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The calculus wars

Newton, Leibniz, and the greatest mathematical clash of all time
2010
Chronicles the twenty-year battle, public and private, between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who invented calculus.

Valkyrie

2010
The author, a German military officer working for the German resistance, recounts his role in the secret plot, code-named Valkyrie, focused on assassinating Adolph Hitler during World War II.

The Red Baron

2013
A personal diary written during World War I by the German war ace, also known as "The Red Baron.".

The calculus wars

Newton, Leibniz, and the greatest mathematical clash of all time
2006
Chronicles the twenty-year battle, public and private, between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who invented calculus.

Descartes' secret notebook

a true tale of mathematics, mysticism, and a quest to understand the universe
2005
Explores the mysterious work of seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes, and examines his mathematical theories and his understanding of the order and mystery of the cosmos.

The Red Baron

the graphic history of Richthofen's Flying Circus and the air war in WWI
2014
Told in graphic novel format, the story of Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, from his beginnings as a cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to his death at the age of twenty-five and his enduring legacy.

The Red Baron

the autobiography of Manfred Van Richthofen
1995
A biography of the World War I ace known as the Red Baron who shot down 80 Allied planes before he himself was killed, a month before his twenty-sixth birthday.

Manfred von Richthofen

2003
Profiles Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron", a German fighter pilot during World War I.

Liebig; the master chemist

1969
A biography of the early nineteenth-century German chemist whose teaching and laboratory methods widely influenced the development of the science of chemistry.

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