An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and
warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for
People in a Hurry.
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war.
In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war.
In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people
unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves,
they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved
them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical
novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught
perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and
oppression, passion and pain.
