Background
Rhodes, Richard Lee was born on July 4, 1937 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Arthur and Georgia Saphronia (Collier) Rhodes.
(This text examines the Mid West of America, covering such...)
This text examines the Mid West of America, covering such diverse topics as coyote hunting, wheat growing and hog butchering and considers individuals such as Truman and Eisenhower.
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(The Inland Ground is Richard Rhodes's first book. It was ...)
The Inland Ground is Richard Rhodes's first book. It was published quietly in 1970 to critical acclaim (The New York Times Book Review named it one of the best books of the year) but few sales. In the two decades that followed, Rhodes published ten more books, including A Hole in the World, Farm, and The Making of the Atomic Bomb, for which he won the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Yet, Rhodes contends, some of his best writing is collected here, in The Inland Ground, sixteen essays that evoke the Middle West, on topics that range from coyote hunting to the Mayo Clinic. For this updated edition Rhodes has chosen the twelve best of his early pieces, combined them with four new essays, and added a spare, forceful preface. "Very early on you are convinced that the author is in love with the land he is writing about, and that he is a real writer. The mysteries of this Inland Ground are teasingly hinted at and sometimes brilliantly illuminated (as in poetically rendered essays on hog-butchering, on wheat-growing, on the Writers' Workshop in Iowa). Mr. Rhodes has the skill and the love of language as well as of the land to bring it to our attention and our understanding.—"New York Times Book Review. "Richard Rhodes' Middle West is a sweep of the American earth from the St. Louis arch to the eastern border of Colorado. On the subjects of wheat, coyote hunting, hog butchering, Truman, and Eisenhower, Rhodes is poetic.—"Indiana Magazine of History.
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( In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independenc...)
In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly 2,000 miles across unpopulated prairies, up sluggish and seemingly endless rivers, and through the Rocky Mountains over the Continental Divide. There, where the water flowed west to the far Pacific, the more prudent emigrants swung north through present-day Idaho, though that was the longer way west. One group, the Donner Party, braver or more foolhardy than the rest, chose an untried route that would shorten the distance. It did. It also subjected them to obstacles so formidable that it cost many of them their lives. Yet it preserved their names and the story of their travail down through history-crowded years. No work of fiction has rendered this remarkable epic of ordeal with more vividness and power than Richard Rhodes's novel of the Donner Party, The Ungodly. Upon its initial printing in 1973, Rhodes's masterful tale was praised for its realistic and gripping depiction of the struggles faced by that ill-fated group of men, women, and children. Now, more than thirty years later, Stanford University Press has reissued this harrowing and haunting novel. The Ungodly is an unforgettable story of terrible hardship and awesome courage—a story that increases our understanding of what kind of people made this nation and what a full and immeasurable price they paid.
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Thanks to books and films like The Da Vinci Code and its sequel, Angels and Demons, interest in secret religious symbols has never been greater. This carefully researched guide takes the reader into some of the world's most famous churches, decoding messages that are hidden in plain sight-in stained-glass windows, statuary, patterned flooring, ornamentation, and even the buildings' architectural design: Why do fierce beasts and grotesque faces peer from the walls? Who chose to depict one particular saint and not another? What's the significance of an eagle? A dragon? A pelican? No one who reads this book will ever again experience a visit to a cathedral in quite the same way.
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(Three Americans met and were challenged on the high, wild...)
Three Americans met and were challenged on the high, wild, lion-guarded Serengeti Plains of East Africa: a former white hunter, African-born of missionary parents, his life already torn by tragedy; a beautiful young California woman on pilgrimage from her father’s sudden death; an ambitious scientist seeking signs of man’s earliest origins. The challenge they face is terrorist atrocity and guerrilla warfare, deadly in its violence. It threatens Seth Crown’s tourist camp. It threatens Robert Fuhrey’s important paleontological dig at an ancient Serengeti gorge. It threatens the bond of passionate love welding Crown and Cassie Wendover. Before it is finished, it has caught fire in war between Tanzania and the Uganda of monstrous Idi Amin. Before it is finished, it has brought horror, but it has also brought a species of redemption to all of their lives.
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(When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Puli...)
When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes helped launch and legitimate a decade-long publishing phenomenon—the memoir of abused childhood. In this tenth anniversary edition, Rhodes offers new reflections on the abuse he and his older brother endured at the hands of their terrorizing stepmother and negligent father. He also describes readers' powerful and moving responses to his book, considers his changing sentiments as the years have passed, and provides additional details on his brother Stanley, who remains the author's true hero in this moving memoir.
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A brilliant, illuminating, and often shocking exploration of one man's sexual odyssey, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and A Hole in the World. Making Love marks the first time a major author has written with such unapologetic candor of his most intimate experiences, fantasies, and thoughts.
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(The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of th...)
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb discusses the feasibility of nuclear power in America, arguing that it is the safest, cleanest, and most economical energy source available. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.
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(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Winner of the National Book...)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Winner of the National Book Award; Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The definitive, comprehensive history of the Bomb, the whole story in vivid revealing detail and in simple language which carries the reader through wonderful and profound scientific discoveries and their application. brilliantly written, and extensively researched this is an enthralling, majestic book which follows the lives of the atomic scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain and show why the World Wars that developed the first half of the last Century can never happen again.
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( In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story,...)
In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story, Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France - and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new afterword, Rhodes reports the latest U.S. and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.
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(John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-y...)
John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon’s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.
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(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a r...)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human history—its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its effects on global politics today.
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(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a r...)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human history-its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its effects on global politics today.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human history--its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its effects on global politics today.
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The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can.
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The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He shows us how the stage was set for a second tragic war when Iraq secretly destroyed its nuclear infrastructure and reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq. We see how the efforts of U.S. weapons labs laid the groundwork for nuclear consolidation in the former Soviet Union, how and why South Africa secretly built and then destroyed a small nuclear arsenal, and how Jimmy Carter's private diplomacy prevented another Korean War. We also see how the present day represents a nuclear turning point and what hope exists for our future. Rhodes assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, suggesting what might make it possible. Powerful and persuasive, "The Twilight of the Bombs" is an essential work of contemporary history.
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Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph Over Childhood Abuse evolved from Richard Rhodes's memoir, A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood, in which he told of the abuse he endured at the hands of his stepmother. Here is an oral history of child abuse--physical, mental, and sexual--and how its survivors dealt with it. While talking with victims of abuse, the authors found that "each strategy [for survival] was original, imaginative, off the books, a tribute to the canny resilience of the human spirit. Collectively, like breathtaking third-act reversals, they promised to lift the narrative from one of pain to one of triumph." Trying to Get Some Dignity will reaffirm readers' faith in their ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their own lives.
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1999 399 pages. Hard bound with very good dust jacket, very good condition
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(The Seventh Edition of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Ani...)
The Seventh Edition of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals is a thoroughly updated and revised version of this classic text. Drawing on current science and terminology with a number of new illustrations throughout and a new chapter on poultry, the book maintains its reputation for clarity, balanced scope, and breadth of content. The Seventh Edition provides veterinary, animal science, agriculture, and veterinary technician students with a comprehensive yet clear reference to understanding the fundamentals of anatomy and physiology.
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Ten years ago, Reeve “Red” Wainwright walked on the moon. Mission commander on one of the early Apollo flights, he knew the exhileration of space, floating in zero G’s, riding a rocket. He survived a terrifying accidental fire in the flight module to return a national hero. But what do you do after you’ve gone to the moon? Some astronauts suffered severe depression, some were born again, some retreated from the glare of publicity. Red Wainwright enjoyed his fame, drank too much and watched his marriage fall apart. In time, he put the pieces of his life back together and began a new career as an energy consultant. But when his book on the energy crisis becomes a best seller, he finds himself a celebrity all over again, and this time the price of fame becomes fatally high: his teenaged son, Chris, is kidnapped and held for ransom. In a grotesque parody of his father’s flight, Chris is buried alive in a box with a limited life-support system, a space module underground. While Chris struggles to find the courage to survive, Red is finally, joltingly, brought down to earth as he confronts the manipulations of politicians, publishers, reporters and even former astronauts in a frantic race against time to save his son’s life.
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Rhodes, Richard Lee was born on July 4, 1937 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Arthur and Georgia Saphronia (Collier) Rhodes.
Bachelor cum laude, Yale University, 1959. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1988.
Assistant to Policy Adviser, Radio Free Europe 1960. English Instructor, Westminster College 1960-1961. Surgical Technician, United States.A.F. Reserve 1961-1962.
Book Editing Manager, Hallmark Cards Inc. 1962-1970; Contributing. Writer since 1974; Visiting Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University 1988-1989, Defense and Arms Control Studies Program, M.l.T. 1988-1989.
Research Association, History of Science Department, Harvard University 1989-1990. Fellowships: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1974-1975, National Endowment for the Arts 1978, Ford Foundation 1981-1983, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 1985, MacArthur Foundation Program on Peace and Institute Co-operation 1990-1991. Honorary D.Hum.Litt. (Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri) 1988.
National Book Critics Circle.
(Three Americans met and were challenged on the high, wild...)
( In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story,...)
( In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independenc...)
(Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph Over Child...)
(The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of th...)
(A brilliant, illuminating, and often shocking exploration...)
(The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and...)
(When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Puli...)
(This text examines the Mid West of America, covering such...)
(The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history...)
( Thanks to books and films like The Da Vinci Code and it...)
(The Seventh Edition of Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Ani...)
(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a r...)
(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a r...)
(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a r...)
(Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Winner of the National Book...)
(A set of two books, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Makin...)
(A novel about a surgeon's shattered marriage by Pulitzer ...)
(John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-y...)
(John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Rhodes, ...)
(Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by...)
(The Making of the Atomic Bomb [Paperback]Richard Rhodes (...)
(Ten years ago, Reeve “Red” Wainwright walked on the moon....)
(The Inland Ground is Richard Rhodes's first book. It was ...)
(1999 399 pages. Hard bound with very good dust jacket, ve...)
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Author: The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West, 1970, The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party, 1973, The Ozarks, 1974, Holy Secrets, 1978, Looking for America: A writer's Odyssey, 1979, The Last Safari, 1980, Sons of Earth, 1981, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 1986, Farm, 1989, A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood, 1990, Making Love: An Erotic Odyssey, 1992, Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense about Energy, 1993, How to Write: Advice and Reflections, 1995, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, 1995, Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, 1997, Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist, 1999, Masters of Death: The Steamship-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust, 2002, John James Audubon: The Making of an American, 2004, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, 2007, The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, 2010. Co-author: (with Ginger Rhodes) Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph over Childhood Abuse, 1996. Editor: Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines, Systems, and the Human World, 1999, The Audubon Reader, 2006.Artist: theater play Reykjavik, 2008.
Trustee Andrew Drumm Institute, Independence, Missouri, since 1991, Atomic Heritage Foundation, District of Columbia, since 2004, Cypress Foundation, District of Columbia, since 2005.
Children: Timothy James, Katherine Hampton. Married Ginger Kay Untrif, October 3, 1993.