Filters
-
Theme
- History and Archaeology
- Society and Social Sciences
- Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
- Mathematics and Science
- Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
- Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
- Fiction and Related items
- Language and Linguistics
- Philosophy and Religion
- The Arts
-
Product form
-
Language
-
Price
Results for 'serhii plokhy'
-
Het atoomtijdperk
Een ijzingwekkende strijd om wapens, macht en voortbestaanHet nucleaire tijdperk begon met de explosie van de eerste atoombom in de woestijn van New Mexico in juli 1945. De belangrijkste maker ervan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, citeerde bij die gelegenheid de Bhagavad Gita (‘het lied van de Heer’): ‘Nu ben ik de Dood geworden, de vernietiger van werelden.’ Daarmee legde hij de basis van de angst voor de bom – of beter gezegd, voor twee bommen: de atoombom en de waterstofbom. In Het atoomtijdperk analyseert de veelgeprezen historicus Serhii Plokhy het falen om tot betekenisvolle wapenverdragen te komen en onderzoekt hij waarom overheden kernwapens blijven verwerven. Hij leidt de lezer van de eerste kunstmatige splijting van het atoom in 1917, via de race om een atoombom te ontwikkelen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de wapenwedloop van de Koude Oorlog, naar het imperialisme, het neokolonialisme en de oorlogen die vandaag de dag worden gevoerd. Terwijl regeringen hun wapenarsenaal opnieuw opbouwen, dreigen Rusland, China en Noord-Korea met nucleaire agressie, zijn India en Pakistan verwikkeld in voortdurende nucleaire rivaliteit, en lijken meer landen dan ooit – zoals Iran – bijna in staat om zelf kernwapens te produceren. Het atoomtijdperk legt de onmacht bloot die onze tijd beheerst, terwijl het gevaar van een nucleaire oorlog of aanslag steeds groter wordt.
€ 29,99 -
Lost Kingdom
A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir PutinLost Kingdom tells the story of how the history of Russia was being written when that history was being made. . . A singularly fascinating account of Russian nationalism through the ages
€ 17,95 -
The Nuclear Age
An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and SurvivalA sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to today’s rush to stockpile nuclear weapons.
€ 34,95 -
The Russo-Ukrainian War
From the bestselling author of ChernobylHow did we get here? Serhii Plokhy, a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, looks for an answer to Putin's irrational war in this important and magisterial account. . . He is excellent on the dangers of perverse history
€ 14,95 -
Chain Reactions
A Hopeful History of UraniumLucy Jane Santos, author of Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium and Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium, is an expert in the history of the twentieth-century with a particular interest in the cultural history of all things nuclear. She is the Executive Secretary of the British Society for the History of Science. Lucy lives in England.
€ 14,95 -
Nuclear War
A ScenarioAs gripping as any thriller, her book brilliantly portrays the horrific reality of nuclear war.
€ 14,95 -
Our Enemies Will Vanish
For verve, knowledge and detail Trofimov can seldom be beaten and his writing is rich in local colour
€ 14,50 -
How to Spot a Fascist
But who are ‘they’?HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance – including Eco’s iconic essay ‘Ur-Fascism’, which lists the fourteen essential characteristics of fascism, and draws on his own personal experiences growing up in the shadow of Mussolini.
€ 8,50 -
The Gates of Europe
A History of UkraineThe most distinguished historian of Ukraine writing in English. . . Mr Plokhy shows how Ukrainian language, culture and identity flourished in adversity -- which helps explain why, though they have only recently achieved a state of their own, Ukrainians are fighting heroically to defend it
€ 17,95 -
Killing the Pope
John Paul II and the Last Battle of the Cold WarSerhii Plokhy is the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Pushkin House Book Prize, and the New York Times bestseller The Gates of Europe. His many acclaimed books, including The Russo-Ukrainian War, Nuclear Folly and Atoms and Ashes, have been translated into over a dozen languages. He is Professor of History at Harvard University where he also serves as Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
€ 34,50 -
Killing the Pope
An immersive narrative investigation into the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in 1981, and the international dispute over who was responsible for it. On May 13, 1981, a Turkish man named Mehmet Ali Agca shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in the heart of Vatican City. Agca was put on trial and served nineteen years in an Italian prison before his return to Turkey, where he lives to this day. Why did the shooting in Saint Peter's Square take place, and how did it shape the turbulence of the late Cold War? In Killing the Pope, written with the momentum of a fast-paced thriller and the rigor of the best scholarship, the master historian Serhii Plokhy revisits the era and one of its defining mysteries. He traces Agca's membership in the right-wing terrorist group known as the Gray Wolves, his assassination of a liberal journalist and escape from a Turkish prison, and his grandiose rhetoric about the dangers of the Church and imperialism to Turkey's national honor. Agca's story intersects with many others, however, as the newly installed pope visits his native Poland and becomes an anti-communist icon, and the Gray Wolves' ties to organized crime prompt widespread allegations of a Soviet-Bulgarian conspiracy to eliminate John Paul. As Agca's trial proceeds, it becomes a bizarre but consequential Cold War theater, with both Washington and Moscow spreading disinformation, and a beloved pontiff and voluble, enigmatic wouldbe killer at its center. Drawing on pathbreaking research in far-flung archives, Plokhy's absorbing narrative dispels myths and offers the most meticulous account to date of a violent act that shook the world.
€ 30,50 -
History of Ukraine-Rus'
Volume 7. The Cossack Age to 1625€ 128,95