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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paul josephson”
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  • Traffic

    by Professor Paul Josephson ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    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 ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Chicken

    A History from Farmyard to Factory

    by Paul R. Josephson ...
    Series series Environmental History
    Why has the chicken become the meat par excellence, the most plentifully eaten and popular animal protein in the world, consumed from Beijing to Barcelona? As renowned historian Paul Josephson shows, the story of the chicken's rise involves a whole host of factors; from art, to nineteenth-century migration patterns to cold-war geopolitics. And whereas sheep needed too much space, or the cow was ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Industrialized Nature

    Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World

    by Paul Josephson ...
    The construction of the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River. The transformation of the Amazon into a site for huge cattle ranches and aluminum smelters. The development of Nevada's Yucca Mountain into a repository for nuclear waste. The extensive irrigation networks of the Grand Coulee and Kuibyshev Dams. On the face of it, these massive projects are wonders of engineering, financial prowess ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, & Aluminum

    The Politics of Everyday Technologies

    by Paul R. Josephson ...
    A revealing look at the history, politics, and social meanings behind everyday objects.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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Environmental History of Russia

    by Paul Josephson, Nicolai Dronin, Ruben Mnatsakanian, Aleh Cherp, Dmitry Efremenko, Vladislav Larin ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Hero Projects

    The Russian Empire and Big Technology from Lenin to Putin

    by Paul R. Josephson ...
    From Lenin and Stalin to Putin, Russia's economic development has relied on large scale technologies. These technologies--often called "hero projects," "projects of the century," or "megaprojects"--have been central to the nation's economic growth and military power. Despite their massive environmental and social costs, hero technologies moved ahead in service of the unbridled interests of state ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?

    Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989

    by Paul R. Josephson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Motorized Obsessions

    Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine

    by Paul R. Josephson ...
    2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineFrom dirt bikes and jet skis to weed wackers and snowblowers, machines powered by small gas engines have become a permanent—and loud—fixture in American culture. But fifty years of high-speed fun and pristine lawns have not come without cost.In the first comprehensive history of the small-bore engine and the technology it powers, Paul R. Josephson ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Lenin's Laureate

    Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

    by Paul R. Josephson ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science from Stalin through Gorbachev.In 2000, Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical applications of which include LEDs, rapid transistors, and the microchip. The Prize was the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Nuclear Russia

    The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture

    by Professor Paul Josephson ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...
    Series series Russian Shorts

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Bloomsbury presents Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, read by Leighton Pugh.In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ongoing, self-proclaimed ‘renaissance’ of ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Conquest of the Russian Arctic

    by Paul R. Josephson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $75.89 CAD

  • Nuclear Russia

    The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture

    by Professor Paul Josephson ...
    Series series Russian Shorts
    In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ongoing, self-proclaimed 'renaissance' of nuclear power in Russia in the 21st century. At the height of their power, ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook