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Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder

8 best books like Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (James Mahaffey): Replay: The History of Video Games, Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency, Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic, A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster, Ancient Civilizations of North America, The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon

Replay: The History of Video Games
AuthorTristan Donovan
ISBN0956507204
A riveting account of the strange birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. Based on extensive research and over 140 exclusive interviews with key movers and shakers from gaming's past, Replay...
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
AuthorMark Miodownik
Líquidos. Essas substâncias mágicas que fluem pelas nossas vidas.

Da revolucionária caneta de László Biro, ao querosene de Abraham Gesner, das estradas que se reparam automaticamente, passando pelo café, pelo chá ou pela água, Miodownik usa a sua enorme capacidade de divulgador...
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
AuthorAnnie Jacobsen
ISBN0316371769
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In...
Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic
AuthorNick Carr
Listening length: 1 hour, 55 minutes

A teenage genius with a big imagination, Wally just moved to Savannah, GA from Maine with his mom, who adopted Wally when he was an infant. In this charming and sweet solo show, Wally investigates a hiccup in the spacetime fabric of his neighborhood which...
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
AuthorBen Garrod
Publisher's Summary
Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favourites based on ferocity, armour, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All...
Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
AuthorAndrew Leatherbarrow
ISBN0993597505
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated and...
Ancient Civilizations of North America
AuthorEdwin Barnhart
For the past few hundred years, most of what we've been taught about the native cultures of North America came from reports authored by the conquerors and colonizers who destroyed them. Now - with the technological advances of modern archaeology and a new perspective on world history - we are finally...
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon
AuthorTodd Zwillich
The story of John C. Houbolt, an unsung hero of Apollo 11 and the man who showed NASA how to put America on the moon.

Without John C. Houbolt, a junior engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon.

Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly...
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