Michael D. Gordin

11 books

On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience by Michael D. Gordin

On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

Michael D. Gordin

128 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative medium-paced
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael D. Gordin

The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe

Michael D. Gordin

304 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly by Michael D. Gordin

Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly

Michael D. Gordin

402 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English by Michael D. Gordin

Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English

Michael D. Gordin

424 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
A Well-ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev And The Shadow Of The Periodic Table by Michael D. Gordin

A Well-ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev And The Shadow Of The Periodic Table

Michael D. Gordin

384 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
Einstein in Bohemia by Michael D. Gordin

Einstein in Bohemia

Michael D. Gordin

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction science informative inspiring tense medium-paced
Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War by Michael D. Gordin

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War

Michael D. Gordin

209 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
Free Associations; Memories of a Psycho-Analyst by Michael D. Gordin, Ernest Jones

Free Associations; Memories of a Psycho-Analyst

Michael D. Gordin, Ernest Jones

320 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

informative medium-paced
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality by Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin, Judy L. Klein, Rebecca Lemov, Lorraine Daston, Paul Erickson

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin, Judy L. Klein, Rebecca Lemov, Lorraine Daston, Paul Erickson

272 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Scientific Babel: The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English by Michael D. Gordin
Scientific Babel: The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English
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Michael D. Gordin

Scientific Babel: The language of science from the fall of Latin to the rise of English

Michael D. Gordin

415 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced