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  • Alsos

    Near the end of World War II, as Allied armies swept across battle-torn Germany and leading scientists at Los Alamos were racing to assemble the atomic bombs America would drop over Japan later that summer, General Leslie Groves, the military head of the Manhattan Project, established Alsos, a unit of scientists, soldiers, and secret agents to find the Nazi Germany’s physicists and technicians ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Einstein's Wife

    The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

    The real-life story behind Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein—a fascinating profile of mathematician Mileva Einstein-Marić and her contributions to her husband’s scientific discoveries.Albert Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Einstein-Marić, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond Uncertainty

    Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb

    "Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book."Publishers Weekly, starred review"Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that makes this biography a pleasure to read."Los Angeles Times"Well crafted and readable . . . [Cassidy] provides a nuanced and compelling account of Heisenberg's life."The Harvard Book ReviewIn 1992, David C. ... Leer más

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  • Farm Hall and the German Atomic Project of World War II

    A Dramatic History

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II. It is also an "eye-witness" account of the dawning of the nuclear age, with the dialogue and narrative spanning the period before, during and after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan at the end of the war. This pivotal historical episode is conveyed, along ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century

    Born into a wealthy, secular New York Jewish family, a student of the Ethical Culture School in New York, later educated in theoretical physics at Harvard, Cambridge (UK) and Göttingen (Germany), appointed professor at UC-Berkeley and Caltech, J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was on the forefront of the rise of theoretical physics in the United States to world-class status, contributing to the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Geschichte

    25 Jahre Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik am Historischen Institut der Universität Stuttgart

    Die Festschrift Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Geschichte, herausgegeben von Helmuth Albrecht, erschien aus Anlass des 25-jährigen Jubiläums der Gründung des Stuttgarter Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und Technik. Nun ist aus Anlass des 50-jährigen Jubiläums diese Neuausgabe als E-Book erhältlich. In dreierlei Weise wurde darin Bilanz der Arbeit eines Vierteljahrhunderts ... Leer más

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    Einstein's Wife

    The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric

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    9 hora 15 minutos

    Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some of the tellers of the "Mileva Story" made startling claims: that she was a brilliant mathematician who surpassed her husband, and that she made uncredited contributions to his most ... Leer más

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    The Scandalous Hamiltons

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    A Peculiar Indifference

    The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

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    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a ... Leer más

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    How to Love the Universe

    A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

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    Abraham Lincoln

    The Prairie Years

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    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg is a two-volume biography that explores Lincoln's life from his childhood through his early political career, ending just before he became president. Published in 1926, Sandburg’s work combines detailed historical research with a lyrical, almost poetic style, reflecting his background as both a poet and a historian. The narrative captures the ... Leer más

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