Richard Rhodes
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xviii, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author Richard Rhodes relates the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause--defending...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 261 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Describes the lesser-known technological talents of actress Hedy Lamarr and the collaborative work with avant-garde composer George Antheil that eventually led to the development of spread-spectrum radio, cell phones, and GPS systems.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. In Energy, Rhodes highlights the successes...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), charts ; 25 cm
Description
"Few biologists in the long history of that science have been as productive, as ground-breaking and as controversial as the Alabama-born Edward Osborne Wilson. At 91 years of age he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field. Fascinated from an early age by the natural world in general and ants in particular, his field work on them and on all social insects has vastly expanded our knowledge of their many species and fascinating ways of...
Author
Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
Narrates the story of the postwar superpower arms race that culminated in the Reagan-Gorbachev era when the U.S. and Soviet Union came all too close to nuclear war, chronicling the nuclear policies on both sides and their implications for global security.