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"The book is a retrospective on Gold’s remarkable life. He fled from Vienna in 1933, eventually settling in England and completing an engineering degree at Trinity College in Cambridge. During the war, he worked on naval radar research alongside Fred Hoyle and Hermann Bondi – which, in an unlikely chain of events, eventually led to his working with them on steady-state cosmology. In 1968, shortly after their discovery, he provided the explanation of pulsars as rotating neutron stars. In his final position at Cornell, he and his colleagues persuaded the US Defense Department to fund the conversion of the giant radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico into a superb instrument for radio astronomy. Gold’s interests covered physiology, astronomy, cosmology, geophysics, and engineering."

"On November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama became the first African American president of the United States. Everyone agrees this was an historic event; not everyone agrees as to its meaning. On that night and in the days and months that followed, everyone chimed in with an opinion-from seasoned politicians and television news commentators, to co-workers, neighbors, family members, and strangers on the street. Many were astonished at his meteoric rise to success and expressed strong emotional reactions-from joy and hope, to anger and resentment. With his success came many questions: How did he accomplish this? Why does he evoke such strong reactions? Do we now live in a post-racial society? What will this mean for the next generation? This book seeks answers to these questions and examines the psychological impact of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. Contributing authors represent some of the leading scholars in their fields, and they address these questions using psychological theory and research on topics such as racism, prejudice, stereotyping, immigration, and ethnic identity. They also discuss his impact on different populations, including African Americans, immigrants, youth, and the LGBT community. The purpose is to analyze the impact of this historic event on how we see ourselves, how we see each other, and the interactions we have with one another."