The Effects of Thermonuclear Weapons [Hardcover]

James A. Green (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 50 pages
• Publisher: Greenwood Research (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890121207
• ISBN-13: 978-1890121204
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,782,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A truly miserable book, October 6, 2000

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James T. Adams (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Effects of Thermonuclear Weapons (Hardcover)

The first impression I had when I received this book from Amazon was that it had been bound by 5-year old child. The pages are poor quality paper from a photocopier that have been glued (lots of glue) to a thick cloth cover which accounts for about half of the book's thickness. As for content, any meaningful information (equations and figures) has been copied, in some cases photocopied from other books. There is no depth whatsoever to this book. I expected something approaching the level of Samuel Glasstone's "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" and was extremely dissappointed.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars deeply disturbing, January 22, 2001

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Cyanide Bunny "cyanidebunny" (中国) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Effects of Thermonuclear Weapons (Hardcover)

I was truly stunned when I was given a copy of this book. My initial impression was the previous owner had dropped it in the toilet or spilt an entire pot of coffee over it and left it soaking overnight. It was in fact hand bound, presumably by the author - possibly as part of a class project, and consequently the book flops open wherever you put it. It is impossible to keep it closed. The text is devoid of any useful information and merely contains copies of equations with no explanation of their origin. The various typefaces used throughout the 50 pages or so suggest they were probably lifted from other texts. I would find it hard to recommend to anyone unless they had a passing interest in bookbinding

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars AWFUL!!!, March 22, 2004

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LTSpike (Champaign IL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Effects of Thermonuclear Weapons (Hardcover)

I should have checked the author of that 5-star rating before using it to make my decision on this book. Only the author could have had such nice things to say... There is a little original material here, but it would be a stretch to pay $5.00 for it, much less $35. This is a small book with very little original material. At $35 it is a big rip off. If this binding is 'improved' I can't imagine how it used to be! It looks like the author took a copy of "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," a freshman-level college physics text, a pair of scissors, a few photos of bomb explosions, and a xerox machine and made a collage of other people's work, bound it poorly and decided to charge $35 a copy. Almost every diagram (at least every useful one) in there is taken directly from "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons." Although out of print, wait until a good value comes up from Amazon's used book service. It is a far better reference than this book. The formulas are poorly explained and the presentation is just terrible. There are numerous misspellings, and you can tell the diagrams were not typeset in any professional way but just xeroxed from "Effects"; then a reference number was taped to it and someone put it all in a copy machine, sometimes a little crooked. Plus, in spite of a 2001 'revision' the data on nuclear arsenals dates from back in the early 90's or even the late 80's. Overall, this is just a bad book. Unless you can find it used, PLEASE don't make the mistake I did and pay full price. If submitted as a high school research paper this 'work' would have been given a 'D' at best at most places. It certainly does not deserve to be put alongside the many useful references out there. Please don't be mislead by the author's review of this book. The thick cover would make a nice coaster, but as a reference on nuclear weapons, it is shameful that Mr. Green would publish this as an original work.