Wayne Biddle: 3 books
by Wayne Biddle
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
A comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding how radiation affects our everyday lives
Nuclear energy, X-rays, radon, cell phones . . . radiation is part of the way we live on a daily basis, and yet the sources and repercussions of our exposure to it remain mysterious. Now Pulitzer...
A Field Guide to Germs
Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
From the ravages of the Ebola virus in Zaire to outbreaks of pneumonic plague in India and drug-resistant TB in New York City, contagious diseases are fighting back against once-unconquerable modern medicine. Public concern about infectious disease is on the rise as newspapers trumpet the arrivals...
by Wayne Biddle
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago.
This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of “rocket scientist” Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling...