$28.95 – Paperback book / Vintage / ISBN:9780375726262
American Prometheus: Triumph And Tragedy Of Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.
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$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Acclaimed author Geraldine Brooks gives us the story of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and conjures a world of brutality, stubborn courage and transc... Buy or find out more →
American Prometheus: Triumph And Tragedy Of Robert Oppenheimer
$28.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the... Buy or find out more →
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story Of Britains Gulag In Kenya
$34.00 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of K... Buy or find out more →