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The First Amendment ideal of an independent press allows American journalists to present critical perspectives on government policies and actions; but are the media independent of government in practice? Here Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it comes to military intervention, journalists over the past two decades have let the government itself set the terms and boundaries of foreign policy debate in the news. Analyzing newspaper and television reporting of U.S. intervention in Grenada and Panama, the bombing of Libya, the Gulf War, and U.S. actions in Somalia and Haiti, he shows that...

Relativitat ist ein Teil der Allgemeinbildung davon ist der Autor N. David Mermin uberzeugt, denn schliesslich geht es um die Zeit, eine Sache, die nun wirklich jeder kennt. Mermins Zugang zum Thema ist sehr einfallsreich, aber dennoch exakt und vollstandig. Diese gut lesbare Vorstellung der Grundgedanken von Albert Einsteins Relativitatstheorie richtet sich an alle, die sich noch zumindest vage an die Mathematik der Mittelstufe erinnern (quadratische Gleichungen und rechtwinklige Dreiecke reichen vollig aus). Klar, lebendig und unkompliziert spricht dieses Buch neugierige Leserinnen und...

In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This readable exposition of the nature of time as addressed in Einstein's theory of relativity is accessible to anyone who remembers a little high school algebra and elementary plane...