Loren Graham, often described as the leading scholar on Russian science and technology outside that country, is the author of The Ghost of the Executed Engineer and other books. He is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at MIT and Research Scholar at the Davis Center for Russia and Eurasian Studies at Harvard.
6 Ebooks tarafından Loren Graham
Loren Graham & Wolf Lepenies: Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories
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 …
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Loren Graham: Lonely Ideas
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 sto …
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€82.08
Loren Graham & Jean-Michel Kantor: Naming Infinity
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 …
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€53.81
Loren Graham: Ghost of the Executed Engineer
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, pointin …
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Loren Graham: Lysenko’s Ghost
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 We …
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