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  • A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood?tenth Anniversary Edition by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood?tenth Anniversary Edition

    When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes helped launch and legitimate a decade-long publishing phenomenon--the memoir of abused childhood. In this tenth anniversary edition, Rhodes offers new reflections on the abuse he and his older brother...
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  • Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons,...
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  • Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

    Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth...
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  • Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

    Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth...
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  • Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

    In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France--and that...
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  • Energy: A Human History by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Energy: A Human History

    A "meticulously researched" (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy--from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes.People have lived...
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  • Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's...
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  • Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, "The most extraordinary book about the Spanish Civil War ever encountered" (The Washington Post).The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including...
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  • How to Write: Advice and Reflections by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    How to Write: Advice and Reflections

    Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the issues would-be writers are most afraid to articulate: How do I dare write? Where do I begin? What do I do...
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  • John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    John James Audubon: The Making of an American

    John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country-often alone...
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  • John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    John James Audubon: The Making of an American

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in...
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  • John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    John James Audubon: The Making of an American

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in...
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  • Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust

    In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen's role in the Holocaust. These "special task forces," organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were...
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  • Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature

    A masterful and timely biography of the hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Few biologists have been as productive, ground-breaking,...
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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    The definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes's Pulitzer Prize-winning book details the science, the people, andAuthor: Richard RhodesISBN-10: 1451677618ISBN-13: 9781451677614Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage:...
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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

    Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.Few great...
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  • The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party

    In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. There, where the water flowed west to the...
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  • Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

    The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding,...
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  • Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines Systems and the Human World by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines Systems and the Human World

    Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals...
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  • Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist by Rhodes, Richard
    Richard Rhodes

    Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist

    Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age old problem of why people kill. Lonnie Athens was...
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