Evans Patrick Translator (5 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used: Acceptable. 1965 Printing. Different Cover Art. A good reading copy. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean. Softcovers are lightly scuffed and have light edge wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Oxford University Press, 1971. Hard cover, first English-language edition. Has some underlining, also rather worn and soiled. Not pretty but a solid reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First. First American printing, near fine cloth hardcover shows touch of rubbing to covers, hint of soil at page edges and bit of same to rear endpapers, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows mild rubbing and soil, and edgewear that includes small chips and tears and large closed chip and heavy wrinkling at spine head. 474 pages with bibliography, index and a couple sets of black $ whites. Solid copy in jacket of this look at the ancient Italian civilization destroyed by the Romans that now ".comes to life after two thousand years as the lost key to its language is found.".…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. 192 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Selected Writings. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Price clipped. Some page discoloration. DJ worn, torn, soiled with tears and chips. Michel Rouze is a pseudonym under which worked the French science journalist Michel Kokoczynski (born 17 August 1910 In Paris, died on 18 February 2003 ). He has collaborated in the magazine Science et Vie. Before the war, he is a journalist with Alger Républicain and participated in the war as an intelligence officer. Close to the French Communist Party, he is first a classical journalist and then evolves towards scientific investigation. Senior Editor of Diagrams, scientific journal , he was founder of the AFIS and its journal Science and pseudo-science, which attaches particular objective of combating "pseudo-science and quackery" . Includes a selection from the works of Oppenheimer. Originally published as 'Oppenheimer. ' Seghers, 1962. When World War II began, Oppenheimer eagerly became involved in the efforts to develop an atomic bomb, which were already taking up much of the time and facilities of Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. He was invited to take over work on neutron calculations, and in June 1942 General Leslie Groves appointed Oppenheimer as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. Under Oppenheimer's guidance, the laboratories at Los Alamos were constructed. There, he brought the best minds in physics to work on the problem of creating an atomic bomb. In the end, he was managing more than 3, 000 people, as well as tackling theoretical and mechanical problems that arose. The joint work of the scientists at Los Alamos resulted in the first nuclear explosion at Alamagordo on July 16, 1945, which Oppenheimer named "Trinity." First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.…