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Download or read book Los Alamos written by John D. Wirth and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wirth and Aldrich examine the Los Alamos Ranch School, an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. In existence between the two World Wars, the schoolas curriculum combined a robust outdoor life with a rigorous academic program mirroring the Progressive Era's quest for perfection.
Book Synopsis When Los Alamos was a Ranch School by : Fermor S. Church
Download or read book When Los Alamos was a Ranch School written by Fermor S. Church and published by Alamos Historical Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School by : Fermor Church
Download or read book When Los Alamos Was a Ranch School written by Fermor Church and published by Alamos Historical Society. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Los Alamos was a Ranch School by : Fermor S. Church
Download or read book When Los Alamos was a Ranch School written by Fermor S. Church and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inventing Los Alamos by : Jon Hunner
Download or read book Inventing Los Alamos written by Jon Hunner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City” Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An “instant city,” created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people—scientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and the families. How these people, as a community, faced both the fevered rush to create an atomic bomb and the intensity of the subsequent cold-war era is the focus of Jon Hunner’s fascinating narrative history. Much has been written about scientific developments at Los Alamos, but until this book little has been said about the community that fostered them. Using government records and the personal accounts of early residents, Inventing Los Alamos, traces the evolution of the town during its first fifteen years as home to a national laboratory and documents the town’s creation, the lives of the families who lived there, and the impact of this small community on the Atomic Age.
Book Synopsis Los Alamos by : Toni Michnovicz Gibson
Download or read book Los Alamos written by Toni Michnovicz Gibson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive view of the social and professional world of Los Alamos is the photographic journal of a singular period, as seen through the eyes of one soldier, Pvt. J.J. Michnovicz--first assigned to Los Alamos as a photographer by the military but later working as a civilian--who recorded the everyday spirit of the people and the events that shaped this mountain town into a home. Original.
Book Synopsis Atomic Spaces by : Peter Bacon Hales
Download or read book Atomic Spaces written by Peter Bacon Hales and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Code-named the Manhattan Project, the detailed plans for developing an atomic bomb were impelled by urgency and shrouded in secrecy. This book tells the story of the project's three key sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Book Synopsis Skiing New Mexico by : Daniel Gibson
Download or read book Skiing New Mexico written by Daniel Gibson and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book tells you everything there is to know about skiing and snowboarding in the Land of Enchantment, with thousands of helpful details on the state’s downhill ski resorts and cross-country and backcountry venues. Each ski area is profiled in a separate chapter, including details on facilities and services such as childcare and instructional options; statistics like average snowfall, vertical drop, and lift capacity; transportation options, including shuttle and bus services; and prices of lift tickets, rental equipment, and lessons. Gibson also includes historical facts about each ski area and its founders, suggestions for best runs by type of terrain, activities off the slopes, and notes on his favorite places to stay and eat. Separate chapters on cross-country and backcountry downhill skiing are equally informative.
Book Synopsis Prep School Cowboys by : Melissa Bingmann
Download or read book Prep School Cowboys written by Melissa Bingmann and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranch schools in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the 1920s and 1930s portrayed that the West embodied the moral attributes believed to be lacking in urban America. Advocates of character education saw the courage and self-reliance of the Old West as the qualities necessary to preserve the nation through the next generation. Bingmann uses ranch schools, designed to counteract the problems of inherited wealth, as a lens through which to examine citizenship, class, gender, and region during this era while illustrating that these schools, in transmitting such values to American youth, created a network of elite private schools that gave pampered boys from the urban centers of the Atlantic Seaboard and Great Lakes region the opportunity to grow into gentlemen cowboys ready to take the reins of power in family businesses and government.
Book Synopsis Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943–1945 by : Lawrence Badash
Download or read book Reminiscences of Los Alamos 1943–1945 written by Lawrence Badash and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1980-08-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the World War II efforts to develop nuclear weapons have inspired a very large literature, it struck us as noteworthy that virtually nothing existed in the form of firsthand accounts. Now It Can Be Told, by General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project's military commander, is probably the most prominent exception, but the scientists themselves seem to have shown little interest in publishing their reminiscences. Believing that it would be not only worthwhile for posterity, but ex tremely interesting for the present generation to hear about the aspirations, fears, and activities of those who participated in this watershed of science and government collaboration, we arranged the public lecture series repre sented by this book.! We chose to focus upon Los Alamos since the project's efforts culminated there. The isolated laboratory in New Mexico was created to design and construct the first atomic bombs. More scientific brainpower was accumulated there than at any time since Isaac Newton dined alone, and the interactions with this community are of sociological interest, as the results of their work are of political import.
Book Synopsis The Secret Project by : Jonah Winter
Download or read book The Secret Project written by Jonah Winter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five starred reviews! Mother-son team Jonah and Jeanette Winter bring to life one of the most secretive scientific projects in history—the creation of the atomic bomb—in this “astonishing…beautifully told” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book. At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists have gathered to work on the “Gadget,” an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot even call it by its real name. They work hard, surrounded by top security and sworn to secrecy, until finally they take their creation far out into the desert to test it, and afterward the world will never be the same.
Book Synopsis Los Alamos by : Los Alamos Scientific Laborato
Download or read book Los Alamos written by Los Alamos Scientific Laborato and published by Alamos Historical Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stallion Gate by : Martin Cruz Smith
Download or read book Stallion Gate written by Martin Cruz Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a New Mexico blizzard, four men cross a barbed-wire fence at Stallion Gate to select a test site for the first atomic weapon. They are Oppenheimer the physicist, Groves the general, Fuchs the spy. The fourth man is Sergeant Joe Pena, a hero, informer, fighter and musician. These four men - and a cast of soldiers, roughnecks and scientists - will change history forever.
Book Synopsis Manhattan District History by : Edith C. Truslow
Download or read book Manhattan District History written by Edith C. Truslow and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
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Book Synopsis The House at Otowi Bridge by : Peggy Pond Church
Download or read book The House at Otowi Bridge written by Peggy Pond Church and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1973-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who worked at Los Alamos during World War II. "A finely told tale of a strange land and of a rare character who united with it and, without seeming to do anything to that end, exerted an unusual influence upon all other lovers of that soil with whom she came in contact. The quality of the country, of the many kinds of people, and of the central character come through excellently." --Oliver La Farge
