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: 3530.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) 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: 3960.00 р. 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: Pringle, Laurence Название: Secret Life Of The Sloth, The ISBN: 1635923093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781635923094 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A year in the life of a sloth is revealed in this stunningly illustrated nonfiction picture book, the latest in the popular The Secret Life series.
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 Robert Название: Trouble in Tionesta: How the World Should End ISBN: 1490731148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781490731148 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2105.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Pringle Yolana Название: Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda ISBN: 1013270428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781013270420 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8635.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Pringle, Les Название: Call the Ambulance! ISBN: 0552158534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552158534 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2111.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife`s deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your toes. Having survived the rites of passage as a probationer, Les Pringle now has to face up to the reality of life as an ambulance man in Thatcher`s Britain.
Автор: Pringle Henry F. Название: Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography ISBN: 1162792426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781162792422 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8819.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lucy Pringle Название: Crop Circles ISBN: 0711227217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780711227217 Издательство: Frances Lincoln Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Whether they are scientific enigmas, paranormal phenomena, mischievous hoaxes or inspired land art, the scale, beauty and mathematical and symbolic complexity of crop circles continues to astound. Throughout the summer months every year, in fields of oilseed rape, barley and wheat, a rash of ever more elaborate circles and designs appears.
Lucy Pringle has been photographing and researching crop circles for nearly twenty years. She here presents a catalogue of her awe-inspiring aerial photographs taken across the south of England, guaranteed to amaze believers and sceptics alike.
