Stephen Budiansky

The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution.

The Life of Kurt Gödel

Journey to the Edge of Reason

the complete story of codebreaking in World War II

Battle of wits

In Code Warriors, Stephen Budiansky--a longtime expert in cryptology--tells the fascinating story of how NSA came to be, from its roots in World War II through the fall of the Berlin Wall. Along the way, he guides us through the fascinating challenges faced by cryptanalysts, and how they broke some of the most complicated codes of the twentieth century. With access to new documents, Budiansky shows where the agency succeeded and failed during the Cold War, but his account also offers crucial perspective for assessing NSA today in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations. Budiansky shows how NSA's obsession with recording every bit of data and decoding every signal is far from a new development; throughout its history the depth and breadth of the agency's reach has resulted in both remarkable successes and destructive failures.

NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

Code Warriors

A dramatic narrative of the career of Queen Elizabeth I's intelligence operative documents how he helped the monarch outmaneuver Catholic Spain and France by pioneering techniques that served to expose double agents, spread disinformation, and decipher codes. By the author of Battle of Wits. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage

Her Majesty's Spymaster

A narrative account of Reconstruction-era violence documents vigilante attacks on African Americans and their white allies, in a fast-paced analysis that traces the period as reflected by the careers of two Union officers, a Confederate general, a northern entrepreneur, and a former slave.

Terror After Appomattox

The Bloody Shirt

Drawing from newly declassified documents, the author chronicles the story of codebreaking during the last world war, from cat-and-mouse games with Nazi U-boats to the invasion of Normandy.

The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

Battle of Wits

The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most influential justice. Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age sixty-one, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms. As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law by showing how the law always evolved to meet the changing needs of society. As an enthusiastic friend and indefatigable correspondent, he wrote thousands of personal letters brimming with humorous philosophical insights, trenchant comments on the current scene, and an abiding joy in fighting the good fight. Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky’s definitive biography offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure, whose zest for life, wit, and intellect left a profound legacy in law and Constitutional rights, and who was an inspiring example of how to lead a meaningful life in a world of uncertainty and upheaval.

A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis silvestris catus

The Character of Cats

Animal rights extremists argue that eating meat is murder and that pets are slaves. This compelling reappraisal of the human-animal bond, however, shows that domestication of animals is not an act of exploitation but a brilliantly successful evolutionary strategy that has benefited humans and animals alike.

Why Animals Chose Domestication : with a New Preface

The Covenant of the Wild

Documents the story of a small group of scientists who applied intellectual strategies to battle techniques and revolutionized the process of waging wars, citing the contributions of future Nobel winner Patrick Blackett.

The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare Warfare

Blackett's War

A master science writer explores the cognitive abilities of many animals, including humans, and shows how different types of intelligence and imagination are based on evolutionary necessity and limits. 30,000 first printing.

Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness

If a Lion Could Talk

Analyzes the role of America's navy throughout the War of 1812, chronicling the military wing's evolution from humble beginnings to a force that helped to establish the nation's global position, in an account that describes the experiences of its sailors and the government debate about America's need for a navy.

America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815

Perilous Fight

A narrative of the career of Queen Elizabeth I's intelligence operative documents how he helped the monarch to outmaneuver Spain and France by pioneering techniques to expose double agents, spread disinformation, and decipher codes.

أفرج الجيش الأمريكي والبحرية الأمريكية والحكومة البريطانية عن مليون صفحة جديدة من سجلات فك رموز الحرب العالمية الجديدة خلال السنوات الخمس الأخيرة. والآن يقدم كتاب صراع الأذكياء تاريخ الحرب التي تكشفها هذه الوثائق. فمن معركة ميدوي وحتى آخر عملية فك للرموز الألمانية في 1945، تعتبر هذه الفترة المدهشة من الحرب التي لم تكتسب بأعمال قتال ضار فقط بل و بقراءة نوايا العدو أيضاً. شملت إلهامات التاريخ الدرامي لستيفن بوديانسكي كيف حاولت بريطانيا استخدام من يفكون الرموز من الأمريكان و كذلك استخدام رموز الاتصالات إينيغما الألمانية؛ أول الشروح المفصلة لكيفية فك الرموز اليابانية؛ و كيف عملت آلة فك الرموز الأمريكية في حل الرموز اليابانية و الألمانية بل وحتى الرموز الدبلوماسية الروسية. هذه قصة العاملين المتحدين في فك رموز الألغاز من خلال أصعب مشكلات حل الرموز التي وجدت في هذا العالم. في الوقت نفسه، تبين القصة الرائعة الآثار الحاسمة التي كانت لفك الرموز على سير الأحداث في ميدان المعارك. قالوا في كتاب صراع الأذكياء "قصة مشوقة وواضحة حول موضوع رموز وإشارات المخابرات والجاسوسية المعقد قبل الحرب العالمية الثانية وأثناءها. وبالتركيز على قراءة البعد الإنساني يجعل هذا الكتاب الموضوع السري جداً مفهوماً للقراء من أمثالي الذين يعرفون قدراً بسيطاً من الرياضيات أو الذين نسوا ما كانوا يعرفونه". - ستانلي واينستروب، الأستاذ الفخري للفنون و العلوم الإنسانية في جامعة بنسلفانيا الرسمية، ومؤلف حرب ماك آرثر "هي قصة تستحق القراءة و يعتمد عليها في آن معاً. لقد قام ستيفن باديانسكي ببحث ممتاز لمسرح العمليات وقدم تكثيفاً بارعاً لموضوع واسع و بالغ التعقيد. لم يكن تقريره الشامل ينسج قصة واضحة وبليغة فحسب، لكنه أيضاً يعالج الفروق الدقيقة والمختلفة في تناول الحلفاء للتكنولوجيا الحديثة تحت ضغوط زمن الحرب معالجة رشيقة. وباختصار، ينبغي أن يكون كتاب صراع الأذكياء على كل رف عسكري للحرب العالمية الثانية على أنه مقدمة رائعة و مسلية تمتاز بالبحث الشامل للعصر الذهبي لعالم فك الرموز الساحر". - ر. آ. راتكليف 1998-1999 وكالة الأمن القومي - مؤرخ مقيم " كتاب رائع. وتبدو قصته بشخصياتها النابضة بالحياة وأحداثها الدرامية كرواية جاسوسية. قراءة هذا الكتاب واجبة على كل مهتم بتاريخ الجاسوسية و الحروب". - ديفيد ألفاريز، مؤلف الإشارات السرية: فك الرموز والدبلوماسية الأميركية، 1930-1945. العبيكان للنشر

Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II

صراع الأذكياء : القصة الكاملة لفك رموز الشيفرة

Based on archeological findings, the author examines the evolution of the modern horse, including behavior, vision, intelligence, and language

The Nature of Horses

The author uses new evidence from the fields of behavioral science, archaeology, and neuroscience to provide fresh insights into canine behavior and personality. Reprint.

An Inquiry Into the Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris

The Truth about Dogs

A remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel. From his famous Incompleteness Theorem, which shook the foundations of mathematical truth, to his perilous escape from Nazi Vienna, this book weaves together his creative genius, mental illness, and idealism in the face of adversity.

The study of animal intelligence has developed enormously over the last decade. Herons fish' using twigs as bait, monkeys add and subtract, dolphins hunt in groups to outwit prey, ravens solve complex puzzles. Steering clear of sentimental attempts to equate animals with humans, Stephen Budiansky shows us how superbly well-adapted animal intelligence' is for the survival of animals - large and small, wild and domestic - in the evolutionary contest. We can thus learn a true respect for their remarkable evolutionary heritage on Earth.

How Animals Think

The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justice.

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