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  • Camp Century

    The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice

    by Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen ...
    At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the Soviet Union. In 1966, just six years after the camp was established, the United States gave up this ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Camp Century

    The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice

    by Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen ...
    At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the Soviet Union. In 1966, just six years after the camp was established, the United States gave up this ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Seconds to Midnight

    A History of Nuclear Weapons

    by Henry Nielsen, Casper Andersen ...
    Seconds to Midnight is a concise history of nuclear weapons, tracing their development from the scientific breakthroughs of the 1930s to the Cold War arms race between East and West, and on to today’s nuclear hotspots in India, North Korea, Taiwan, and Iran. The book also explores efforts to contain this danger through international treaties, scientific advocacy, and public protest movements ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics

    Edited by Devin Henry, Karen Margrethe Nielsen ...
    This book consolidates emerging research on Aristotle's science and ethics in order to explore the extent to which the concepts, methods, and practices he developed for scientific inquiry and explanation are used to investigate moral phenomena. Each chapter shows, in a different way, that Aristotle's ethics is much more like a science than it is typically represented. The upshot of this is twofold ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

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    Hygge

    The Complete Book of Hygge To Discover The Danish Way To Live Happily

    by Sarah Jensen, Carl Nielsen ...
    Narrated by Jack Henry Kison ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 23 min

    Hygge: The Complete Book of Hygge To Discover The Danish Way To Live HappilyDo You Want to Know What Makes Denmark The Happiest Country in The World?The great thing about Hygge is that it is something that you can enjoy all year long. It is a feeling of being grateful and just happy for what you have in life, being able to spend time with the ones you love, and being able to find an escape from ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Restricted Data

    The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

    by Alex Wellerstein ...
    "Groundbreaking . . . Wellerstein peels back the layers of the nuclear onion to reveal a rich debate about what should be kept secret and why." — NatureThe first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present.The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Power of Nuclear

    by Marco Visscher ...
    From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power.Providing a vivid account of the characters and events that have shaped the world's most controversial energy source and our thinking around it, The Power of Nuclear weaves ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Nuclear Age

    An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    A sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to today’s rush to stockpile nuclear weapons.The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • The Second Nuclear Age

    Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

    by Paul Bracken ...
    "The questions [raised] about the sustainability of current American foreign policy thinking are particularly timely." — Wall Street JournalThe cold war ended decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Bomb Scare

    The History & Future of Nuclear Weapons

    by Joseph Cirincione ...
    "A welcome antidote to the strange confluence of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opponents" by one of America's best known weapons experts (Christopher F. Chyba, Science).With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of nuclear proliferation and an optimistic vision of its future, providing a comprehensive survey of the wide range of critical ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spying on the Bomb

    American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea

    by Jeffrey T. Richelson ...
    Spying on the Bomb is an "engrossing" (Wall Street Journal) global history of the American-led effort to spy on every nation with nuclear ambitions.A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to twenty-first century threats from rogue states. For more than sixty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes who seek to develop the ultimate weapon. Since 1952 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD