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The Girls of Atomic City
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Denise Kiernan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,935
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,641
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,630
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians - many of them young women from small towns across the South - were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important story of this secret city
- De CBlox en 11-14-13
- The Girls of Atomic City
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Denise Kiernan
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
Better to read the book
Revisado: 05-24-14
If you could sum up The Girls of Atomic City in three words, what would they be?
Unknown history for me
If you’ve listened to books by Denise Kiernan before, how does this one compare?
This is my first
What about Cassandra Campbell’s performance did you like?
She always does well. I really like the way she speaks, the way she pronounces words.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
US Secrets from WWII
Any additional comments?
Actually, I think it would have been better to read this book rather than listen to it, because it was hard to keep up with the characters. But, I liked it very much, and before this book, I had no idea that the Atom bomb was mostly built in Tennessee and by women. I thought it was all done in New Mexico. I had no idea of its immense expense, and that thousands and thousands of people were involved who didn't know the product they were making!.
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The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,966
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,491
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,492
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality - the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant book, heroic reader, better in print?
- De A reader en 03-12-11
- The Information
- A History, a Theory, a Flood
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
Better to read the book
Revisado: 04-28-14
Would you listen to The Information again? Why?
No, because it is too complicated
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Leave out some of the details. Simplify it.
What does Rob Shapiro bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He made the lives of the characters more interesting
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Not a film kind of book
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