Denise Kiernan

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The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.

The Girls of Atomic City

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The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible. For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women--known as "human computers"--who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading.

Rise of the Rocket Girls

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How It Was Built - and How It Fell

The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark.  The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland.  Beginning in the 17th century with a few colonial settlements and trading posts clinging like barnacles to alien shores, and expanding dramatically thereafter by occupation and conquest, they created the greatest empire that the world had ever seen.  In its Victorian heyday, when Britannia ruled the waves, it consisted of 58 countries with a population of 400 million.  Covering 14 million square miles, or about a quarter of the earth's surface, it was seven times larger than the territories of Rome at their greatest extent. By then it was a far-flung but loosely-amalgamated assortment of dominions and dependencies that dwarfed its tiny base.  As early as 1810, one writer described it as an "oak planted in a flower-pot". In a book full of telling anecdotes and colourful characters Piers Brendon tells the story of this extraordinary empire, from its adolescence to its maturity to its demise and, with the benefit of hindsight, assesses its pros and cons.

All You Need to Know… The British Empire

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World War I has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi's. (His very first(rejected) comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work,the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of theTrenches is Tardi's defining, masterful statement on the subject. Tardi isnot interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles: hefocuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy,controlled fury and disgust, with sardonic yet deeply sympathetic narration, hebrings that existence alive as no one has before or since. Yet he also delvesdeeply into the underlying causes of the war, the madness, the cynical politicalexploitation of patriotism. And in a final, heartbreaking coda, Tardi grimlyitemizes the ghastly human cost of the war, and lays out the future 20th centuryconflicts, all of which seem to spring from this global burst of insanity.Trenches features some of Tardi's most stunning artwork. Rendered in alush illustrative style, inspired both by abundant photographic documentationand classic American war comics, augmented by a sophisticated, gorgeous use ofCraftint tones, Trenches is somehow simultaneously atypical for theartist and a perfect encapsulation of Tardi's mature style. It is theindisputable centerpiece of Tardi's oeuvre.



It Was the War of the Trenches

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George Gerfaut, aimless young executive and desultory family man, witnesses a murder and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. Adapting to the exigencies of his new life on the run with shocking ease, Gerfaut abandons his comfortable middle-class life for several months, including a sojourn in the countryside, until, joined by a new ally, he finally returns to settle all accounts - with brutal, bloody interest.

West Coast Blues

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A reimagining of Batman's beginnings sheds new light on how Bruce Wayne became the Dark Knight, as he seeks revenge on his parents' killers.

Batman Earth One

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The Deluxe Edition

New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman's rare tales of DC's greatest super heroes are collected in a single volume. Gaiman, co-creator of THE SANDMAN and author of American Gods, teams with superstar artist Andy Kubert to tell the story that truly defines the years of Batman's life in the epic "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" Also included in this title are the team-up tale GREEN LANTERN/SUPERMAN- LEGEND OF THE GREEN FLAME, and short stories starring Batman, Poison Ivy, The Riddler and others. Collects Neil Gaiman's DC Universe stories, including "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" and GREEN LANTERN/SUPERMAN- LEGEND OF THE GREEN FLAME, plus short stories starring Batman, Poison Ivy and The Riddler

DC Universe by Neil Gaiman

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In these never before collected stories from the 1990s, Wonder Woman takes over as leader of the Justice League of America, whether members like Green Lantern Guy Gardner, Booster Gold, or Blue Beetle like it or not. Acting at the behest of the United Nations, the team must respond to a human rights crisis in a remote African nation, only to find the populace under the thumbs of the super-powered Extremists. The team then must jet to Norway, where the young superhero called Ice struggles to keep the nation out of the hands of her older brother. This volume features many of DC's 1990s superheroes, including the Ray, Captain Atom, Fire and Ice, Bloodwynd, and more.

Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #78-93 and JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA ANNUAL #7.

Wonder Woman and the Justice League America Vol. 1

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The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes. The music?s rhythms are designed to galvanize the group effort of heaving, pushing, and pulling to weigh anchor, wind rope around a capstan, or set sail.

Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each shanty alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated upon with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and nonfictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig.

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