Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear en...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. F...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. F...(展开全部)

尼尔·巴斯科姆 (Neal Bascomb，1971—) 生于美国科罗拉多州，毕业于迈阿密大学，获经济学和英国文学双学位。 毕业后，在欧洲各国担任记者，曾为《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》和《洛杉矶时报》撰稿，并在圣马丁出版社担任编辑。2000 年，他开始全职写作，以通俗历史和纪实小说为主，是二战主题的知名演讲者。 他的作品《打造摩天大楼》(Higher)获得巴诺书店新进作家奖。 巴斯科姆创作力旺盛，还著有《红色兵变》(Red Mutiny)、《猎杀艾希曼》(Hunting Eichmann)、《逃亡者》(The Escape Artists)等多部以二战为题材的纪实小说。尼尔·巴斯科姆的作品多次登上畅销书榜，荣获多个国家奖项，并已在20多个国家出版。

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

林·亨特（Lynn Hunt）获斯坦福大学哲学博士学位，加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校欧洲现代史欧根·韦伯（Eugen Weber）讲席教授。著有、编有若干著作，包括最近的《发明人权》（Inventing Human Righis，2007）和《度量时间，制作历史》（Measuring Time，Making Histony，2008）。其与他人合写的有关18世纪早期欧洲之宗教宽容的著作在印刷中。 托马斯·R. 马丁（Thomas R. Martin）获哈佛大学哲学博士学位，圣十字学院古典学杰里迈亚·奥康纳（Jeremiah O'Connor）讲席教授。著有《古典希腊的主权与硬币》（Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece，1985）、《古代希腊》（Ancien Greece，1996，2000）。“珀修斯：古...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·道森（Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970），英国当代著名的文化哲学家、历史学家、文化史学家和社会学家。代表著作有《神祇时代》《欧洲的形成：欧洲统一史导论》《理解欧洲》《世界历史的动力》等。道森以文化史、文化哲学、宗教哲学研究闻名于世， 横跨历史学、社会学、人类学等多个领域，是20世纪知识分子的典范。

This study discusses basic questions about Rubens's art and life, studies two of his bacchic paintings in detail and describes him in a less easy and more identifiably modern predicament.