Paul R. Josephson is a leading historian of science, technology, and of Soviet history, and the author of thirteen books. His research has taken him all over the world, from Siberia to Brazil, and from meat packing plants to nuclear reactors, lumber mills to hydroelectric power stations, to soy, fish and chicken farms, and from rain forest to tundra. Josephson is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at Colby College.
11 Електронні книги від Paul R. Josephson
Paul R. Josephson: Conquest of the Russian Arctic
Spanning nine time zones, the Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. Paul Josephson describes the massive effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic into the Soviet empi …
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€181.70
Paul R. Josephson: Chicken
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, …
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€16.99
Paul R. (Colby College) Josephson: Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, & Aluminum
A revealing look at the history, politics, and social meanings behind everyday objects. Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succee …
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€34.02
Paul R. Josephson: Lenin’s Laureate
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 …
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€77.05
Paul R. Josephson: Motorized Obsessions
2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine From dirt bikes and jet skis to weed wackers and snowblowers, machines powered by small gas engines have become a permanent-and loud-fixture in Americ …
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€28.92
Paul R. (Colby College) Josephson: Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?
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 fou …
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€74.47
Paul R. Josephson: Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
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 Wa …
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€49.99
Paul R. Josephson: Hero Projects
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, " …
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€49.93
Paul R. Josephson: Hero Projects
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, " …
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€50.40
Paul R. Josephson: Resources under Regimes
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 wha …
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€82.53
