After the war : women in physics in the United States by Howes, Ruth (Ruth Hege), Herzenberg, Caroline L., 1932-

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Spying in America : espionage from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the Cold War by Sulick, Michael J.

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The collected works of Leo Szilard by Szilard, Leo

Table of Contents: “…Chemical separation of the radioactive element from its bombarded isotype in the Fermi effect ; Detection of neutrons liberated from beryllium by gamma rays: a new technique for inducing radioactivity ; Liberation of neutrons from beryllium by x-rays: radioactivity induced by means of electron tubes ; Radioactivity induced by neutrons ; Absorption of residual neutrons ; Radioactivity induced by nuclear excitation: excitation by neutrons ; Instantaneous emission of fast neutrons in the interaction of slow neutrons with uranium ; Neutron production and absorption in uranium ; Emission of neutrons by uranium -- Documents relating to the Manhattan Project. Creative intelligence and society: the case of atomic research, the background in fundamental science ; Szilard letter to Eugene P. …”


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The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II by Kiernan, Denise

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Our documents : 100 milestone documents from the National Archives

Table of Contents: “…Eisenhower's Order of the Day ; Servicemen's Readjustment Act -- 1945: Manhattan Project Notebook ; Surrender of Germany ; United Nations Charter ; Surrender of Japan -- 1947: Truman Doctrine -- 1948: Marshall Plan ; Press Release Announcing U.S. …”


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Operation crossroads : the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll by Weisgall, Jonathan M., 1949-

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100 Documents that Changed the World : From the Magna Carta to WikiLeaks by Christianson, Scott

Table of Contents: “…I Ching (2800 BC) -- Code of Hammurabi (1754 BC) -- Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey (c. 750 BC) -- The Art of War (512 BC) -- Dead Sea Scrolls (408 BC-AD 318 ) -- Mahabharata (c. 400 BC) -- Kama Sutra (400 BC-AD 200 ) -- Plato's Republic (c. 380 BC) -- Gandharan Buddhist Texts (AD 50 ) -- The Quran (AD 609-632 ) -- The Magna Carta (1215) -- Ad Extirpanda (1252) -- Summa Theologica (1265-74 ) -- Hereford Mappa Mundi (1280-1300 ) -- Gutenberg Bible (1450s) -- Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks (1478-1519) -- Alhambra Decree (1492) -- Christopher Columbus's Letter (1493 ) -- Petrucci's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A (1501) -- Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses (1517) -- Edict of Worms (1521) -- Journal of Magellan's Voyage (1522-25) -- Destruction of the Indies (1542) -- Gregorian Calendar (1582) -- King James Bible (1611) -- Mayflower Compact (1620) -- Shakespeare's First Folio (1623) -- Galileo's Dialogue (1632) -- Execution Warrant of Charles I (1649) -- Samuel Pepys's Diary (1660-69) -- Isaac Newton Papers (1660s-1727) -- First Printed Newspaper in English (1665) -- English Bill of Rights (1689) -- Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755) -- Declaration of Independence (1776) -- The Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Constitution of the United States (1787) -- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) -- Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791) -- Louisiana Purchase (1803) -- Meriwether Lewis's List of Expenses (1803 ) -- Napoléonic Code (1804) -- Deciphering the Rosetta Stone (1822) -- First Photograph (1826) -- Slavery Abolition Act (1833) -- Charles Darwin on Natural Selection (1837-59) -- First Telegram (1844) -- The Communist Manifesto (1848) -- Roget's Thesaurus (1852) -- John Snow's Cholera Map (1854) -- First Underground Train System (1854-63) -- Fort Sumter Telegram (1861) -- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)-- Alaska Purchase Check (1868) -- War and Peace (1869) -- Phonograph (1878) -- The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) -- Sinking of the Titanic (1912) -- Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) -- Balfour Declaration (1917) -- The Zimmermann Telegram (1917) -- Wilson's Fourteen Points (1918) -- Nineteenth Amendment (1919) -- Treaty of Versailles (1919) -- Hitler's Twenty-Five-Point Program (1920) -- Uncovering Tutankhamun's Tomb (1922) -- Empire State Building (1929-31) -- Edward VIII's Instrument of Abdication (1936) -- Television Listings (1936) -- Munich Agreement (1938) -- The Hitler-Stalin Non-Aggression Pact (1939) -- Declaration of War Against Japan (1941) -- Manhattan Project Notebook (1942) -- Wannsee Protocol (1942) -- Anne Frank's Diary (1942-44) -- Germany's Instrument of Surrender (1945) --United Nations Charter (1945) -- George Orwell's 1984 (1946-49) -- Marshall Plan (1947) --Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- Geneva Convention (1949) -- Population Registration Act (1950)-- DNA (1953)-- Treaty of Rome (1957) -- John F. …”


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10 days that unexpectedly changed America. Volume 3

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The Private Albert Einstein by Bucky, Peter A.

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Espionage & intrigue

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The best of Modern marvels by Nash, Bruce M., Ett, Alan, Thomas, Guy

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Columbia Pictures film noir classics. IV

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James B. Conant : Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age by Hershberg, James G. (James Gordon), 1960-

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The modern mind : an intellectual history of the 20th century by Watson, Peter, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- No way back : Karl Mannheim; Joseph Schumpeter; Friedrich von Hayek; Karl Popper; 'Christianity and the social order'; The Beveridge report; Animal farm; Keynes and the war; Bretton Woods and the peace; An Amercian dilemma -- Light in August : A nuclear chain reaction becomes possible; Enrico Fermi; Nuclear fission; The Manhattan Project; The meeting between Heisenberg and Bohr; German, Russian and Japanese plans for a bomb; Hiroshima; The chrysanthemum and the sword) --…”


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Visions of technology : a century of vital debate about machines, systems, and the human world

Table of Contents: “…Thompson -- Predictions: geosynchrony / Arthur C. Clarke -- Manhattan project success / Lieutenant General Leslie R. …”


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Jazz and romance.

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Stairway. Volume one by Hawkins, Matt (Comic book writer)

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