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1.	[no image]	The Making of the Atomic Bomb from Simon & Schuster Price: $114.95 Customer Review: As many have said, the amount of research that went into this book, and the resultant detail, was phenomenal. I'm glad I bought and read the book. It gave me insights and understanding that I didn't have before hand, related to the scientific, social, and political elements of development of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race from Knopf Price: $10.84 Customer Review: At turns both fascinating and mind-numbingly dull. Rhodes describes the ascent of Gorbachev, including the Stalin purges that took his grandfather and the pathetic living conditions of the people, but otherwise portrays Soviet leaders as simple and honest guys just trying to do their jobs. By... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust from Vintage Price: $9.25 Customer Review: A key part of the Holocaust story, even with some flaws. Minor flaws are dates of U.S declarations of war. Major flaw is the failure to demonstrate how the Lonnie Athens theories of violence apply to specific individuals, or to the larger Nazi group. Also, the author's views on the basic nature of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb from Simon & Schuster Price: $7.43 Customer Review: A must read. Gives insight into a period that we seem not to have remembered. Full of technical history of how to build nuclear weapons.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy from Knopf Price: $4.84 Customer Review: Gwenyth Cravens has written a very readable account of the impact nuclear energy can have on the future of energy production in the US and the world. For two reasons I don't give the book 5 stars: First, I kept thinking I was rereading the book "Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear" by Peter... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians from Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Price: $9.36 Customer Review: It is always a pleasure to review a good book. Cynthia Kelly should be complimented for her intelligent chioce of the items for this anthology. The prefaces to the chapters and the items are well written, concise, but fully povide the needed background. Even for those who are familiar with the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		John James Audubon: The Making of an American from Knopf Price: $7.24 Customer Review: Before reading this eye-opening biography, I knew of Audubon only as an artist of birds. In his great biography, Richard Rhodes opened my eyes not only to an amazing, complex man of great civility and perseverance, but also to a time in American history that we do not often see. It was a time when... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		How to Write: Advice and Reflections from William Morrow & Co Price: $5.00 Customer Review: When Rhodes stresses the necessity of checking facts, he writes that "I'm as corny as Kansas in August" is a line from a song in "Oklahoma." Nope--it's from "South Pacific." It's easy to see how he made the mistake--Kansas is right next door to Oklahoma, and both musicals are by Rodgers and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.		Eso: How You and Your Lover Can Give Each Other Hours of Extended Sexual Orgasm from Grand Central Publishing Price: $9.15 Customer Review: Book is very informative. I was extremely pleased that I received the book within only a couple of days.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb from University of California Press Price: $38.71 Customer Review: This book gives a brief and highly technical summary of what was known about nuclear fission in 1942 and how to go about turning this knowledge into a "practical weapon". Great fun to read if you have an engineering or physics degree or similar background knowledge. The author has extensively... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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