Author: Huntington Family AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
The Huntington Family in America
Author: Huntington Family AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
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Measures for Progress
Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Register and Manual - State of Connecticut
Author: Connecticut. Secretary of the StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Author: Joseph StoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The Waterman Family
Author: How Bills Become Laws
Author: Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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New Atlantis Revisited
Author: Paul R. JosephsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691044545
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields. In a lively history of this city, a symbol of de-Stalinization, Paul Josephson offers the most complete analysis available of the reasons behind the successes and failures of Soviet science--from advances in nuclear physics to politically induced setbacks in research on recombinant DNA. Josephson presents case studies of high energy physics, genetics, computer science, environmentalism, and social sciences. He reveals that persistent ideological interference by the Communist Party, financial uncertainties, and pressures to do big science endemic in the USSR contributed to the failure of Akademgorodok to live up to its promise. Still, a kind of openness reigned that presaged the glasnost of Gorbachev's administration decades later. The openness was rooted in the geographical and psychological distance from Moscow and in the informal culture of exchange intended to foster the creative impulse. Akademgorodok is still an important research center, having exposed physics, biology, sociology, economics, and computer science to new investigations, distinct in pace and scope from those performed elsewhere in the Soviet scientific establishment.
Overthrow
Author: Stephen KinzerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805082409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An award-winning author tells the stories of the audacious American politicians, military commanders, and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose monarchs, presidents, and prime ministers of other countries with disastrous long-term consequences.
Retreat from Doomsday
Author: John MuellerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781934849170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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