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essential for a post-Covid-19 world
'Every essay in this book is magnificent
The subject of this book is humankind's extraordinary relationship with colour
It's in the stories we love - and the stories we fear
both of long distance trading and the little boats which took supplies from major harbours to smaller communities
Simon Ing: STALIN AND THE SCIENTISTS Z44 [2016] hardback Condition:New essential for a post-Covid-19 worldLong 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
