Across the Waves
Across the Waves

Author: Derek W Vaillant

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0252050010

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In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting institutions that shaped international radio's use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of cooperation between America and France as they shaped a new media environment. Throughout, Vaillant explains how radio's power as an instantaneous mass communications tool produced, legitimized, and circulated various notions of states, cultures, ideologies, and peoples as superior or inferior. A first comparative history of its subject, Across the Waves provocatively examines how different strategic agendas, aesthetic aims and technical systems shaped U.S.-French broadcasting and the cultural politics linking the United States and France.

Waves Across the South
Waves Across the South

Author: Sujit Sivasundaram

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 022679055X

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This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and violence. Waves Across the South shifts the narrative of the Age of Revolutions and the origins of the British Empire; it foregrounds a vast southern zone that ranges from the Arabian Sea and southwest Indian Ocean across to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea. As the empires of the Dutch, French, and especially the British reached across these regions, they faced a surge of revolutionary sentiment. Long-standing venerable Eurasian empires, established patterns of trade and commerce, and indigenous practice also served as a context for this transformative era. In addition to bringing long-ignored people and events to the fore, Sujit Sivasundaram opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history, the consequences of historical violence, the legacies of empire, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short. The result is nothing less than a bold new way of understanding our global past, one that also helps us think afresh about our shared future.

Waves and Information Transfer
Waves and Information Transfer

Author: Heather C. Hudak

Publisher: Catch a Wave

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780778729624

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In this fascinating title, readers explore how light and sound waves transfer information. From telescopes that extend our sense of sight to satellites that help us communicate across large distances, patterns of waves transfer information in many ways. A link to interactive activities online plus an activity in the book allow readers to use what they have learned about waves to engineer wave patterns that communicate across distances. Teacher's guide available.

Swell
Swell

Author: Evan Slater

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2012-05-09

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1452105936

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Wave watchers around the world know that no two waves are the same. Yet each and every wave that rises, peaks, and crashes onto the beach is generated by a much larger force originating thousands of miles away. Surf journalist team Evan Slater and Peter Taras capture the essence of waves and the swells that produce them in this breathtaking collection of wave photography. Slater characterizes four distinct swells from different corners of the globe and traces their journeys throughout the year from storm to seashore. His reflective, informative essays amplify these powerful images of hundreds of waves frozen in time, beautiful, simple, universal, yet wholly unique—and the best thing to watch on the planet.

Waves
Waves

Author: Donna Rawlins

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-07

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781760654450

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Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia. Every journey is perilous, every situation heartbreaking. Every refugee is a person forced by famine or war or fear to leave their home, their families, their friends and all they know. Children have travelled on the waves of migration to the shores of Australia for tens of thousands of years. This book tells some of their stories.

OBJECTIVE Computer Awareness
OBJECTIVE Computer Awareness

Author: Arihant Experts

Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9313168804

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Computer Awareness is an important section for various exams of the country including IBPS, SBI (Bank PO & Clerk), SSC, Railway, Police and many other state competitive exams. Hence, it comes as no surprise that having strong knowledge about computer plays an important role in getting success in exams. This book “Learn, Revise and Practice Computer Awareness” once again brings in the complete study material for Computer knowledge at one place for you. Designed on the basis of close considerations of various examinations’ syllabus and pattern, it serves as the most suitable read to understand computer awareness. It includes Chapterwise theories, Question Bank with each chapter, Chapterwise Past Years’ Questions and 5 Practice Sets for Complete Practice. Abbreviations and Glossary are also given at the end. Providing to-the-point, chapterwise study supported by definitions, examples, exercises and more, it promotes the best learning along with revision and practice to perform well in exams. TOC Introduction to Computer, Computer Architecture, Computer Hardware, Computer Memory, Data Representation, Computer Software, Operating System, Programming Concepts, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Database Concepts, Internet and its Services, Computer Security, Practice Sets (1-5), Abbreviations, Glossary