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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The bomb in my garden	Mahdi Obeidi	Praise for The Bomb in My Garden "This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.S. intelligence on the subject. It is a fascinating and rare glimpse …	OL12404870W
Albert Einstein	Dana Meachen Rau	A biography of Albert Einstein, a scientist and physicist who had many new ideas or theories about the way the world works.	OL14859464W
Joseph Rotblat	Reiner Braun	Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005), British physicist and one of the most prominent critics of the nuclear arms race, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 in conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences on…	OL15171778W
Coming of Age With Quantum Information	Christopher A. Fuchs	"A passionate and personal account of the early days of quantum information and quantum computing, this unique book is a collection of more than 500 letters between the author and many of the founder…	OL16968330W
My Brief History	Stephen Hawking	Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant cosmologists of our time, and author of the 10 million copy bestselling A Brief History of Time, one of the iconic books of its generation. Now, for the f…	OL19710012W
Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900-1906	John Blackmore	This book gives the first detailed record of Ludwig Boltzmann's life and philosophical thoughts during his final years, a period of major change in physics, needing a new methodology of theoretical, …	OL19884851W
An atomic love story	Shirley Streshinsky	"Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the…	OL19972638W
Half-life	F. E. Close	Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day-- the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the process of nuclear fission. His work on the Manh…	OL19996796W
Einstein at home	Friedrich Herneck	"These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 19…	OL20030959W
Beyond uncertainty	David C. Cassidy	Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond Uncertainty, Cassidy interprets this and other previously…	OL2005976W
Einstein	Richard Lacayo	A book with dozens of photos provides an overview of Albert Einstein's life, work and theories.	OL22425050W
3-minute Stephen Hawking	Paul Parsons	The 3-Minute series offers the essence of the world's most important figures with all the padding removed. It divides up their lives into 60 three-minute chunks, each presented as an easily digestibl…	OL23115639W
Brotherhood of the Bomb	Gregg Herken	"If science is the story of the twentieth century, no drama is more compelling than that of "the Bomb" and its creators. But the tale of human conflict that connects the three scientists most respons…	OL4106029W
Einstein	Illus. with photos,Walter Isaacson	Albert Einstein's life and times.	OL4288870W
George Green	D. M. Cannell	xxvi, 265 p., [8] p. of plates : 23 cm	OL4316913W
Gravity's arc	David Darling	Advance Praise for Gravity's Arc "A beautifully written exposition of the still mysterious force that holds our universe together--and the even more mysterious dark twin that may blow it apart."…	OL5838533W
Feynman's Rainbow	Leonard Mlodinow	For a young physicist struggling to find his place in the world, the relationship that would most profoundly influence his life was with his mentor, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.	OL7986162W
The Jasons	Ann K. Finkbeiner	A provocative inside look at the elite scientists who have worked behind the scenes to influence American science and policy for half a centuryThey call themselves Jason. Their group is a child of th…	OL7989532W
The Man Who Changed Everything	Basil Mahon	This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshn…	OL8208713W
Tuxedo Park	Jennet Conant	"In the fall of 1940, as German bombers flew over London and with America not yet at war, a small team of British scientists on orders from Winston Churchill carried out a daring transatlantic missio…	OL8312235W