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The Audubon Reader (Everyman's Library)

2 reviews
John James Audubon

Everyman's Library, 2006

A wonderful keepsake reader's edition of a classic collection of wildlife observations
Richard Rhodes is the author of more than twenty works of history and fiction, winning many awards: his biography of John James Audubon appeared in 2004 and this companion reader is a wonderful survey of Audubon's own colorful writings about the American wilderness. Rhodes edits and gathers the best of Audubon's own voice, providing an anthology spiced with full-color reproductions of sixteen of ...

Eso Ecstasy Program: Better, Safer Sexual Intimacy

2 reviews
Richard Rhodes, Alan P. Brauer, ...

Grand Central Publishing, 1991

approaches essential
We found this book because Richard Rhodes raves about it in his "Erotic Journey" autobiography. The book helps enhance lovemaking... and love. First part consists of facts... anatomy, general technique. Then, the second part consists of exercises, starting with simple communication and kissing and moving to techniques for helping each other reliably achieve 30-minute climaxes. It's nearly ...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

157 reviews
Richard Rhodes

Simon & Schuster, 1995

the best book on the manhattan project, the personalities and the science
this is a fascinating read for people that enjoy science, technology, and the quirky, industrious, oftentimes brilliant people that can change history with their creations. the writing is superb. it is crafted in such a way that you feel like you've been with these people in los alamos and know what they went through. you understand the tension between the military and the irreverent scientists ...

John James Audubon: The Making of an American

20 reviews
Richard Rhodes

Knopf, 2004

Fascinating, Encyclopedic Study of Audubon and Early America
In the tradition of the great biographers, Rhodes leaves no stone unturned in his exploration of this remarkable fellow. The author carries us through the journey of the quintessential self-made man as he comes into maturity with his new country, the United States. This is a study of a man, not an ornithological treatise. We all have seen the beautiful portraits of birds (terrific color ...

The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb

11 reviews
Robert Serber

University of California Press, 1992

Great book on the physics of the bomb
This is a truly exciting book for people with the desire to understand bomb physics. This book consists out of the original lecture notes from a series of seminars given in 1943 to the bomb scientists at the start of the Manhattan Project. These lecture notes are clearly annotated so that a layman can understand the bomb. Although the book discusses mainly the knowledge of 1943, the clear ...

Birding with Audubon

1 review
Richard Rhodes

Amazon.com, 2005

Fascinating
Nature, birds have not been part of my reading interests, but Rhodes almost convinces me to read Audubon, and perhaps books about him, beginning with Rhodes', when published. I might try to find out why exactly the passenger pigeon went from 3 billion birds, one-third of all the birds in America, as Rhodes reports, to zero. They had no instinct for self-preservation? Their genes were dependent ...

Why They Kill

1 review
Richard Rhodes

Books on Tape, Inc., 1999

Wow, did that Audiofile reviewer hear what I heard??
This is a terrific book. Rhodes explores the reasons people become violent criminals, and he does it through the work of Lonnie Athens, a criminologist who, yes, uses too much jargon, but whose insights put to shame the usual feeble attempts at analyzing criminal violence. This is not a "loosely disguised biography" of Lonnie Athens, therefore. It uses Athens' biography as a way of structuring ...

Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers

4 reviews
Gary Don Rhodes

McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006

A "Silents Majority" review of "Lugosi"
Reference books generally have a reputation of being full of facts, yet dry in prose. While a bio-bibliography may not be traditionally called "entertainment," this ambitious effort successfully breaches the limitations of such reference books. It is a thought-provoking history of the great Béla Lugosi (1882 - 1956). His career was as varied and tragic, both publicly and privately, as John ...

The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.

8 reviews

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2007

great documentary on the making of the a-bomb and its aftermath
I am a babyboomer, born in 1947 after World War II was over. But my father had worked at Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II and entered the nuclear filed after the war becoming a reactor theorist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. So the Manhattan Project and many of the physcists associated with it along woth the post-war movement for peaceful development of nuclear energy became ...

Mandy Monkey (Fuzzy Friends)

1 review
Richard Powell

Tiger Tales, 2004

My daughter loves it!
This was a shower gift specifically for my husband to read to our daughter. She is now a year old and will grab it and hand it to us to read over and over. She loves the furry cover and to grab the tail on the spine. A great book for any father!

Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality after the Cold War

7 reviews
Paul Shambroom

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

Featured in Mr. Shambroom's book
I am one of the few people who are featured in Mr. Shambroom's book. It was an honor to have him among us as we performed our daily duties. We are not people of evil, we are all Americans bent on protecting our homeland from all who wish to destroy her. This is a good book. It details our daily life. No one loves nuclear weapons. Not even us who work with them. But the cat is out of the bag and ...

Professional JavaTools for Extreme Programming: Ant, XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus,and Maven

47 reviews, ...

Wrox, 2004

Nice Surprise
I ordered this book based on the title and the preview content here on Amazon (I couldn't find it at the B&N near my work). I was very pleasantly surprised at the practical, nuts-and-bolts approach that the authors took to XP and the tools in this book. I was also extremely pleased at how well the authors showed the integration of these tools into a sophisticated and professional development ...

The Complete Book of Anchoring and Mooring

8 reviews
Earl R. Hinz

Cornell Maritime Press, 1999

Complete Book of Anchoring & Mooring - Earl Hinz
Very thorough material regarding probably one of the MOST significant factors in boating; i.e. how to KEEP your vessel in tact and prevent unforseen disasters. Very factual & a real eye-opener of one the most critical foundational components of boating. I never realized that something so meaningless as anchoring, anchors, ground tackle, chains, ropes/lines, windlasses, moorings, etc. could prove ...

Dark Sun the Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

44 reviews
Richard Rhodes

Simon & Schuster Audio, 1995

A Dark Sun and a Cold War...
Richard Rhodes' 1995 "Dark Sun" is the well-written and provocative sequel to his Pulizter Prize-winning "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." "Dark Sun", with some overlap, picks up the story with intertwined narratives about the making of the thermonuclear bomb, the espionage that allowed the Soviets to keep pace, and the Cold War atmosphere in which it all took place. One need not agree with all ...

Visions Of Technology

3 reviews
Richard Rhodes

Books on Tape, 1999

An excellent selection of technology-related articles.
Richard Rhodes presents a chronological collection of technology-related articles, written during the 20th century. Since we are born into an "already-made" technological world, I found it revealing to get the perspective from people who lived at the time these inventions and findings were made. It is surprising to realize that many of the concerns about techology development shown by people at ...

Deadly Feasts

44 reviews
Richard Rhodes

Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1998

First, Last and Foremost
When Richard Rhodes published Deadly Feasts in 1997 it all seemed doubtful and futuristic. His investigations followed the development of this horror from the first, to 1997, and predicted the future (now). Rhodes insisted that if practices weren't changed the US would be plagued by infected cattle. Practices weren't changed, and recently cattle from the US were banned from most of the ...

Masters of Death

48 reviews

RosettaBooks, 2004

Not An Easy Book to Read or Stomach
In 1939 Hitler told the Senior Members of the Nazi Party and the Government of Germany, that the only way to insure that Germany could win the War in the East for Lebensraum would be to 'neutralize' the Jews. The Jews had been the reason that Germany had lost WWI, by their 'control' of the governments in France, England, Russia and the USA. Only by their destruction could Germany ensure the ...

A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood

10 reviews
Richard Rhodes

Simon & Schuster, 1990

Another famous author belabours us with his supposedly-sorry childhood?
Not exactly. If you arrive at this book as I did, mildly inquisitive after enjoying his two masterful, definitive tomes on nuclear weapons, you are in for one HELL of a ride. This is a different book altogether, one that you will not put down. I find myself wondering how elder brother Stanley might have turned out if he hadn’t been the one to walk into the bathroom and find their mom ...

Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist

34 reviews
Richard Rhodes

Vintage, 2000

Criminology with Psychology
I've met more than a few criminologists at the University where I learned and taught psychology (and where, interestingly, Athens spent a good chunk of his early career), and I was always struck by how little psychology I found in the writings and the lectures of most criminologists. I don't mean complex theories of motivation or conversion or what have you; I mean simple notions of learning that ...

Bela Lugosi - Dreams and Nightmares

6 reviews
Gary D. Rhodes and Richard Sheffield

Collectables Press, 2007

DREAMS!!
Having read all of Mr. Rhodes books, and they all have been 5 stars,this is the best.Not to many people know about this part of Lugosi's life as well as Mr. Rhodes. This was truly a labor of love and dedication. All that is left is BRAVO, authario,BRAVO. Mr. Sheffield also deserves kudo's on all his knowledge of Lugosi. The stills and other bits of entertainment pieces make this a great read. ...

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