Kate Brown

Remarkable grips with the force of a thriller Robert Macfarlane The most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich Irish Times National Book Critics Circle Finalist 2019 The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident the worst nuclear disaster in history is only 54 and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there Yet award winning historian Kate Brown uncovers a much more disturbing story one in which radioactive isotopes caused hundreds of thousands of casualties and the magnitude of the disaster has been actively suppressed For years after Soviet scientists bureaucrats and civilians were documenting staggering increases in birth defects child mortality cancers and other life altering diseases Worried that this evidence would blow the lid on the effects of radiation release from Cold War weapons testing scientists and diplomats from international organizations including the UN tried to bury or discredit it Brown also encounters many everyday heroes often women who fought to bring attention to the ballooning human and ecological catastrophe and adapt to life in a post nuclear landscape where the dangerous effects of radiation persist today Based on a

Dark and rich, The Women of Versailles is filled with political intrigue, sexual awakening, and the roots of revolution. Peggy Riley. In The Women of Versailles, the narrative slips between the decadent world of Versailles during the reign of Louis XV and the day, just before the French revolution in 1789, that Versailles is stormed by the women of Paris and Louis XVI is forced to move the court to the Tuileries. At the centre of this story is Adelaide, who struggles with her budding sexuality and a desire for freedom of expression, both of which conflict with the expectations of the restrictive court. Adelaide envies her brother, is bored with her sister and, when Madame de Pompadour, a bourgeoise, comes to court as her fathers mistress, she is smitten, with dangerous results. Adelaide pushes against the confines of the court, blind to the difference between a mistress and princess, with tragic results. Forty-four years later, under the looming shadow of the revolution, what has happened to the hopes of a young girl and the doomed regime in which she grew up?

Aprovechando una década de investigación de archivos y entrevistas en terreno en Ucrania, Rusia y Bielorrusia, Kate Brown revela en este libro toda la amplitud de la devastación y el encubrimiento sobre las consecuencias reales del desastre que siguio a la explosion del reactor en Chernobil.Sus hallazgos dejan claro el impacto irreversible de la radioactividad generada por la mano del ser humano en cada ser vivo; y de manera inquietante, nos obligan a enfrentar el legado incalculable de decadas de pruebas de armas y otros incidentes nucleares, y el hecho de que estamos emergiendo en un futuro para el cual aun no se ha escrito el manual de supervivencia.

The latest in the breakout series Manga Shakespeare, introducing teens to a new kind of Bard.In one of Shakespeare's funniest, most enduring stories, meddling fairies create unexpected love triangles among a group of teenagers. Hermia is in love with Lysander. Demetrius is in love with Hermia. Helena is in love with Demetrius. Add to the mix Puck, a fairy with a powerful love potion, and chaos is sure to follow. Now everyone's in love with Helena, Hermia is hopping mad, and the fairy queen Titania is in love with a man with a donkey's head! Using the style and visual language of manga, Kate Brown transforms Shakespeare's world into something new and vibrant. It's the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's work for reluctant readers and manga fans alike.

Aprovechando una década de investigación de archivos y entrevistas en terreno en Ucrania, Rusia y Bielorrusia, Kate Brown revela en este libro toda la amplitud de la devastación y el encubrimiento sobre las consecuencias reales del desastre que siguio a la explosion del reactor en Chernobil. Sus hallazgos dejan claro el impacto irreversible de la radioactividad generada por la mano del ser humano en cada ser vivo; y de manera inquietante, nos obligan a enfrentar el legado incalculable de decadas de pruebas de armas y otros incidentes nucleares, y el hecho de que estamos emergiendo en un futuro para el cual aun no se ha escrito el manual de supervivencia.