Michael D Gordin
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Michael D. Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Princeton). G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton and a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. His books include Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
Following the trail of espionage and technological innovation, and making use of newly opened archives, Michael D. Gordin provides a new understanding of the origins of the nuclear arms race and fresh insight into the problem of proliferation.
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning," exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising international event marked the...
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"A pleasure to read. This is a lovely book-highly original, meticulously researched, elegantly written, and full of surprises. Einstein in Bohemia is a richly textured, multilayered inquiry that ranges freely across many boundaries."-Derek Sayer, author of Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History "This engaging and beautifully written account of Einstein's often ignored time in Prague is a tour de force. Drawing on prodigious...
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Michael D. Gordin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University, where he also serves as the Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. His books include Scientific Babel and Five Days in August (Princeton). Dmitrii Mendeleev (1834–1907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has been known about him. A Well-Ordered Thing...
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Michael D. Gordin is professor of the history of science at Princeton University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly.
Most 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...
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Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Given the virulence of contemporary disputes over the denial of climate change and anti-vaccination movements-both of which display allegations of "pseudoscience" on all sides-there is a clear need to better understand issues of scientific demarcation.
Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction...