Best Selling Books by James Owen

El proceso de Nuremberg fue el primero en que se condenó a los dirigentes de un país por crímenes contra la humanidad, con lo que se estableció un precedente que se aplicaría después en Yugoslavia, en Ruanda o en Irak. James Owen se ha propuesto ir más allá del mito que afirma que fue un acto modélico de justicia, para mostrarnos la realidad de lo ocurrido, sin excluir sus aspectos más oscuros, a la vez que recupera sus dimensiones de gran tragedia, reconstruyéndolo a través del cruce de los recuerdos de quienes participaron en él (el coronel que estaba a cargo de los presos, el psicólogo Gustave Gilbert o los jueces Norman Birkett y Francis Biddle), con los fragmentos más significativos de las actas del propio proceso, como las estremecedoras declaraciones de Hoess, el comandante de Auschwitz, o los intentos de justificación de los acusados, que nos llegan en las voces de Goering, Doenitz, Jodl, Speer o Fritzsche. Como ha dicho David Bowes, este libro nos ofrece “un asiento de primera fila en el mayor proceso de la historia”.

Tras el estallido de la crisis en 2008, muchos supuestos expertos señalaron a los complejos instrumentos financieros, y por ende a los matemáticos y físicos que los habían creado, como los culpables de la catástrofe acontecida. En este libro se narra cómo los científicos llegaron a Wall Street a principios de los ochenta y cómo sus ideas transformaron las finanzas para siempre. En un apasionante recorrido que va desde el fin-de-siècle parisino a Las Vegas del Rat Pack, desde los laboratorios del Pentágono a las comunas hippies, Weatherall expone cómo la banca de inversión empezó a contratar a científicos para que lidiaran con las cuestiones matemáticas más peliagudas, desde los precios de la acción a la detección de posibles burbujas. No obstante, ya sea en ciencia o finanzas, los modelos se hunden bajo ciertas circunstancias o condiciones. Y en 2008, sofisticados modelos financieros cayeron en manos de gente que desconocía su uso y finalidad. Un hecho de nefastas consecuencias.

Union forces in the Civil War needed far more Engineers than the Regular Army could furnish. Volunteer Engineers, who entered the Army for wartime service only, supported operations just as did the regulars. Their contributions ranged from constructing pontoon bridges under fire to building field fortifications for siege operations. Thomas Owen''s letters and diary reveal the life and duties of a volunteer Engineer who served as a sergeant and company-grade officer. These writings convey his reactions to the extreme conditions of wartime, from the rigors of combat to the boredom of camp life. For their insights into the thoughts and feelings of an Engineer at war and descriptions of Civil War combat engineering, they should still interest those of us who serve as Army Engineers. Paul Taylor Colonel, Corps of Engineers Chief of Staff

A book which reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance.

«Weatherall racconta l''affascinante storia di come la nostra concezione del nulla sia cambiata nel corso dei secoli, fino ad arrivare alla moderna teoria quantistica dei campi e alla gravità quantistica.» Sean Carroll, autore di «Dall’eternità a qui» «Perché esiste qualcosa anziché il nulla?» Sollevata a più riprese dai filosofi nel corso della storia, questa domanda assume un valore del tutto inaspettato nelle mani di un fisico. Per Newton, per esempio, era necessario che esistesse uno «spazio», un palcoscenico in cui potesse svolgersi il «dramma» della materia e delle sue leggi: questo spazio era teoricamente «vuoto» e veniva occupato dai corpi fisici, che vi subivano «forze» precise. Attorno a questo nacque un lungo e famoso contenzioso con Leibniz, e i primi problemi – filosofici e fisici – sul concetto di spazio. Con Maxwell le cose si fecero ancora più problematiche, dal momento che la nascita del campo elettromagnetico riempiva lo spazio «vuoto» di «qualcosa» la cui natura non era chiara, e peggiorarono radicalmente con Einstein e il suo spazio-tempo curvo, che per potersi curvare doveva pur essere qualcosa. Il colpo di grazia all’idea di vuoto lo diede infine la meccanica quantistica. Per quanto strano possa sembrare, insomma, il «nulla» è «qualcosa», come mostra questo libro splendido e coinvolgente nel rispondere dal punto di vista della fisica alla più profonda di tutte le questioni: la distinzione tra essere e non-essere, tra ciò che esiste e il nulla.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) N012245 Anonymous. By James Owen. With a half-title. London: printed for A. Baldwin, 1703. 50p.; 4°

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