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Jan.04.2008
This massive work deals with the history of the people and the science that preceded and then made possible the development of the atomic bomb. Heavily biographical, the book provides portraits of the many players from Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein to Robert Oppenheimer. Rhodes includes detailed...
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Jan.04.2008
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...
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Jan.04.2008
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—commonly called "Mad Cow"—that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France...
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Jan.04.2008
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb provides a unique perspective on the twentieth century through a lively collection of writings about the unexpected and paradoxical ways in which technology has changed our lives—and will affect our future. Technology has been the...
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Jan.04.2008
Born out of a small research program that began in 1939, the Manhattan Project brought together the cream of the scientific community and the military to create and perfect a weapon more powerful than any the world had known. Racing against time as the war raged in Europe and Asia, and against our...
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Jan.04.2008
Lonnie Athens was raised in a violent world. His father was a hot-tempered man who shot at strangers and beat his wife and literally bashed his sons’ heads together. So when Athens began studying for his doctorate in criminology at the University of California, Berkeley, it was only natural that he...
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Dec.21.2007
Hemophobes beware: There are five quarts of blood in the human body, and Hayes (Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir) pours all of them into this book. A gay man living in San Francisco with an HIV-positive partner, Hayes uses his own encounters with blood’s ability to save and destroy lives as a...
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Dec.21.2007
The classic medical text known as Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal...
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Dec.17.2007
An inside look at the science behind the myths.
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