Paul R Josephson: 4 books

Book cover of Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans

Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans

The Politics of Everyday Technologies

by Paul R. Josephson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015

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...
Book cover of The Conquest of the Russian Arctic
by Paul R. Josephson
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014

Spanning nine time zones, the Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. Paul Josephson describes the massive effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic into the Soviet empire--effects still being felt today, as Putin redoubles efforts to secure the Arctic, which he sees as key to Russia's economic and military status.
Book cover of Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
by Paul R. Josephson
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010

The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science from Stalin through Gorbachev.
Book cover of History of American Political Thought
by George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...
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