Malcolm Hillgartner
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Two ambitious men. One historic mission.
With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century.
Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers,
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