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Chemistry Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Peter J., PhD Mikulecky, Katherine Brutlag, ...
For Dummies, 2008
A Great Workbook Even if You are Not a Dummy
The best way to learn a subject, especially a subject with the reputation of difficulty that chemistry has, is to be engaged while learning. The quartet of authors (Mikulecky, Brutlag, Gilman, and Peterson)of this workbook have organized the material to keep the ...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster, 1995
Outstanding Book
Myself not being a scientist there were parts of this book that were hard to understand theoretically speaking, but the historical story the book brings forth is hard not to understand. Between the people making blind discoveries to educated guesses to scientific ...
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2007
great documentary on the making of the a-bomb and its aftermath
I am a babyboomer, born in 1947 after World War II was over. But my father had worked at Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II and entered the nuclear filed after the war becoming a reactor theorist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. So the Manhattan ...
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Atomic Ranch
Michelle Gringeri-Brown
Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2006
Not your ordinary Ranch book
God Bless the folks at Atomic Ranch! I have been a subscriber to the Magazine for over 2 years now and have been dying to get the book. Finally, after a couple of strong hints, my wife got it for me for my birthday.
This book is chock full of beautiful photographs of ...
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Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Jennet Conant
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Have we lost the spark?
Alfred Loomis was a bona fide "Wall Street tycoon" who made his fortune in the 1920s by helping to organize the financing for the electrification of America and had the foresight to sell out before the stock market crash in 1929. Thereafter, he became an amateur ...
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
Eleanor Coerr
Puffin, 2004
A story with simplistic compassion about a little girl whose illness made her a hero
For many years after the nuclear weapons that ended World War II were exploded over Japan, the radiation effects lingered to cause sickness and death. Sadako is a young girl who was an infant resident in Hiroshima when the explosion took place. She is a lively girl and ...
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Vintage, 2006
How the bomb got built here first
My father spent most of his career in nuclear engineering researching the mathematics of nuclear reactors at Brookhaven. My father had visited all the national labs and got to know all the key players in nuclear physics in the period from 1950-1970. Growing up in ...
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The Research Methods Knowledge Base
William Trochim, James P Donnelly
Atomic Dog, 2006
Make Sure You Get the FULL Version
As other reviewers have noted, this book has a 100% accurate title. It is the single best reference book on research methods you can buy. However, you should note that the version Amazon sells DOES NOT provide the Activation Key for free access to the updated online ...
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Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza
Brad Graham, Kathy McGowan
McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2004
Great book for the hobbiest!
Fantastic book!! It has a permenent home on the coffie table. I'm already collecting enough old bikes to urk the misses! The book is realy worth the money and you'll read it all the way through in the first sitting, I did!I hope there's a second edition in the works ...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
Vintage, 1989
A very good book
This is a book I would recommend for anyone to read. By reading the book you get a personal perspective on the ones affected by the bombing. This edition has an additional chapter, written years later, where the author gives an update on the people in the book. Very ...
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A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
Sharon Weinberger, Nathan Hodge
Bloomsbury USA, 2008
A great read if you are interested in Nukes!
For those of you that enjoy reading about esoteric yet important topics
such as Nuclear Community this is a great read! Similar in many ways to the works of J. Bamford who writes extensively on the NSA.
It takes the reader from Livermore CA and Nevada to Oak ...
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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Quality Paperbacks Series)
General Leslie R. Groves
Da Capo Press, 1983
One of the best Project Management books I have ever read
I read this book in the early 1960's when it was first published. I was in engineering school then, in India, and my interest in reading the book was to learn the story of the greatest scientific achievement of the 20th century. The book is so fascinating and so ...
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
Jennet Conant
Simon & Schuster, 2006
109 East Palace
An excellelnt accout of one of the most important projects of the last century. Since reading it, I visited Los Alamos and also Trinity Site. An inspiring piece of history.
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Quantum Mechanics Demystified
David McMahon
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005
good book
This is a good book for anyone trying to teach yourself quantum mechanics, and it is a good supplement to any quantum mechanics class. The author talked about hopefully making a 2nd book on this topic to add to this book (not a 2nd edition, but another book) because ...
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Atomic Lobster: A Novel (Serge a. Storms)
Tim Dorsey
William Morrow, 2008
More adventures of Serge Storms, and a whole lot of fun for the reader...
With all the other books I've been reading of late, I missed that Tim Dorsey had come out with another Serge Storms novel... Atomic Lobster. So long as you know what you're getting into with a Dorsey novel, this is a lot of fun much as the others were.
It's nearly ...
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