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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. First edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 264 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In.

Broschur / Softcover. 1. Aufl./1st ed. Text in ENGLISH - // The Culture of Violence presents a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as it arises in the media, the lives of children and their families, and in the work of artists such as Bruce Nauman, Ida Applebroog, Mel Chin, Kristin Oppenheim, Lucinda Devlin, Gregory Green, Leon Golub, Richard Misrach and Sue Williams. Organized around thematic categories that traverse class and gender, and that range from political to personal expressions of violence, including terrorism and hate crimes, government-sanctioned execution, youth and gang violence, street crime and domestic violence, The Culture of Violence includes a conversation on violence and culture in medieval epics and contemporary media, and a proscriptive essay on coping with family violence. (schönes Exemplar / nice clean book) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

Perseus. Cambridge, 2002. 247 S. mit einigen Anschauungsbildern, kart.---- Text englisch/sehr gutes Exemplar - 314 Gramm.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The idea for this book began over four decades ago when Edward Teller began teaching physics appreciation courses at the University of Chicago. Then, as now, Dr. Teller believes that illiteracy in science is an increasingly great danger to American society, not only for our chil dren but also for our growing adult population. On one hand, the future of every individual on this globe is closely related to science and its applications. Fear of the results of science, which has become prevalent in much of the Western World, leads to mistaken decisions in important political affairs. But this book speaks of no fears and of no decisions-only of the facts that can prevent one of them and indirectly guide the others. From the perspective of this book, a second point is even more vii viii PREFACE significant. The first quarter of this century has seen the most won derful and philosophically most important transformation in our thinking. The intellectual and aesthetic values of the points of view of Einstein and Bohr cannot be overestimated. Nor should they be hidden at the bottom of tons of mathematical rubble. Our young people must be exposed to science both because it is useful and because it is fun. Both of these qualities should be taken at a truly high value.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Although Teller has been described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, this book was written to "share his fascination and joy in science with young and old alike." As such it serves as an introduction to the complicated world of contemporary physics, and especially as a 'bridge' to rocket science mathematics, used in theoretical physics. Illustrated with many figures and including some problems with the answers at the rear. INSCRIBED by Edward Teller on the front endpaper and signed by both Teller and Wilson Talley. Index. xii, 247 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

First edition, first printing, signed by the authors and inscribed by Johnson, "To Bill Bascom - With thanks and appreciation for your long-standing interest in and support of the Plowshare Program. Jerry Johnson, Washington D.C., August 3, 1968." This is the first technical monograph on the peaceful applications of nuclear explosions as developed by Project Plowshare. This work was a collaborative effort between several distinguished physicists led by Edward Teller (1908-2003), the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Gerald W. Johnson (1917-2005) served as director of Project Plowshare; this was the United States's attempt to develop techniques using nuclear energy for industry and construction between 1957-77. Wilson K. Talley (1935-2017) was a nuclear engineer who served as a science advisor to the Department of Defense and Presidents Ford and Reagan. Gary H. Higgins (1927-2002) was a radiochemist who served as Division Leader of Plowshare. The recipient of this copy was the engineer Willard Bascom (1916-2000). Bascom was the director of Project Mohole, an attempt between 1961-66 to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovi i discontinuity. Bascom served as President of the Plowshare Advisory Committee and conducted research on wave behaviour in the detonation of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. Although supportive of the project, he was opposed to Project Chariot, the proposition to construct an artificial harbour at Cape Thompson in Alaska (Ogle, p. 170). Project Chariot was championed by Teller, but never came to fruition due to concerns about the effect on the local environment and community. The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives offers a guide to the technical activities of the programme, focussing predominantly on excavation and mining but also on other engineering and scientific potentialities such as geophysical research and petroleum production. The project had a particular application to canals; due to the Suez Crisis of 1956, the potential of constructing an alternative canal through friendly territory was discussed by scientists at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California on the instruction of President Eisenhower. Although the alternative canal was never built, the proposition of using nuclear energy for peaceful construction purposes raised at the meeting led to the formation of Project Plowshare. Along with offering technical details, this work refers to the "emotional problem" of the project: "The first use of nuclear explosives, in war, displayed their destructive potential, and this characteristic still captures the imagination. That there may be resistance to their use for constructive purposes is consequently not surprising" (p. v). The reframing of nuclear weapons was a key concern for the US Government; in his farewell address of 1961, President Eisenhower expressed his hope that "American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well", and in 1987 President Reagan famously asked the United Nations General Assembly "cannot swords be turned to plowshares?" William E. Ogle, An Account of the Return to Nuclear Weapons Testing by the United States After the Test Moratorium 1958-1961, 1985. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and covers lettered in green and black. With dust jacket. Numerous photographs, diagrams, and charts within text. Spine ends slightly bruised, cloth extremities and edges foxed, faint browning to endpapers, contents clean; jacket foxed, extremities nicked, spine panel a little faded, unclipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.