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13 produkter
Hero Projects
The Russian Empire and Big Technology from Lenin to Putin
Inbunden, 2024
744 kr
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From Lenin and Stalin to Putin, Russia's economic development has relied on large scale technologies. These technologies--often called "hero projects," "projects of the century," or "megaprojects"--have been central to the nation's economic growth and military power. Despite their massive …
Hero Projects
The Russian Empire and Big Technology from Lenin to Putin
E-bok, 2024
588 kr
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From Lenin and Stalin to Putin, Russia''s economic development has relied on large scale technologies. These technologies--often called "hero projects," "projects of the century," or "megaprojects"--have been central to the nation''s economic growth and military power. Despite their massive …
Hero Projects
The Russian Empire and Big Technology from Lenin to Putin
E-bok, 2024
588 kr
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From Lenin and Stalin to Putin, Russia''s economic development has relied on large scale technologies. These technologies--often called "hero projects," "projects of the century," or "megaprojects"--have been central to the nation''s economic growth and military power. Despite their massive …
Lenin's Laureate
E-bok, 2010
383 kr
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The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science from Stalin through Gorbachev. In 2000, Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the …
Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
Inbunden, 1991
771 kr
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Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics - or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses …
Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
E-bok, 1991
918 kr
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Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics—or, more aptly, science under stress—in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses the …
Resources under Regimes
Technology, Environment, and the State
Häftad, 2006
315 kr
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Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or …
Conquest of the Russian Arctic
Inbunden, 2014
688 kr
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Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait, the immense Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. This changed rapidly in the 1920s, when the Soviet Union implemented plans for its conquest. The Conquest of the Russian Arctic, a definitive political and …
Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?
Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989
Inbunden, 2010
930 kr
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After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, "I have seen the future, and it works." Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm tractors would carry the worker and …
Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans
The Politics of Everyday Technologies
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimination laws? What do simple decisions about where to build a road or whether to buy into the carbon economy have to do with Hurricane Katrina or the …
Chicken
A History from Farmyard to Factory
Inbunden, 2020
152 kr
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Why has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Barcelona? As renowned historian Paul Josephson shows, the story of the chicken's rise involves a whole host of factors; from art, to nineteenth-century …
Chicken
A History from Farmyard to Factory
E-bok, 2020
247 kr
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Why has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Barcelona? As renowned historian Paul Josephson shows, the story of the chicken''s rise involves a whole host of factors; from art, to nineteenth-century …
