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  • - Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond
     
    1.075,95 kr.

    This volume examines the international impact of Lysenkoism in its namesake's heyday and the reasons behind Lysenko's rehabilitation in Russia today. By presenting the rise and fall of T.D. Lysenko in its various aspects, the authors provide a fresh perspective on one of the most notorious episodes in the history of science.

  • - A Trip to the Reactor
    af Morris Low
    1.074,95 - 1.076,95 kr.

    This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan's future.

  • - The Lab as Contact Zone
    af Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
    559,95 - 745,95 kr.

    This book offers a transnational look at the history of Japanese chemistry and its interactions with the West in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.

  • - Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global Perspective, 1760-1830
     
    1.077,95 kr.

    Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.

  • af Matthew H. Hersch
    553,95 kr.

    Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.

  • - Scientists, Radiations, and the American Public, 1895-1945
    af Matthew Lavine
    1.262,95 - 1.423,95 kr.

    At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century.

  • - The History and Science of Planetary Exploration
     
    1.269,95 kr.

    Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system.

  • - A Transnational History, 1945-1965
     
    1.168,95 kr.

    The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.

  • - Histories from Australia and New Zealand
    af Emily O'Gorman, James Beattie & Matthew Henry
    565,95 - 793,95 kr.

    Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of "folk" and government meteorologies.

  • - The History and Science of Planetary Exploration
     
    1.276,95 kr.

    Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system.

  • - Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years
     
    570,95 kr.

    The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.

  • - Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
    af John Krige, A. Long, Angelina Long Callahan & mfl.
    1.081,95 - 1.415,95 kr.

    Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel.

  • - Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
    af Christopher J. Bright
    552,95 - 556,95 kr.

    U.S. policy makers believed that the American weapons could safely compensate for technological limitations which otherwise made it difficult to destroy high flying, fast moving airplanes.

  • - A Transnational History, 1945-1965
     
    1.171,95 kr.

    The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.

  • - Geosciences during the Cold War and Beyond
    af Simone Turchetti & Peder Roberts
    564,95 - 783,95 kr.

    Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.

  • - Paradigms Defected
     
    1.638,95 kr.

    This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar "battlefields" of the Cold War.

  • - Astroculture After Apollo
     
    1.082,95 kr.

    Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

  • - Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond
     
    977,95 kr.

    Lysenko in a variety of aspects-his influence upon art, unrecognized predecessors, and the extent to which genetics continued in the USSR even while he was in power, and the revival of his reputation today-the authors provide a fresh perspective on one of the most notorious episodes in the history of science.

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    987,95 kr.

    The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.

  • af John M. Logsdon
    298,95 kr.

  • af John M. Logsdon
    558,95 - 563,95 kr.

    While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the course of the US space program over the last 45 years.

  • - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
     
    1.262,95 kr.

    This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day.

  • - The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany
    af Kathleen L. Housley
    1.080,95 kr.

    In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions.

  • - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
     
    1.272,95 kr.

    This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day.

  • - A New Perspective for Map History
    af Mark Monmonier
    322,95 kr.

  • - Richard Nixon and the American Space Program
    af John M. Logsdon
    656,95 kr.

    Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those decisions determined the character of the US human space flight program for the next forty years.

  • - Medical Science and Children's Welfare
    af Richard J. Altenbaugh
    1.357,95 kr.

    In the first half of the twentieth century, in the face of widespread resistance to vaccines, public health officials gradually medicalized American culture through mass media, public health campaigns, and the public education system.

  • - Astroculture After Apollo
     
    330,95 kr.

    Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

  • - Practising Observation and Documentation
     
    1.168,95 kr.

    This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments.

  • - Cold War Science and Technology on Ice
     
    1.644,95 kr.

    Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.S. military leaders after World War II sought to monitor the far north and understand the physical environment of Greenland, a crucial territory of Denmark.