Overview :"The reader must have noted in the favorite magazines of the practicing pianist how often the same troubled queries reappear: How can memori... Read More
Overview :In this provocative new study, William Newman presents to the reader "whatever intentions on Beethoven's part can be documented or can be su... Read More
Overview :A guide for visitors to the Apostle Islands, which are located off the northern shore of Wisconsin, in the southwest corner of Lake Superior... Read More
Overview :In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman uses alchemy as a means to discuss the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. ... Read More
Overview :A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936... Read More
Overview :Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded th... Read More
Overview :Winner of the 2005 Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society. What actually took place in the private laboratory of a mid-seventeent... Read More
Overview :This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, ... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More