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Author : J. Robert Oppenheimer
Publisher : Stanford Nuclear Age (Paperbac
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804726207

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Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is one of the few American scientists who have become public and controversial figures in the twentieth century. This book adds a new dimension to the Oppenheimer story by offering a look at the private man behind the public figure. It consists of letters spanning the period from his Harvard student days in 1922 to his departure from Los Alamos in 1945. The letters are supplemented by recollections of those who knew Oppenheimer and by his own recollections from an interview a few years before his death. 'A beautifully organized collection of letters and reminiscences ... The editors have interviewed those who knew and worked with him, stirred in the necessary explanatory background, and produced an account, both scholarly and highly readable, which throws fresh light on a man who will probably always remain something of an enigma. Amid devotional defense and almost rabid attack, their book is a model of objectivity.' New York Times Book RevieW 'An intimate, carefully documented, and honest book.'

Author : Robert Edward General Lee
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781015401624

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Laurence Harwood
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0830834982

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Laurence Harwood presents his memories and interactions with godfather C. S. Lewis, spanning Harwood's early boyhood to young adulthood. This book contributes to a more complete portrait of Lewis and focuses on Lewis's friendships with a boy and his father.

Author : Cornelia Jones Pond
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820320441

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The first unabridged publication of the memoirs of Cornelia Jones Pond, a privileged child of a slaveholding family in Georgia, follws her life from her birth into the antebellum world of 1834, through the apocalyptic Civil War, and beyond. UP.

Author : J. Robert Oppenheimer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400860288

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J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer and speaker, who thought deeply about the way that scientific discoveries have changed the way people live and think. Displaying his subtlety of thought and expression as do few other documents, this book of his lectures discusses the moral and cultural implications of developments in modern physics. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593083334

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An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women's rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.

Author : John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674528376

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In an early letter, Galbraith mentions his "ambition to be the most reticent adviser in modern political history." But as a respected intellectual and author of the celebrated The Affluent Society, he was not to be positioned so lightly, and his letters are replete with valuable advice about economics, public policy, and the federal bureaucracy.

Author : Pierre Maturié
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1926836553

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A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss

Author : Spencer Bruskin
Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2017-06-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781520734859

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Bob Bruskin had a varied career as a newspaper reporter, army intelligence officer and foreign service officer. Kathleen Bruskin was a professional artist and teacher. The couple exchanged hundreds of letters, particularly during World War II, most of which Kathleen preserved. Bob later recorded the story of his life and his adventures beginning with his youth in New York's Lower East Side. Their son has used their own voices in their letters and recollections to weave their story into a unique history of the times and the events that influenced their lives.