Books by Stephen Budiansky and Complete Book Reviews
THE CHARACTER OF CATS: The Origins, Intelligence, Behavior, and Stratagems of Felis silvestris catus
Stephen Budiansky, Author . Viking $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-03093-4
In this enjoyable, enlightening book, Atlantic Monthly
correspondent and lay animal expert Budiansky (The Truth About Dogs) explores the mysterious nature of the house cat, that "least tamed and most successful of domestic species." With a...
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Stephen Budiansky, Author . Viking $29.95 (518p) ISBN 978-0-670-03285-3
For the aviation buff with a passion for history, this survey from veteran national security correspondent Budiansky (Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in WWII
) will be a must. Budiansky has plumbed a plethora of the right sources...
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Stephen Budiansky, Author . Viking $24.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-670-03426-0
Rising from humble roots, Sir Francis Walsingham is a model of a certain type of Elizabethan figure, thriving at an innovative court that preferred service by men of talent rather than by the high nobility. As Queen Elizabeth's secretary of the...
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Stephen Budiansky, Author . Viking $27.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-670-01840-6
Journalist and military historian Budiansky (Her Majesty's Spymaster
) pulls no punches in this hard-hitting examination of the most sordid aspects of Reconstruction in the South from 1865 to 1876. The “brutal war of terrorist violenceR
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Stephen Budiansky, Knopf, $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-307-27069-6
The deservedly overshadowed War of 1812 was redeemed by heroics at sea, according to this rousing military history. Journalist and military historian Budiansky (The Bloody Shirt) follows the tiny United States Navy, led by a handful of superfrigates,
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Stephen Budiansky, Author Free Press $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-83710-9
Although Budiansky concedes that animals most likely experience emotions, he denies them consciousness, which, in his view, is inseparably linked to language, an exclusively human invention. Furthermore, Budiansky contends, animals don't really...
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Stephen Budiansky, Author William Morrow & Company $18 (190p) ISBN 978-0-688-09610-6
Angered by the animal rights movement, the author, assistant managing editor of U.S. News & World Report , attempts to demonstrate that domestication of animals is a natural product of evolution rather than a human invention. Drawing on recent...
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Stephen Budiansky, Author Free Press $24.5 (310p) ISBN 978-0-02-904915-0
U.S. News & World Report staffer Budiansky offers three major premises: humans have always interacted with and influenced the natural environment; as ecologists learn more about ecosystems, they are better able to design effective management...
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Stephen Budiansky. Knopf, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-59596-6
Historian and journalist Budiansky’s newest (after Perilous Fight) is the little known history of a linchpin in the Allies’ victory over the Nazis: Patrick Blackett. At the outset of WWI, the submarine was a marginalized resource, yet it would soon
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Stephen Budiansky. Knopf, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-35266-6
The dysfunctions and overreach of the total surveillance state were present at its birth, according to this engrossing history of the National Security Administration. Journalist Budiansky (Blackett’s War) traces the development of American signals...
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Stephen Budiansky, Author, Phil Gigante, Read by , read by Phil Cigante. Brilliance Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-5163-4
Budiansky has clearly done his research on this interesting and largely unknown history of the American South, detailing the origins of America's largest homegrown terrorist sect, the Ku Klux Klan. While the tales are often disturbing and...
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Stephen Budiansky, Author, Budiansky Stephen, Author, Stephen Budiansky, Author Free Press $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-82768-1
Throughout its 6000 years of domesti-cation, the horse has been viewed--not always to its benefit--through the distorting lens of human perception. ""I would argue that at this late date in the shared history of man and horse,"" says Budiansky (Coven
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Stephen Budiansky, Author, Budiansky Stephen, Author, Stephen Budiansky, Author Free Press $27.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-684-85932-3
In February of 1926, German codes, long intercepted and analyzed by Polish cryptanalysts, abruptly became impenetrable. As BudianskyDan Atlantic Monthly correspondent, applied math degree-holder and former congressional fellowDnotes in this...
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Stephen Budiansky. Norton, $29.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-393-63472-3
Historian and journalist Budiansky (Code Warriors) delivers a well-crafted and accessible biography of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935). Drawing on previously unpublished letters and other sources, Budiansky illuminates Holmes’
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Stephen Budiansky. Norton, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-324-00544-5
Historian Budiansky (Oliver Wendell Holmes) recaps the revolutionary work of mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) in this probing biography. Budiansky details how Gödel showed the limits of logic in math with his work, and sailed past...
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