(Tanya Schevitz and Todd Wallack, “Most UC Execs Got Sweet Deals,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2006) Lawmakers harshly criticized the University of California's pay practices. . 201 INFLUENCE.
Contentious, gripping and intimate, The Wives of Los Alamos is a personal tale of one of the most momentous events in our history.
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three-thousand people who lived together in near confinement for twenty-seven intense months under J. Robert Oppenheimer and the world's best scientists to produce the atomic bomb ...
Much has been written about scientific developments at Los Alamos, but until this book little has been said about the community that fostered them.
Katrina R. Mason has interviewed a wide range of people who spent all or parts of their childhoods in Los Alamos - from its muddy beginnings in 1943, when residents...
The story of Los Alamos and the Pajarito Plateau begins with explosive eruptions.
... Bill Maxwell saw it. Were the others sold Indian? I hopeVel gets over. Did E.Wood go and is she better? A long letter from Rafael yesterday—the first in which he ever made me feel that I meant much in his life.
Serber’s preface vividly conveys the mingled excitement, uncertainty, and intensity felt by the Manhattan Project scientists. This edition includes an updated introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Richard Rhodes.
"A light-hearted first-hand account of everyday life in the strange and secret community between 1943 and 1945"--P. [4] of cover.
Dorothy Ann Scarritt was born 12 December 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri.
From 1966 to 1971, Eggleston would occasionally use a two and one quarter inch format for photographs. These are collected and published here for the first time, adding more classic Eggleston images to photography's color canon.