The Age Of Radiance
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Author | : Craig Nelson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1451660456 |
“A thrilling, intense, and disturbing account of the atomic era, from the discovery of X-rays to the tragic meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…Rich with powerful images and fraught with drama” (The Christian Science Monitor). When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller forged the science of radioactivity, they began a revolution that ran from the nineteenth century through the course of World War II and the Cold War to our current confrontation with the dangers of nuclear power and proliferation. While nuclear science improves our lives, radiation’s invisible powers can trigger cancer and cellular mayhem. Writing with a biographer’s passion, New York Times bestselling author Craig Nelson unlocks one of the great mysteries of the universe. In The Age of Radiance, Nelson illuminates a pageant of fascinating historical figures: Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Curtis LeMay, John F. Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev, among others. He reveals how Jewish scientists fleeing Hitler transformed America from a nation that created light bulbs into one that split atoms; Alfred Nobel’s dream of global peace; and how, in our time, emergency workers and utility employees fought to contain life-threatening nuclear reactors. By tracing our complicated relationship with the dangerous energy we unleashed, Nelson discusses how atomic power and radiation are indivisible from our everyday lives. Brilliantly told and masterfully crafted, The Age of Radiance provides a new understanding of a misunderstood epoch in history and restores to prominence the forgotten heroes and heroines who have changed all of our lives for better and for worse. “This is the kind of book that doesn’t just inform you but leaves you feeling smarter.” (The Dallas Morning News).
Author | : Milkyway Media |
Publisher | : Milkyway Media |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2024-03-27 |
Genre | : Science |
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Get the Summary of Craig Nelson's The Age of Radiance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Age of Radiance" by Craig Nelson provides a comprehensive history of the nuclear age, detailing the discovery of radioactivity and its profound impact on the world. The book traces the origins of nuclear science with pioneers like Marie and Pierre Curie, who uncovered the mysteries of radium and polonium, and Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays. It recounts the tragic consequences of early radiation exposure, as seen in Thomas Edison's assistant and the medical student Emil Grubbe...
Author | : Craig Nelson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2014-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1451660448 |
"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from X-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its invisible rays trigger biological damage, birth defects, and cellular mayhem. Written with a biographer's passion, Craig Nelson unlocks one of the great mysteries of the universe in a work that is both tragic and triumphant. From the end of the nineteenth century through the use of the atomic bomb in World War II to the twenty-first century's confrontation with the dangers of nuclear power, Nelson illuminates a pageant of fascinating historical figures: Enrico Fermi, Marie and Pierre Curie, Albert Einstein, FDR, Robert Oppenheimer, and Ronald Reagan, among others. He reveals many little-known details, including how Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler transformed America from a country that created light bulbs and telephones into one that split atoms; how the most grotesque weapon ever invented could realize Alfred Nobel's lifelong dream of global peace; how emergency workers and low-level utility employees fought to contain a run-amok nuclear reactor, while wondering if they would live or die. Brilliantly fascinating and remarkably accessible, The Age of Radiance traces mankind's complicated and difficult relationship with the dangerous power it discovered and made part of civilization."--Publisher information.
Author | : Paul Eli Ivey |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1452939543 |
In May 1904, the residents of Halcyon—a small utopian community on California’s central coast—invited their neighbors to attend the grand opening of the Halcyon Hotel and Sanatorium. As part of the entertainment, guests were encouraged to have their hands X-rayed. For the founders and members of Halcyon, the X-ray was a demonstration of mysterious spiritual forces made practical to human beings. Radiance from Halcyon is the story not only of the community but also of its uniquely inventive members’ contributions to religion and science. The new synthesis of religion and science attempted by Theosophy laid the foundation for advances produced by the children of the founding members, including microwave technology and atomic spectral analysis. Paul Eli Ivey’s narrative starts in the 1890s in Syracuse, New York, with the rising of the Temple of the People, a splinter group of the theosophical movement. After developing its ideals for an agricultural and artisanal community, the Temple purchased land in California and in 1903 began to live its dream there. In addition to an intriguing account of how a little-known utopian religious community profoundly influenced modern science, Ivey offers a wide-ranging cultural history, encompassing Theosophy, novel healing modalities, esoteric architecture, Native American concepts of community, socialist utopias, and innovative modern music.
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Livestock exhibitions |
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Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486111555 |
Deeply moving study of the tyrannical and rigid requirements of New York high society in the late 19th century and the effect of those strictures on the lives of three people.
Author | : Richard Mather |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2022-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004531777 |
The full original texts, Professor Richard Mather’s full annotated translations, and brief biographies of these three classical poets, who had such a profound impact upon the immediately succeeding centuries. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004120594).
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Total Pages | : 498 |
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Author | : Annice Booth |
Publisher | : SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 193289098X |
"Prosperity is not only money in your pocket, in the bank, in your stock portfolio or under your mattress. True prosperity is the sense of abundance, the sense that you have the right to live an abundant life. It is health, wealth, happiness, joy, peace, faith, hope, wisdom, being in tune with the flow of the universe and able to accept the abundance of God. This comprehensive guide explores spiritual and practical keys to prosperity. You will learn about the importance of gratitude, faith and nonattachment, how to work with blocks to abundance such as fear, anxiety and procrastination, and how to cultivate a consciousness of abundance. You will also learn how to use visualization and imagery, how to create “treasure maps” to help focus and give birth to your highest dreams, and how to effectively use meditations, affirmations and mantras to create and sustain the abundance that is your birthright. "
Author | : Maggie Ross |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-12-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532612087 |
To learn to read a text for the portals of silence that are implicit in it is to gain a powerful tool for supporting and expanding one's silence, and to open the reader to the insight that ensues. The sort of reading proposed in this volume is both costly and rewarding. These pages invite readers once again to look at their own minds, to reflect on what is happening there, and to understand the essential role of silence for being human, and for living our own truth with one another.