From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism
They also explore the relations between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors
Nelson's exciting seafaring trilogy concludes
followed by a discussion of how and why humans are singularly unique among living creatures
the authors search for answers to these questions and other mysterious conundrums
Airborne Paul Joseph Travers From the microcosmic level ofAirborne is how William F. Buckley, Jr. describes his sail across the wide Atlantic with his son and five friends. The trip, for fifteen years a dream, for fifteen months a planned operation, was always a risk: one doesn't set out haphazardly in a small sailboat across 4,400 miles of ocean, and Buckley's account of perils of the sea as experienced by himself since he acquired his first sailboat at age thirteen is at once graphic, instructive, and