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12 produkter
Naming Infinity
A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity
Av Loren Graham, Jean-Michel Kantor
Inbunden, 2009
417 kr
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In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across …
Lonely Ideas
Av Loren Graham
E-bok, 2013
408 kr
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An expert investigates Russia''s long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern. When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled “Made in Russia”? Probably never. …
Lysenko’s Ghost
Epigenetics and Russia
Av Loren Graham
Inbunden, 2016
221 kr
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The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists, even in the West, now claim that discoveries in the field of epigenetics prove that he was right after all. …
Ghost of the Executed Engineer
Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Av Loren Graham
Häftad, 1996
317 kr
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Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. As if rising from an uneasy grave, Palchinsky’s ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his time, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate …
Mose
Av Loren Graham
Häftad, 1995
261 kr
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A striking interplay of content and style makes this book-length narrative poem a wrenching, compelling tale. Mose is incarcerated in a Texas prison for a crime whose circumstances slowly unfold as he numbers the days of his sentence and fantasizes about a woman inexorably tied to his fate. As the …
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
Av Loren Graham, Wolf Lepenies m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
1098 kr
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Edward Gibbon's allegation at the beginning of his Essay on the Study of Literature (1764) that the history of empires is that of the miseries of humankind whereas the history of the sciences is that of their splendour and happiness has for a long time been accepted by professional scientists and …
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
Av Loren Graham, Wolf Lepenies m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
1098 kr
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Edward Gibbon's allegation at the beginning of his Essay on the Study of Literature (1764) that the history of empires is that of the miseries of humankind whereas the history of the sciences is that of their splendour and happiness has for a long time been accepted by professional scientists and …
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
Av P. Weingart, Wolf Lepenies m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
1342 kr
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Edward Gibbon''s allegation at the beginning of his Essay on the Study of Literature (1764) that the history of empires is that of the miseries of humankind whereas the history of the sciences is that of their splendour and happiness has for a long time been accepted by professional scientists and …
Fame or Oblivion?
Russian Creativity in the Arts and Sciences
Av Loren Graham
Inbunden, 2025
979 kr
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Why do some creations flourish while others fade into obscurity? In Fame or Oblivion? the author makes a provocative thesis: that Russian society has historically nurtured literary and artistic genius while stifling technological innovation. Based on the tools of cultural and historical analysis, …
Fame or Oblivion?
Russian Creativity in the Arts and Sciences
Av Loren Graham
E-bok, 2025
1652 kr
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Why do some creations flourish while others fade into obscurity?In Fame or Oblivion? the author makes a provocative thesis: that Russian society has historically nurtured literary and artistic genius while stifling technological innovation. Based on the tools of cultural and historical analysis, …
Fame or Oblivion?
Russian Creativity in the Arts and Sciences
Av Loren Graham
E-bok, 2025
1688 kr
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Why do some creations flourish while others fade into obscurity?In Fame or Oblivion? the author makes a provocative thesis: that Russian society has historically nurtured literary and artistic genius while stifling technological innovation. Based on the tools of cultural and historical analysis, …
