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1.	[no image]	THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB from PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Customer Review: "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes is one of the most important books of the 20th Century, and comparable as non-fiction to "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. The ultimate understanding of the early 20th Century, that Chemistry was ultimately an... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better from Grand Central Publishing Price: $11.49 Customer Review: You know that uneasy feeling you get when you realize you are not being informed, but you are being manipulated because it turns out the author started with an agenda? It doesn't take long with this book for the author's contempt for our lifestyle to give you that feeling. Then the promise of new... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World from Viking Adult Price: $9.18 Customer Review: If you want to learn the impact technology is really having on our economy, you need to read this book. After reading this book, I understand why inflation isn't as bad as we expect. Because the cost of technology decreases so rapidly, the cost of information decreases. As a result, the cost of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Vintage) from Vintage Price: $9.68 Customer Review: A must read for those who are interested in science/green alternaives/clean coal smokestacks,and the future of carbon-free baseload electricity production	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.	[no image]	Introduction to Health Physics from Pergamon Pr Customer Review: The fourth edition of Introduction to Health Physics by Herman Cember and Thomas Johnson is a 21st century update to the classic Health Physics text. The new edition expands on the third edition with a content update, more problems, plus modern tables and graphics for better readability.more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $1.99 Customer Review: I read "Sun in a Bottle" because I have previously worked on tokamak technology in graduate school, and because I read a previous book by this author (Decoding the Universe), which I found to be very good. I was not disappointed because I found, like many others including at least some critics in... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Energy Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey from Bartleby Pr Price: $18.08 Customer Review: I thought this was an interesting and engaging book. I highly recommend it for anyone...especially conservatives and Libertarians who are interested in real energy solutions. I do, however, have to disagree with the author re: his blind acceptance of CO2 cap & trade schemes. The... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Radiation Detection and Measurement from Wiley Price: $94.76 Customer Review: For those interested in the principles of particles detectors, this book is a must have!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century: World Nuclear University Press from Academic Press Price: $25.99 Customer Review: I agree this is one of the best, and most current, over-views of nuclear energy I have ever read. The fact that Ian Hore-Lacy includes the "front-end" and "back-end" of the nuclear fuel cycle is enlightening. Could I be so bold as to make (2) recommendations for improvement ? One - The statement on... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.	[no image]	Nuclear Power: Villain or Victim? Our Most Misunderstood Source of Electricity from Pebble Beach Publishers Price: $201.70 Customer Review: Nuclear power has been called "a power too cheap to meter" and a clear source of electricity, which according to this book "may be crucial for preventing catastrophic consequences of global warming and for preventing wars over the world's supply of petroleum" (p. v). Yet there remains a strong... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age (MacSci) from Palgrave Macmillan Price: $6.06 Customer Review: That's what the title of this book should be. I am not disparaging the "for Dummies" series, but I guess in these days of Iran/North Korea/Libya headlines, "Uranium Wars" stands out better. Its starts with the discoveries of Becquerel and the Curies, and most of us know the rest (if you don't then... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $8.33 Customer Review: As in many of his books,John McPhee and his capacious memory and notebook spend time with interesting people--in this case a man who begins his career designing nuclear weapons at the start of the cold war. Also like others of his books, our intest is captured as much by the personalities as the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Introduction to Nuclear Engineering (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $93.91 Customer Review: I have studied the most important chapters of the book "Introduction to Nuclear Engineering". It is more than an introduction. I found the book to be a very good one for someone with some fundamental knowledge of nuclear technology. When I started the reading of the book, I had some knowledge... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident from Ecw Press Price: $10.35 Customer Review: You wouldn't think a book about a nuclear excursion could be witty and snappy, yet scientific -- but this book is. It is also well-researched. I tore through this book in a couple of nights -- I could not put it down. The author was able to mix science with dramatic, true-crime style writing... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power from Pegasus Price: $17.16 Customer Review: James Mahaffey, a scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, writes about the nuclear power industry that he has spent his life in. His history goes back well before his time, though, to the dawn of nuclear power. Then traces nuclear power from those early days through to today. Filled with... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis from Palgrave Macmillan Price: $11.88 Customer Review: Alireza Jafarzadeh has written an excellent, eye opening, examination of the Iranian regime and its attempts to acquire a nuclear bomb. This book changed my perspective in multiple ways, and is still an extremely important work even three years after its publication in hardback and two years after... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		Nuclear Energy Now: Why the Time Has Come for the World's Most Misunderstood Energy Source from Wiley Price: $0.39 Customer Review: "Nuclear Energy Now" is an excellent book about the present status of nuclear power. Its starting point is the realization that increasing amounts of carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming and climate change. Combustion of fossil fuels is producing this chemically very stable and... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl (In-formation) from Princeton University Press Price: $21.61 Customer Review: This is an excellent, detailed book defining the emergence of the concept of the biological citizen and the way in which this has reshaped the state and victims of Chernobyl. Highly recommended if you are interested in the way in which the concept of the body changes with situations.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History from Free Press Price: $1.32 Customer Review: I bought this book because I heard the author interviewed on the radio discussing the subject matter. I was completely unaware that a nuclear reactor had exploded in Idaho in 1961, killing the three men working on it. (I'm not spoiling anything; this comes up in the first few pages of the book...not... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $0.08 Customer Review: The book starts out by describing how difficult it is for non-state players to obtain nuclear fissionable matterial and to make the bomb. With the exception of an inside job the author makes the case, even in weak states such as Russia, it is much more difficult to do so than most people imagine.... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		The Legacy of Chernobyl from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $6.44 Customer Review: This book is a must read for any serious student of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It was written not long after the accident (1990) and so lacks information about the long-term health effects. However, the detail about the interactions of the participants, the top-down, Moscow directed policies... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		The Radioactive Boy Scout (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) from Turtleback Price: $25.70 Customer Review: This is a tough book to evaluate. Certain aspects were exceptional, others revealed a bias that was disturbing and at times darn near enraging. The reason I am reviewing a book that I have such mixed feelings about is to urge every teacher to read this one. I've been in education for over... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy from Cambridge University Press Price: $48.60 Customer Review: I have found this book immensely useful and a pleasure to read as a senior undergraduate engaging in summer research in fusion. It is perfect for learning basic plasma physics in the context of fusion, which may not be easy with books that discuss plasma more generally (such as F.F. Chen's... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy from Johnson Books Price: $9.00	Click here for more information


25.		Nuclear Reactor Analysis from Wiley Price: $162.95 Customer Review: Chances are good that if you are studying nuclear engineering you will encounter this book and many others that reference it, and for good reason. This book is well written in a conversational style that explains difficult concepts clearly with a dash of humor. The book has not been updated in... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering Second Edition from CRC Press Price: $88.70 Customer Review: This book is pure fun to read... easy to follow, clearly written, and full of cool graphs. It invokes the engineer, physicist, and statistician in you all at once. If for nothing else but having fun, you should get a copy and read it. But wish it wasn't so expensive.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer from New Press Price: $6.00 Customer Review: Even the major opponents of nuclear power fail to state CO2 and all other pollutants are generated by the fossil fuel burned to mine, mill, and process the ore into fuel rods. Dr. Caldicott establishes this obvious fact and much more. This book should be required reading for Dr. Steven Chu, Obama,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Six Ideas That Shaped Physics: Unit C: Conservation Laws Constrain Interactions from McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Price: $29.50 Customer Review: This is a non-traditional introductory physics text, it's the first book will be used in the first semester of cal-base physics. It's a great book, but sometimes depends on the teaching style of the professor. Some part of the book is somewhat confusing, and using 14 lecture time to get through... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Nuclear Energy, Sixth Edition: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $48.80 Customer Review: The book binding was in bad shape when I received it however I believe that is due to shipping constraints. Overall a good experience.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor from Random House Price: $39.99 Customer Review: If you've ever lived next door to a twisted teenager, you should love reading The Radioactive Boyscout, by Ken Silverstein. It's the frighteningly true story of a suburban teenager - maybe your neighbor - who tried to assemble a makeshift nuclear reactor in his backyard using radioactive materials... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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