A Hero for the Atomic Age
Title | A Hero for the Atomic Age PDF eBook |
Author | Axel Andersson |
Publisher | Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Ethnology |
ISBN | 9781788742757 |
"First published in 2010 by Peter Lang, Ltd., International Academic Publishers."--Title page verso.
A Hero for the Atomic Age
Title | A Hero for the Atomic Age PDF eBook |
Author | Axel Andersson |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Ethnology |
ISBN | 9781906165314 |
Nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 2013 Academy Awards In English and many other languages the name 'Kon-Tiki' has become a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world. In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa raft across the Pacific Ocean the classic journey of discovery was re-invented for generations to come. Kon-Tiki spoke of heroism, masculinity, free-spirited rebellion against scientific dogmatism, and the promise of an attainable exotic world, while it updated these mythological staples to fit the times. After years of relentless media exploitation of the 101-day raft journey, Heyerdahl emerged as the protagonist in a legend that helped to create a new postwar West. A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic narrative that became imbued with a universal appeal. The book also addresses, for the first time, the problematic nature of Heyerdahl's theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the world's great civilizations.
Adventures in the Atomic Age
Title | Adventures in the Atomic Age PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Theodore Seaborg |
Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780374299910 |
The renowned physicist describes his Nobel Prize-winning career, his work with the Manhattan Project, his discovery of the element that makes atomic bombs explode, and his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
The Age Atomic
Title | The Age Atomic PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Christopher |
Publisher | Watkins Media Limited |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2013-03-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0857663151 |
The Empire State is dying. The Fissure connecting the pocket universe to New York has vanished, plunging the city into a deep freeze and the populace are demanding a return to Prohibition and rationing as energy supplies dwindle. Meanwhile, in 1954 New York, the political dynamic has changed and Nimrod finds his department subsumed by a new group, Atoms For Peace, led by the mysterious Evelyn McHale. As Rad uncovers a new threat to his city, Atoms For Peace prepare their army for a transdimensional invasion. Their goal: total conquest – or destruction – of the Empire State. File Under: Science Fiction [ Splitting the Atoms | Angry Robots | Crossing | Universal Destruction ]
The Girls of Atomic City
Title | The Girls of Atomic City PDF eBook |
Author | Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451617534 |
Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
The Making of the Atomic Age
Title | The Making of the Atomic Age PDF eBook |
Author | Alwyn McKay |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Hiroshima
Title | Hiroshima PDF eBook |
Author | John Hersey |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0593082362 |
Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.