Complete Critical Assembly

Complete Critical Assembly

Author: David Langford

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2002-10-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1587153300

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This new collection of essays, commissioned from a range of scholars across the world, takes as its theme the reception of Rome's greatest poet in a time of profound cultural change. Amid the rise of Christianity, the changing status of the city of Rome, and the emergence of new governing classes, Vergil remained a bedrock of Roman education and identity. This volume considers the different ways in which Vergil was read, understood and appropriated; by poets, commentators, Church fathers, orators and historians. The introduction outlines the cultural and historical contexts. Twelve chapters dedicated to individual writers or genres, and the contributors make use of a wide range of approaches from contemporary reception theory. An epilogue concludes the volume.


Critical Assembly

Critical Assembly

Author: Lillian Hoddeson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-02-12

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780521541176

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This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.


Critical Mass

Critical Mass

Author: Carter Plymton Hydrick

Publisher: Jiffyline

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780975985311

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The True Story of the Manhattan Project you haven't heard. On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and late Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders lined with gold, was 560 kilograms, 1,120 pounds, of enriched uranium oxide labeled U235-the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Following ten years of research, author Carter Hydrick presents documentation that demonstrates surrendered German components from U-234 were used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb d