Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region, Tacoma, WA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_FAIR. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: USED_GOOD. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.56.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 1.56.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 1.56.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster 7/2/2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback or Softback. Condición: NEW. The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Gr 1. Book.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Reino Unido
Condición: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: NEW. Paperback. In The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, acclaimed journalist and author Peter Pringle recreates the extraordinary life and tragic end of one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. In a drama of love, revolution, and war that rivals Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, Pringle tells the story of a young Russian scientist, Nikolai Vavilov, who had a dream of ending hunger and famine in the world. Vavilov's plan would use the emerging science of genetics to breed super plants that could grow anywhere, in any climate, in sandy deserts and freezing tundra, in drought and flood. He would launch botanical expeditions to find these vanishing genes, overlooked by early farmers ignorant of Mendel's laws of heredity. He called it a "mission for all humanity." To the leaders of the young Soviet state, Vavilov's dream fitted perfectly into their larger scheme for a socialist utopia. Lenin supported the adventurous Vavilov, a handsome and seductive young professor, as he became an Indiana Jones, hunting lost botanical treasures on five continents. In a former tsarist palace in what is now St. Petersburg, Vavilov built the world's first seed bank, a quarter of a million specimens, a magnificent living museum of plant diversity that was the envy of scientists everywhere and remains so today. But when Lenin died in 1924 and Stalin took over, Vavilov's dream turned into a nightmare. This son of science was from a bourgeois background, the class of society most despised and distrusted by the Bolsheviks. The new cadres of comrade scientists taunted and insulted him, and Stalin's dreaded secret police built up false charges of sabotage and espionage. Stalin's collectivization of farmland caused chaos in Soviet food production, and millions died in widespread famine. Vavilov's master plan for improving Soviet crops was designed to work over decades, not a few years, and he could not meet Stalin's impossible demands for immediate results. In Stalin's Terror of the 1930s, Russian geneticists were systematically repressed in favor of the peasant horticulturalist Trofim Lysenko, with his fraudulent claims and speculative theories. Vavilov was the most famous victim of this purge, which set back Russian biology by a generation and caused the country untold harm. He was sentenced to death, but unlike Galileo, he refused to recant his beliefs and, in the most cruel twist, this humanitarian pioneer scientist was starved to death in the gulag. Pringle uses newly opened Soviet archives, including Vavilov's secret police file, official correspondence, vivid expedition reports, previously unpublished family letters and diaries, and the reminiscences of eyewitnesses to bring us this intensely human story of a brilliant life cut short by anti-science demagogues, ideology, censorship, and political expedience. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: USED_GOOD. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Publicado por SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Softcover. Condición: NEW. Special order direct from the distributor.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 1.56.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 1.56.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, Estados Unidos de America
PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 384 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Reino Unido
PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Publicado por Simon Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: NEW.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Big Bill's Books, Wimberley, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: NEW. Brand New Copy.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: NEW. New.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: NEW. Buy for Great customer experience.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, Reino Unido
Condición: good. 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: NEW. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Byrd Books, Austin, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. In Used Condition.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, Reino Unido
Condición: New.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, Reino Unido
Condición: USED_ASNEW. Unread book in perfect condition.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: NEW. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Publicado por Simon & Schuster, 2011
ISBN 10: 1451656491 ISBN 13: 9781451656497
Librería: Toscana Books, AUSTIN, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: USED_VERYGOOD. Purchase pre-owned books for prompt service and customer satisfaction.