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 Robert Allen Название: Pithole: Where the Devil Danced ISBN: 1634905938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781634905930 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3437.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction by Geordie Greig, Editor, The Mail on Sunday. A tribute to mark a record-breaking 63 years on the throne. When she was just 21 the then Princess Elizabeth made the people of the Commonwealth of Nations a solemn promise. ГЇВїВЅI declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.ГЇВїВЅ None who heard her words could have known she would go on to become the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Yet on September 9, 2015 that is her momentous achievement. Here The Mail on Sunday tells the story of some of her happiest and most glorious moments. We recount, too, the sadnesses she has borne, both in her family life and in the life of the country she rules. Both are the core of our nationhood; they are our islandГЇВїВЅs history. Long to reign over us indeed.
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.
Автор: Pringle, Ian Название: Green leader ISBN: 1911096729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911096726 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Paul Pringle Название: Bad City ISBN: 1250824087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250824080 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 2758.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Pringle, Ian Название: Green leader ISBN: 1909982938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909982932 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4744.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Radice Don Vito, Pringle Pringle Dorothy, Littleton Sue Название: My Life with Chickens and other stories: I Pity The Poor Immigrant ISBN: 064867441X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648674412 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The "Coming of Age" story of a young, redheaded Italian boy, who, with his mother and older brother, leaves the poverty of his rural home in Southern Italy to migrate to Australia and reunite with his father (who he has never seen) and start a new life in Sydney, in the early 1960s.
"My father was a very simple man. He only wanted a simple and uncomplicated life."
"He liked fresh air and sheep. He did not like people or the company of people much, "Never trust the people" was his mantra and he repeated this often."
"My father often told me: "I went from Heaven to Hell " This is what my father would often tell me of his experience when he first arrived in Australia."
Автор: Pringle Robert Allen Название: Down Tubbs Lane ISBN: 1644389487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644389485 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4127.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Man considers himself to be the dominant species on planet Earth. He shouldn't be. In the Darwinian sense, humans are ill suited for life on this world. As creatures, man is not overly large, strong, fast, or well insulated from environmental changes in weather changes. A Sasquatch, or Bigfoot as they are commonly referred to, is. They are said to have size, strength, speed and agility as well as a nice fur coat. They would be, if they existed, the top of the food chain. Ah, you say, but humans have intelligence, we are conscious of ourselves and everything else. Just how intelligent are we?
What if, in the distant past Sasquatch was the dominant species, and developed intelligence? What if their intelligence led to technology? What if they had fifty million years to develop it, maybe two hundred million years, maybe longer?
There are theories that we humans were placed on this planet to do some sort of penance. After observing how the human race behaves, maybe we were. Perhaps you may be interested in taking a run Down Tubbs Lane and finding out.
Автор: Pringle, Derek Название: Pushing the boundaries: cricket in the eighties ISBN: 1473674956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473674950 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The inside story of one of English cricket most tumultuous periods.
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