<p>Traces the history and development of nuclear power from its theoretical origins in 1919 to the modern controversy surrounding it today, detailing the complex interplay of science, technology, and international politics</p>

The Greatest Power on Earth: The International Race for Nuclear Supremacy

Science & Math

Clark, Ronald William

Technology

Harpercollins

The scientific breakthrough: The impact of modern invention

Nelson

The life of Bertrand Russell

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

J. Cape

Freud, the man and the cause

History

Europe

The role of the bomber

Sidgwick and Jackson

The greatest power on earth: The story of nuclear fission

SIDGWICK JACKSON

The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique opportunities. Ronald Clark, a distinguished historian of mountaineering, who knows the Alps from end to end, describes the history of the mountains and their most famous peaks. The heroic story of their exploration, first by scientists, then by such early mountaineers as Whymper, Coolidge, Miss Brevoort and their guides, is related with extensive quotations from letters, diaries and contemporary records. With the mountaineers came the pioneer photographers whose cumbersome but fragile equipment had to be manhandled up ice-slopes and across glaciers to enable them to take their photographs, a procedure which necessitated hours of intricate manoeuvring, in freezing weather, to obtain one successful shot. Other chapters discuss the development of the Alps as a mountain health centre, the coming of roads and railways and the growth of the winter sports industry and Mr Clark warns that the mountains, like a Highland deer forest, can carry only a certain number of living creatures without facing disaster.

The Alps

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The man who broke Purple: The life of the world's greatest cryptologist, Colonel William F. Friedman

Traces the life of Chain, a German-born scientist who fled Nazi Germany for England, and discribes his contributions to the development of penicillin, contributions which led to a Nobel Prize

The Life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin and Beyond

Professionals & Academics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>Studies the major achievements of the master cryptologist, their impact on the course of the Second World War and postwar intelligence, and his growing dissatisfaction due to the morally questionable aspects of his government work</p>

The Man Who Broke Purple: The Life of Colonel William F. Friedman, Who Deciphered the Japanese Code in World War II

Politics & Government

Little,Brown & Co

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