Showing results for "World Projects" in Literature & Fiction

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A generation after a global plague depletes humanity and divides the world, Jenn and Mykol are brought together by a mysterious project and uncover a secret that changes everything they think they know.

There’s a fairy-tale version of the Elizabethan era: a golden age of long-awaited prosperity, of palaces and pageants, of sea-faring exploration - all of it presided over by a spectacular queen governing alongside wise counsellors. There’s a lot this story misses out. Elizabethan England was also an anxious, paranoid place; its last full decade, the 1590s, saw increasing food prices, plague, and profiteering by the wealthy. One writer in particular explored what it felt like to be living on the edge. Thomas Nashe isn’t a household name today, but he wrote and published throughout the ...

Atrincherados en la llamada muralla del Atlántico, las tropas nazis esperan la inminente invasión aliada. En Inglaterra se prepara la mayor armada que ha conocido el mundo, hombres y máquinas se reúnen en una cantidad nunca vista. En ese inicio del verano de 1944, un profesor español, exiliado tras combatir en el bando republicano, avisa de que los alemanes poseen una nueva y terrorífica arma; una arma devastadora, cuyo creador, un científico judío, asegura que puede acabar con una sola explosión con todas las tropas acantonadas al sur de Inglaterra.

Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts. But the siblings’ quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904-February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in organizing the Manhattan Project, the research and development undertaking that created the first nuclear weapons.

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904-February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in organizing the Manhattan Project, the research and development undertaking that created the first nuclear weapons.