Автор: Pringle Peter Название: The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin`s Persecution of One of the Gr ISBN: 1451656491 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451656497 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 23530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: In The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, acclaimed journalist and author Peter Pringle recreates the extraordinary life and tragic end of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. In a drama of love, revolution, and war that rivals Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, Pringle tells the story of a young Russian scientist, Nikolai Vavilov, who had a dream of ending hunger and famine in the world. Vavilov's plan would use the emerging science of genetics to breed super plants that could grow anywhere, in any climate, in sandy deserts and freezing tundra, in drought and flood. He would launch botanical expeditions to find these vanishing genes, overlooked by early farmers ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. He called it a mission for all humanity. To the leaders of the young Soviet state, Vavilov's dream fitted perfectly into their larger scheme for a socialist utopia. Lenin supported the adventurous Vavilov, a handsome and seductive young professor, as he became an Indiana Jones, hunting lost botanical treasures on five continents. In a former tsarist palace in what is now St. Petersburg, Vavilov built the world's first seed bank, a quarter of a million specimens, a magnificent living museum of plant diversity that was the envy of scientists everywhere and remains so today. But when Lenin died in 1924 and Stalin took over, Vavilov's dream turned into a nightmare. This son of science was from a bourgeois background, the class of society most despised and distrusted by the Bolsheviks. The new cadres of comrade scientists taunted and insulted him, and Stalin's dreaded secret police built up false charges of sabotage and espionage. Stalin's collectivization of farmland caused chaos in Soviet food production, and millions died in widespread famine. Vavilov's master plan for improving Soviet crops was designed to work over decades, not a few years, and he could not meet Stalin's impossible demands for immediate results. In Stalin's Terror of the 1930s, Russian geneticists were systematically repressed in favor of the peasant horticulturalist Trofim Lysenko, with his fraudulent claims and speculative theories. Vavilov was the most famous victim of this purge, which set back Russian biology by a generation and caused the country untold harm. He was sentenced to death, but unlike Galileo, he refused to recant his beliefs and, in the most cruel twist, this humanitarian pioneer scientist was starved to death in the gulag. Pringle uses newly opened Soviet archives, including Vavilov's secret police file, official correspondence, vivid expedition reports, previously unpublished family letters and diaries, and the reminiscences of eyewitnesses to bring us this intensely human story of a brilliant life cut short by anti-science demagogues, ideology, censorship, and political expedience.
Автор: Pringle and Tim Dedopulos And Tim Dedop Название: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The Definitive Illustrated Guide ISBN: 1787393208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787393202 Издательство: Carlton Books Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A detailed look at every aspect of modern fantasy, including detailed entries on books, films, TV and creators, as well as the greatest fantasy characters and worlds.
Автор: Grant Andrea Mariko, Pringle Yolana Название: Anxiety in and about Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches ISBN: 082142436X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821424360 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 37580.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This addition to the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Series presents multidisciplinary essays that demonstrate how individual and collective anxieties can unsettle dominant historical narratives, shape contemporary discourse, and appear across material culture.
Автор: Pringle Rose M. Название: Researching Practitioner Inquiry as Professional Development: Voices from the Field of Science Teaching ISBN: 3030595528 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030595524 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 93160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book presents the authentic voices of science teachers engaged in practitioner inquiry as one component of a comprehensive professional development program.
Автор: Pringle Sherry J. Название: All the Ship`s Men: HMCS Athabaskan`s Untold Stories ISBN: 1988932130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781988932132 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories" is a collection of personal stories of sailors on-board Canada's Tribal Class Destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan when it was sunk by enemy fire mere days before the Normandy Invasion. This revised edition includes seventeen new tales.
Автор: Pringle, Laurence Название: Cicadas! Strange And Wonderful ISBN: 1590786734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590786734 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 10410.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Definitely the best cicada book for kids. Adults will appreciate it as well, as it is well written, factually accurate, and beautifully illustrated. --Cicadamania.com
Discover why cicadas are all the buzz in the most complete, comprehensive book for kids about these noisy but harmless insects. Every year, annual cicadas emerge and pierce the air with their buzzing calls. Also every year, at least one brood of 13 or 17 year cicadas emerges in some part of the eastern or central United States. In Spring 2021, a group of 17 year periodical cicadas called Brood X will make their appearance in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Author Laurence Pringle and illustrator Meryl Henderson have created the story of this fascinating and often misunderstood insect, one that deserves to be protected.
Автор: Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch, Bernard Stiegler Название: Machine ISBN: 1517906490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517906498 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15050.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: On the social consequences of machines Automation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of central media-philosophical concern in today’s society of humans and machines. This volume describes the social consequences of machines as a mediating concept for the animation of life and automation of technology. Bernard Stiegler’s automatic society illustrates how digital media networks establish a new proletariat of knowledge workers. Gertrud Koch offers the animation of the technical to account for the pathological relations that arise between people and their devices. And Thomas Pringle synthesizes how automation and animation explain the history of intellectual exchanges that led to the hybrid concept of the ecosystem, a term that blends computer and natural science. All three contributions analyse how categories of life and technology become mixed in governmental policies, economic exploitation and pathologies of everyday life thereby both curiously and critically advancing the term that underlies those new developments: ‘machine.’
Автор: Pringle, Laurence Название: Octopus Hug (Pb) ISBN: 1563975599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781563975592 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 6100.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Pringle Laurence Название: Elephants!: Strange and Wonderful ISBN: 1635924790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781635924794 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Learn about elephants in various habitats throughout the world, learning how elephants use their trunk, how they communicate, what they eat and about their family groupings.
Автор: Pringle Henry F. Название: Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography ISBN: 1162792426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781162792422 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 58790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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