This non-fiction book is interestingly written with details from Newton's childhood and adult life. He said, "If I have seen further than most men, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The author spends much of the first chapter discussing how the writings of these giants, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Descartes, influenced Newton.

Boys who are into building models will delight in the model of a windmill that young was powered by a treadmill run by a mouse. He used his model-building experience later in life when he built a reflecting telescope.

The final chapter contains a few experiments for the budding young scientist. Upper elementary aged students will be inspired by Newton's dedication to science and mathematics.

In this rare book, the biographer gives us an accurate and objective portrait of one of those young men who were talented but whose life was sadly taken away by the ferocity of World War I. Rosenberg was the son of Jewish parents who migrated to England from Lithuania. He and his family were always very poor. Nonetheless, Isaac managed always to find supporters, both emotional and material, for his studies and work. This in spite of his being awkward, shy and a strange mixture of modesty and pride. Rosenberg was a poet but also a painter. His life was a constant struggle to achieve means to go on with his work in the midst of severe poverty. After spending some time with his sister's family in South Africa, he returned to England and made the decision to enlist as a private in the Army. He was sent to France, where he proved a terribly incompetent soldier: he was permanently absent-minded, lousy and irritated. Nevertheless, he managed to write some of the best poems of the war. The central fact that distinguishes his poems from those of other contemporaries who shared the experience of war, like Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves or Siegfried Sassoon, is the dark sense of humor they display: "Break of day at the trenches" describes a rat passing over his body, while the soldier muses on the futility of war in a darkly humorous fashion. In fact, the original title was "The neutral rat". Compare this to lamentations like "Dulce et decorum est", by Thomas.

Rosenberg died on April 1st, 1918, after a ferocious counter-attack from the Germans, in the Battle of Arras. His body was never recovered, but his legacy if worth a look at.

This academic work is not only palatable, it's delicious. I devoured it! Goldish has gone to great lengths to make his work accessible to those of us mortals who are not quite as well read in 17th century Hebraism. Goldish finally gives us a good strong look at Newton's lost work, Of the Church. The same mind that unlocked the riddles of our physical universe made great pains to unlock the riddles of the spiritual kind. All told, an exciting addition to an excellent series.

This book deals with transition between the society of hunters and gatherers into society of peasants who worked the land. Changes are difficult, old beleifs die hard, and at the dawn of civilization there were many cruel things hapenning. I wish I could beleive that human beings have made significant progress, but unfortunately that probably isn't true.

Este libro es una compilación de cuantos cortos de Asimov, que muestran como fue evolucionado en sus primeros años. Cada cuento trae un reseña de todo lo que paso cuando lo escribio y lo publico. Para los que les gusta el estilo de Asimov este es un libro perfecto, tambien para los amentes de la cienia fición ligera sin muchas pretenciones pero de buena calidad.

What is historically known as the "Land of Canaan" has been, and still is, one of the main crossroads of human History, Religion, and Philosophy. Asimov tells us the complex yet fascinating story, from the first known human traces, found in Jerico circa 7,800 BC, until the total control of the Roman Empire, in 135 AD. We read the stories of the Cananeans, Phillistines, Arameans, Hebrews, Jews, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, etc., and the successive dominations of Egyptians, Hicsians, Assyrians, Caldeans, Persians, Greeks and Romans. It is written with the trademarks of Asimov's history: fast pace, sense of humor, precision, anlysis and criticism.

Although later discoveries, very important in the last decades, may have modified or slightly altered some of Asimov's hypotheses or data, I think it is a wonderful introduction to more serious and specializaed study of this crucial region of the world. For non-specialists, particularly, it is a good book, since the writing is easy and the tone is non-academic. Recommended.

I read and re-read this book in high school, and then loaned it to a chemistry teacher I liked. I never got it back, and have regretted it ever since, though it was around 1984. While I am sure my tastes have changed somewhat in the intervening 16 years, I remember that the stories were very novel and inspiring, from "hard sci-fi" type stories of someone left on earth after everyone else had evacuated it, to stories with metaphysical implications about the nature of reality. It must have fulfilled some teen fantasy for me about being left alone to do as I liked with the entire world as my plaything, a fantasy I rehashed for many years after I read the book. If you find this book in some used book store somewhere, buy it!! (And don't loan it out.)

In Isaac Arnold's book, The Life Of Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Arnold portyays Lincoln how he knew him. Isaac was aquainted with Abe Lincoln for over a quarter century, and that helped him in completing this wonderful biography. It does, however, lack several important facts that have now been discovered. Since Mr. Arnold wrote his book twenty years after Lincoln's death, the United States didnt have time to realize what an amazing and influential person Lincoln was. New data also shows that some of his facts in the book are proven to be wrong. Even with those minor details that are false, it doesnt take away from the intensity of the book. Being able to read his speeches and visualize Lincoln speaking is amazing and Mr. Arnold does a very good job of painting that picture.

Benjamin Isaac's work is very important for ancient historians who are studying how Rome maintained its empire in the East. Unlike simiplistic models that claim it was the might of the Emperor or the brutality of the army, this book looks at the interactions of the local people, the idea of the Emperor, the legal and social codes of the Empire and the realities of military occupation of a region. Certainly more current research will answer some of the questions I had while reading this book but Isaac's approach was unique in the early 1990s and it was an eye opener. It is not for anyone without a basic understanding of Greek or Latin and an advanced grasp of the ancient world during the Roman Empire. In order to best use this book, you must be a historian, an ancient historian.

This book is filled with artist's concepts of the year 2000, as they saw it in 1900. It's pretty amazing to look at what these people thought would change - and what they never thought of at all.