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  • Technology Transfer

    Edición de Dietrich Schroeer, Micro Elena ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: The theme of this collection of essays is "technology transfer". The topic has three major aspects: the interchange of technologies between military and civilian applications - "spin-off", "dual use", "conversion" and "diversification" fall under this heading; the proliferation of military arms, which could occur either through arms races between developed ... Leer más

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  • Normal Accidents

    Living with High Risk Technologies

    Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety ... Leer más

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  • Conspiracy - HAARP

    Good Or Evil

    de Grant Boyden ...
    Series series Conspiracy
    Is it one of the worlds most controversial tools of science or just another weapon of mass destruction? The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, AKA HAARP, is an ionospheric research program designed to advance our understanding of Earth Science.But, HAARP is not only capable of helping mankind, it can destroy it too. This book will make you stop and think because the difference with ... Leer más

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  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    de Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Rescuing Prometheus

    Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World

    "A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    Series series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... Leer más

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  • Modern Concepts of Security

    AKPENINOR James Ohwofasa is an accomplished multi-disciplinary Author who has authored several Books and Articles across the the fields of Political science, Criminology & Security studies, Environmental science and Theology. I have been associated with the security operations at various levels of jurisdictions from the National security policing (covert operations) to the Industrial/Commercial ... Leer más

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  • Weather Warfare

    In April 1997, United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen declared that there are terrorists at work who “... are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves...“ Weather modification in the form of cloud seeding to increase snow packs in the Sierras or suppress hail over Kansas ... Leer más

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  • The Nuclear Enterprise

    High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors

    A panel of expert contributors offers its views on the risks and rewards of the nuclear enterprise, focusing on issues of safety, regulation, and public perception. Contributors discuss specific experience and issues regarding the technical safety of weapons and power plants, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media. ... Leer más

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  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    Series series Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Space Safety Regulations and Standards

    Edición de Joseph N. Pelton, Ram Jakhu ...
    When international rules and regulations governing space travel were first being developed, only a few countries had any space presence and commercial space activity was non-existent. Today, over 50 countries have on-orbit satellites and commercial space presence is essential to commercial telecommunications and broadcasting, yet international space law remains in its infancy.Space Safety ... Leer más

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  • Cultivating Confidence

    Verification, Monitoring, and Enforcement for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

    Edición de Corey Hinderstein ...
    Ten expert contributors present a blueprint for actions future government leaders will need to guide policy making to reduce nuclear dangers. The authors identify the key technical, political, and diplomatic challenges associated with verifying, monitoring, and enforcing a world free of nuclear weapons and provide potential solutions to those challenges. ... Leer más

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