In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. The Atomic Bazaar is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable and undeveloped nations find ways of acquiring the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity have soared to frightening heights. Even more disturbing is the likelihood of such weapons being manufactured and deployed by guerrilla non-state terrorists.Langewiesche also recounts the recent history of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist at the forefront of nuclear development and trade in the Middle East who masterminded the theft and sale of centrifuge designs that helped to build Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and who single-handedly peddled nuclear plans to North Korea, Iran, and other potentially hostile countries. He then examines in dramatic and tangible detail the chances for nuclear terrorism.From Hiroshima to the present day, Langewiesche describes a reality of urgent consequence to us all. This searing, provocative, and timely report is a triumph of investigative journalism, and a masterful laying out of the most critical political problem the world now faces.

The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking

History

WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE

Military

Penguin Books, Ltd.

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger, managed to glide to a safe landing in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation, the "The Miracle on the Hudson", and Captain Sully was the hero. But, how much of the success of this dramatic landing can actually be credited to the genius of the pilot? To what extent is the "Miracle on the Hudson" the result of extraordinary - but not widely known, and in some cases quite controversial - advances in aviation and computer technology over the last twenty years? From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces that have sought to minimize the impact of the revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, William Langewiesche assembles the untold stories necessary to truly understand "The Miracle on the Hudson", and makes us question our assumptions about human beings in modern aviation.

Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the 'Miracle' on the Hudson

Penguin??Books

In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it. With vivid descriptions of the aesthetics and excitement of flight, Langewiesche also writes of the risks that go with this beauty: the perils of air traffic control, and the dangers of nervous passengers and bad weather. Full of spare and elegant prose, Aloft is a fascinating journey into the new, profound dimension that flight has added to the human experience.

Aloft

Travel

It is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said that migratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. William Langewiesche came to the Sahara to see it as its inhabitants do, riding its public transport, braving its natural and human dangers, depending on its sparse sustenance and suspect hospitality. From his journey, which took him across the desert’s hyperarid core from Algiers to Dakar, he has crafted a contemporary classic of travel writing. In a narrative studded with gemlike discourses on subjects that range from the physics of sand dunes to the history of the Tuareg nomads, Langewiesche introduces us to the Sahara’s merchants, smugglers, fixers, and expatriates. Eloquent and precise, Sahara Unveiled blends history and reportage, anthropology and anecdote, into an unforgettable portrait of the world’s most romanticized yet most forbidding desert.

Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert (Vintage Departures)

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The border between the United States and Mexico extends 1,951 miles. Among the people who live along it are a migrant laborer huddled in a makeshift camp, a Chicano cowpuncher, a Pima Indian who makes his living tracking drug smugglers across the desert, and the millions crowded along the border in Mexicali. In this beautifully written, unerringly insightful book, William Langewiesche allows us to see this boundary in all its political, moral, and emotional complexity. Whether he is patrolling the border with officers of the U.S. Immigration Service or talking with the desperate men and women who cross it every day, Langewiesche is always engaged in what trackers call “cutting the sign” reading the marks that human beings have made on this contested land and decoding the meaning they hold for the rest of us. ”Spellbinding. . . . The reportage [is] high art . . . for Langewiesche painstakingly uncovers the connections between elusive clues as he searches out the border and its people.”—Boston Globe

Cutting for Sign: One Man's Journey Along the U.S.-Mexican Border

Americas

AMERICAN GROUND - one of the most controversial pieces of 9/11 publishing - is the result of Langewiesche's nine months in the Dantesque world of Ground Zero. With 'truth, unclouded by sentiment' (NEW YORK TIMES), he documented the lives of the engineers, labourers, rescue workers and city officials as they brought order to

American Ground

Scribner

AMERICAN GROUND

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The story of the people who responded to the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01. Within days, Langewiesche quickly secured unique, unrestricted, around-the-clock access to the site, the rescue workers & laborers there, & the meetings of city officials, engineers, construction companies, & consultants. He became the only writer to be ''embedded'' in the World Trade Center -- to live virtually night & day among the unbuilding crew as they brought order to an instance of chaos unprecedented on American soil. Firefighters, police officers, widows, bureaucrats, & profiteers attempted to claim the work -- & the tragedy -- as their own, the emotional & political implications loomed large as well.

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

Arts & Photography

Diane Pub Co.

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

In his shocking new work, this celebrated journalist investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons technology shifting from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor. As more unstable, undeveloped nations acquire the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity have soared to frightening heights.

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The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking

Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the 'Miracle' on the Hudson

Aloft

Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert (Vintage Departures)

Cutting for Sign: One Man's Journey Along the U.S.-Mexican Border

American Ground

AMERICAN GROUND

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor

The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor