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44 produkter
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
25th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
289 kr
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons— from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the …
Josef Sudek
The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
Av Maia-Mari Sutnik, Antonín Dufek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
455 kr
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Josef Sudek, the 'Poet of Prague', had a legendary career spanning almost six decades. His craftsmanship and technical virtuosity were unparalleled among his contemporaries. Faced with the legacy of cubism, surrealism and the Czech avantgarde, Sudek sought his own approach, characterized by a …
Energy
A Human History
Häftad, 2019
240 kr
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A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard …
Making Of The Atomic Bomb
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
187 kr
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or …
Inland Ground
An Evocation of the American Middle West
Häftad, 1991
399 kr
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This text examines the Mid West of America, covering such diverse topics as coyote hunting, wheat growing and hog butchering and considers individuals such as Truman and Eisenhower.
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Häftad, 2003
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
257 kr
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Arsenals of Folly
E-bok, 2007
148 kr
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, …
Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
Häftad, 2011
193 kr
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Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
E-bok, 2007
89 kr
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In Masters of Death , Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents of the first phase of the Final …
Twilight of the Bombs
Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
E-bok, 2010
164 kr
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The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post–Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary …
Hedy's Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
187 kr
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner …
Audubon Reader
Av John James Audubon, Richard Rhodes
E-bok, 2015
199 kr
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This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville. Audubon’s award-winning biographer, Richard Rhodes, has …
Hedy's Folly
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
E-bok, 2011
183 kr
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner …
Deadly Feasts
The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
Häftad, 1998
267 kr
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In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France -- and that has already been traced …
Visions Of Technology
A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World
Häftad, 2001
235 kr
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Technology has been the blessing and the bane of the 20th Century. Human life-span has nearly doubled in the West, but no century ever killed more human beings with new technologies than this. New technology became part of the machine of war, ranging from the staggering loss of life of the First …
Deadly Feasts
Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague
E-bok, 1999
182 kr
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In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France—and that has already been traced to …
Hole in the World
An American Boyhood
Häftad, 2000
351 kr
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When he first published this text, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes helped to launch and legitimate the memoir of abused childhood. In this tenth anniversary edition, he offers new reflections on the abuse he and his elder brother suffered at the hands of their stepmother and father.
Dark Sun
The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Ljudbok, 1995
294 kr
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret …
Deadly Feasts
Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
Ljudbok, 1997
221 kr
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In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and Franceand that has already been traced to …
The Manhattan Project (Revised)
The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
Av Cynthia C. Kelly, Richard Rhodes m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
217 kr
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This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age now includes President Barack Obama's 2016 statement at Hiroshima, all-new writings from Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb, …
Ungodly
A Novel of the Donner Party
Häftad, 2007
313 kr
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In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. There, where the water flowed west to the far …
Why They Kill
The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
E-bok, 2015
125 kr
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Why do some men, women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? In his stunning new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes provides a startling and persuasive answer. Why They Kill explores the discoveries of a maverick American criminologist, Dr. Lonnie Athens -- …
Flora's Vagaries; A Comedy [In Five Acts and in Prose. by R. Rhodes].
Häftad, 2011
246 kr
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John James Audubon
The Making of an American
E-bok, 2004
213 kr
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John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects …
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