Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English (Inbunden)
avMichael D. Gordin
ISBN: 9780226000299 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn't always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterp[...]
The Pseudoscience Wars (Pocket)
avMichael D. Gordin
ISBN: 9780226101729 - UTGIVEN: 2013-08The publication of Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision in 1950 was an event: the book was an instant best seller and launched Velikovsky on a long career as a writer and public figure opining on questions of science, history, myth, and more. But at the same time, Velikovsky and his theories - [...]
The Pseudoscience Wars (Inbunden)
avMichael D. Gordin
ISBN: 9780226304427 - UTGIVEN: 201209Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary [...]
Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Övrig)
avMichael D. Gordin
ISBN: 9780691128184 - UTGIVEN: 2007-01-02Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. "Five Days in August" boldly presents a different interpretation: that the military did not clearly understand the atomic bomb's revolutionary strategic potential, that the Al[...]
