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Author: Simeon Booker
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1617037893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unforgettable chronicle from a groundbreaking journalist who covered Emmett Till's murder, the Little Rock Nine, and ten US presidents
Author: Anna Claybourne
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474927802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 1429919485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
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Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823423880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis high-voltage introduction to energy combines physical science and environmental science with fun. Easy-to-follow diagrams show different ways energy can be harnessed. Tips on how to use energy sensibly are included.
Author: Dr. Science
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780688114442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 90-second pseudointellectual Q&A series heard daily on public radio stations nationwide, Ask Dr. Science has amazed, enraged, and humorously enlightened legions of listeners since its inception in 1984. Now Dr. Science focuses his nonsensical energies on the home. 10 photos.
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 556
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Published: 1985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Edgerton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-01-22
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199774773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used-and continue to use-rather than just sophisticated inventions. Indeed, many highly touted technologies, from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet, have been costly failures, while many mundane discoveries, like corrugated iron, become hugely important around the world. Edgerton reassesses the significance of such acclaimed inventions as the Pill and information technology, and underscores the continued importance of unheralded technology, debunking many notions about the implications of the "information age." A provocative history, The Shock of the Old provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between invention and innovation.
Author: Manuel D. Salas
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2009-12-17
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1439807590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA defining feature of nonlinear hyperbolic equations is the occurrence of shock waves. While the popular shock-capturing methods are easy to implement, shock-fitting techniques provide the most accurate results. A Shock-Fitting Primer presents the proper numerical treatment of shock waves and other discontinuities. The book begins by recounting the events that lead to our understanding of the theory of shock waves and the early developments related to their computation. After presenting the main shock-fitting ideas in the context of a simple scalar equation, the author applies Colombeau’s theory of generalized functions to the Euler equations to demonstrate how the theory recovers well-known results and to provide an in-depth understanding of the nature of jump conditions. He then extends the shock-fitting concepts previously discussed to the one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional Euler equations as well as two-dimensional flows. The final chapter explores existing and future developments in shock-fitting methods within the framework of unstructured grid methods. Throughout the text, the techniques developed are illustrated with numerous examples of varying complexity. On the accompanying downloadable resources, MATLAB® codes serve as concrete examples of how to implement the ideas discussed in the book.
Author: Hans G Hornung
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 1997-01-22
Total Pages: 1740
ISBN-13: 9814548022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe symposia take place every two years. They are the forum at which scientists concerned with shock waves present their research. They USE shock waves for chemical kinetics studies, for materials studies, and smashing kidney stones; they STUDY the phenomena associated with flows involving shock waves, such as supersonic flow, explosions, detonations, volcanic eruptions, and, in this symposium, even such with-it topics as impact of Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter and blast waves in the World Trade Center. They also discover new, bigger and better ways of generating flows at hypervelocity speeds and develop their technological tools further.The international exchange of information is documented in the proceedings volumes, which have become a storehouse of information on the subject, documenting the history of this peculiar branch of science that involves chemists, physicists, engineers, geophysicists, material scientists and biologists.
