wyszukanych pozycji: 46
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Nixon's War with Students: Campus Unrest in the Vietnam Era
ISBN: 9780700641963 / Angielski / 15-09-2026 Książka dostępna od: 15-09-2026 |
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150,40 |
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Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780520223288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation--caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources--have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that...
How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts...
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276,02 |
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Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968
ISBN: 9780190844790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Most of 14th Street is Gone takes an in-depth look at the enormously destructive riots that erupted in Washington, DC in April 1968. This book offers an unprecedently detailed account of the riots that raged in the nation's capital from the perspectives of rioters, victims, law enforcement officials, soldiers, and government leaders.
Most of 14th Street is Gone takes an in-depth look at the enormously destructive riots that erupted in Washington, DC in April 1968. This book offers ...
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132,80 |
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The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11
ISBN: 9780700632619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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217,70 |
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The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
ISBN: 9780520260450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the U.S. government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste. From the Manhattan Project through the designation in 1987 of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a high-level waste repository, Walker thoroughly investigates the approaches adopted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He explains the growing criticism of the AEC's waste programs, such as the AEC's embarrassing failure in its first serious effort to build a high-level waste repository in a Kansas salt mine....
In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the U.S. government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems ass...
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474,86 |
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
ISBN: 9781469628974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research--mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available--that provides fresh insight on the strategic considerations that led to dropping the bomb. From the debate about whether to invade or continue the...
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most c...
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123,64 |
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the use of Atomic Bombs against Japan (16pt Large Print Edition)
ISBN: 9780369304315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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149,90 |
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan
ISBN: 9780807823613 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to generate enormous interest and controversy. In this concise and balanced account, J. Samuel Walker offers a new look at the events and circumstances that lay behind President Truman's use of atomic bombs against Japan. Combining extensive documentary research with a critical reading of both American and Japanese scholarship, Walker examines the popular mythology about how the decision was made, delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at...
More than fifty years later, the decision that brought prompt and utter destruction to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues to generate enor...
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148,38 |
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan (Easyread Large Edition)
ISBN: 9781442994751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the roles of U.S.-Soviet relations and of American domestic politics. In this new e...
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most c...
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149,90 |
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Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780520239401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. In a spectacular coincidence, on March 28, 1979, less than two weeks after the movie came out, the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States occurred at Three Mile Island. For five days, the citizens of central Pennsylvania and the entire world, amid growing alarm, followed the efforts of authorities to prevent the crippled plant from spewing dangerous...
Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appear...
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213,53 |
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The Sioux Quartzite and Certain Associated Rocks ... a Thesis, Etc. [With Sketch-Maps.]
ISBN: 9781240908417 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,89 |
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The Road to Madness: How the 1973-1974 Season Transformed College Basketball
ISBN: 9781469668840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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98,90 |
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Organic Sam: The Unbelievable Truth
ISBN: 9781535017459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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39,28 |
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The Florence Stories
ISBN: 9781025253251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
140,90 |
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The Florence Stories
ISBN: 9781025253244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
83,57 |
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Plane and Plank; or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic
ISBN: 9781023165969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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140,90 |
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Plane and Plank; or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic
ISBN: 9781023165914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,57 |
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The American Civil Liberties Union: An Annotated Bibliogrpahy
ISBN: 9780815300472 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cites and briefly describes over 1,400 books, articles, and archival material relating to the private, non-profit group devoted to a defense of individual liberty, since its founding in 1917 (Civil Liberties Bureau before 1920). The works address the history and function of the group, personalities,
Cites and briefly describes over 1,400 books, articles, and archival material relating to the private, non-profit group devoted to a defense of indivi...
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568,97 |
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The New World of Police Accountability
ISBN: 9781544339177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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213,48 |
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The Last Christmas Carol
ISBN: 9781479300426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Based on the popular stage production with book & lyrics by David Meyers and music by Scott Michal, "The Last Christmas Carol" turns the classic Dickens tale on its ear. Half "Kiss Me, Kate" and half "Bad News Bears," this modern take on the beloved story of Ebenezer Scrooge features all your favorite characters including the irrepressible Tiny Tim, an aromatic Elvis Impersonator, and a special guest appearance by the Donner Party Singers. (You remember them, don't you?)
Based on the popular stage production with book & lyrics by David Meyers and music by Scott Michal, "The Last Christmas Carol" turns the classic Dicke...
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41,14 |