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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich
Picador, 2006
Profound and important
This book is a punch in the gut. There's no nicer way to say it. It's downright devastating. It's something that every single person should read. Even if you only know Chernobyl vaguely, two things are made painfully apparent by this book: whatever you've read about ...
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Chernobyl Legacy
Magdalena Caris, Paul Fusco
de.MO, 2001
EXTREMELY POWERFUL !!!!
This book is an incredible testimonial of an accident that I seemed to have forgotten about. It put it right back in my face. The combination of the photographs and essays leaves no doubt about how dangerous nuclear power is, how little we know about, what happened in ...
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The Truth About Chernobyl
Grigori Medvedev, Andrei Sakharov
Basic Books, 1991
Informative and Enjoyable
I really enjoyed this book. As a teenager with a morbid interest in nuclear accidents like Chernobyl, Medvedev gave a perfect amount of detail and information while making his account readable. This book is very well-written, which I didn't expect when I checked it ...
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Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl
Mary Mycio
Joseph Henry Press, 2005
Fascinating book that should be required for biology classes!
I came across this book when I made friends with someone from the Ukraine... the book grew and grew on me as I read it; I did not realize until towards the end that the author had deftly taken us through the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, and then through a gestalt of ...
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Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2003
Extraordinary Work
I won't endeavor to describe this book any more than Amazon's editors. But, I will say that I've collected photography books for close to twenty years and this is one of the most beautiful I've seen. The work is extraordinary, both disquieting and alluring at the ...
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JOURNEY TO CHERNOBYL: ENCOUNTERS IN THE RADIOACTIVE ZONE
Glenn Cheney
Academy Chicago Publishers, 2006
Perspective, clarity, honesty
Glenn Cheney's voice raises questions, exposes uncomfortable truths, and propels the reader into forbidden places, from the recesses of his own brain to the Prohibited Zone near the reactor. Three stories are going on here -- the meltdown of the nuclear reactor, the ...
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The Legacy of Chernobyl
Zhores A. Medvedev
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992
Fantastic book
This book takes you right into the Chernobyl disaster. From the bungling government and perverse incentives placed on the nuclear engineer teams which made it a disaster just waiting to happen, to the clean up, evacuation (largely also botched) and health effects of ...
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Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter
Umbrage Editions, 2006
A singularly compelling visual glimpse into the heart and aftermath of tragedy.
Written by prizewinning journalist Igor Kostin, who braved severe radiation to take the only existing photograph of the Chernobyl plant on the day of its catastrophic destruction, Chernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter is a compilation of black-and-white and color ...
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Chernobyl Murders
Michael Beres
Medallion Press, 2008
exciting Cold War murder mystery
In 1985 in Western Ukraine, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath is upset at what is going on at the nuclear plant. He believes safety is being ignored and unnecessary risks taken. His brother Lazlo, a Kiev detective, investigates the unclear facility, which angers his ...
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Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (In-formation)
Adriana Petryna
Princeton University Press, 2002
Excellent and Intriguing
This is an excellent, detailed book defining the emergence of the concept of the biological citizen and the way in which this has reshaped the state and victims of Chernobyl. Highly recommended if you are interested in the way in which the concept of the body changes ...
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Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl
Piers Paul Read
Random House, 1993
Must-read for those in Disaster Response and Emergency Planning
If you didn't know it really happened, you would think this was a fictional thriller. Describes how a string of human errors resulted in the largest nuclear catastrophe the world has ever seen.
But the strength of the book is when it describes the government's ...
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Chernobyl: A Novel
Frederik Pohl
Spectra, 1987
Very good indeed
A totally gripping book. Written a very short time after the Chernobyl accident, this novel is a wonderful story about the people of that doomed town. I loved the way Pohl, a great SF writer, mixes the engineering details with the human drama. The political stuff in ...
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Belarus - Culture Smart!: the essential guide to customs & culture (Culture Smart!)
Anne Coombes
Kuperard, 2008
Highly recommended
Having lived in Minsk myself for a while, I wish this guide had been available then, not only to enthuse me beforehand but to steer me in my interactions with Belarusans once I had arrived. I shall be looking for others in the series.
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Final Warning: The Legacy of Chernobyl
Robert Peter Gale, Thomas Hauser
Warner Books, 1988
Are We Forgetting the Final Warning?
Chernobyl was one of the most horrible disasters in human history. It was a galvanizing event in my life. It made me very active and pushed me to learn and aprticipate far more than I ever imagined prior to it -- a defining event much like the Tianamen Square ...
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Chernobyl: The Ongoing Story of the World's Deadliest Nuclear Disaster
Glenn Alan Cheney
New Discovery, 1993
This attempts to understand the radioactive aftermath
The reactor at Chernobyl was too large and too well engineered to produce the kind of explosion that is considered typical for weapons, but it was capable of reaching temperatures that were much higher than mere fireman could cool by spraying water on the blaze. For ...
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