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AMERICAN PROMETHEUS by BIRD, KAI (Hardcover - 2008) ISBN: 9781843547044 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS UK Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics director of the Manhattan Project laboratory that developed the atom bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer was the most famous scientist of his generation. Yet in his rise and eventual fall, he became a tragic figure, perhaps the embodiment of modern man as he confronts the terrifying consequences ¡V practical and moral ¡V of scientific progress. American Prometheus provides a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man and his profound involvement with his times ¡V with the Depression, Communism, World War II, McCarthyism and the nuclear arms race that defined the Cold War. |
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AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER by BIRD, KAI (Hardcover - 2005) ISBN: 9780375412028 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: ALFRED A. KNOPF US |
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AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER by BIRD, KAI (Paperback - 2006) ISBN: 9780375726262 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US |
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AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER by BIRD, KAI (Paperback - 2023) ISBN: 9781838959708 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: ATLANTIC |
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CROSSING MANDELBAUM GATE: COMING OF AGE BETWEEN THE ARABS AND ISRAELIS, 1956-1978 by BIRD, KAI (Hardcover - 2010) ISBN: 9781416544401 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: SCRIBNER |
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CROSSING MANDELBAUM GATE: COMING OF AGE BETWEEN THE ARABS AND ISRAELIS, 1956-78 by BIRD, KAI (Hardcover - 2010) ISBN: 9781847379337 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER |
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DIVIDED CITY by BIRD, KAI (Paperback - 2011) ISBN: 9781849831048 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER |
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GOOD SPY: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ROBERT AMES by BIRD, KAI (Hardcover - 2014) ISBN: 9780307889751 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: CROWN |
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GOOD SPY: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ROBERT AMES by BIRD, KAI (Paperback - 2015) ISBN: 9780307889768 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: BROADWAY BOOKS |
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