This is the latest offering from Richard Schickel, a renowned film critic who probably knows more -- and writes with greater incision -- about the history of film than any contemporary reviewer.

John McCabe's insightful biography of Charlie Chaplin is a scholarly work, which will easily engage both young and old. McCabe (1920-2005) is best known for his biographies.

This new edition of Papa Hemingway from Da Capo Press brings A.E. Hotchner's famous memoir back into print for the first time in nearly a decade.

Flora Samuel, an architect and lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, has written widely on the subject of Le Corbusier. In Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist, she unearths certain aspects of his work that other researchers have ignored or discounted.

While a patent clerk in 1905, Einstein published a handful of seminal physics papers which received wide critical acclaim. These papers, notes Ohanian, contained several mistakes.

Stephen Greenblatt's book Will in the World is an enlightening biographical study of not only William Shakespeare, but also of England in the late 1500s.

Perhaps once in a generation, an artist comes along to permanently alter the landscape of his medium. In Fellini: A Life, Hollis Alpert guides the reader through the tumultuous life of this fascinating Italian master.

Without a doubt, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing were two of the most compelling figures in the history of mathematics, logic and philosophy. Gödel's revolutionary “incompleteness theorems” and Turing's work with artificial intelligence have changed the world.

Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness, is a detailed look into the five papers written by Einstein in 1905 - known as his Annus Mirabilis, the extraordinary year - that truly separated him from other physicists of his time and beyond.

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein tells the story of Kurt Gödel, one of the greatest mathematicians and logicians of modern times.

Einstein and Oppenheimer examines the lives of two of the 20th century's most consequential physicists.