109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos, Paperback - Jennet Conant

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Marele secret - Jennet Conant

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand s...

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy.Illu...

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy.Publ...

Reducere. By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child's early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and...

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Reducere. Unabridged declassified value reproduction of The Los Alamos Primer by Robert Serber, in full color with all censor markings. This is the booklet g...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon HunnerA social history of New Mexico's "Atomic City" Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the commu...

Secret City of Southend explores the lesser-known history of the town of Southend through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and att...

Reducere. J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for ...

DescriptionThe most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until ...

Reducere. Edith Warner (1893-1951), who lived by the Rio Grande at the Otowi Switch in northern New Mexico, has become a legendary figure owing largely to he...

Reducere. So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's d...

The follow up to the mesmerizing The Secret Fire.

Reducere. On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit histor...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): S. M. UlamNumber of pages: 588Collection: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Series on Dynamic Ma...

Reducere. The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the hum...

Somehow, for all my outward pretence of cold-eyed professionalism, all my insistence that writing is simply a job like any other, I've discovered t...

Reducere. In T. E. Lawrence's classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a "dream palace" of Arab nationalism. What ...

Reducere. The City of Angels? No burg this side of the Pearly Gates could live up to such a moniker, and L.A. isn't even trying. You won't see many inhabitan...

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Reducere. DescriptionAsadollah Alam, an urbane aristocrat from the oldest of Iran's great families, was the Sha's most trusted friend and confidant. As Prime...

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Sara SkroboNumber of pages: 253Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 39Cover type:...

Reducere. The world's great powers have waged discreet war in London's streets. This conflict has played out across the city, often in plain sight, in leafy ...

As the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely posit...

DescriptionFirst published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovat...

Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. Growth rates are comparatively unfavorable and insufficient to...

Reducere. DescriptionA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los AngelesWhen Walter O'Malley moved his Br...

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more ha...

Unique, behind the scenes access to 20 surprising and hidden horticultural jewels in Sussex, Kent and Surrey, the garden of England.Publisher: Fran...

Reducere. The Secret Pleasures of Menopause is a groundbreaking book that is long overdue Christiane Northrup, M.D., delivers a breakthrough message that wil...

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Revelatory story of how all modern non-Africans sprang from a single exodus out of Africa just 85, 000 years agoPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group...

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Reducere. The origins and development of the Divine Office are traced through both Eastern and Western branches of the Church, providing a wealth of historic...

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Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is...