Download or read book Oppenheimer written by Charles Thorpe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making—and unmaking—of Oppenheimer’s wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons, the state, and culture. A stylish intellectual biography, Oppenheimer maps out changes in the roles of scientists and intellectuals in twentieth-century America, ultimately revealing transformations in Oppenheimer’s persona that coincided with changing attitudes toward science in society. “This is an outstandingly well-researched book, a pleasure to read and distinguished by the high quality of its observations and judgments. It will be of special interest to scholars of modern history, but non-specialist readers will enjoy the clarity that Thorpe brings to common misunderstandings about his subject.”—Graham Farmelo, Times Higher Education Supplement “A fascinating new perspective. . . . Thorpe’s book provides the best perspective yet for understanding Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos years, which were critical, after all, not only to his life but, for better or worse, the history of mankind.”—Catherine Westfall, Nature

Download or read book J Robert Oppenheimer written by the late Abraham Pais and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Abraham Pais, author of the award winning biography of Albert Einstein, Subtle is the Lord, here offers an illuminating portrait of another of his eminent colleagues, J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics. Pais introduces us to a precocious youth who sped through Harvard in three years, made signal contributions to quantum mechanics while in his twenties, and was instrumental in the growth of American physics in the decade before the Second World War, almost single-handedly bringing it to a state of prominence. He paints a revealing portrait of Oppenheimer's life in Los Alamos, where in twenty remarkable, feverish months, and under his inspired guidance, the first atomic bomb was designed and built, a success that made Oppenheimer America's most famous scientist. Pais describes Oppenheimer's long tenure as Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, where the two men worked together closely. He shows not only Oppenheimer's brilliance and leadership, but also how his displays of intensity and arrogance won him powerful enemies, ones who would ultimately make him one of the principal victims of the Red Scare of the 1950s. J. Robert Oppenheimer is Abraham Pais's final work, completed after his death by Robert P. Crease, an acclaimed historian of science in his own right. Told with compassion and deep insight, it is the most comprehensive biography of the great physicist available. Anyone seeking an insider's portrait of this enigmatic man will find it indispensable.

Download or read book Impostress written by Lisa Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes a powerful medieval romance in which a secret betrayal ignites unbridled passion between a lord and his lady... Kiera of Lawenydd couldn’t believe what she’d done. Owing her sister a favor, Kiera promised to pose as Elyn on her wedding day. The ruse was to last just one night, but the following morning Elyn was nowhere to be found! Surely Kiera wouldn’t have to spend the rest of her wedded life to the baron picked out for her sister, a man to whom she could never admit the depths of her deception—even as her desire for him grew impossible to resist. It was obvious to Lord Kelan of Penbrooke that something was amiss with his new bride. But despite his misgivings, he couldn’t deny that he was falling in love with the dark-haired beauty. Until he uncovered exactly what she was up to, Kelan would keep the mysterious woman by his side—all the while keeping the fierce stirrings of his heart a well-guarded secret...

Download or read book written by David Silber and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hebrew and English text with new commentary and essays. Rabbi Silber has given us two books in one: the Haggadah itself, in English and Hebrew, with his seder commentary and a collection of essays that provide close readings of the classic biblical and rabbinic texts that inform Seder-night ritual and narration. Both parts work beautifully together to illuminate the central themes of Passover: peoplehood, Covenant, our relationship to ritual, God?s presence in history, and other important issues that resonate with us all. Just as midrash attempts to bridge the gap between ancient text and contemporary meaning, Rabbi Silber?s Haggadah provides new sources of insight that deepen the Passover experience for today?s readers.

Download or read book The Spirit Chaser written by Richard Donahue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Soyala in her journeys through the Turquoise Realm and deep into the Kingdom of the Sun King as she forges bonds of friendship and kinship. Witness the Sixth Coming of the Sun King and his battle with Soyala - The Shield Maiden. Join in the chase for the elusive Spirit Chaser - crafted from the bones of a long dead beast. Travel through the worlds of Paradise - Paradise Lost - Paradise Regained in the first two books of this stunning trilogy.

Download or read book The Steve Williams Series written by J.E. Taylor and published by J.E. Taylor. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 1933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Agent Steve Williams excels at his job catching the most heinous of monsters walking the earth. Serial killers. When his job brings him face to face with a psychic, he struggles to accept her gifts in his neat little black and white world. Armed with her visions, along with his skills as an FBI agent, he hunts the worst of the worst, but will he catch the killer before they set their sights on him? Unstoppable, breath stealing, and terrifying all at once. Gripping, rich and magnificent! The Steve Williams Series mixes compelling crime thrillers with supernatural forces that will grip the reader from page one. This six-book series takes you through some of Steve Williams darkest cases in his FBI career. This book includes the following titles: Dark Reckoning, Vengeance, Hunting Season, Georgia Reign, Crystal Illusions, and Saving Face. *Warning - these books contain scenes of graphic violence that some readers may find offensive.

Download or read book Soyala s Saga written by Richard Donahue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author House Review: The Sixth Coming is set within an original mythology to fascinating results. It combines vividly realized characters with spiritual themes and elements of Aztec lore. There is an incredible array of exciting sequences that could provide great material for adapting this work into another medium. Due to the nontraditional structure and storytelling style, live theater could be an interesting option. Film is another option; perhaps animation could make the most of the impressive locations, creatures, and spectacles. There are several elements that are very well suited for a film or theater piece. Because both these mediums usually feature the interactions between characters, the strong personalities of The Sixth Coming are essential to capture. Soyala is a great heroinefrom her borderline petulance over the Builders gift to her reluctant and confused acceptance of her destiny. She isnt perfect, which makes her all the more compelling as she overcomes overwhelming odds. Kajika, Burilgi, and the Minstrel are wonderful supporting characters. Each of these brothers has his own distinct personality, and their squabbling provides comic relief. Burilgi and the Minstrel in particular provide humor. Kajika could bring in sex appeal for female audiences while Soyala and Xochiquetzal could do so for males. Xochiquetzal/Tona-teootl is a fascinating villain. Her sinister sexuality when welcoming Soyala and Kajika could play very well in a film. The later scenes on the Barge are thrilling due to Tona-teootls increasingly evident madness. These scenes would provide terrific moments for an actor to really chew up the scenery. The Shield Maidens story begins with the reader being introduced to her loved ones. Each character is well developed and had distinctive characteristics. When bad things happen to them, we also feel her loss. We also learn more about how she came to be and how important loyalty is to her survival. The places that this story takes us to are either incredibly beautiful or eerily foreboding. The creatures in it are also very uniquely described and incredibly different from the mundane realm that we currently inhabit.

Download or read book The Seventh Veil of Salome A GMA Book Club Pick written by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine—but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. “Whenever I want to read a book I know will be good, I go to Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves. Two actresses, both determined to make it to the top in Golden Age Hollywood—a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue—make for a sizzling combination. But this is the tale of three women, for it is also the story of the princess Salome herself, consumed with desire for the fiery prophet who foretells the doom of her stepfather, Herod: a woman torn between the decree of duty and the yearning of her heart. Before the curtain comes down, there will be tears and tragedy aplenty in this sexy Technicolor saga.

Download or read book Before the Fallout written by Diana Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." A mere 47 years later, "Little Boy"exploded over Hiroshima. Before the Fallout is the epic story of the intervening half century, during which an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world revealed how to destroy it, and an open, international, scientific adventure transmuted overnight into a wartime sprint for the bomb. Weaving together history, science, and biography, Diana Preston chronicles a human chain reaction of scientists and leaders whose discoveries and decisions forever changed our lives. The early decades of the 20th century brought Einstein's relativity theory, Rutherford's discovery of the atomic nucleus, and Heisenberg's quantum mechanics, and scientists of many nations worked together to tease out the secrets of the atom. Only 12 years before Hiroshima, one leading physicist dismissed the idea of harnessing energy from atoms as "moonshine." Then, on the eve of World War II, the power of atomic fission was revealed, alliances were broken, friendships sundered, and science co-opted by world events. Preston interviewed the surviving scientists, and she offers new insight into the fateful wartime meeting between Heisenberg and Bohr, along with a fascinating conclusion examining what might have happened had any number of events occurred differently. She also provides a rare portrait of Hiroshima before the blast. As Hiroshima's 60th anniversary approaches, Before the Fallout compels us to consider the threats and moral dilemmas we face in our still dangerous world.

Download or read book The Discovery of First Principles written by Edward J. Dodson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Discovery of First Principles looks at the history of human settlement on the earth and the socio-political arrangements and institutions evolving over the ages. The author presents the case for the existence of universal moral principles that must serve as the basis of law if law is to be just. The story he tells is fascinating and insightful, drawing on the observations and commentary of many of the most thoughtful actors in this human drama.

Download or read book Guardians of Eternity Bundle 1 written by Alexandra Ivy and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 1999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound by loyalty, The Guardians of Eternity are powerful, seductive vampire warriors. Unequaled in skill and courage, they are sworn to protect their charges from all danger—except their own hungry desires. Share the thrill in this mesmerizing collection from New York Times bestselling author Alexandra’s Ivy’s long-running series . . . WHEN DARKNESS COMES Abby Barlow has just survived an explosion and watched her employer die, and now she’s in a seedy Chicago hotel with the sexy, unearthly Dante, a man she both desires and fears. For 341 years, Dante has stood as guardian to The Chalice, a mortal woman chosen to hold back the darkness. A twist of fate has made Abby that woman. Now she is Dante’s to protect, at all costs . . . EMBRACE THE DARKNESS The last of her kind, half human, half Shalott, Lady Shay’s blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires. But when a curse lands her on the slave auction block, Viper, chief of a deadly vampire clan, longs to possess her. Yet he wants her to surrender freely—and is willing to go to hell and back to spend eternity with her . . . DARKNESS EVERLASTING Possessing a secret strong enough to end a race of demons, Darcy Smith is an unwitting pawn in an epic battle. Consumed with lust for Darcy, vampire Styxwill do anything to keep her from Salvatore Giuliani, the leader of the weres who aims to make her queen. Which man can Darcy trust? For all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude—or pleasure . . . DARKNESS REVEALED Two hundred years ago Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cezar in a night of passion. Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power, and the vampire responsible has eluded her efforts to track him down, until now. . . . Cezar’s encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance. But one thing hasn’t changed—his body’s response to her . . . DARKNESS UNLEASHED A scarred recluse, Jagr makes no secret of his disdain for others. But as a member of Chicago’s powerful vampire clan, he must track down a missing were pureblood Regan Garrett. But Regan has no intention of complying. And though Jagr agreed not to harm the stubborn female, he’ll gladly kiss her into submission, awakening an urge he hasn’t felt in centuries . . .

Download or read book The Go Between A Novel of the Kennedy Years written by Frederick Turner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quest for Eros written by Samuel B. Southwell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of Browning have long been puzzled by the discrepancies between the dramatic framework of Fifine and its symbolic development, but these difficulties are resolved in Southwell's explication by a biographical hypothesis. The powerful influence of the memory of his beloved wife, Elizabeth, involved Browning in a deep ambivalence, and Fifine at the Fair represents his effort to escape the effects of the profound inhibitions associated with her memory, while at the same time remaining loyal to it. The poem is itself a flawed quest for Eros. Browning's symbolic vision of sexuality as the central vitalizing force in human culture—a supreme achievement of the poem—is followed by a renunciation of the quest, but the validity of the vision is explicitly affirmed and its promise recognized. In Fifine at the Fair Browning's artistic powers are splendidly in evidence. Southwell's fresh examination of the tensions within the poem offers new understanding of its power.

Download or read book The Senator s Favorite written by Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By Alex. McVeigh Mrs. Miller: Dive into this classic tale that showcases the intricacies of American literature. The narrative unfolds the story of the Senator's favorite, weaving a tale that captures the essence of love, politics, and societal norms of the time.

Download or read book Irish Born written by Nora Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects three novels centered around three members of the Concannon family--Maggie, who is hiding from her past, Brianna, a bed-and-breakfast owner, and Shannon, who finds true love after searching for her real father.

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Download or read book Trader written by Charles de Lint and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy-roman.