Download or read book Telebomb written by John Handley and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation.
Download or read book Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II written by H. R. Everett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive technical history of air, land, sea, and underwater unmanned systems, by a distinguished U.S. Navy roboticist. Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, offering the first comprehensive historical and technical accounting of unmanned air, land, sea, and underwater systems. Focusing on examples introduced during the two world wars, H. R. Everett meticulously traces their development from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. A pioneering Navy roboticist, Everett not only describes these systems in detail but also reverse-engineers the designs in order to explain how they operated in real-world conditions of the time. More than 500 illustrations—photographs, drawings, and plans, many of them never before published—accompany the text. Everett covers the evolution of early wire-guided submersibles, tracing the development of power, propulsion, communication, and control; radio-controlled surface craft, deployed by both Germany and Great Britain in World War I; radio-controlled submersibles; radio-controlled aircraft, including the TDR-1 assault drone project in World War II—which laid the groundwork for subsequent highly classified drone programs; and remote-controlled ground vehicles, including the Wehrmacht's Goliath and Borgward demolition carriers.
Download or read book Lower Ed written by Tressie McMillan Cottom and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students." —The New York Times Book Review As featured on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale" (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality “p>Lower Ed is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century: for-profit colleges. With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, Tressie McMillan Cottom—a sociologist who was once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed details the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of the expansion of for-profit colleges. Now with a new foreword by Stephanie Kelton, economic advisor to Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, this smart and essential book cuts to the very core of our nation's broken social contracts and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.
Download or read book Geodetic Deformation Monitoring From Geophysical to Engineering Roles written by Fernando Sansò and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geodesy is the science dealing with the determination of the position of points in space, the shape and gravity field of the Earth and with their time variations. This book collects 36 selected papers from the International Symposium on Geodetic Deformation Monitoring held in Jaén (Spain) from 17th to 19th March 2005. It contains a good overview of theoretical matters, models and results.
Download or read book CIO written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book On the Edge of Earth written by Steven Lambakis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Interesting and provocative. . . . Recommended for anyone interested in space policy and national security affairs.” —Choice The United States has long exploited Earth’s orbits to enhance security, generate wealth, and solidify its position as a world leader. America’s ambivalence toward military activities in space, however, has the potential to undermine our future security. Some perceive space as a place to defend and fight for America’s vital interests. Others?whose voices are frequently dominant and manifested in public rhetoric, funded defense programs, international diplomacy, and treaty commitments?look upon space as a preserve not to be despoiled by earthly strife. After forty years of discussion, the debate over America’s role in space rages on. In light of the steady increase in international satellite activity for commercial and military purposes, America’s vacillation on this issue could begin to pose a real threat to our national security. Steven Lambakis argues that this policy dysfunction will eventually manifest itself in diminished international political leverage, the forfeiture of technological advances, and the squandering of valuable financial resources. Lambakis reviews key political, military, and business developments in space over the past four decades. Emphasizing that we should not take our unobstructed and unlimited access to space for granted, he identifies potential space threats and policy flaws and proposes steps to meet national security demands for the twenty-first century. “Provides a wealth of details on a wide range of factors that contribute to space power.” —Air & Space Power Journal “Will trigger public debate, generate controversy and add creatively to the policy debate.” —John D. Stempel, author of Common Sense and Foreign Policy
Download or read book Innovation and Inequality written by Susan Cozzens and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur, and the other co-authors ask how the benefits and costs of emerging technologies are distributed amongst different countries _ some rich and some poor. Examining the case studies of five technologies across eight countri
Download or read book The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities written by Russell A. Newman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment, solidifying the continued existence of a commercially driven internet. Media reform activists rejoiced in 2015 when the FCC codified network neutrality, approving a set of Open Internet rules that prohibitedproviders from favoring some content and applications over others—only to have their hopes dashed two years later when the agency reversed itself. In this book, Russell Newman offers a unique perspective on these events, arguing that the movement for network neutrality was of a piece with its neoliberal environment rather than counter to it; perversely, it served to solidify the continued existence of a commercially dominant internet and even emergent modes of surveillance and platform capitalism. Going beyond the usual policy narrative of open versus closed networks, or public interest versus corporate power, Newman uses network neutrality as a lens through which to examine the ways that neoliberalism renews and reconstitutes itself, the limits of particular forms of activism, and the shaping of future regulatory processes and policies. Newman explores the debate's roots in the 1990s movement for open access, the transition to network neutrality battles in the 2000s, and the terms in which these battles were fought. By 2017, the debate had become unmoored from its own origins, and an emerging struggle against “neoliberal sincerity” points to a need to rethink activism surrounding media policy reform itself.
Download or read book Confidential Documents written by United States. Army Air Forces and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences written by Reik V. Donner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The understanding of dynamical processes in the complex system “Earth” requires the appropriate analysis of a large amount of data from observations and/or model simulations. In this volume, modern nonlinear approaches are introduced and used to study specifiic questions relevant to present-day geoscience. The approaches include spatio-temporal methods, time-frequency analysis, dimension analysis (in particular, for multivariate data), nonlinear statistical decomposition, methods designed for treating data with uneven sampling or missing values, nonlinear correlation and synchronization analysis, surrogate data techniques, network approaches, and nonlinear methods of noise reduction. This book aims to present a collection of state-of-the-art scientific contributions used in current studies by some of the world's leading scientists in this field.
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Download or read book Geodetic and Geophysical Observations in Antarctica written by Alessandro Capra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to their unique geophysical and geodynamic environment, both the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are often utilized for geodetic and geophysical observations. This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the scientific investigation and observation techniques of the polar regions at both temporary and permanent observatories. Most papers focus on regional models based on data acquired in polar regions. Geodetic satellite positions systems (GNSS: GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO) will also be discussed as well as other space techniques (DORIS, VLBI). Gravimetry, absolute gravimetry, and tidal gravimetry are also discussed, as well as seismology and meteorology. The book also touches on data analysis and geodynamic interpretation and discusses methods of constructing autonomous observatories.
Download or read book Spelling written by Diane Montgomery and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for teachers wanting to know what to do to help pupils with spelling difficulties, this book combines practical advice with theory, research and accounts of the author's own experience. The author looks at how spelling skills develop in both young children and older pupils.
Download or read book Forbidden Tomorrow written by John W. Twilley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vince Akeeno is a star ship engineer for Space Dynamics, a space trade company. His friend and attorney, Eddy Larch, becomes embroiled in a conflict involving Vinces estranged wife and Bruno Carlton, a famous prizefighter and gangster. Eddy must help Vince fight the sinister syndicate before hes murdered, but Vince actually has bigger problems. He has an idea on how to save humankind from extinction. As soon as he makes his suggestion, however, it quickly becomes clear that no man is more qualified for the job than Vincebut hes not sure he wants to play the hero. Despite his hesitation, the military wrangles him into service and trains him to command a special ship called the Defiant. The Defiant will take the last of humankind to another world. Meanwhile, aliens are invading and attacking civilization. Will Vince, an unlikely redeemer, take command of the Defiant in time to save the human race? Will his personal embroilments get in the way, especially when he develops feelings for Eddy? There is no time for hesitation in this game of life and death, survival and destruction.
