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The bomb : presidents, generals, and the secret history of nuclear war / by Kaplan, Fred M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's "Tank" in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories--based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents--of how America's presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today"--
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Nuclear arms control; Nuclear disarmament; National security;
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Nuclear power / by Vonder Brink, Tracy.;
Energy and Fuel -- Where Does Nuclear Power Come From? -- Creating Nuclear Power -- Powering a City -- Challenges of Nuclear Power -- Possible Nuclear Power -- The Future of Nuclear Power."What is nuclear power? How is splitting atoms used to make electricity for our homes? Nuclear Power answers these questions and much more!"--
Subjects: Nuclear energy; Nuclear power plants;
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Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy / by Macintyre, Ben,1963-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI-and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century-between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy-and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Werner, Ruth, 1907-2000.; Soviet Union. Glavnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie.; Cold War.; Espionage, Soviet; Nuclear weapons; Spies; Spies; Spies; Women spies;
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The heart is the strongest muscle : know your why and take your mindset from great to unstoppable / by Toomey, Tia-Clair,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.'Atomic Habits' meets CrossFit in 'The Heart is the Strongest Muscle', in which legendary six-time CrossFit Games champion and Olympic athlete Tia Toomey shares lessons from her inspiring story of leveling up her performance, embracing failure, and fiercely taking on impossible goals. Toomey addresses the challenges and rewards of being a woman in sport and she talks about how physical fitness is only a small part of overall strength: more important is building mental toughness.
Subjects: Biographies.; Self-help publications.; Personal narratives.; Toomey, Tia-Clair.; Athletes; Change (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology); Success.;
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Red Joan [videorecording] / by Hughes, Tom,1986-actor.; Gaminara, Freddie,actor.; Spellman, Laurence,actor.; Cookson, Sophie,1990-actor.; Dench, Judi,1934-actor.; Moore, Stephen Campbell,actor.; Nunn, Trevor,film director.; Shout! Factory (Firm),publisher.;
Music, George Fenton ; editor, Kristina Hetherington ; director of photography, Zac Nicholson.Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes, Freddie Gaminara, Laurence Spellman.Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Ontario Film Rating: PG.MPAA rating: R; for brief sexuality/nudity.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, stereo.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Spy films.; Crime films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Arrest; Espionage; Widows; Women spies;
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The singularity is nearer : when we merge with Al / by Kurzweil, Ray,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This successor volume to The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to come. In this entirely new book, Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances in the singularity -- assessing the progress of many of his predictions and examining the novel advancements that, in the near future, will bring a revolution in knowledge and an expansion of human potential. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by expanding biological capacity with nonbiological intelligence in the cloud; how life is improving with declines in poverty and violence; and the growth of technologies that can be applied to everything from clothes to building materials to growing human organs. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics as how AI will impact unemployment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which will reanimate people who have passed away through a combination of data and DNA"--
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Brain; Genetics.; Human evolution.; Nanotechnology.; Robotics.; Technology;
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Please unsubscribe, thanks! : how to take back our time, attention, and purpose in a world designed to bury us in bullshit / by Gambuto, Julio Vincent,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!, Gambuto gives us a radical blueprint for the ways we can take a deep breath, renew, and commit to a life that we really want, individually and collectively, from unsubscribing to emails and automated subscriptions to reevaluating the presence of people and ideas and habits that no longer serve us or make us happy. Infused with the practical advice in James Clear's Atomic Habits and the humor of Sarah Knight's The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! helps us focus on where we find joy in our lives and encourages us to toss out what doesn't bring us joy in this modern world"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Conduct of life.; Self-actualization (Psychology);
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Lights out [videorecording] / by Bateman, Gabriel.; Bello, Maria,1967-; Burke, Billy.; Dipersia, Alexander.; Palmer, Teresa,1986-; Sandberg, David F.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Alexander Dipersia, Billy Burke, Maria Bello.When a bloodthirsty supernatural being that lurks in the shadows preys upon her family, a young woman must fight to protect herself, save her younger brother, and uncover a mystery about her family's shadowy past.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Horror films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Brothers and sisters; Family secrets; Good and evil; Supernatural;
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A compassionate spy [videorecording] / by Hall, Joan,on-screen participant.; Hall, Theodore A.(Theodore Alvin),1925-on-screen participant.; James, Steve,1955-film director,screenwriter.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Ted Hall, Joan Hall.Recruited in 1944 to help create the world's first atomic bomb, Ted Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project. Concerned that a U.S. post-war monopoly on such a powerful weapon could lead to nuclear catastrophe, Hall began passing key intel to the Soviet Union. After the war, he fell in love with and married Joan, a fellow student with whom he shared a passion for the explosive secret of his espionage. The pair raised a family while living under years of FBI surveillance and intimidation. A COMPASSIONATE SPY, from two-time Oscar nominee Steve James (HOOP DREAMS), reveals the twists and turns of this real-life spy story, its profound impact on history, and the couple's remarkable love and life together during more than 50 years of marriage.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Spy films.; Hall, Theodore A. (Theodore Alvin), 1925-; Manhattan Project (U.S.); Spies; World War, 1939-1945; Espionage; Nuclear weapons;
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Last night of the world / by Wayne, Joyce,1951-author.;
"On a hot Ottawa night in August 1945, Soviet agent Freda Linton's world is about to fall apart. She's spent the war infiltrating the highest levels of the Canadian government as an undercover operative for the fledging Canadian Communist Party and for Moscow's military police. As the global conflict nears its conclusion, her Soviet embassy handler and darling of the diplomatic scene Nikolai Zabotin sends her to retrieve atomic secrets from the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories. When Freda discovers that Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko plans to turn over top secret files to the RCMP that will expose Freda and the others in her spy ring, she is faced with an impossible decision and must determine who is on her side. Should she risk everything to smuggle out nuclear secrets that will kick off the Cold War? Joyce Wayne's Last Night of the World brings a high-energy creativeness and emotional tension to a story that is rooted in a generation's defining incident."
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Undercover operations;
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