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Simon Ings

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Stalin a vědci


Kniha byla v roce 2016 nominována na Baillie Gifford Prize, nejprestižnější britskou cenu za literaturu faktu Podnětné a mrazivé dílo, jež nám ukazuje, jak byli vědci v rodícím se Sovětském svazu obětováni sovětskému snu o vybudování ideálního státu.“ – Kirkus Reviews V první polovině dvacátého století sovětský státní aparát v čele s Josifem V. Stalinem nadšeně podporoval a financoval práci vědců, ale zároveň je vystavoval obrovskému ideologickému tlaku. Aktivní zájem režimu i osobní ctižádostivost jednotlivých aktérů páchaly často strašlivé škody a jediný krok špatným směrem mohl člověka připravit nejenom o vyhlídky na zářnou kariéru, ale i o práci, či dokonce o život. Sovětští vědci ve svém úsilí přesto neustali a mnozí z nich nakonec svými poznatky výrazně přispěli k rozvoji moderní vědy. Jiným, zejména Trofimu Lysenkovi, však věda posloužila jako prostředek k realizaci vlastních mocenských ambicí. Oceňovaný britský autor Simon Ings představuje ve své knize Stalin a vědci, fascinující, mnohdy až absurdní pohled na život a práci sovětských vědců v době, kdy Sovětskému svazu vládla stalinská ideologie a věda se ocitla v jejím područí.
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Stalin and the Scientists


Long listed for the The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016. An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. Simon Ings weaves together what happened when a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. And he shows how Stalin's obsessions derailed a great experiment in 'rational government'.
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24,65 € 25,95 €

Stalin and the Scientists


LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION. War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly and crime - but also through courage, imagination and even genius. Stalin believed that science should serve the state and with many disciplines having virtually unlimited funds, by the time of his death in 1953, the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history - at once the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. The human cost of this peculiar marriage between the state and its scientists was horrendous, yet, in Stalin and the Scientists, Simon Ings makes clear what Soviet science has done for us.
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12,83 € 13,50 €

Headlong


Post-cyberpunk SF that recalls the darkness of M. John Harrison and the wild visual imagination of China Mieville and Hannu Rajaniemi, HEADLONG felt ahead of the curve when first published and now serves to show just why Simon Ings has remained on the cutting edge of genre fiction. Surgically connected to their swarming robotic workers, architects Christopher and Joanne Yale are turning the moon into a paradise. But now, without warning, the machines have pulled the plug and are building a new, insane future away from the control of human minds.
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10,93 € 11,50 €

We, Robots


Artificial intelligence in 100 stories. To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written - most of them by humans - about robots and artificial minds. Read them while you can, learn from them, and make your preparations... From 1837 through to the present day, from Charles Dickens to Cory Doctorow, this collection contains the most diverse collection of robots ever assembled. Anthropomorphic robots, invertebrate AIs, thuggish metal lumps and wisps of manufactured intelligence so delicate if you blinked you might miss them. The literature of robots and artificial intelligence is so wildly diverse, in both tone and intent, that our stories form six thematic collections. It's Alive! is about inventors and their creations. Following the Money drops robots into the day-to-day business of living. Owners and Servants considers the human potentials and pitfalls of owning and maintaining robots. Changing Places looks at what happens at the blurred interface between human and machine minds. All Hail the New Flesh waves goodbye to the physical boundaries that once separated machines from their human creators. Succession considers the future of human and machine consciousnesses - in so far as we might have one. With 100 stories spanning an order of magnitude more pages, Simon Ings's We, Robots is the new overlord of all robot literary compendiums. Welcome it.
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27,51 € 28,96 €