• Home
  • Search
  • Browse Collections
  • My Account
  • About
  • DC Network Digital Commons Network™
Skip to main content
Digital Commons @ Colby

Digital Commons @ Colby

  • My Account
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Home

Home > Faculty Books

Faculty Books

 
Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.

Follow

Switch View to Grid View Slideshow
 
  • Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine by Paul R. Josephson

    Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine

    Paul R. Josephson

    From dirt bikes and jet skis to weed wackers and snowblowers, machines powered by small gas engines have become a permanent—and loud—fixture in American culture. But fifty years of high-speed fun and pristine lawns have not come without cost.

    In the first comprehensive history of the small-bore engine and the technology it powers, Paul R. Josephson explores the political, environmental, and public health issues surrounding one of America's most dangerous pastimes. Each chapter tells the story of an ecosystem within the United States and the devices that wreak havoc on ... Read More

  • Totalitarian Science and Technology by Paul R. Josephson

    Totalitarian Science and Technology

    Paul R. Josephson

    In Totalitarian Science and Technology Paul Josephson considers how physicists, biologists, and engineers have fared in totalitarian regimes. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin relied on scientists and engineers to build the infrastructure of their states. The military power of their regimes was largely based on the discovery of physicists and biologists. They sought to use biology to transform nature, including their citizens, with murderous effect in Nazi Germany. They expected scientists to devote themselves entirely to the goals of the state, and were intolerant of deviation from state-sponsored programs ... Read More

  • New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science by Paul R. Josephson

    New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science

    Paul R. Josephson

    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 ... Read More

 
 
 

Search

Advanced Search

  • Notify me via email or RSS

Links

  • Colby College
  • Colby Libraries
  • Digital Commons in Maine

Browse

  • Featured Publications
  • All Collections
  • Journals
  • Student Research
  • College Archives and Special Collections
  • Disciplines
  • Disciplines
  • Authors

For Authors

  • Author FAQ
  • Submit Research
  • Submission Agreement
 
Elsevier - Digital Commons

Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement

Privacy Copyright