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Red Moon [E-Book] : The Soviet Conquest of Space /
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Cincinnati Observatory [E-Book] : Its Critical Role in the Birth and Evolution of Astronomy in America /
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Planting the Seeds of Hope : Indiana County Extension Agents During the Great Depression and World War II [E-Book]
Table of Contents: ...23 A Bushel Basket of Eggs Brings In as Much Money as 100 Bushels of Corn -- 24 The Life of an Extension Worker Is an Honorable Occupation and an Interesting One -- Photographs -- Part 3: Soldiers of the Soil During World War II (1940-1945) -- 25 Fitting...

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The Gambler and the Scholars [E-Book] : Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the Birth of Modern American Cryptology /
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Konrad Zuse's Early Computers [E-Book] : The Quest for the Computer in Germany /
Table of Contents: ...1. Konrad Zuse and the Dawn of the Computer Age -- 2. The Race to Build the Computer in World War II -- 3. The Z1: Architecture and Algorithms of Zuse's First Computer -- 4. The Z2 and the Cipher Machine -- 5. The Architecture of the Z3 -- 6. How to Make...

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Investigating Art, History, and Literature with Astronomy [E-Book] : Determining Time, Place, and Other Hidden Details Linked to the Stars /
Table of Contents: ..., and King John and the Loss of the Crown Jewels -- Chapter 7. Mont Saint-Michel in the Hundred Years War, and the Discovery of the Gegenschein -- Chapter 8. The Moon and the Death Valley '49ers, Roosevelt and Churchill at Marrakech, and World War II and the Moon...

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Birth of the Shinkansen [E-Book] : The Origin Story of the World-First Bullet Train /
Table of Contents: ...Basic study of railways after World War II -- Commemorative lecture on the possibility of high-speed railways -- Decision of constructing a Shinkansen line and technological problems -- Technological development to realize Shinkansen -- Breakdowns after...

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Nuclear Security [E-Book] : The Nexus Among Science, Technology and Policy /
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Master of Galactic Astronomy : A Biography of Jan Hendrik Oort [E-Book] /
Table of Contents: ...Youth in Oegstgeest and Leiden -- Kapateyn and Groningen -- Via Yale to Leiden -- Rotation and Dynamics of the Galaxy -- The Structure of our and Other Galaxies -- The Watershed: World War Ii -- Opening New Avenues -- Fron Kootwijk to Dwingeloo...

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William Shockley: The Will to Think [E-Book] /
Lojek, Bo
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Table of Contents: ...History: An Engineering View -- About This Book -- Prologue: The Enigma of Shockley -- Mother and Father -- The Son Billy -- Jean and Emmy -- Bell Telephone Laboratories -- The Nuclear Reactor -- World War II Hero -- The Precursors of "Translating...

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Reconstruction of Urban Forests [E-Book] : Post World War II and the Bosnian War /
Table of Contents: ...1. Introduction -- 2. Aerial bombing of cities during World War II -- 3. London -- 4. Coventry -- 5. Hamburg -- 6. Dresden -- 7. St. Petersburg -- 8. Stalingrad -- 9. Tokyo -- 10. Hiroshima -- 11. Conclusions....

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Nuclear Power Explained [E-Book] /
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Manhattan Project [E-Book] : The Story of the Century/
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A History of the Italian Space Adventure [E-Book] : Pioneers and Achievements from the XIVth Century to the Present /
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Obsessed by a Dream [E-Book] : The Physicist Rolf Widerøe - a Giant in the History of Accelerators /
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The Renaissance of General Relativity in Context [E-Book] /
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Jan Hendrik Oort [E-Book] : Master of the Galactic System /
Table of Contents: ... and Adjunct-Director -- World War II: The Watershed -- Opening Up New Avenues -- Spiral Structure, Interstellar Medium and the Crab -- Dwingeloo, ESO, the Vatican and the Cross-Antenna -- Galactic Structure and the Dwingeloo Telescope -- Westerbork, Retirement...

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Primed for Success: The Story of Scientific Design Company [E-Book] : How Chemical Engineers Created the Petrochemical Industry /
Table of Contents: ...The global industry is poised for change -- Fuels and Chemicals Research help win World War II -- Three entrepreneurs join forces -- Conditions are perfect: A new industry grows rapidly -- Scientific Design becomes successful -- The big breakthrough: Mid...

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Nico Bloembergen [E-Book] : Master of Light /
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The History and Science of the Manhattan Project [E-Book] /