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Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By (author) Ray Monk

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J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb â€“ a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'. But his was not a simple story of assimilation, scientific success and world fame. A complicated and fragile personality, the implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos were to weigh heavily upon him. Having formed suspicious connections in the 1930s, in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two, Oppenheimerâ€™s attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race would lead many to question his loyalties â€“ and set him on a collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunters.

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The Memory Collectors: A Novel

Dete Meserve
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The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes

William Kelleher Storey
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This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodesâ€™s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal development, and examines how this fueled a lasting, white-dominated colonial society.

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The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
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Survive the AI Apocalypse: A guide for solutionists

Bronwen Williams
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Let's stare the future down and, instead of fearing AI, become solutionists.

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