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Richard Rhodes
In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that…
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Richard L. Ferren
"An annotated checklist with information on the birds of the state. More than 500 species accounts describe the birds' habitats, locations found, and data on the seasons of occurrence. A…
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A masterful, timely, fully authorized biography of the great and hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time-from the…
The riveting secret history of the nuclear arms race and the end of the Cold War, by the Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
ving personal account of of the things that inspire one of the most original writers of our day. "How generous Rhodes is with his mind and his heart. Buy this…
This title provides a monumental history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age.
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in 40 years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the…
When he first published this text, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes helped to launch and legitimate the memoir of abused childhood. In this tenth anniversary edition, he offers new reflections…
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Draws on interviews with criminals in prison to explain why individuals commit violence, examining the common threads that lead to violent behavior and explaining how intervention can stop the cycle.
Drawing from documents and eyewitness reports, this is an exploration of the Einsatzgruppen– special task forces –organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern…
What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and a cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the switching of communications signals…
Presents a story of terrible hardship and awesome courage - a story that aims to increase our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full…
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of…
John James Audubon
An unprecedented anthology of Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness, this collection includes excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works that reintroduce the great artist and…
Richard A. Rhodes
This dictionary is written for three audiences: first, native speakers of Ojibwa, Chippewa, and Ottawa who would like to have a consistent way to write their language, especially those who…
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
Anonymous,Richard Rhodes
Title: Flora’s Vagaries; a comedy [in five acts and in prose. By R. Rhodes].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It…
Richard Rhodes James
This is a tale of a life few understand today: the human cost of Empire, where families were torn apart - a father seen once every four years - growing…
Taking the reader through the remote wilds of the jungle, showing the parching heat and the relentless rain that these men experienced, Rhodes James paints a detailed portrait of a…
This text examines the Mid West of America, covering such diverse topics as coyote hunting, wheat growing and hog butchering and considers individuals such as Truman and Eisenhower.
Robert Serber
More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at…
Richard Sandy Rhodes
Sometimes as we venture through life, we will stop and take inventory of what was and now what is. Those stops then become our inventory, the inventory becomes ideas. This…
Lonnie H Athens,Richard Rhodes
Lonnie H. Athens’ path-breaking work examines a problem that has baffled experts and the general public alike: How does a person become a predatory violent criminal?
Cynthia C. Kelly,Richard Rhodes
This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age, now includes President…
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Nicholas A Bailey
Bailey provides an analysis of all 200 New Testament instances of ???? and 29 instances of ???, as well as many from the LXX and extra-biblical materials, differentiates at least…
Dr. Richard S. Rhodes
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Dr Richard Rick Rhodes
A book of short stories. It travels the gamut of tragedies, murder, kidnapping, drugs, home invasion, family ties, sadness, and happiness. Most of all, numerous rescues by a boy and…
It was quite a task deciding on a title for this no sense, nonsense, makes no sense compiled literature over the past years. I decided on this simple title. Because…
Volume 1, The Aborigines of Sakhalin, contains translations into English of the Polish, Russian and Japanese material on, for example, the history, folklore, economic life, shamanism, sexual life, medical anthropology…
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks…
John Mays
Mays’s passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys. -Quill and QuireA brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of…
Helen K Rhodes
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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