wyszukanych pozycji: 16
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Red Atom: Russias Nuclear Power Program From Stalin To Today
ISBN: 9780822958819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 1950s, Soviet nuclear scientists and leaders imagined a stunning future when giant reactors would generate energy quickly and cheaply, nuclear engines would power cars, ships, and airplanes, and peaceful nuclear explosions would transform the landscape. Driven by the energy of the atom, the dream of communism would become a powerful reality. Thirty years later, that dream died in Chernobyl. What went wrong? Based on exhaustive archival research and interviews, Red Atom takes a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the Soviet Union's peaceful use of nuclear power. It... In the 1950s, Soviet nuclear scientists and leaders imagined a stunning future when giant reactors would generate energy quickly and cheaply, nucle... |
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287,43 zł |
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Jaderné Rusko
ISBN: 9788076111172 / Czeski / Miękka / 2023 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. V první studii kulturních a politických dějin ruského atomového věku Paul Josephson popisuje vzestup jaderné fyziky v Sovětském svazu, od nadšené snahy o vojenské a mírové jaderné programy přes černobylskou katastrofu a pád Sovětského svazu až po tzv. renesanci jaderné energie v Rusku 21. století. Na vrcholu své moci měli Sověti 39 000 jaderných hlavic, ale prohlašovali se za služebníky mírového atomu, o který také horlivě usilovali. Tato kniha zkoumá vojenské i mírové sovětské a postsovětské jaderné programy v dlouhém období - před válkou,...
V první studii kulturních a politických dějin ruského atomového věku Paul Josephson popisuje vzestup jaderné fyziky v Sovětském svazu, od na...
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52,17 zł |
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An Environmental History of Russia
ISBN: 9780521869584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.
This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.
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542,91 zł |
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The Man I Called Father: Surprised by Grace
ISBN: 9781492896876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,82 zł |
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An Environmental History of Russia
ISBN: 9780521689724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major rivers such as the Volga, Don, and Angara; and extensive biodiversity. These resources and animals, as well as the people who lived in the former Soviet Union Slavs, Armenians, Georgians, Azeris, Kazakhs and Tajiks, indigenous Nenets and Chukchi were threatened by environmental degradation and extensive pollution. This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the...
The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major ri...
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172,69 zł |
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Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies
ISBN: 9781421417837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 Fukushima nuclear disaster? How did massive flood control projects on the Mississippi River and New Deal dams on the Columbia River lead to the ubiquity of high fructose corn syrup? And what explains the creation--and continued popularity--of the humble fish stick? In Fish Sticks, Sports... 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-discrimi... |
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141,08 zł |
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Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia: Volume 7
ISBN: 9780520074828 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 impact of scientific, cultural, and political revolution on physicists' research and professional aspirations. Political and social revolution in Russia threatened to confound the scientific revolution. Physicists eager to investigate new concepts of space, energy, light, and motion were...
Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics--or, more aptly, sc...
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372,11 zł |
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Traffic
ISBN: 9781501329333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic considers the history and philosophy of roundabouts, speed bumps, the pedestrian mall, and other efforts to manage traffic. Exploring ways to reign in the power of the internal combustion engine, ramp back century-long efforts to increase the flows of traffic, and establish greater balance between humans and machines, Paul Josephson considers the history of traffic, and the political and other controversies that frame the belated technological... Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Speed. Bump. Speed. Traffic |
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53,18 zł |
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Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory
ISBN: 9781509525911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "The irresistible rise and fall of the world's favourite farm animal"--
"The irresistible rise and fall of the world's favourite farm animal"--
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106,47 zł |
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Conquest of the Russian Arctic
ISBN: 9780674728905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 441 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 environmental history of one of the world's remotest regions, details the ambitious attempts, from Soviet times to the present, to control and reshape the Arctic, and the terrible costs paid along the way. Paul Josephson describes the effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic into the... Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait, the immense Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. This chan... |
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380,61 zł |
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Resources Under Regimes: Technology, Environment, and the State
ISBN: 9780674022430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape. Looking at the experiences of the industrialized and industrializing world, Resources... Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocati... |
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192,11 zł |
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Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?: Technological Utopianism Under Socialism, 1917-1989
ISBN: 9780801894107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 peasant--figuratively and literally--into the twentieth century. Believing that socialism and technology together created a brave new world, Boleslaw Bierut of Poland and Kim Il Sung of North Korea--and other leaders--joined Russia's Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky in embracing big technology with a verve and... After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, -I have seen the future, and it works.- Steffens referred to the ... |
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386,14 zł |
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Wicked Lit
ISBN: 9781946259141 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Wicked Lit" is a dynamic new collection of plays adapted from the classic horror literature of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, H.P. Lovecraft, and more. These timeless stories have been ambitiously reimagined to create surprising and impactful theatrical experiences. Originally devised as immersive theater, the shows in the "Wicked Lit" collection have previously been staged in cemeteries, museums, mansions, and hotels. Produce them in a theater or in a creative guerrilla setting and watch these chilling horror classics come alive.
"Wicked Lit" is a dynamic new collection of plays adapted from the classic horror literature of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Robert L...
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99,95 zł |
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Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
ISBN: 9781350272552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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65,70 zł |
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Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
ISBN: 9781350272569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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227,58 zł |
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Hero Projects
ISBN: 9780197698396 / Twarda / 2024 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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231,44 zł |