While Maxwell responded to and relied on the work of his colleagues, his interpretations often placed his work apart from theirs, to be exploited by later generations of physicists.

In this book, Peter Achinstein proposes and defends several objective concepts of evidence.

A brand new edition of the finalist for the 2008 Casey Award, presented annually to the best baseball book, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out profiles America’s greatest baseball museums, shrines, sports bars, pop culture ...

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Werner Sollors's monograph looks into how African American, European immigrant and other minority writers gave the United States its increasingly multicultural self-awareness, focusing on their use of the strategies opened up by modernism.

This 1931 book is comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of James Clerk Maxwell's life and achievements.

Bruce J. Hunt examines the joint work of a group of young British physicists--G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, and Oliver Lodge--along with a key German contributor, Heinrich Hertz.

Published in 1855, this book laid the foundation for his later development of Maxwell's equations, which revolutionized the field of electromagnetism. The ideas presented in this work continue to influence the study of physics to this day.