books about: nuclear     books:       One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War20 reviews Michael Dobbs Knopf, 2008 Read it and be scared all over again I was in college during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Between classes we sat in the Student Union Building watching CBS News on TV, waiting for a break in the tension - or the flash of a nuclear bomb. At one point the lights went out and one of my friends yelled and dove under a sofa for cover. (Someone had bumped the light switch.) The missile crisis was a defining moment in the Cold War. ...             Hiroshima197 reviews John Hersey Vintage, 1989 Satisfaction Guaranteed I was very satisfied with the level of customer service that I received from Amazon.com. It is definetly a site that I will be coming back to from here on. As a student I am always on the lookout for a better and cheaper deal, so this is definetly one of the first places that I will go when I have to get more books for the next semester.             Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis36 reviews Robert F. Kennedy W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 AS WE APPROACH IN HALF A YEAR THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS FBI ASSASSINATION LET US RECALL WHEN WISDOM AND DIPLOMACY RULED Here we have in Robert Kennedy's own account how the world kept out of annihilating nuclear warfare nearly a half century ago, rather than the current highly profitable rushes to war with untold, uncounted millions of innocent victims these past few decades. Here we can read how true, wise, competent and democratically elected national leaders kept us out of war, Averting 'The Final Failure': ...             Principles of Radiographic Imaging: An Art and a Science2 reviews Richard R. Carlton, Arlene McKenna Adler Delmar Cengage Learning, 2005 This book is very detailed!!! If you're looking for a very informative yet fun to read book then, you should have to consider to buy this one. Most specially if you're a radiologic technology student. This book provides the information you just need in a radiography curriculum, to increase your deeper understanding of radiographic imaging (the best when preparing for licensure exams). Also consider to buy its Workbook to test ...             The Road (Oprah's Book Club)1529 reviews Cormac McCarthy Vintage Books, 2007 Scary, Supensful, Truly Unique Book The Road is an excellent book. Through a unique writting style the author allows you to live the simply raw terrifying experience of a father care for his on a post apocalytpic america. It stirs and meddles in our most basic instincts of protection of our young vs. a scenario of complete dispair.             The Making of the Atomic Bomb158 reviews Richard Rhodes Simon & Schuster, 1995 Outstanding Book Myself not being a scientist there were parts of this book that were hard to understand theoretically speaking, but the historical story the book brings forth is hard not to understand. Between the people making blind discoveries to educated guesses to scientific brilliance it's all here. Leading up to the climatic climax. This book is long and could be hard to read at times but the important ...             Occupational Therapy for Physical Dysfunction4 reviews Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 "OT for Phys Dys" was a survival tool OT for Physical Dysfunction proved to be indispensible both in school and in practice. This text has practice skills in assessment and treatment organized for use in problem-based and in evidence-based learning courses. Treatment principles are outlined with actual therapy techniques, sample documentation and specific information to treat different diagnoses with photos. Absolutely my ...             The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory502 reviews Brian Greene W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 Elegant Theory for an Inelegant Universe Brian Greene provides an excellent introduction to the topic of superstring theory, its history and evolution; its current status, achievements and obstacles; and its areas of focus for future study. The book is written for the layman, in a style that is honest, clear and concise, using numerous real-world examples to explain the basic theories, and excludes mathematical explanations as much as ...             The Cold War: A New History62 reviews John Lewis Gaddis Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006 Fantastic -- great for generalists and cold war buffs Very tighly written book that still manages to produce some fascinating annecdotes (Kruschev and Mao in the pool together) to enliven the narrative. Both myself (a history buff) and my wife (decidedly not a history buff) found it a comprehensive and yet very readiable survey of the Cold War. Its both informative and entertaining. I strongly recommend it.             The Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal and Murder2 reviews Alan S. Cowell Broadway, 2008 A Nuclear Murder Of A Spy Mr. Cowell was a reporter for the New York Times when he covered the sensational murder of former KGB spy Alex Litvinenko in London. The book occassionally packs too much information in its attempt to be conprehensive for the "true crime" reader, but otherwise it is quite readable. While the Russians were clumsy in their murder which the author illustrtes with the ease the police unravel and ...             Color Atlas of Histology7 reviews Leslie P Gartner, James L Hiatt Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 Great atlas for histology I found this book to be a great resource for my medical histology class. The pictures helped me to remember key concepts for on my histology lab. The difference between squamous and transitional epithelium can really only be appreciated with the help of this atlas since it is harder to describe it in words. If you really want to know the type of medical histology questions asked on histology ...             A Canticle for Leibowitz229 reviews Walter M. Miller Jr. Eos, 2006 Sci-fi that isn't Do you know many science-fiction books that quote Latin? Where the heroes are monks and abbots? Where the protagonists argue over illuminated manuscripts? A Canticle for Leibowitz has an appeal well beyond science-fiction fans. Too much of it shouldn't be given away, but the story takes place after a nuclear war and concerns the fight to preserve what is left of human literacy and knowledge. ...             Understanding Voice Problems: A Physiological Perspective for Diagnosis and Treatment (UNDERSTANDING VOICE ...1 review Raymond H Colton, Janina K Casper, ... Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 EXCELLENT SERVICE the product was shipped asap, in good condition as stated. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. THANK YOU             Alas, Babylon261 reviews Pat Frank Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 One of the books I remembered most I read this book in the early 70's, in Junior High School, in Florida. It was so real to me. These people were just like my neighbors. Their fears were the same. Their sense of community, the same. When reading this book, I kept looking to the horizon thinking, "Could this truly happen." A must read for anyone studying the times.             Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age6 reviews Princeton University Press, 1986 Makers of Modern Strategy "Makers of Modern Strategy" is a scholarly collection of high quality papers on strategy since Machiavelli to the present nuclear age. The beauty of the book is that one can focus on the era that one is interested in. There is no need to read the book cover to cover as the various essays are stand alone although they are presented sequentially and related papers are adjacent to each other. I have ...             MRI in Practice (3rd Edition)21 reviews Catherine Westbrook, Carolyn Kaut Roth, ... Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 Superb! I have an engineering background and needed to learn MRI for my job. I knew nothing about MRI and this gave an excellent overview. It talks about things at the proton level, data collection in k-space with frequncy/phase RF signals, to images with FFTs. It also talks about the electronics of the system and commonly used sequences. The colored tables and highlighted text makes things exteremly ...             Copenhagen28 reviews Michael Frayn Anchor, 2000 The play and a fascinating postscript This book contains the text of Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play (94 pages), a fascinating 38-page Postscript, and a two-page word sketch of the scientific and historical background to the play. The play itself is brilliant (see my review of the PBS production directed by Howard Davies, starring Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, and Francesca Annis available on DVD) and is the kind of play that ...             On the Beach201 reviews Nevil Shute Ballantine Books, 1983 Wanting to stay on the beach Nevil Shute's On the Beach was written in 1957 amidst the Cold War fears of nuclear annihilation. It has been made into two movies, one in 1959 starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Fred Astaire and a smaller budget film in 2000. Shute was a bestselling writer in his time. "In 2007, Gideon Haigh wrote an article in The Monthly arguing that On the Beach is Australia's most important novel." ...             Principles of Quantum Mechanics59 reviews R. Shankar Springer, 1994 An impressive QM book. I am a lecturer who teach QM mostly. I've read various QM books so far. Apart from being reader-friendly, Shankar's book touches my mind in several points. Dirac equation (chapter20) is superbly written. The book explains very well how the matrices Alpha's and Beta are chosen to form the Dirac Hamiltonian. The fact that they are traceless and they have eigenvalues +1 or -1 is awesome. ...             The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies90 reviews Richard Heinberg New Society Publishers, 2005 The Future is Now If you want to know what the near future holds for you, your family and society, Heinberg does a reasonably good job at describing it for the reader. There are, in my opinion, some limits to his content, as well as some "disinformation" about the field of economics, but these are minor issues that do not distract from the meat and potatoes of his message. 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