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Richard Rhodes

Richard Rhodes

Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His articles have appeared in many national magazines. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Visions Of Technology A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World By: Richard Rhodes
This edition: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publication date: December 7, 2000
Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed...
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Deadly Feasts
Deadly Feasts The Prion Controversy and the Publics Health By: Richard Rhodes
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: May 22, 1998
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle...
Other Formats: Audio Download, eBook
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Dark Sun The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb By: Richard Rhodes
This edition: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publication date: August 6, 1996
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the...
Other Formats: Audio Download
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Making of the Atomic Bomb By: Richard Rhodes
This edition: Trade Paperback, 928 pages
Publication date: August 1, 1995
With a new Introduction by the author, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about how the atomic bomb came to be.In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story...