Jon A Marshall

Science Magazine's State of the Planet 2008-2009: with a Special Section on Energy and Sustainability

Taken from the pages of Science and supplemented by contributions from the magazine’s editors, State of the Planet 2008-2009 offers contemporary science writing that is sometimes provocative, frequently enlightening, and always authoritative. Published by the American Association for the Advancement...

Strangers in the Night: A Brief History of Life on Other Worlds (Cornelia & Michael Bessie Series)

The father-son team of David E. Fisher and Marshall Jon Fisher brings the study of extraterrestrial life down to earth in this informative and entertaining book. In the anecdotal style that is their hallmark, the Fishers trace humankinds attempts to discover life on other worldsa discipline known in...

Tube: The Invention of Television

The visionary eccentrics and hardboiled businessmen behind television’s inception come to life in this “gripping” (Booklist), “lucid and engrossing” (american Scientist) chronicle of patent races, marketing showdowns, and courtroom battles. Index; photographs.

By Marshall Jon Fisher A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match (1st First Edition) [Hardcover]

A Backhanded Gift: A Novel

It’s the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Robert Cherney, a 30-year-old aspiring writer, has left New York City for a job teaching tennis in Munich. Aside from private lessons, he coaches the Maccabi Club men's league team, a motley group of neurotics whose eccentricities see...

Watergate's Legacy and the Press: The Investigative Impulse (Visions of the American Press)

Did two reporters really change the course of history? And what impact did they actually have on American journalism and government? Jon Marshall explores different answers to those questions by charting the past and the possible future of the critical public service provided by investigative report...

A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played

Before Federer versus Nadal, before Borg versus McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon, was a battle of titans: the world'...