Karen Shepard
Karen Shepard is the author of the novels An Empire of Women and The Bad Boy's Wife. Her work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Self, Bomb, and other publications. She teaches writing and literature at Williams College in Williamstown, ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Johnny and the Bomb
 Time travel for smart people: If you read the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, you can actually see Pratchett's undeniable talent blooming. In the third book, Pratchett gives us a smart person's time travel fantasy, full of hilarious situations and interesting [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Richard Rhodes
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes has also won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Prize, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and MacArthur foundations and the ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
The Hunt for Zero Point
This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers. The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government ... [... more]
Random House |
Loss of Faith
Riveting and shocking, Loss of Faith is essential reading for all Canadians. On June 23, 1985, Canada found itself on the international terrorism map when two bombs built in B.C. detonated within an hour of each other on opposite sides of the ... [... more]
Random House |
Claire Berlinski
Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent ... [... more]
Random House |
Eric Charles Lemay
The ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger have been described as an intellectual time bomb, as some of the most revolutionary thought in western history. Despite the enormous amount of secondary scholarship available on Heidegger, it ... [... more]
Random House |
Dennis Bock
Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his ... [... more]
Random House |
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: ...
good research, bad analysis: Classical folklorist Adrienne Mayor's Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs is an intriguing, if over-reaching look into the ancient antecedents of chemical and biological warfare. Wide-ranging and well-supported by [... more]
CDN$40.63
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Bombs and Butterflies
Once upon a time..: ..Widespread Panic was a group still in the process of finding their own sound and trying to keep the spirit of southern rock & roll alive. Though they hadn't developed into the distinct entity they are today, though their singer [... more]
CDN$18.99
Amazon CA |
Johnny and the Bomb CD
Time travel for smart people: If you read the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, you can actually see Pratchett's undeniable talent blooming. In the third book, Pratchett gives us a smart person's time travel fantasy, full of hilarious situations and interesting [... more]
CDN$28.00
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Mind Bomb
'Blows the mind': If you're looking for a normal book then forget Mind Bomb because there is absolutely nothing normal about this story. From chapter one's opening passages I was gripped by this highly imaginative tale about twin brothers. While on [... more]
CDN$28.05
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