Richard Rhodes

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1.		The Making of the Atomic Bomb from Simon & Schuster Price: $13.60 Customer Review: This book is exciting to read and technically detailed. It gives a history not only of those involved in the production of the actual bomb, but of the physics and discovery of the atom and its components. No text book from walker or lectures from feynman can compare in how engaging this book makes... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Vintage) from Vintage Price: $11.53 Customer Review: I have read through half of the book and find it fascinating. I am confident that based upon what I have read that I can provide an honest assessment of the book. Before continuing, let me explain my rating logic. I give the book five stars on the information presented as it relates to the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Audubon: Early Drawings from Belknap Press Price: $78.75 Customer Review: The Harvard University Press has done a superb job of producing this beautiful collection of Audubon's early drawings of birds and a few mammals. The drawings were made and sold to his patron Edward Harris to help fund "The Birds of America". There are 116 portraits of species collected in America... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb from Simon & Schuster Price: $12.89 Customer Review: Book arrived in good time. Monster of a book and will take a long read. Too bad summer is over.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. from Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Price: $16.47 Customer Review: The Manhattan Project is a excellent book on the making of the world's first atomic bomb. From J.Robert Oppenheimer to Paul Tibbits, this book covers the people who invented the bomb,delivered the "gadget", to the horrible aftermath. The last chapter covers the reflections from the people... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.	[no image]	Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Vintage) from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review: I was very excited to have the opportunity to read Richard Rhodes Third Book in his Nuclear Weapons series. His first book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb and his second "Dark Sun" were truly outstanding. Mr. Rhodes first two books gave a pretty fair and unbiased view of history. This third book was... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Eso: How You and Your Lover Can Give Each Other Hours of Extended Sexual Orgasm from Grand Central Publishing Customer Review: Reading the other reviews I felt it was important to offer another perspective. While I haven't given public speeches, when it comes to my own body I'm an expert. I've spent more time with it than anyone else and over the years have learned quite a few things that I'm sorry to say I don't have... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review: As an American Jew born in 1942, I heard vague stories about the Holocaust from my family and friends. Always, the focus was on the death camps and the ovens. Later, of course, I read in more detail about antisemitism in general and World War II. However, reading this book brought home to me the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	John James Audubon - The Making of an American from Alfred Knopf	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist from Vintage Price: $10.85 Customer Review: Rhodes demonstrates the ability to break down and make alive Criminologist Lonnie Athens' theory of violentization. His use of well known violent indviduals and how they fall into this refinement of social learnig theory make a clear and strong argument to think about the theorist stages that lead... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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