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Lienz Cossacks
At the end of World War Two, in a beautiful alpine valley in Austria, an event occurred that has been variously described as a tragedy, a betrayal, and even a war crime. Cossacks and their followers, massed by the thousands around Lienz expecting to be given the freedom to continue their more than 25-year struggle against Soviet oppression, were instead brutally betrayed into the hands of those oppressors. This blending of fiction and fact tells the story of one group of Cossacks caught in the horror of that day. Their story starts from the "Great War" and continues through to Perestroika. In it, the reader will relive the Russian Civil War, the prisons of the Gulag, the loneliness of expatriate life, the famines of dekulakization, and the horrors, but also the hopes, of life under the Wehrmacht. It is a story of tragedy and redemption.
Ecologists
History, philosophy, love, and friendship blend in this fictional journey through the science of ecology. Jewel learns to love ecology during its formative years at Chicago and pursues it and its scientists to Urbana, New Haven, and Vermont. Danny, her nephew, picks up her journey a generation later at Ithaca, where the quiet science is well along its subversive path into society. Along the way, there is a secret that needs to unravel. Real ecologists they meet include Henry Cowles, Frederic Clements, Victor Shelford, Eugene Odum, Rachel Carson, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Robert MacArthur, E. O. Wilson, the Tallahassee Mafia, and many others. From the Afterword by Thompson Webb III, Brown Univers...
Magnificent Failure
Frank Egler was brilliant, noble, and charming. He was also arrogant, eccentric, reclusive, and outrageous. His publications and letters were all of those things and more. Within the professional life presented in them is the history of a major chunk of ecology, from the study of plant distribution to ecosystems to environmental ecology.
Great Betrayal
The issue of the forcible repatriations to the Soviet Union, especially of Cossacks and other anti-Communists, at the end of World War Two is one that still smolders, even as its victims have begun to die out. It remains an issue with important lessons even to the world of the 21st century. In Great Betrayal, which I have recently translated into English, Cossack White General Vyacheslav Naumenko created a valuable resource to those with an interest in this history. My translation of it made the original work available to a wide audience, especially that of the offspring of that generation whose betrayal and suffering is described in it in Russian . I have now also translated Volume 2 of Naumenko's work, making that, too, available to a wider reading public. It includes much material that Naumenko could not include in the first volume. There is more on the last days of the Cossachi Stan, the fate of the XV Cossack Cavalry Corps, forced repatriations from France, Italy, and England, the ultimate fate of Cossacks given over to the Soviets, and a number of official documents related to repatriations.
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics In Biology
This book is the first devoted to modern biology's innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn dissenters are individually fascinating. Taken together, they provide unparalleled insights into the role of dissent and controversy in science and especially the growth of biological thought over the past century. Each of the book's nineteen specially commissioned chapters offers a detailed portrait of the intellectual rebellion of a particular scientist working in a major area of biology--genetics, evolu...
Earth Days
Earth Days details the events of the revolution in ecology initiated by the publication of Silent Spring from the perspective of someone involved in its events. It is a book having to do with ideas and the people who held them. Earth Days starts with Rachel Carson and the other writers and scientists whose words caught the attention of the public on Earth Day. It tells about the Odum brothers from the corn pone South, champions of the ecosystem idea, Robert MacArthur, the "James Dean" of ecology, and Jared Diamond, who tried to be his successor and in the effort set off a war in ecology. It tells about Dan Simberloff, who rebelled against the science inspired by his own mentors in that war. ...
Debate Rules!
Debate Rules! takes the reader into the world of high school debate through the eyes of an outsider to it. In fact, it is through the eyes of someone who wants to destroy that world, which he sees as aberrant. Waldo Zhbryzhsky, known to his students and debaters as Dr Z, is caught between the two poles of his life: his love for putting words together in beautiful ways and his ability to multiply and divide. He drifts down in his confusion into teaching at a small Vermont high school, where he accidentally falls into being a debate coach. When four fabulous freshmen turn out for the team one year, he finally finds meaning in his life in the form of a crusade to destroy a style of debate, "spr...
Karp's Last Book
Through images and text, Karp's Last Book anticipates the ethos of the 21st century, while laying to rest that of the 20th. It conjures with and builds on the literary ideas of the greatest of existential thinkers and embellishes them with those of Salvador Dali. It is peopled with international villains, surprise heroes, existential situations tied to bucolic lore, and visual puzzles. You should read it in the sequence presented for maximum pleasure, although certain preview readers have naughtily admitted to peeking at the last chapter with no ill effects. Enjoy. Appropriate Critical Comments for Karp's Last Book "It is a tale told by an idiot"--William Shakespeare "It is a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty"-Woody Allen "What, me worry?"-Alfred E Newman "No commercial potential"-Frank Zappa "But something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr Jones?"-Bob Dylan "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"-Winston Churchill "What's all this then?"-Monty Python "Aren't you famous, too?"-Fred Tuttle "Try again. Fail again. Fail better"-Samuel Beckett
Rereading the Fossil Record
Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but influential group of paleontologists and examines the intellectual, disciplinary, and political dynamics involved in the ascendency of paleobiology. By tracing the role of computer technology, large databases, and quantitative analytical methods in the emergence of paleobiology, this book also offers insight into the growing prominence and centrality of data-driven approaches in recent science.
