The Age Of Radiance

Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451660432

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The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson Pdf

"Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its invisible rays trigger biological damage, birth defects, and cellular mayhem. From the end of the nineteenth century through the use of the atomic bomb in World War II to the twenty-first century's confrontation with the dangers of nuclear power, Craig Nelson illuminates a pageant of fascinating historical figures: Enrico Fermi, Marie and Pierre Curie, Albert Einstein, FDR, Robert Oppenheimer, and Ronald Reagan, among others. He reveals many little-known details, including how Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler transformed America from a country that created light bulbs and telephones into one that split atoms; how the most grotesque weapon ever invented could realize Alfred Nobel's lifelong dream of global peace; how emergency workers and low-level utility employees fought to contain a run-amok nuclear reactor, while wondering if they would live or die. Brilliantly fascinating and remarkably accessible, The Age of Radiance traces mankind's complicated and difficult relationship with the dangerous power it discovered and made part of civilization"--

Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451660449

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The Age of Radiance by Craig Nelson Pdf

"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its invisible rays trigger biological damage, birth defects, and cellular mayhem. Written with a biographer's passion, Craig Nelson unlocks one of the great mysteries of the universe in a work that is both tragic and triumphant. From the end of the nineteenth century through the use of the atomic bombin World War II to the twenty-first century's confrontation with the dangers of nuclear power, Nelson illuminates a pageant of fascinating historical figures: Enrico Fermi, Marie and Pierre Curie, Albert Einstein, FDR, Robert Oppenheimer, and Ronald Reagan, among others. He reveals many little-known details, including how Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler transformed America from a country that created light bulbs and telephones into one that split atoms; how the most grotesque weapon ever invented could realize Alfred Nobel's lifelong dream of global peace; how emergency workers and low-level utility employees fought to contain a run-amok nuclear reactor, while wondering if they would live or die. Brilliantly fascinating and remarkably accessible, The Age of Radiance traces mankind's complicated and difficult relationship with the dangerous power it discovered and made part of civilization"--

Author : Alyson Noël
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429993901

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Radiance by Alyson Noël Pdf

Riley has crossed the bridge into the afterlife—a place called Here, where time is always Now. She has picked up life where she left off when she was alive, living with her parents and dog in a nice house in a nice neighborhood. When she's summoned before The Council, she learns that the afterlife isn't just an eternity of leisure. She's been assigned a job, Soul Catcher, and a teacher, Bodhi, a possibly cute, seemingly nerdy boy who's definitely hiding something. They return to earth together for Riley's first assignment, a Radiant Boy who's been haunting a castle in England for centuries. Many Soul Catchers have tried to get him to cross the bridge and failed. But all of that was before he met Riley . . . Radiance is the first book in the Riley Bloom series from bestselling author Alyson Noël.

Author : Raminder Kaur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000084429

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Atomic Mumbai by Raminder Kaur Pdf

Atomic Mumbai offers an insightful historical and ethnographic account of how nuclear issues are represented in popular culture, print media, films, documentaries, advertising and superhero comics, driven by perceptions of those based in the city of Mumbai, a prime site of nuclear establishments in India since the mid-1940s. Based on long-term fieldwork, and including rare photographs, narratives and extensive interviews, the volume documents urban nuclear imaginaries, along with their terrifying association with genetic mutation and death.

Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466821484

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Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Pdf

Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Timesbestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe. But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony's last survivor, Severin will never return. Told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101057735

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Rocket Men by Craig Nelson Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller "Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride." -The Wall Street Journal Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. Through interviews, 23,000 pages of NASA oral histories, and declassified CIA documents on the space race, Rocket Men presents a vivid narrative of the moon mission, taking readers on the journey to one of the last frontiers of the human imagination.

Author : Ishmael Beah
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143191728

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Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah Pdf

When Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone’s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that “everyone in the world should read” (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature,” has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the centre of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to file back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they’re beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town’s water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they’re forced to reckon with the pain of their past and the uncertainty of their future. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times. It marks the start of an exciting new chapter for Ishmael Beah.

Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 3837 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250305411

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The Stormlight Archive, Books 1-3 by Brandon Sanderson Pdf

This Stormlight Archive discounted ebundle includes: The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer The #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series by Brandon Sanderson! The Stormlight Archive is the wildly imaginative epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson: welcome to the remarkable world of Roshar, a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Roshar is shared by humans and the enigmatic, humanoid Parshendi, with whom they are at war. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them, but in the war against the Parshendi, the ancient weapons and armor may not be enough. Speak again the ancient oaths: Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before Destination. and return to men the Shards they once bore. The Knights Radiant must stand again. --- Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere The Stormlight Archive The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Edgedancer (Novella) Oathbringer The Mistborn trilogy Mistborn: The Final Empire The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne series Alloy of Law Shadows of Self Bands of Mourning Collection Arcanum Unbounded Other Cosmere novels Elantris Warbreaker The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians The Scrivener's Bones The Knights of Crystallia The Shattered Lens The Dark Talent The Rithmatist series The Rithmatist Other books by Brandon Sanderson The Reckoners Steelheart Firefight Calamity At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Grace Draven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 1506119719

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Radiance by Grace Draven Pdf

Ildiko has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn't just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she's known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light. Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.

Author : Thomas San Roman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595524338

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Born Into Radiance by Thomas San Roman Pdf

In a world with fading faith and growing darkness, a glimmer of hope faintly shines in the poetic words of a forgotten prophecy. It speaks of good, evil, and an ancient force that promises the destruction of the world. Welcome to Erronia; a land of lush forests, towering mountain ranges, bustling cities, and diverse inhabitants. It is here that people's hearts wane, and fears wax. It is here that the destruction looms. There are those, however, that fight to save Erronia. There are those that will not stand by idly and watch as their world dies. Join an old wizard, Symon, as he guides a group of misfit youngsters along a path that is not entirely known to them, but essential to the survival of their world. It will be a journey of sacrifice and maturity, but also one of courage and perseverance. Blood and tears will be shed as these children fight to overcome not only the evils of the world, but the chaos of growing up far from home with enemies following every new step. Will the struggle prove too much for them?

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Craig Nelson's The Age of Radiance by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of Craig Nelson's The Age of Radiance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Age of Radiance" by Craig Nelson provides a comprehensive history of the nuclear age, detailing the discovery of radioactivity and its profound impact on the world. The book traces the origins of nuclear science with pioneers like Marie and Pierre Curie, who uncovered the mysteries of radium and polonium, and Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays. It recounts the tragic consequences of early radiation exposure, as seen in Thomas Edison's assistant and the medical student Emil Grubbe...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CCEL
Page : 1451 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610250658

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NPNF2-04. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lesley Goodson
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781457543135

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Breaking the Age Code Young Skin for Life by Lesley Goodson Pdf

This book is a must read for anyone who wants to transform their skin. Author Lesley Goodson—medical researcher and expert on skin diseases and the aging process—unveils for the first time the latest scientific advances in behind-the-scenes skin anti-aging research. She brings you the secrets that until now were known only by research scientists and forward-thinking dermatologists and plastic surgeons. INCLUDES... • Interviews with the nation's leading dermatologists and plastic surgeons. • The most effective wrinkle cure to date. • Scientific proof of what works and what doesn't. • And much more. Follow Lesley Goodson's blog at BreakingTheAgeCode.com

Author : Eulalie Hendricks
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781641407311

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Holy Spirit by Eulalie Hendricks Pdf

This book is two thousand years overdue in its telling. Since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, God declared a state of war between Satan and the woman and her offspring, therefore, Satan hates women with every fiber of his being (Gen. 3:14, 15, MSG). Since time immemorial, Satan has worked relentlessly to try and steal, kill, and destroy women, trying to steal our knowledge of who we are in Christ Jesus, trying to beat us down and kill us with abuse, and trying to steal from us our dignity, our value, our worth, our identity, and ultimately, our joy (1 Pet. 5:8). For too long, Satan has kept us deceived, demeaned, and defeated, but Jeremiah declares, "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know" (Jer. 33:3). Through Jesus's glorious gospel of grace, God is lifting the veil of darkness that has kept Christians blinded to the truth of who women are in Christ and all that is ours as heirs to His throne of grace. A grace revolution is sweeping our planet, and part of that is the unveiling of women's identity in the Godhead and all that we are in Christ Jesus. Two thousand years ago, at the cross of Calvary, God returned to man His glory, and this book unveils all that that means to us as daughters of the Most High, and it reveals the fullness of who we are as His comforters, helpers, and beautiful shekinahs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Measurement
ISBN : UCR:31210009774488

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Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology by Anonim Pdf