THE BOOK OF BLACK

From the Black Hole of Calcutta and the Dark Side of the Moon to Black Bart, Black Beauty, and Black Sabbath, this unique and original book explores curious, amusing, and important topics related to "black."

The writing is lively and the topics are varied; Pickover achieves his goals, and his brevity and breezy style will appeal to readers used to accessing information quickly on the Internet but who are still interested in picking up a book. With brief entries and 100 black-and-white and full-color images, this hardcover volume roams far and wide through fashion, philosophy, politics, popular culture, science, religion, and superstition. Author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction, Clifford Pickover works at the IBM Thomas J.Watson Research Center, having received his PhD from Yale. Pickover is the author of ore than 30 books on computers and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, religion, human behavior and intelligence, time travel, alien life, and science fiction. Pickover's most notable books include The Math Book, The Physics Book, The Medical Book, Archimedes to Hawking, The Mobius Strip, A Pssion for mathematics, Calculus and Pizza, The Mathemaics of Oz, Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide, and The stars of Heaven.