{"product_id":"nordenholts-million-paperback","title":"Nordenholt's Million - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. J. Connington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Battles\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eEvan Hepler-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs a bacteria threatens to wipe out humankind, a plutocrat sets himself up as the benignant dictator of a survivalist colony.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this novel originally published in 1923, as denitrifying bacteria inimical to plant growth spreads around the world, toppling civilizations and threatening to wipe out humankind, the British plutocrat Nordenholt sets himself up as the benignant dictator of a ruthlessly efficient, entirely undemocratic, survivalist colony established in Scotland's Clyde Valley. Discovering just how far their employer is willing to go in his effort to spare one million lives, Jack Flint, the colony's director of operations, and Elsa Huntingtower, Nordenholt's personal assistant, are forced to grapple with the question of whether a noble end justifies dastardly means.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder the pseudonym J. J. Connington, Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947) wrote seventeen well-received detective novels; \u003ci\u003eNordenholt's Million\u003c\/i\u003e is his only science fiction novel. Stewart was a distinguished British chemist and author of the popular textbooks \u003ci\u003eRecent Advances in Organic Chemistry \u003c\/i\u003e(1908) and \u003ci\u003eRecent Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistr\u003ci\u003ey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1909). Via a 1918 theory of the physical chemistry of radioactivity, he contributed the term \u003ci\u003eisobar\u003c\/i\u003e--as complementary to the term \u003ci\u003eisotope\u003c\/i\u003e--to science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMatthew Battles is the author of \u003ci\u003eLibrary: An Unquiet History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePalimpsest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTree\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereignties of Invention\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science, technology, and the natural world have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e. For Harvard's metaLAB, he develops research into the dark abundance of collections, cultural and technology, and conditions of experience in the context of deep time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvan Hepler-Smith teaches the history of science and technology and environmental history at Duke University. He has a special interest in the history of chemicals and chemistry, information technology, and environmental regulation. His book in progress is entitled \u003ci\u003eCompound Words: Chemical Information and the Molecular World.\u003c\/i\u003e His writing has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Time.com, and \u003ci\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 394\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.72 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766495445280,"sku":"9780262544283","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6093d099cca31564e9a1896ab47051b1.webp?v=1780293794","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nordenholts-million-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}