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| Author | : Elena Grossman |
| Publisher | : Litres |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-10-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 5041952108 |
El goes on a trip to Chernobyl. In the legendary city in which the Chernobyl accident occurred in 1986. But he did not expect that he would fall a year before the accident and after. Will he be able to get out of there or get stuck there forever?
| Author | : Adam Higginbotham |
| Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2020-02-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501134639 |
A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a movie” (The Wall Street Journal)—a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history’s worst nuclear disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological fragility, and for what can happen when a dishonest and careless state endangers its citizens and the entire world. But the real story of the accident, clouded from the beginning by secrecy, propaganda, and misinformation, has long remained in dispute. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews conducted over the course of more than ten years, as well as letters, unpublished memoirs, and documents from recently-declassified archives, Adam Higginbotham brings the disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. The result is a “riveting, deeply reported reconstruction” (Los Angeles Times) and a definitive account of an event that changed history: a story that is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. “The most complete and compelling history yet” (The Christian Science Monitor), Higginbotham’s “superb, enthralling, and necessarily terrifying...extraordinary” (The New York Times) book is an indelible portrait of the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will—lessons which, in the face of climate change and other threats, remain not just vital but necessary.
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| Publisher | : Distanz Editions |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Documentary photography |
| ISBN | : 9783954761494 |
When Alina Rudya (b. Ukraine, 1985; lives and works in Berlin) was one year old, she and fifty thousand others were evacuated from the city of Prypyat after the nuclear disaster that occurred in the nearby Chernobyl power plant on April 26, 1986. Her father, an engineer, was on duty in the power station that night, when reactor no. 4 exploded during a systems test. The worst accident in the history of nuclear energy to date released an enormous highly radioactive cloud into the atmosphere, necessitating the hurried resettlement of all local residents. After studying journalism and political science and training as a photographer, Rudya returned to Chernobyl for the thirtieth anniversary of the disaster. In the photographic project Prypyat Mon Amour, the artist tells stories of people like herself whose lives were fundamentally changed when they had to leave Prypyat in 1986. She joined them on a tour of their former homes--a journey into their past--and compiled new as well as historic photographs to document the history of a city that has ceased to exist.
| Author | : Claude Baillargeon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : PHOTOGRAPHY |
| ISBN | : 9783958293977 |
Since 1994 Scottish-born Canadian photographer David McMillan (born 1945) has journeyed 21 times to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Inspired by his teenage memories of Nevil Shute's On the Beach (1957), a disturbing vision of the world following nuclear war, McMillan found in Pripyat the embodiment of an irradiated city still standing but void of human life. As one of the first artists to gain access to "The Zone," McMillan initially explored the evacuated areas with few constraints and in solitude, save for an occasional scientist monitoring the effects of radioactivity. Returning year after year enabled him to revisit the sites of earlier photographs--sometimes fortuitously, sometimes by design--bearing witness to the forces of nature as they reclaimed the abandoned communities. Above all, his commitment has been to probe the relentless dichotomy between growth and decay in The Zone.
| Author | : Paul Dobraszczyk |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2017-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1786732408 |
The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.
| Author | : A.J.Kingston |
| Publisher | : A.J.Kingston |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2023 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1839382759 |
Introducing the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown 3 in 1 book bundle, From Boom to Bust! This collection of books provides a comprehensive account of the events leading up to the Chernobyl disaster, the disaster itself, and the aftermath and recovery that followed. Book 1, "Before the Meltdown: Life and Industry in Pripyat," takes readers on a journey back in time to the bustling city of Pripyat, located just miles from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Experience what life was like for the residents of Pripyat and gain a greater understanding of the industry that supported them. In Book 2, "The Disaster Unfolds: Eyewitness Accounts of the Chernobyl Explosion," readers will get a first-hand account of the events leading up to the meltdown and the explosion itself. Through the eyes of those who experienced it, gain a deeper understanding of the impact that the disaster had on the lives of those in and around the Chernobyl zone. Book 3, "Aftermath and Recovery: Rebuilding a Life in the Shadow of Chernobyl," provides a glimpse into the long-term effects of the disaster and the rebuilding process that followed. Follow the stories of those who returned to the area to rebuild their lives and find hope in the face of adversity. This book bundle is a must-read for those interested in the history of nuclear disasters and the resiliency of the human spirit. Order your copy of the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown 3 in 1 book bundle today and discover the full story of the Chernobyl disaster, from boom to bust.
| Author | : Lindsey A. Freeman |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 2019-02-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1503607798 |
This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a secret city during the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge enriched the uranium that powered Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The city was a major nuclear production site throughout the Cold War, adding something to each and every bomb in the United States arsenal. Even today, Oak Ridge contains the world's largest supply of fissionable uranium. The granddaughter of an atomic courier, Lindsey A. Freeman turns a critical yet nostalgic eye to the place where her family was sent as part of a covert government plan. Theirs was a city devoted to nuclear science within a larger America obsessed with its nuclear prowess. Through memories, mysterious photographs, and uncanny childhood toys, she shows how Reagan-era politics and nuclear culture irradiated the late twentieth century. Alternately tender and alarming, her book takes a Geiger counter to recent history, reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our tense nuclear present.
| Author | : Kate Brown |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 205 |
| Release | : 2015-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 022624282X |
“Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?” asks one chapter of Kate Brown’s surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montana—America’s largest environmental Superfund site—have much more in common than one would think thanks to similarities in climate, hucksterism, and the perseverance of their few hardy inhabitants. Taking readers to these and other unlikely locales, Dispatches from Dystopia delves into the very human and sometimes very fraught ways we come to understand a particular place, its people, and its history. In Dispatches from Dystopia, Brown wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version—the real or the virtual—is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese-Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the annual male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration of Hasidic Jews. In the Russian southern Urals, she speaks with the citizens of the small city of Kyshtym, where invisible radioactive pollutants have mysteriously blighted lives. Finally, Brown returns home to Elgin, Illinois, in the midwestern industrial rust belt to investigate the rise of “rustalgia” and the ways her formative experiences have inspired her obsession with modernist wastelands. Dispatches from Dystopia powerfully and movingly narrates the histories of locales that have been silenced, broken, or contaminated. In telling these previously unknown stories, Brown examines the making and unmaking of place, and the lives of the people who remain in the fragile landscapes that are left behind.
| Author | : Serhii Plokhy |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2018-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1541617088 |
A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world. A moving and definitive account, Chernobyl is also an urgent call to action.
| Author | : J.A.P. Alexander |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2020-12-01 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1000212955 |
Perspectives on Place provides an inspiring insight into the territory of landscape photography. Using a range of historic and contemporary examples, Alexander explores the rich and diverse history of landscape photography and the many ways in which contemporary photographers engage with the landscape and their surroundings.Bridging theory and practice, this book demonstrates how mastering a variety of different photographic techniques can help you communicate ideas, explore themes, and develop more abstract concepts. With practical guidance on everything from effective composition, to managing challenging lighting conditions and working with different lenses and formats, you’ll be able to build your own varied and creative portfolio.Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and an assignment, encouraging you to explore key concepts and apply different photographic techniques to your own practice. Richly illustrated with images from some of the world’s most influential photographers, Perspectives on Place will help you to explore the visual qualities of your images and represent your surroundings more meaningfully.
