Appointment Denied Monica M. Emerich the many amusing and mind-boggling

the many amusing and mind-boggling ways of estimating pi over the centuries

Little Ladybird flutters from big toe to knee to thumb and onwards around the body

the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins

Elopement notices allowed couples to negotiate the meaning of these changes

Jane Draycott in her new translation remakes the imaginative intensity of the original

Appointment Denied Monica M. Emerich the many amusing and mind-bogglingIn the spring of 1940, the Great Depression was still spreading misery throughout the world, and war in Europe threatened to drag America into the conflict. Amid these global troubles a tempest in a teapot was brewing on the island of Manhattan, where the board of the City College of New York had just appointed the renowned philosopher Bertrand Russell to teach. With the appointment of this most celebrated of philosophers, the board had intended to