Nuclear Renewal

Engineering & Transportation

RICHARD RHODES

Engineering

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Arsenals of Folly

Vintage

Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust

The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age, The Twilight of the Bombs is powerful, persuasive, and an essential work of contemporary history.

The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

History

Military

Alfred A. Knopf - Borzoi Book

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.

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Hedy's Folly (Lib)(CD)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

In the year 1846 men took their families west to California and a new life. The families of the Donner Party were among them. Several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. There, where the water flowed west to the far Pacific, the more prudent emigrants swung north through present-day Idaho, though that was the longer way west. But the Donner Party, braver or more foolhardy than the rest, chose an untried route that would shorten the distance. It did. It also subjected them to obstacles so formidable that it cost many of them their lives. Yet it preserved their names and the story of their travail down through history-crowded years - monuments unlike any others to the great wilderness adventure of conquering the West. No work of fiction has rendered this remarkable epic of ordeal with more vividness and power than Richard Rhodes' novel of the Donner Party, The Ungodly. The Ungodly is an unforgettable story of terrible hardship and awesome courage. It is the story of indomitable men and women in their bleakest hour - a story that increases our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full and immeasurable price they paid.

The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party

World

Charterhouse

The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War. 
 Richard Rhodes' landmark history of the atomic bomb won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in this majestic new masterpiece of history, science, and politics, he tells for the first time the secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made, and traces the path by which this supreme artifact of twentieth-century technology became the defining issue of the Cold War. 
 From the day in 1941 when the first word of Anglo-American atomic-bomb research arrived in Moscow to the week of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, DARK SUN is full of unexpected -- and sometimes hair-raising -- revelations based on previously undisclosed Soviet and U.S. sources, including: 
 How the Soviets were able to produce a carbon copy of the first U.S. atomic bomb 
 How the SAC fought for independent control of U.S. nuclear weapons -- while flying deliberately provocative daytime missions over Soviet cities 
 How the first and only direct nuclear confrontation between the superpowers was also very nearly the last 
 Following the lives of the atomic scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Dark Sun is the definitive work on the hydrogen bomb, showing why the world wars that devastated the first half of the century can never happen again.

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Politics & Social Sciences

Simon & Schuster Audio

Rhodes tells, for the first time, in rich human, political and scientific detail, 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. 128 photos.

Making of the Atomic Bomb

Touchstone Press

Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph Over Childhood Abuse evolved from Richard Rhodes's memoir, A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood, in which he told of the abuse he endured at the hands of his stepmother. Here is an oral history of child abuse--physical, mental, and sexual--and how its survivors dealt with it.
While talking with victims of abuse, the authors found that "each strategy [for survival] was original, imaginative, off the books, a tribute to the canny resilience of the human spirit. Collectively, like breathtaking third-act reversals, they promised to lift the narrative from one of pain to one of triumph."
Trying to Get Some Dignity will reaffirm readers' faith in their ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their own lives.

Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph over Childhood Abuse

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ginger Rhodes

Psychology & Counseling

William Morrow

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