Kakalios sets out to tackle both tasks inTheAmazing Story ofQuantumMechanics (GothamBooks, 2010), an accessible, mostlymath-free treatmentof one of the mostcomplextopicsinscience.
Mr. Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author, most recently, of "War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today" (Gotham Books, 2006).