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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman--who was relegated to special education as a child--sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that...
3) Burning the sky: Operation Argus and the untold story of the Cold War nuclear tests in outer space
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After the Soviet Union proved to the US that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in the October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. In the midst of this rising tension, Nicholas Christofilos, an eccentric Greek-American physicist, brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: launching...
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Language
English
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Description
"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...
Author
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is set in the Caribbean, where a researcher becomes trapped like a rodent in a maze
When it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when they exercise, when they take their medicine—and when they die. For the sake of the Company, he performs all manner of experiments on his helpless subjects, testing various drugs designed to improve...
When it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when they exercise, when they take their medicine—and when they die. For the sake of the Company, he performs all manner of experiments on his helpless subjects, testing various drugs designed to improve...
10) Downwind
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus exposes the darkest secret in American nuclear history-sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands-an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the...
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Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico. Immensely more powerful than any weapon the world had seen, the bomb's effects on the surrounding and downwind communities of plants, animals, birds,...
14) Five feet apart
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Language
English
Description
Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella and Will both suffer from cystic fibrosis. Being together means they could pass an infection. Stella is waiting for a lung transplant; Will is on a clinical drug trial. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. Staying six feet apart doesn't feel like safety, it feels like punishment. Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too? -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
AE volume 294
Publisher
Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Scoiology, South Carolina Agricultura Experiment Station
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
Author
Series
AE volume 302
Publisher
Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family's land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship--until...
Publisher
Keeney & Company, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Surviving soldiers of the first nuclear bomb tests share their gruesome stories revealing how the military misled them into believing that exposure to these tests would leave no lasting effects on their bodies or minds. Between 1948 and 1961 thousands of American soldiers became human guinea pigs because of these tests. A chilling documentary including exclusive interviews and rare film footage.
20) The peripheral
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme.
"William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage...
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