Richard Rhodes Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Stworzenie bomby atomowej na zawsze zmieniło bieg historii, przechodząc od teoretycznego problemu w fizyce do broni masowej zagłady. Ta saga o fizyce, polityce i psychologii człowieka jest pełna suspensu. Autor, Rhodes, wprowadza wielkich graczy, takich jak Roosevelt, Einstein oraz pionierzy teorii kwantowej i rozszczepienia termojądrowego, w tym Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann i Lawrence. Naukowcy, dotąd znani w wąskich kręgach, stają się centralnymi postaciami w mediach. Książka obejmuje wczesne zapowiedzi energii jądrowej w powieściach H.G. Wellsa, próbę jądrową Trinity, program Manhattan, który doprowadził do zrzucenia bomb na Hiroszimę i Nagasaki, oraz wyścig zbrojeń podczas zimnej wojny. Przełomowa praca szczegółowo opisuje naukę, ludzi i realia społeczno-polityczne, łącząc fascynujące portrety biograficzne z rygorystyczną wiedzą. Książka zdobyła prestiżowe nagrody, w tym Pulitzera i National Book Award. Richard Lee Rhodes, amerykański dziennikarz i historyk, jest dwukrotnym laureatem Nagrody Pulitzera oraz stypendystą wielu fundacji, a także członkiem Centrum na Rzecz Międzynarodowego Bezpieczeństwa i Współpracy przy Uniwersytecie Stanfordzkim.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way

"Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time--wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. ... Human beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention, each discovery, each adaptation brought further challenges, and through such transformations, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes's singular style, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow."--Amazon

The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can.

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.

An award-winning founder of Isotope magazine chronicles how the study of meteorites became a modern science, in a natural history that documents the contributions of key individuals and traces landmark discoveries in Antarctica, Greenland, and other world regions.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb comes a gripping account of the postwar superpower arms race, culminating in the Reagan-Gorbachev era when the U.S. and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war, only to consider abolishing nuclear weapons. The narrative unfolds like a thriller, detailing how the Reagan administration's arms buildup in the early 1980s led Soviet leader Yuri Andropov to fear an impending nuclear conflict. During NATO's extensive military exercises in the fall of 1983, the Soviet military nearly launched a preemptive strike as tensions escalated. U.S. intelligence finally recognized the imminent danger, prompting Reagan to initiate an arms-reduction campaign in his second term, paving the way for the pivotal 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Rhodes also examines the influence of neoconservatives like Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney, highlighting how Perle's actions undermined the Reykjavik meeting by convincing Reagan that disarmament would jeopardize his strategic defense goals. This exploration serves as a prehistory of neoconservative tactics, illustrating how the manipulation of intelligence and public opinion seen in the Bush administration's justification for the Iraq War has roots in the Reagan era. Drawing on interviews and newly available documentation, Rhodes provides a compelling and surprising account of the final years of the Cold

John James Audubon was America's dominant wildlife artist. His name remains synonymous with birds and bird conservation the world over. This book presents 'bird biographies', journal accounts of his river journeys and hunting trips with the Osage Indians, and a sampling of brief stories that have long been out of print.

In Masters of Death, Richard Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the part played by the Einsatzgruppen - the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union, early in World War II, by Himmler's SS. And he shows how these squads were utilized as the Nazis made two separate plans for dealing with the civilian populations they wanted to destroy. Drawing on Nuremberg Tribunal documents largely ignored until now, and on newly available material from eyewitnesses and survivors, Richard Rhodes has given us a book that is essential reading on the Holocaust the World War II.

A collection of writings that discuss how technology has changed society and whether or not those changes have been beneficial.

In seinem spannend geschriebenen Wissenschaftsreport berichtet Pulitzer-Preisträger Richard Rhodes über die Entdeckung und Erforschung der unheimlichen, das Gehirn zerstörenden Nervenkrankheiten Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Scrapie und BSE. Er macht die Bedrohung für den Menschen deutlich, demonstriert aber zugleich, was wissenschaftlicher Forscherdrang an Erkenntnissen zu gewinnen vermag.

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the issues would-be writers are most afraid to articulate: How do I dare write? Where do I begin? What do I do with this story I have to tell that fills and breaks my heart? Rich with personal vignettes about Rhode's sources of inspiration, How to Write is also a memoir of one of the most original and celebrated writers of our day.

Detailreiche Wissenschaftsreportage, die neben der Forschungsgeschichte seit 1900 und dem Bau der ersten Atombomben während des 2. Weltkriegs, auch zugehörige politische, militärische und moralische Fragen behandelt

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention.