Michael Bess
Autor/a de Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II
Sobre l'autor
Michael Bess is Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author of Choices Under Fire and The Light-Green Society. He received a Guggenheim fellowship and a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to conduct the research for this book.
Obres de Michael Bess
Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future (2015) 46 exemplars
The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 (2003) 20 exemplars
Make Way for the Superhumans: How the science of bio enhancement is transforming our world, and how we need to deal… (2016) 10 exemplars
Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989--Louise… (1993) 4 exemplars
Family Historical Record 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Bess, Michael Demaree
- Data de naixement
- 1955
- Gènere
- male
- Llocs de residència
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Educació
- Reed College (BA|Philosophy)
University of California, Berkeley (MA|History)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D|History) - Professions
- Chancellor’s Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 9
- Membres
- 163
- Popularitat
- #129,735
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 24
- ISBN
- 19
- Llengües
- 1
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