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1.	[no image]	THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB from PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Customer Review: definitive. exhaustive. gripping. without a doubt one of the one hundred nonfiction books of the 20th century, and i don't think in this case that is empty hyperbole.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World from Viking Adult Price: $4.55 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


3.		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


4.	[no image]	Introduction to Nuclear Engineering from Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Customer Review: This is the book used in my Nuclear Engineering class and its pretty good. Although I wish there was a solution manual for it =/ If anyone knows where I can find one, let me know	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Vintage) from Vintage Price: $6.99 Customer Review: This book manages to present the facts in understandable language without sacrificing necessary depth. Awesome.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident from Ecw Press Price: $10.12 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


7.		Nuclear Energy, Sixth Edition: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes from Butterworth-Heinemann Price: $39.00 Customer Review: "Nuclear Energy" by Raymond L. Murray now has a sixth edition available, and while I read and am reviewing the fifth edition, I encourage anyone who wants to read this generally fine book to obtain the latest edition. In this volume Murray covers a very broad swath of information, focusing on... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future from Integrity Research Institute Customer Review: If you want to more about the theory behind it this is a good book to learn more and understand better the idea. Still for me it was not easy to read but that is because I have no further knowledge of science	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century: World Nuclear University Press from Academic Press Price: $27.32 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.		Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering Second Edition from CRC Press Price: $90.00 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


11.	[no image]	Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty 1939-1963 (Control of Nature) from Prometheus Books Price: $18.27 Customer Review: Lawrence Badash's book is an excellent synopsis of all most important facts in the described period from 1939 till 1963. Readable also for everyone without any specialized knowledge. A really good work !	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering Second Edition from CRC Press Price: $90.00 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


13.		Essentials of Radiation Biology and Protection from Delmar Cengage Learning Price: $12.89 Customer Review: Book was used and was in great shape and was delivered in a timely mannaer at a good price.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $5.10 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


15.		Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History from Free Press Price: $5.42 Customer Review: A nice light book on the early history of nuclear power, some of the many technical and political problems encountered along the way, with just a bit of drama to draw you into the personal stories of the three men who were killed. Todd does a good job of relating together the many threads of early... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.	[no image]	Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection from Pergamon Pr Price: $385.45 Customer Review: I am upset that my book did not show up with a receipt. I contacted the company that i ordered from, asked for one to be provided and got no response. This will cost me the amount of the book since my company will not reimburse me for it when the time comes. POOR BUISINESS!!!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $1.60 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


18.		Nuclear Reactor Analysis from Wiley Price: $133.15 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


19.		Principles of Fusion Energy: An Introduction to Fusion Energy for Students of Science and Engineering from World Scientific Publishing Company Price: $32.40 Customer Review: Interesting introductory text. A less qualitative (more in depth) approach on some chapters would have helped a lot.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.	[no image]	NUCLEAR SYSTEMS V1 CL from Taylor and Francis Customer Review: This book covers almost all aspects of thermal hydrolics in a nuclear reactor. It even has multiple correlations for flow through a core, and in general is totally dedicated to nuclear systems, unlike most heat transfer or fluid flow books. If you buy this book you would be smart to keep it over... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power from Pegasus Price: $15.72 Customer Review: Mahaffey's book is an entertaining read, but he bungles enough physics and history of physics to make one wonder if some of his history-of-nuclear-power lore is more tall-tales-around-the-campfire than it is accurate accounts of what really happened. First, the interesting stuff: Assuming he... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Under The Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing from Two Sixty Press Price: $26.00 Customer Review: I'm too young to have ever seen a nuclear test, but wish I could have. The book covers all the things the US did with nuke test, and where the fallout traveled. John Wayne filmed the movie "The Conqueror" in Monument Valley, in part because the dust swirled dramatically when horse thundered through.... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		The Legacy of Chernobyl from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $7.81 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


24.	[no image]	Weak Interactions and Modern Particle Theory from Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co Customer Review: By the time Dover published this, the book had become a classic. It starts with a hard Noether theorem for conserved current. On page 127 the books states that neutrinos should be massless. On page 27 it gives an argument for the Higgs mechanism. What has changed since 1984?... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd Edition from Wiley Price: $60.66 Customer Review: This is a great text on chemical reaction kinetics and I wish I would have had it before I took my PE exam. I am still waiting on results, I am confident I passed but struggled with 4-5 kinetics questions that this text would have been very helpful on. Even though I dont do reaction kinetics in my... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy from Johnson Books Price: $10.50	Click here for more information


27.		Superstring Theory: Volume 1, Introduction (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) (v. 1) from Cambridge University Press Price: $99.93 Customer Review: At one time volumes I and II of "Superstring theory" would have been essential reading for serious students of string theory. However, the way we think of string theory today is very different from the way it was formulated in these classic texts. The core is still the same, but the advent of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Radiation Protection and Dosimetry: An Introduction to Health Physics from Springer Price: $49.43 Customer Review: I was expecting a lot from this book since it is written by the very famous Michael Stabin, expert in the field of dosimetry. The book covers the subject of health physics very well, with a few typos here and there. But my biggest disappointment was to find the open-source web site wikipedia as a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


29.		Fundamentals of Radiation Materials Science: Metals and Alloys from Springer Price: $113.59	Click here for more information


30.		Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and from University Of Chicago Press Price: $22.49 Customer Review: For me this was a required text for a college course on nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and energy. I can honestly say that if you are a person with a significant scientific background you will enjoy this read. The authors (Charpak and Garwin) present facts about all areas of nuclear issues.more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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