Follows the World War II race to build the atomic bomb while profiling its top commander, documenting how Colonel Groves organized the collection of the necessary funds and materials while orchestrating solutions to thousands of technical problems.
The author attempts to understand his father, a popular Nigerian author who was executed in 1995 for leading the campaign for human rights against Shell Oil and the Nigerian government.
The author attempts to understand his father, a popular Nigerian author who was executed in 1995 for leading the campaign for human rights against Shell Oil and the Nigerian government.
In 1842 Phineas T. Barnum is a young man, freshly arrived in New York and still unknown to the world. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing, he transforms a dusty natural history museum into a great ark for public imagination. Barnum's museum, with its human wonders and …
P.T. Barnum is a newcomer to New York and still unknown to the world when he purchases an old museum on the corner of Broadway and Ann Street. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing he transforms the dusty natural history collection into a great ark for public imagination…
Set in the early 1990's, the plot hinges on the Iranian nuclear program and chasing the money trails of rogue regimes and international terrorists. Hagai Carmon writes what he knows. He has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, has served in the Israeli Air Force and the Mossad and is …
Set in the early 1990's, the plot hinges on the Iranian nuclear program and chasing the money trails of rogue regimes and international terrorists. Hagai Carmon writes what he knows. He has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, has served in the Israeli Air Force and the Mossad and is …
Sex, Race, and Politics are all at the heart of this extraordinary account of the short life and violent death of Hakim Jamal. A black American radical who was born Alan Donaldson in a Boston ghetto and reborn in prison as a follower of Malcolm X, Hakim took the movie star Jean …