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1.Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Argonautica (Oxford World's Classics) by: Apollonius of Rhodes June 18, 1998
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Having seen the Jason London movie many years earlier, his face stuck in my mind as the hero for most part of reading this book. This beats the classical mythology canon in Apollonius' shorter, less convoluted and more modern plot, being written some 700 years after Homer. Although the actual mythological plotline is a much older tale than the story of Troy. I enjoyed this story immensely, and wrote my final essay on the book. It reads much like an adventure/travel story among the hero and his friends, on a voyage to locate/redeem the Golden Fleece. They travel through the Mediterranean and ancient parts of Greece, Europe and Africa, emerging from obstacles and dangers, including the famous crashing rocks. Not withstanding the ... Read More:

2.Dark Sun (Sloan Technology Series) by: Richard Rhodes August 01, 1996
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Some of the more negative reviews of this book are less than perceptive. Rhodes' earlier 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' is an extraordinary book, an exhilarating intellectual adventure that suddenly becomes what we had forgotten it was all along; an appalling human tragedy. The description of Little Boy's effect on the city and people of Hiroshima is some of the most powerful non-fiction writing I have ever read. The atomic scientists believed, almost up until the last minute, that they would be permitted a role in the decision to drop the bomb. When they weren't, it affected them in many different ways. This book is about those ways. The claim that Rhodes should have 'spared the politics' is idiotic. This book is the shadowy ... Read More:

3.The Making of the Atomic Bomb by: Richard Rhodes May 05, 1998
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This book was recommended as part of an Innovation Management course that I undertook. If you can see beyond the history, and the politics there are a number of important "real-life" lessons in innovation theory. Leo Slizard has the vision of the "chain reaction" before the scientific community fully understand the structure of the atom. At the core of the story is not only the need to develop "the bomb" but also the complex process technologies that wil allow man to extract Uranium 235 from Uranium ore and to produce Plutonium. For me one of the most interesting parts of the story is the development of the science of "implosion". I can imagine that there are some distinct business parallels ... Read More:

4.Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by: Richard Rhodes February 04, 2008
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This is a valuable history of the closing stages of the {first?} "Cold War" - concentrating particularly on the Reagan/Gorbachev encounters and the resulting agreements to reduce strategic and tactical weapons in Europe. Written in Richard Rhode's usual authoritative style, with copious references to source documents and many personal interviews with some of the surviving protagonists on both sides, my only reservation is that the book concentrates on the 'end' of the Nuclear Arms Race, rather than on it's making, as one might have inferred from the title. Yes, the author mentions both superpowers' native Military Industrial Complexes as being among the prime reasons for sustaining the billions/trillions of dollars expenditure over some fifty years, but ... Read More:

5.Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy by: Gwyneth Cravens October 30, 2007
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This is a valuable history of the closing stages of the {first?} "Cold War" - concentrating particularly on the Reagan/Gorbachev encounters and the resulting agreements to reduce strategic and tactical weapons in Europe. Written in Richard Rhode's usual authoritative style, with copious references to source documents and many personal interviews with some of the surviving protagonists on both sides, my only reservation is that the book concentrates on the 'end' of the Nuclear Arms Race, rather than on it's making, as one might have inferred from the title. Yes, the author mentions both superpowers' native Military Industrial Complexes as being among the prime reasons for sustaining the billions/trillions of dollars expenditure over some fifty years, but ... Read More:

6.Dark Sun: Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Sloan Technology Series) by: Richard Rhodes September 26, 1995
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Some of the more negative reviews of this book are less than perceptive. Rhodes' earlier 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' is an extraordinary book, an exhilarating intellectual adventure that suddenly becomes what we had forgotten it was all along; an appalling human tragedy. The description of Little Boy's effect on the city and people of Hiroshima is some of the most powerful non-fiction writing I have ever read. The atomic scientists believed, almost up until the last minute, that they would be permitted a role in the decision to drop the bomb. When they weren't, it affected them in many different ways. This book is about those ways. The claim that Rhodes should have 'spared the politics' is idiotic. This book is the shadowy aftermath ... Read More:

7.Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy (Vintage) by: Gwyneth Cravens October 14, 2008
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Some of the more negative reviews of this book are less than perceptive. Rhodes' earlier 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' is an extraordinary book, an exhilarating intellectual adventure that suddenly becomes what we had forgotten it was all along; an appalling human tragedy. The description of Little Boy's effect on the city and people of Hiroshima is some of the most powerful non-fiction writing I have ever read. The atomic scientists believed, almost up until the last minute, that they would be permitted a role in the decision to drop the bomb. When they weren't, it affected them in many different ways. This book is about those ways. The claim that Rhodes should have 'spared the politics' is idiotic. This book is the shadowy aftermath ... Read More:

8.Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by: Richard Rhodes 2003-08
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For me the holocaust has been a sleeping partner for some 5/6 years since I decided that prior to visiting Auschwitz I really should get some of the basic facts straight in my head so as to make more out of the visit. In doing so, and having been well aware of the general descriptions and claims about the holocaust for decades, I of course found that for every claim of truth about the numbers involved and horrors meted out to the jews and of course others targeted in the holocaust there is another alternative claim or fact. In fact there is more counter claim and argument about this sorry episode in 20 century history than I think any other. My problem with the 'death camp facts' is that they are very difficult to get to the bottom of. I, like many people ... Read More:

9.Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Ant, Xdoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven (Programmer to Programmer) by: Richard Hightower, Warner Onstine, Paul Visan, Damon Payne, Joseph D. Gradecki, Kate Rhodes, Robert Watkins, Erik Meade April 23, 2004
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This book is usefull to understand a set of java tool for XP, but it can be only a starting point to learn and to use them. Ant and Xdoclet are the most interesting parts.

10.Lucy Lamb (Fuzzy Friends) by: Richard Powell 2004-03
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This book is usefull to understand a set of java tool for XP, but it can be only a starting point to learn and to use them. Ant and Xdoclet are the most interesting parts.

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