Michael Bess
Autor(a) de Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II
About the Author
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.
Obras por Michael Bess
Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future (2015) 49 exemplares
The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 (2003) 22 exemplares
Make Way for the Superhumans: How the science of bio enhancement is transforming our world, and how we need to deal… (2016) 11 exemplares
Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989--Louise… (1993) 4 exemplares
Family Historical Record 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Bess, Michael Demaree
- Data de nascimento
- 1955
- Sexo
- male
- Locais de residência
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Educação
- Reed College (BA|Philosophy)
University of California, Berkeley (MA|History)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D|History) - Ocupações
- Chancellor’s Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 172
- Popularidade
- #124,308
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 24
- ISBN
- 19
- Línguas
- 1
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