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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Автор: Rhodes Richard
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different...
What to Look for in Winter
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What to Look for in Winter

Автор: McWilliam Candia
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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"The most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious, and heartrending of memoirs" (The Telegraph, london) — the story of a celebrated writer's sudden descent into blindness, and the redemptive journey into the past that her...
Building the H Bomb: A Personal History
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Building the H Bomb: A Personal History

Автор: Ford Kenneth William
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with—and relaxed with—scientific giants of that time such as...
Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945
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Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945

Автор: Waite Charles , Vardera Dee La
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen’s Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. “The day I was captured, I had a...
Where I Was From
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Where I Was From

Автор: Дидион Джоан
Язык: английский
Год: 2004
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to...