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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants. But how much do we really know about radiation? And what are its actual dangers? An accessible blend of narrative history and science, Strange...
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Phosphors for Radiation Detector Phosphors for Radiation Detectors Discover a comprehensive overview of luminescence phosphors for radiation detection In Phosphors for Radiation Detection, accomplished researchers Takayuki Yanagida and Masanori Koshimizu deliver a state-of-the-art exploration of the use of phosphors in radiation detection. The internationally recognized contributors discuss the fundamental physics and detector functions associated...
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Language
English
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Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left to them. And in shaping the future however they want,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Biddle offers a first-of-its-kind guide to understanding radiation and nuclear energy. From fallout to radiation poisoning, alpha particles to cosmic rays, Biddle illuminates the history, meaning, and health implications in an essential handbook.
7) Death wave
Author
Series
Star Quest novels (Ben Bova) volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human race acts to save itself, all life on Earth will be wiped...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to a mysterious unnamed city in Soviet Russia, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov must serve out his prison sentence studying the effect of radiation on local animals and struggles to find answers about what is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town.
Author
Series
Magical history tour volume 13
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Join Annie and Nico as they learn about Marie Curie! Who was Marie Curie? Learn about the renowned chemist and Nobel Prize winner with modern-day kids, Annie and Nico. Join them as they go back in time and roam around the globe, learning about the noble French-Polish woman that furthered the sciences and discovered radium. Strap on your goggles and remember lab safety! What will readers learn with Annie and Nico today?" -- Publisher annotation.
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Sunrise is a collection of interconnected stories examining the effects of nuclear power on generations of women. Connecting changes to everyday life to the development of the atomic bomb, Sunrise shows us how the discovery of radioactive power has shaped our history and continues to shape our future."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The authors structure the book so that readers can understand the problem of radiation effects first, then understand the skills of layout design and ciruit design after. Chapter One and Chapter Two introduce semiconductors and radiation environments including space, atmospheric and terrestrial environments. Chapter Three details radiation and semiconductor physics. It discusses elementary particle physics so that readers can see how the areas of...
12) The spinning magnet: the electromagnetic force that created the modern world--and could destroy it
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A cataclysmic planetary phenomenon is gathering force deep within the Earth. The magnetic North Pole will eventually trade places with the South Pole. Satellite evidence suggests to some scientists that the move has already begun, but most still think it won't happen for many decades. All agree that it has happened many times before and will happen again. But this time it will be different. It will be a very bad day for modern civilization."--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"[Contains] more lengthy mathematical derivations than most {comparable books] ... for arrays, provides for a unique, stand-alone mathematical description that can be adopted by anyone trying to communicate the theoretical foundation for their array design ... has insights from a practitioner that are unique. The MATLAB® scripts alone are worth the price."--Daniel C. Ross, Ph. D, Northrop Grumman Corporation Electronically Scanned Arrays: MATLAB®...
Author
Publisher
Icaro Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the hidden dangers and health concerns of electromagnetic frequency radiation that is emitted from technological devices that we use everyday and offers practical advice on how to protect yourself and your loved ones from harm.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Zapped tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the nineteenth century to their central role in modern life"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster the Soviet Union begins to collapse changing forever the lives of a nine-year old child prodigy, his aunt, a leading surgeon, and a teenage boy in a rural village. Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbours. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity2s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller5 and smaller5 and smaller until he2s left to fend for...
18) Burning the sky: Operation Argus and the untold story of the Cold War nuclear tests in outer space
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After the Soviet Union proved to the US that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in the October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. In the midst of this rising tension, Nicholas Christofilos, an eccentric Greek-American physicist, brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: launching...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be righted. Brace yourself for a wrenching journey that...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A chilling exposé of the international effort to minimize the health and environmental consequences of nuclear radiation in the wake of Chernobyl. Governments and journalists tell us that though Chernobyl was "the worst nuclear disaster in history," a reassuringly small number of people died (44), and nature recovered. Yet, drawing on a decade of fine-grained archival research and interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown uncovers a...
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