Resultados para "Atom" en Literatura de género

Il 26 marzo 1938 si perdono le tracce del fisico siciliano Ettore Majorana in viaggio per Palermo. Gli inquirenti vogliono credere che si tratti di suicidio o volontaria fuga dal mondo. Che il genio abbia intuito terribili destini nel futuro della scienza? Su questo interrogativo Sciascia costruisce uno dei suoi libri più intensi per la capacità di immedesimazione in un personaggio estremamente complesso.

When a bloody raid in Libya turns up nothing but a camp of terrorists who know nothing about any bombs, the elite American fighters find themselves ordered to Portugal to follow up a new lead. Once there, they learn every undercover agent from every country working in Portugal has been taken out of play, leaving the door wide open for staging an apocalyptic attack. If the Black Berets fail to locate the bombs and take out the merciless cabal that stole them, it could mean the end of the world as they know it. For these five warriors, the stakes have never been higher.

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally...