peter pringle james spigelman (31 risultati)

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Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: UsedGood. Hardcover; fading and shelf wear to exterior; bumps to the lower corners; fade spots to page edges; in good condition with clean text and tight binding. Dust jacket shows light scuffing and shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Documents decisions made by international scientists, technocrats, and businessmen concerning atomic energy policies in various countries which were never opened to public debate. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The Nuclear Barons ? The Inside Story Of How They Created Our Nuclear Nightmare (1983) By Peter Pringle and James Spigelman | Sphere Books Sold by Crappy Old Books Long before Oppenheimer was a household name and ?mutually assured destruction? was dinner-table talk, The Nuclear Barons was blowing the lid off the shadowy world of atom-age ambition and political power plays. This gripping exposé traces how a handful of scientists, bureaucrats, and power-hungry policymakers built?and then lost control of?the most dangerous force humanity has ever unleashed. Peter Pringle and James Spigelman deliver a forensic, globe-spanning account of how post-war idealism curdled into Cold War paranoia, and how a club of elite insiders shaped the nuclear arms race, often in secret and usually without consequence. From Washington to Whitehall, Moscow to Paris, The Nuclear Barons doesn?t just tell a story?it names names and makes you wonder how we?re all still here. Condition: Slightly yellowed, with a radioactive whiff of Cold War paranoia. Cover may feature the bold confidence of early ?80s typography and the faint scent of despair. Still structurally intact?unlike international trust. Crappy Old Books: Your last line of defence against collective amnesia. Quite a large paperback.

Paperback. Condizione: Acceptable. Second hand - Sun damaged page ends , creased covers , bumping to edges and general age wear. Next day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 578 pages, illustrated. "The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. The chilling story of how a small band of scientists, general, politicians, and businessmen created the life-and-death issues confronting us today our nuclear world." FINE- HARDCOVER, FINE DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 578 pages; Description: xii, 578 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation --Safety measures. Social aspects. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [447]-465. 1 Kg.

Condizione: Muy bueno. : Los barones nucleares es un libro escrito por Peter Pringle y James Spigelman, publicado en 1984 por Editorial Planeta. El libro relata la escalofriante historia de cómo un grupo excluyente de científicos, generales, políticos y hombres de negocios llevaron al mundo a enfrentarse, a vida o muerte, con la energía nuclear. Esta edición es de tapa blanda y cuenta con 346 páginas. EAN: 9788432047435 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia Título: Los barones nucleares Autor: Peter Pringle| James Spigelman Editorial: Planeta Idioma: es-ES Páginas: 346 Formato: tapa blanda.

1/4 Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Edition/First Printing housed in a dust-jacket that is equally Fine; tells the story of the men and women who created and ran America's nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War.The Nuclear Barons is the story of the men and women who created and ran America's nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War. The book tells the story of the scientists, engineers, and administrators who risked their lives and careers to keep America safe from the Soviet Union. It is a fascinating look at the cutting-edge technology and the intense rivalry that drove the weapons program.; 8vo; 578 pages.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-rubbed and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 578 pages; Description: xii, 578 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Nuclear energy. Radiation --Safety measures. Social aspects. Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [447]-465. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Condizione: Bueno. 346. Planeta., 1984, 346pp, Tapa blanda con solapas.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 592 pages. Cover wornDiscusses how the world's destiny is controlled by a small group of scientist s, businessmen, politicians, and military officers whose decisions on nuclear po wer have caused the present nuclear nightmare.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Dustwrapper shows rubbing to top and bottom edges. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Lawrence Ratzkin (Jacket Design) (illustratore). xii, 578, [2] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ worn and wrinkled along edges. For thirty years Pringle was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Independent, working in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and the United States. He has also written for several U.S. newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Nation. He is the author and co-author of several books on science and current affairs including: The Nuclear Barons, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1981 (with translations into French, German and Japanese). James Jacob Spigelman AC, QC (born 1 January 1946) is a former Australian judge. He served as Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 25 May 1998 until 31 May 2011. On 8 March 2012 it was announced that he would become chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was appointed to the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong on 8 April 2013 as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions. James Spigelman is the author of three books, co-author of a fourth and of some 170 published articles, including on a range of aspects of commercial and corporate law such as contractual interpretation, insurance law, commercial arbitration, insolvency, international commercial litigation, freezing orders and proof of foreign law. Three volumes of his speeches as Chief Justice have been published. The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. Their decisions--usually kept secret, often shortsighted, sometimes veiled by lies and obfuscations--have led inexorably to the present nuclear mess. Radiation hazards, prohibitively costly energy, waste-disposal problems, plant safety, weapons proliferation: the nuclear nightmares we live with are the direct result of choices that were never thought through to their logical conclusions, never opened to public debate. Derived from a Kirkus review: Money, power, politics, optimism . . . all played their part in what Pringle, of the London Sunday Times, and Australian official Spigelman describe as a "Paracelsus" kind of folly--finding many points of comparison between today's nuclear barons and that 16th-century charlatan/medicine man. Carefully, chronologically, the authors lay in the background of 20th-century physics that led to nuclear fission, the bomb, and a current age in which reactor sales are at a low and public disillusion is high following Three Mile Island. Perhaps Pringle and Spigelman give too much prominence to Szilard as a prime mover in alerting Roosevelt to the potential for bomb development; perhaps they overemphasize the Manhattan Project as an engineering, rather than scientific, feat. But in a work as comprehensive and meticulously researched as this one, these are minor flaws that do not mar the overall design that the authors reveal. In the second half the history of postwar developments in nuclear energy is a litany of short-sightedness, of gambling for high stakes and losing, of wheeling-and-dealing and assuming the public interest. All this is spelled out in terms of the internal politics and personalities of the countries that make up the ever-growing nuclear club--the countries that openly or clandestinely have the bomb. Interwoven are the test ban treaties, the nonproliferation agreements, the cartels to control reactor prices, etc. England went its stubborn and disastrous way to develop gas-cooled reactors. The Germans carried on in typical efficient German style. The Indians were zealots, obsessed with joining the club. Espionage presumably played a role in Israeli developments. Pringle and Spigelman write with an objectivity that gives the work authenticity. They conclude that we have not learned very much nor gone very far in nuclear.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Previous owners signature to ffep. Heavy foxing to page edges and end papers. Rubbing to extremities. Crease to top edge of D/J with small closed tear.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Satisfaisant. 0 GLN-250. . La librairie Aux Livres Anciens et Contemporains offre aux clients d'AbeBooks 30% de réduction sur l'ensemble de son catalogue. Prix d'origine : 5 EUR. Livre.

Rústica con solapa. 02/1984348 pp. 15,5 x 23,5 cm. La escalofriante historia de cómo un excluyente grupo de científicos generales, políticos y hombres de negocios nos han llevado a enfrentarnos, a vida o muerte, con nuestro mundo nuclear. Rústica con solapa. Buen estado. 9788432047435. Ciencia Ficción, JHBD - Población y demografía.

Hardcover. Condizione: good. Condizione sovraccoperta: fair. Lawrence Ratzin (Jacket Design) (illustratore). First Edition. First Printing. xii, 578, [2] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Foxing to fore-edge. DJ soiled & edges worn: sm tears & chips. Presentation copy signed by Pringle on t-p. For thirty years Pringle was a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Independent, working in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and the United States. He has also written for several U.S. newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Nation. He is the author and co-author of several books on science and current affairs including: The Nuclear Barons, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1981 (with translations into French, German and Japanese). James Jacob Spigelman AC, QC (born 1 January 1946) is a former Australian judge. He served as Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 25 May 1998 until 31 May 2011. On 8 March 2012 it was announced that he would become chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was appointed to the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong on 8 April 2013 as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions. James Spigelman is the author of three books, co-author of a fourth and of some 170 published articles, including on a range of aspects of commercial and corporate law such as contractual interpretation, insurance law, commercial arbitration, insolvency, international commercial litigation, freezing orders and proof of foreign law. Three volumes of his speeches as Chief Justice have been published. The nuclear barons: an international elite of scientists, technocrats, and businessmen who have, for more than four decades, controlled the world's destiny. Their decisions--usually kept secret, often shortsighted, sometimes veiled by lies and obfuscations--have led inexorably to the present nuclear mess. Radiation hazards, prohibitively costly energy, waste-disposal problems, plant safety, weapons proliferation: the nuclear nightmares we live with are the direct result of choices that were never thought through to their logical conclusions, never opened to public debate. Derived from a Kirkus review: Money, power, politics, optimism . . . all played their part in what Pringle, of the London Sunday Times, and Australian official Spigelman describe as a "Paracelsus" kind of folly--finding many points of comparison between today's nuclear barons and that 16th-century charlatan/medicine man. Carefully, chronologically, the authors lay in the background of 20th-century physics that led to nuclear fission, the bomb, and a current age in which reactor sales are at a low and public disillusion is high following Three Mile Island. Perhaps Pringle and Spigelman give too much prominence to Szilard as a prime mover in alerting Roosevelt to the potential for bomb development; perhaps they overemphasize the Manhattan Project as an engineering, rather than scientific, feat. But in a work as comprehensive and meticulously researched as this one, these are minor flaws that do not mar the overall design that the authors reveal. In the second half the history of postwar developments in nuclear energy is a litany of short-sightedness, of gambling for high stakes and losing, of wheeling-and-dealing and assuming the public interest. All this is spelled out in terms of the internal politics and personalities of the countries that make up the ever-growing nuclear club--the countries that openly or clandestinely have the bomb. Interwoven are the test ban treaties, the nonproliferation agreements, the cartels to control reactor prices, etc. England went its stubborn and disastrous way to develop gas-cooled reactors. The Germans carried on in typical efficient German style. The Indians were zealots, obsessed with joining the club. Espionage presumably played a role in Israeli developments. Pringle and Spigelman write with an objectivity that gives the work authenticity. They.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condizione: Bien. M001210. Editorial Planeta - 346pp La escalofriante historia de cómo un excluyente grupo de científicos, generales, políticos y hombres de negocios nos han llevado a enfrentarnos, a vida o muerte, con nuestro mundo nuclear. JG.

Hardback. Peter Pringle & James Spigelman, Michael Joseph, London, United Kingdom. Author: Peter Pringle & James SpigelmanBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph, London, United Kingdom, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis investigative non-fiction work, "The Nuclear Barons," chronicles the clandestine history of the atomic age, detailing the ambitions, rivalries, and ethical dilemmas faced by the scientists and politicians who ushered in the nuclear era. It presents a gripping account of the decisions and events that shaped the development of nuclear weapons and power, revealing the human element behind one of humanity's most profound technological advancements. The narrative uncovers the complex interplay of scientific discovery, political maneuvering, and moral responsibility that defined this pivotal period. This book offers a critical examination of the forces that led to the proliferation of nuclear capabilities, providing essential context for understanding contemporary global challenges. Hardback.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very GoodDust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. book.

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