About this title: Nine men - Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, Compton - brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the amazing workings of an invisible world. Some of them were fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb. At a secret laboratory in the mountains of northern New Mexico, they would crack the secret of the nuclear chain reaction and construct the most fearsome weapon mankind had ever known. Together they built a ...
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Edition: 1ST,
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 06/2003
ISBN-13:9780316738330ISBN:0316738336
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 399 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 06/2003
ISBN-13:9780316738330ISBN:0316738336
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 399 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 06/2003
ISBN-13:9780316738330ISBN:0316738336
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 399 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Book has some water damage, but book is still completely readable. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Description: Good. 0316160512 Standard used condition-Same quality you would find in your local bookstore. This is a new unread book that received the above wear during its handling. Has remainder mark. read more
Description: Good. 0316907901 24405 PB; spine smooth, text clean, cover has light shelf wear-allow up to 21 business days for standard USPS media m ai l. wt1lbpf. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316738330ISBN:0316738336
Description: 0316738336. Stated first edition; first printing (all numbers present). Original quarter cloth (spine) and paste-down paper covered boards. Hardcover, new in dustjacket with price present. Minor shelf wear on dustjacket, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked, and never read. ISBN 0316738336 History; biography; Manhattan Project; World War II; physics; weapons of mass destruction; nuclear weapons; science; Los Alamos; Leo Slizard, Enrico Fermi, I. I. Rabi, Neils Bohr, Edward Teller, ... read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. First editon first printing inscribed by author to Houghton Freeman thanking him for his support during the writing-minor ring on back cover-otherwise a brand new clean excellent copy-enjoy. read more
Edition: First Edition. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316738330ISBN:0316738336
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Tall 8vo. Clean tight copy, appears unread, price intact on flap of dj, in protective mylar cover, 399 pp w/index, notes, bibliography, B&W photos, "...superbly illuminates the ways in which these brilliant and sensitive men came to terms with their horrific creation. The result is a spectacular history and moral investigation of the highest order. " Story of the nine men who would crack the secret of the nuclear chain reaction and construct the first atomic bomb. CL001. read more
Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2005-07-12
ISBN-13:9780316160513ISBN:0316160512
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780316738330ISBN:0316738336
Description: Very Good- in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library Title page has an open tear at lower portion of page. No library pocket. military. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780316160513ISBN:0316160512
Description: Fine. "Publisher: Little, Brown & Co Date of Publication: 2005 Binding: Paperback Edition: First Paperback Edition Condition: New Description: 8vo-over 7"-9" tall 0316160512" read more
"There have been many histories of the Manhattan project. Some focus on the details of what it took to bring together a group of men in the New Mexico desert, some focus on the difficulties of the project itself.
VanDeMark does something altogether different, by focusing individually on the physicists in short almost vignetted biographies of their lives before, during and after the project with special attention paid to their political and later moral writings which speak more to their characters than simple history can."
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