Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinar...

Spanning nine time zones, the Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. ...

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world''s forests; vast ...

Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage ...

The construction of the Three Gorges Dam on China's Yangtze River. The transformation of the Amaz...

Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait, the immense Russian Arctic was mostly ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinar...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinar...

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast d...

In 2000, Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction...

In the 1950s, Soviet nuclear scientists and leaders imagined a stunning future when giant reactor...