Meltdown. Stories of nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical, Paperback - Joel Levy

Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrec...

Deirdre Langeland's Meltdown explores for middle grade readers the harrowing story of the deadly earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that cau...

DescriptionPeter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact ...

With 2018 marking 200 years since }Frankenstein{'s first publication, Levy provides an engrossing insight into the fascinating world of science in ...

Reducere. "Almost 24 hours to the minute since the tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi, Unit 1 exploded. The building wrenched apart, sending shards of irradiated ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn March 11, 2011, fifty minutes after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit eastern Japan, a tsunami 45-feet high engulfed the nuclear power p...

The second in a three part autobiography on writing, following on from Things I Don't Want To Know. A witty and unique memoir on writing and womanh...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): Approx. 100 illustrations; Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 394Publication ...

Reducere. Award NameAndrew Carnegie Medals for ExcellenceAward categoryNonfictionA New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus...

A moving medical memoir written by intensive care doctor Dr. Matt Morgan.

In a book as illuminating as it is captivating, Thomas E. Drabek presents an in-depth analysis of the emotional impacts of disaster events and the ...

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Reducere. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune defi...

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on t...

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

During the last half century of its existence, the Ottoman Empire and the lands around its borders were places of constant political turmoil and un...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alexander a. BorovoiForeword by: Gary DunbarThe devastating accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then ...

A radical geography of nuclear warfare.

Late in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals where atomic was...

DescriptionA rich visual history of science fiction's impact on real-world technologies, this book is perfect for lovers of H. G. Wells, Star Trek,...

Instant Engineering pulls together all the pivotal engineering theories and discoveries into one concise volume.

Reducere. The most famous master of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism is the Baal Shem Tov (1698 to 1760). More stories are told about the Baal Shem Tov than abo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. One of our great essayists and journalists--the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau--takes us on a heady tour through his life and time...

Trade paperback. The award-winning sportswriter's best bits, achieving a literary eye for human detail and narrative significance that transcends s...

Reducere. In the past fifty years scientists have begun to discover how the human brain functions. In this book Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the f...

Provides an analysis of fatalities suffered by the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

A manga artist who is afraid that she herself is slipping into a cartoon version of life, a lab technician who makes art with the cloning technolog...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Joel and Obadiah, these two prophets and their message of disaster and deliverance will both challenge and reassure all who have ears to hear. The ...

Reducere. Eclipsing Memorial Stadium on a Husker football game day, deer season is arguably the largest single sporting event of the year in Nebraska, with m...

Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb d...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the first years of life, as children observe, imitate, and interact with people and their environment, the brain is structuring a fou...

Reducere. Inspired with her work with horses and patients at the National Centre for Equine Facilitated Therapy, horse lover and author A. Bronwyn Llewellyn ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white; 4 Illust...

Reducere. Freddy Meyers was a frustrated 10-year-old. Too big to be little and too little to be big. One day though, he was just the right size - for danger....

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A moving medical memoir written by intensive care doctor Dr. Matt Morgan.

Reducere. DescriptionEveryone gets to be a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with di...