books about: bomb     books:     Bomb      Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? Robert Schwartz Whispering Winds Press, 2006 The Big Picture Everything always makes sense when you can see the big picture. This book provides a glimpse into why events we perceive as "bad" happen, through a varied collection of individual cases. Our lives in this "reality" are just learning experiences, to expand our ...             The Retirement Savings Time Bomb . . . and How to Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan for Protecting Your ... Ed Slott Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Do you want your IRA to go to the IRS or your family? Its hard to believe that you can spend your entire working life providing for your family and saving money to support yourself in retirement only to lose most of your retirement assets to the IRS when you die. Ed Slott's recent book provides strategies and ideas on ...             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 ...             On the Beach Nevil Shute Ballantine Books, 1983 Wanting to stay on the beach Nevil Shute's On the Beach was written in 1957 amidst the Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation. It has been made into two movies, one in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire and a smaller budget film in 2000. Shute was a bestselling writer in his ...             Mighty Avengers Vol. 2: Venom Bomb Brian Michael Bendis Marvel Comics, 2008 Avengers Rock On Is there a skrull in the house? The post civil war conspiracy continues...Brian Michael Bendis continues his tremendous run on Tony Stark's new assemblage of heroes and is reunited with artist Mark Bagley. The Mighty Avengers are in fact, a pretty old combo of ...             Cherry Bomb: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Better Flirt, a Tougher Chick, and a Hotter Girlfriend--and to ... Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008 Not for the faint of heart, Cherry Bomb is an A-to-Z reference for everything awesome a girl needs to know, including the obvious (style, beauty, dating, and sex tips) and the not-so-obvious (instructions for preparing absinthe, how to hit on a celebrity). It's a girl's guide with a difference: one that shows readers how to identify, go after, ...             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 ...             Hiroshima John Hersey Vintage, 1989 Satisfaction Guaranteed I was very satisfied with the level of customer service that I received from Amazon.com. It is definetly a site that I will be coming back to from here on. As a student I am always on the lookout for a better and cheaper deal, so this is definetly one of the first ...             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 ...             Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan J. Samuel Walker The University of North Carolina Press, 2005 Historiography at its Finest One of the most complex, divisive, and nuanced debates in the history of the twentieth century is the decision by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in August 1945 to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, thereby ending World War II. A traditional ...             Level 7 (Library of American Fiction) Mordecai Roshwald University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 Terrifying, Memorable, and Unique Level 7 represents the journal of Officer X-127, a member of an elite Armed Forces unit. X-127 has been ordered to the bottom-most layer (level 7) of a highly secure facility, where he is ordered to set off a massive nuclear attack. The facility is a city unto itself, ...             Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes Simon & Schuster, 1996 A Dark Sun and a Cold War... Richard Rhodes' 1995 "Dark Sun" is the well-written and provocative sequel to his Pulizter Prize-winning "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." "Dark Sun", with some overlap, picks up the story with intertwined narratives about the making of the thermonuclear bomb, the ...             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 ...             The Wives of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser Vintage, 1993 Of all the books on Henry VIII's wives, this is the best A few years ago David Starkey wrote a book on Henry VIII's three wives which received much publicity. It was even turned into a PBS documentary. I read that book and while I found some of his research compelling, his arrogant style and dubious conclusions irritated me. ...             Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race Richard Rhodes Knopf, 2007 Best book on peace issue Since 1984, when I was permitted to teach a law school seminar which I laughingly called "Law and World Peace," I have read several thousand books on "the peace issue." Of those over 3,000 books, I believe that this is the BEST one! It gives a full feel for the ...          products you might be interested in search for books annihilation, courageous, destruction, eyewitnesses, oppenheimer, retirementplans      toavi.com    web we recommend Outstanding Book randomly chosen kitchen: Presto 05420 FryDaddy Electric Deep Fryer