Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton). In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent...

Text and illustrations trace the history of castles and their role in medieval life. Discusses how and why they were built, life inside and outside the castle walls, their uses in war and peace, and their eventual decline.

Discusses forms, conservation, and sources of energy, including the sun, wind, water, mineral depostis, and nuclear fuel, and investigates the dangers of pollution and the dwindling supply of world energy production.

Discusses the phenomena of force, movement, pressure, and friction, the mechanics involved in moving things, and the means by which machines work.

Describes animals that have become extinct, animals and plants now threatened with extinction, and man's efforts to save them.

Describes the far-reaching repercussions of the events of March 7, 1965 when 525 men, women, and children in Alabama attempted to march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery in order to register to vote.

During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace.. But the reality is far more difficult than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions...