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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Raceby Richard RhodesISBN 0375713948 (0-375-71394-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Deadly Feastsby Richard RhodesISBN 0613123751 (0-613-12375-1)
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The Eighties: Images of Americaby Richard RhodesISBN 0060182067 (0-06-018206-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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ESO Ecstasy Program: Better, Safer Sexual Intimacyby Alan P. Brauer, Donna J. Brauer, Richard RhodesISBN 0446391786 (0-446-39178-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Eso: How You and Your Lover Can Give Each Other Hours of Extended Sexual Orgasmby Alan P. Brauer, Donna J. Brauer, Richard RhodesISBN 0446386456 (0-446-38645-6)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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Holy Secretsby Richard RhodesISBN 0385025653 (0-385-02565-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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In the Jaws of the Black Dogs: A Memoir of Depressionby John Bentley Mays, Richard RhodesISBN 0140246509 (0-14-024650-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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John James Audubon: The Making of an Americanby Richard RhodesISBN 037571393X (0-375-71393-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John James Audubon: The Making of an American'Book summary:From the Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.
Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity.
Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birdspelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skiesand teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as the American Woodsman. He publishes his major work as well as five volumes of bird biographies enhanced by his authentic descriptions of pioneer American life.
Audubons story is an artists story but also a moving love story. In his day, communications by letter across the ocean were so slow and uncertain that John James and his wife, Lucy, almost lost each other in the three years when the Atlantic separated themuntil he crossed the Atlantic and half the American continent to claim her. Their letters during this time are intimate, moving, and painful, and they attest to an enduring love.
We examine Audubons legacy of inspired observationthe sonorities of a wilderness now lost, the brash life of a new nation just inventing itselfprecisely, truthfully, lyrically captured. And we see Audubon in the fullness of his years, made rich by his magnificent work, winning public honor: embraced by writers and scientists, fêted by presidents and royalty.
Here is a revelation of Audubon as the major American artist he is. And here he emerges for the first time in his full humanityhandsome, charming, volatile, ambitious, loving, canny, immensely energetic. Richard Rhodes has given us an indispensable portrait of a true American icon. [via]More editions of John James Audubon: The Making of an American:
The Last Safariby Richard RhodesISBN 0552118362 (0-552-11836-2)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Looking for America: A Writer's Odysseyby Richard RhodesISBN 0140054502 (0-14-005450-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bombby Robert Serber, Richard RhodesISBN 0520075765 (0-520-07576-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Making of the Atomic Bombby Richard RhodesISBN 014014997X (0-14-014997-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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Masters of Death: The Ss-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaustby Richard RhodesISBN 0375708227 (0-375-70822-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Nuclear Renewalby Richard RhodesISBN 0140241345 (0-14-024134-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ozarksby Richard RhodesISBN 0316848719 (0-316-84871-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Power in the Blood: An Odyssey of Discovery in the American Southby Richard RhodesISBN 006092957X (0-06-092957-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Power in the Blood: Land, Memory and a Southern Familyby John Bentley Mays, Richard RhodesISBN 0140259422 (0-14-025942-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Power to Save the World: Field Notes of a Reluctant Convert to Nuclear Energyby Richard Rhodes , Gwyneth CravensISBN 0374172269 (0-374-17226-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energyby Gwyneth Cravens, Richard RhodesISBN 0307385876 (0-307-38587-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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"Most of us were taught that the goal of science is power over nature, as if science and power were one thing and nature quite another. Niels Bohr observed to the contrary that the more modest but relentless goal of science is, in his words, 'the gradual removal of prejudice.' By 'prejudice,' Bohr meant belief unsupported by evidence."
--Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes, author of the introduction to Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy by Gwyneth Cravens "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
--Marie Curie
My book is fundamentally about prejudice based on wrong information. I used to oppose nuclear power, even though the Sierra Club supported it. By the mid-1970s the Sierra Club turned against nuclear power too. However, as we witness the catastrophic consequences of accelerated global temperature increase, prominent environmentalists as well as skeptics like me have started taking a fresh look at nuclear energy. A large percentage of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, that thaw Arctic ice and glaciers comes from making electricity, and we rely upon it every second of our lives. There are three ways to provide large-scale electricitythe kind that reliably meets the demands of our civilization around the clock. In the United States:- 75% of that baseload electricity comes from power plants that burn fossil fuels, mainly coal, and emit carbon dioxide. Toxic waste from coal-fired plants kills 24,000 Americans annually.
- 5% comes from hydroelectric plants.
- Less than 1% comes from wind and solar power.
- 20% comes from nuclear plants that use low-enriched uranium as fuel, burn nothing, and emit virtually no CO2. In 50 years of operation, they have caused no deaths to the public.
- Nuclear power emits no gases because it does not burn anything; it provides 73% of America's clean-air electricity generation, using fuel that is tiny in volume but steadily provides an immense amount of energy.
- Uranium is more energy-dense than any other fuel. If you got all of your electricity for your lifetime solely from nuclear power, your share of the waste would fit in a single soda can. If you got all your electricity from coal, your share would come to 146 tons: 69 tons of solid waste that would fit into six rail cars and 77 tons of carbon dioxide that would contribute to accelerated global warming.
- A person living within 50 miles of a nuclear plant receives less radiation from it in a year than you get from eating one banana. Someone working in the U.S. Capitol Building is exposed to more radioactivity than a uranium miner.
- Spent nuclear fuel is always shielded and isolated from the public. Annual waste from one typical reactor could fit in the bed of a standard pickup. The retired fuel from 50 years of U.S. reactor operation could fit in a single football field; it amounts to 77,000 tons. A large coal-fired plant produces ten times as much solid waste in one day, much of it hazardous to health. We discard 179,000 tons of batteries annually--they contain toxic heavy metals.
- Nuclear power's carbon dioxide emissions throughout its life-cycle and while producing electricity are about the same as those of wind power.
- Nuclear plants offer a clean alternative to fossil-fuel plants. In the U.S. 104 nuclear reactors annually prevent emissions of 682 million tons of CO2. Worldwide, over 400 power reactors reduce CO2 emissions by 2 billion metric tons a year.
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Sons of Earthby Richard RhodesISBN 0441775152 (0-441-77515-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Partyby Richard RhodesISBN 0333128397 (0-333-12839-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologistby Richard RhodesISBN 0375702482 (0-375-70248-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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