Richard Rhodes: 26 books
Energy
A Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world population, and renewable energy—from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard...
The Twilight of the Bombs
Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
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 past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary...
by Richard Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
by Richard Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.
In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons,...
Masters of Death
The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In Masters of Death, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rhodes gives full weight, for the first time, to the Einsatzgruppen’s role in the Holocaust. These “special task forces,” organized by Heinrich Himmler to follow the German army as it advanced into eastern Poland and Russia, were the agents...
Deadly Feasts
Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1999
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France—and that has already been traced...
Why They Kill
The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Why do some men, women and even children assault, batter, rape, mutilate and murder? In his stunning new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes provides a startling and persuasive answer.
Why They Killexplores the discoveries of a maverick American criminologist, Dr. Lonnie Athens --...
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have...
John James Audubon
The Making of an American
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects...
Making Love
An Erotic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A brilliant and illuminating exploration of one man's sexual odyssey, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and A Hole in the World.
Making Love marks the first time a major author has written with such unapologetic candor of his most intimate experiences,...
Hell and Good Company
The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, “The most extraordinary book about the Spanish Civil War ever encountered” (The Washington Post).
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists...
Visions Of Technology
A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems A
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth....
How to Write
Advice and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the issues would-be writers are most afraid to articulate: How do I dare write? Where do I begin? What do I do with this story I have to tell...
Farm
A Year in the Life of an American Farm
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Richard Rhodes’s year-long journey into the heart of American agriculture reveals a life trapped between two eras: the modern and the traditional, the future and the past.
Richly textured and deeply moving, Farm chronicles a year in the life of Tom and Sally...
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