Nuclear
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The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
$17.99 Add to cartFrom a young, award-winning scientist, a “thoughtful and illuminating” (Nature) look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time–the race to harness the power of the stars a… [more below]
- Author: Turrell, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1982130679
- Language: English
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Matter: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us — from desks, to books, to our own bodies — are made of atoms, which are small enough… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cottrell, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 019880654X
- Language: English
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Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West
$24.95 Add to cartDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction
- Author: Fox, Sarah Alisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496207661
- Language: English
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Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered Enriched Uranium for the United States’ Atomic Bomb
$24.95 Add to cartOn May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered… [more below]
- Author: Hydrick, Carter Plymton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1634241177
- Language: English
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Fusion’s Promise: How Technological Breakthroughs in Nuclear Fusion Can Conquer Climate Change on Earth (and Carry Humans to Mars, Too)
$44.99 Add to cartFor over 60 years, scientists and engineers have been trying to crack a seemingly intractable problem: how to build practical devices that exploit nuclear fusion. Access to electricity has facilitated… [more below]
- Author: Moynihan, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2023
- ISBN10: 3031229053
- Language: English
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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
$21.95 Add to cart“Incorporating the career of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the creator of the nuclear navy, Tucker’s work importantly recalls a forgotten warning from nuclear history.”–Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
On January 3
- Author: Tucker, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234023
- Language: English
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Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book Award
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of the Season
A Book to Watch Out For, The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner Blog
A L- Author: Jayawardhana, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535213
- Language: English
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The Atom: A Visual Tour
$39.95 Read moreAn accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.
Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chem
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Challoner, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 11 2018
- ISBN10: 026203736X
- Language: English
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Weak Interactions and Modern Particle Theory
$15.95 Add to cartThis high-level, rigorous, and technical treatment was written by a distinguished teacher and researcher. Equally valuable as a text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students and as a referenc… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Georgi, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0486469042
- Language: English
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Elementary Nuclear Theory: Second Edition
$16.95 Add to cartThis compact treatment of the basic theory of nuclear forces, structures, and reactions bases its explanations almost entirely on the familiar results of nonrelativistic quantum theory. Suitable for a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Physics
- Author: Bethe, Hans Albrecht
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0486450481
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
$30.00 Read moreAlmost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021047
- Language: English
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
$24.00 Add to cartThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it
Uranium occurs naturally in the earth’s crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamen- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 014311672X
- Language: English
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The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island
$23.99 Add to cartBy 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania perma… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0393324699
- Language: English
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How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor
$29.99 Add to cartHave you ever wondered how a nuclear power station works? This lively book will answer that question. It’ll take you on a journey from the science behind nuclear reactors, through their start-up, oper… [more below]
- Series: Springer Praxis Books
- Author: Tucker, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 26 2020
- ISBN10: 3030338754
- Language: English
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Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
$38.00 Read moreThe first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post-Cold War present.
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived- Author: Wellerstein, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022602038X
- Language: English
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Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundame- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 23 2024
- ISBN10: 019287375X
- Language: English
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Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
$30.00 Add to cartThere may never be another era of science like the first half of the twentieth century, when a peerless cast of physicists–Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Max Planck, Wolfgang Pauli, Niels Bohr, Werner… [more below]
- Author: Hürter, Tobias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1615199209
- Language: English
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
$30.00 Add to cartNow with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enormous public reception of the relatively obscure string theory–made possible by this book and an increased number of adherent… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393058581
- Language: English
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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists
$21.99 Add to cartAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh.
- Author: Jungk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0156141507
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
