal accounts from both sides, Budiansky re-creates the riveting encounters at sea in bloody clashes of cannonfire and swordplay; the intimate hopes and fears of vainglorious captains and young seamen in search of adventure; and the behind-the-scenes political intrigue and maneuvering in Washington and London. Throughout, Perilous Fight proves itself a gripping and essential work of American naval history.

Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815

Americas

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