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  • A Feathered River Across the Sky

    The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction

    "Equal parts natural history, elegy, and environmental outcry. . . . Greenberg writes with a naturalist's curiosity about the birds." ― New YorkerWhen Europeans arrived in North America, twenty-five to forty percent of the continent's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The downbeats of their wings would chill the air beneath ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gordon Welchman

    Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

    " Enigma's 'forgotten genius' . . . [the] story of Alan Turing's spymaster boss who led the team that cracked Hitler's WWII codes" ( Daily Mail).The Official Secrets Act and the passing of time have prevented the Bletchley Park story from being told by many of its key participants. Here at last is a book that allows some of them to speak for the first time. Gordon Welchman was one of the Park's ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bletchley Park Codebreakers in Their Own Words

    "....will be of great interest to those who wonder about wartime life at Britain’s best known SIGINT organization." —Studies in Intelligence'A fascinating anthology which sheds new light on the Bletchley Park story and shows that there is still more to tell.' - Tony Comer OBE, formerly Departmental Historian at GCHQThis important volume tells the story of Bletchley Park through countless letters ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Life

    Jews Exploring Nature

    To Life explores the Jewish relationship with nature by illuminating significant Jewish thinkers who increased in important ways our understanding of various aspects of natural history. In eight compelling chapter-long biographies, naturalist Joel Greenberg demonstrates the diversity of both Jewish identity and the natural sciences.Greenberg’s rich biographical sketches spotlight great Jewish ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Alastair Denniston

    Code-Breaking from Room 40 to Berkeley Street and the Birth of GCHQ

    "The expertly researched biography of the man who created and led the British intelligence organization best known for cracking the Nazi's codes." — Midwest Book ReviewSome of the individuals who played key roles in the success of Bletchley Park in reading the secret communications of Britain's enemies during the Second World War have become well-known figures. However, the man who created and led ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alan Turing and the Enigma Code

    Secrets, Lies and Myths of Bletchley Park in World War II

    For decades, the story of Bletchley Park has occupied a powerful place in the public imagination: brilliant codebreakers, impenetrable secrecy, decisive intelligence, and a handful of iconic figures said to have changed the course of World War II. Yet the very secrecy that protected Britain’s signals intelligence success also allowed rumors and legends to flourish.In Alan Turing and the Enigma ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Alastair Denniston

    Code-breaking From Room 40 to Berkeley Street and the Birth of GCHQ

    Unabridged

    10 hours 53 min

    The birth of modern cryptography unfolds through the pivotal rise of Room 40 and Berkeley Street, shaping intelligence history and national security.Some of the individuals who played key roles in the success of Bletchley Park in reading the secret communications of Britain’s enemies during the Second World War have become well-known figures. However, the man who created and led the organisation ... Read more

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  • Lunar Bass-Line

    "In the not-so-distant future, Colonel Juno Rodriguez- Alvarez, stationed on the US mining operation on the Moon, discovers a most unexpected find on her rounds across the Moon’s surface: a shell casing from a recently fired bullet.A hundred years later, Commander Alexis Hathaway of the spacecraft Andromeda is leading her team on a twelve-year expedition to Europa, the moon of Planet Jupiter ... Read more

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  • Top Secret Ultra

    Breaking Luftwaffe Ciphers at Bletchley Park

    Peter Calvocoressi's journey from Ministry of Economic Warfare to head of RAF intelligence at Bletchley Park is detailed in his memoir.Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, a young Peter Calvocoressi was serving in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, his role largely consisting of reviewing shipping manifests day in day out. In 1940, he decided to volunteer for the War Office but was ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • X-Ray Diffraction Imaging

    Technology and Applications

    Edited by Joel Greenberg ...
    Series series Devices, Circuits, and Systems
    This book explores novel methods for implementing X-ray diffraction technology as an imaging modality, which have been made possible through recent breakthroughs in detector technology, computational power, and data processing algorithms. The ability to perform fast, spatially-resolved X-ray diffraction throughout the volume of a sample opens up entirely new possibilities in areas such as material ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Mesomolecules

    From Molecules to Materials

    Series Book 1 - Structure Energetics and Reactivity in Chemistry Series
    The title of this volume implies a progression of sorts from species of molecular size to a product described on the basis of continuum prop erties. The difference in approach from the standpoint of molecular be havior, on the one hand-more the forte of chemists-and from the standpoint of large-scale properties, on the other-more the province of chemical engineers and materials scientists ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Radiation Oncology and Radiation Biology

    The Next 100 Years

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book presents the fields of radiation oncology and radiation biology and projects the potential changes over the next 100 years. The first section describes the status of the medical specialty of radiation oncology and offers predictions for the evolution of the specialty over the next decades. The second section deals with the predictions of the future of radiation biology. This more ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD