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      The Chemical Age

      Frank A. von Hippel

      A dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible-while also threatening its essential fabric.

      For thousands of years, we've found ways to…

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      The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth

      Frank A Von Hippel

      For thousands of years, we’ve found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with catastrophic…

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      Citizen Scientist: Collected Essays of Frank von Hippel

      Frank von Hippel

      Blurb & Contents Frank von Hippel has been at the forefront of those scientists grappling with the troubled legacy of our Nuclear Age. Of interest to physicists, particularly those working…

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      Tinbergen’s Legacy in Behaviour: Sixty Years of Landmark Stickleback Papers

      This book traces important scientific advances in ethology, evolutionary biology, ecology, ecotoxicology and developmental genetics made possible through the stickleback model via a selection of key papers published in the…

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      Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare

      Frank von Hippel,Masafumi Takubo,Jungmin Kang

      This book provides a readable and thought-provoking analysis of the issues surrounding nuclear fuel reprocessing and fast-neutron reactors, including discussion of resources, economics, radiological risk and resistance to nuclear proliferation.

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      Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare

      Frank von Hippel,Masafumi Takubo,Jungmin Kang

      This book provides a readable and thought-provoking analysis of the issues surrounding nuclear fuel reprocessing and fast-neutron reactors, including discussion of resources, economics, radiological risk and resistance to nuclear proliferation.

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      The Medical History of Milwaukee

      Theodor Gottlieb Von Hippel, Louis Frederick Frank

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

      This work is in the "public…

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      The Medical History of Milwaukee

      Theodor Gottlieb Von Hippel, Louis Frederick Frank

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

      This work is in the "public…

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      Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation

      Harold A. Feiveson (Princeton University),Alexander Glaser (Princeton University),Zia Mian (Princeton University),Frank N. von Hippel (Princeton University)

      A new approach to nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation, and the prevention of nuclear terrorism that focuses on controlling the production and stockpiling of nuclear materials.

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