Bøker av Michael Gross

From neutron star mergers to the survival skills of tardigrades, this fascinating book is an ideal primer for students or anyone curious about life and the Universe.

A compelling call to action to focus on what connects us in nature to solve today's problems.

"Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations were the dominant socio-cultural-political force in America. While the WASP elite has, in the last half century, indeed drifted from American centrality to the periphery, its relevance and impact remain, as Michael Gross reveals in his compelling chronicle of the WASPs in our history. From Colonial America's founding settlements through the Gilded Age to the present day, Gross traces the complicated legacy of American WASPs-their profound accomplishments and egregious failures-through the lives of fifteen influential individuals and their very privileged, sometimes intermarried families. As the Bradford, Randolph, Morris, Biddle, Sanford, Peabody, and Whitney clans, among others, progress, prosper, and stumble, defining aspects in the four-century sweep of American history emerge: our wide, oft-contentious religious diversity; the deep scars of slavery, genocide, and intolerance; the creation and sometime misuse of astonishing economic, political, and social power; an enduring belief in the future; an instinct to offset inequity with philanthropy; an equal capacity for irresponsible, sometimes wanton, behavior. "American society was supposed to be different," writes Gross, "but for most of our history we have had a patriciate, an aristocracy, a hereditary oligarchic upper class, who initiated the American national experiment." In previous acclaimed books such as 740 Park and Rogues' Gallery, Gross has explored elite culture in microcosm; expanding the canvas, Flight of the WASP chronicles it across four centuries and fifteen generations in an ambitious and consequential contribution to American history"--

The definitive story of the international modeling business?and its evil twin, legalized flesh peddling?Model is a tale of beautiful women empowered and subjugated; of vast sums of money; of sex and drugs, obsession and tragic death; and of the most unholy combination in commerce: stunning young women and rich, lascivious men.Investigative journalist Michael Gross takes us into the private studios and hidden villas where models play and are preyed upon, and tears down modeling's carefully constructed façade of glamour to reveal the untold truths of an ugly trade.

A new and revealing examination of life on Earth-from the perspective of its hardiest inhabitants.

Emphasizing the biochemical nature of astrobiology, this book examines the origin of the chemical elements, the events behind the developments that made our Universe habitable, and the ongoing sustenance of life. It also explores life in extreme habitats, potential extraterrestrial habitats, and the search for extraterrestrial life.

Die Gottesfrage ist sicher die wichtigste Herausforderung unserer Zeit. Sie lässt sich nicht theoretisch-spekulativ lösen, sondern erfährt eine Antwort nur durch das Erschließen ihrer praktischen Relevanz, nur durch das konkrete Tun.Dazu ermutigt diese Textsammlung. Sie regt an, wie Jakob mit dem Unfassbaren und Unbekannten zu ringen und IHN nicht loszulassen, wenn ER nicht Segen zurücklässt (vgl. Gen 32, 23-31). So wird der Weg in die Zukunft möglich, trotz neuer und beschwerlicher Herausforderungen.

The new science and technology of the incredibly small-and what it means for our future.