Matter Of Resistance

Author : Raymond Vogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989312837
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matter of Resistance written by Raymond Vogel and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The science fiction imagining of a former rocket scientist, "Matter of Resistance" pushes technology and human nature to the limits as it chronicles our Mars settlement's struggle for independence from Earth. Though it was written for young adults, it's received high praise and recommendations from top minds in science, aerospace, and defense. What The Experts Are Saying: MARK CANTRELL, PhD, NASA Orion Materials and Processes, Senior Staff: "A really interesting story that examines space travel within the possibilities of today's technology and in the context of natural human drives. I loved this story. I recommend it." COLONEL ROSS NUNN, USAF Retired; former Commander of the Air Force Astronautics Lab; early proponent of antimatter and fusion-based propulsion research: "Picked up the book to read the first chapter - didn't put it down until I finished the entire book. Captivating, suspense-filled reading, beginning to end." SORIN SUCIU, author of the laugh-out-loud contemporary fantasy, "The Scriptlings" (2013): "This captivating story bears the unmistakable mark of an instant SF classic, in that the science (while as solid as you would expect from a friggin rocket scientist) is merely a backdrop for a fascinating introspection into human nature. "Matter of Resistance" might not cure your Asimov or Clarke nostalgia, but it will certainly infect you with the Vogel virus. There, you have been warned."

Author : J.M. Dillard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416545484
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance written by J.M. Dillard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying thriller starring Captain Jean-Luc Picard set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, his ship repaired, must now reassemble his crew. With the departure of both William Riker and ship's counsellor Deannna Troi, the captain must replace his two most trusted advisors. He chooses a Vulcan, a logical choice, and for his new first officer, Worf. But the Klingon refuses the promotion and the new ship's counsellor appears to actively dislike Worf. A simple shake-down mission should settle everything. Except that once again, the captain hears the song of the Borg collective. Admiral Janeway is convinced that the Borg have been crushed and are no longer a threat. Picard believes she is wrong, and that if the Enterprise doesn't act the entire Federation will be under the domination of its most oppressive enemy.

Author : Carla Jablonski
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596432934
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victory written by Carla Jablonski and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pair of siblings' bucolic French town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII. When their friend goes into hiding and his Jewish parents disappear, they realize they must take a stand.

Author : Adrian Grafe
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490926
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lines of Resistance written by Adrian Grafe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This collection of 15 critical essays explores how poetry and resistance interact, set against a philosophical, historical and cultural background. In the light of the upheavals of the age, and the changing perception of the nature of language, resistance is seen to lie at the core of poetic preoccupations, moving poetic language forward. From this perspective, the resistance of poetry is connected with the human call to solidarity, resilience, and, ultimately, meaning. The volume covers poetry from Hardy, Yeats and Auden, among others, to contemporary writers like Hugo Williams and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Author : Mike Mackey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Conscience written by Mike Mackey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays that look at various aspects of the heart mountain draft resistance movement during world war II.

Author : Boyan B. Bonev
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119558204
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics written by Boyan B. Bonev and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN AUTHORITATIVE SURVEY OF CURRENT RESEARCH INTO CLINICALLY USEFUL CONVENTIONAL AND NONCONVENTIONAL ANTIBIOTIC THERAPEUTICS Pharmaceutically-active antibiotics revolutionized the treatment of infectious diseases, leading to decreased mortality and increased life expectancy. However, recent years have seen an alarming rise in the number and frequency of antibiotic-resistant "Superbugs." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that over two million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States annually, resulting in approximately 23,000 deaths. Despite the danger to public health, a minimal number of new antibiotic drugs are currently in development or in clinical trials by major pharmaceutical companies. To prevent reverting back to the pre-antibiotic era—when diseases caused by parasites or infections were virtually untreatable and frequently resulted in death—new and innovative approaches are needed to combat the increasing resistance of pathogenic bacteria to antibiotics. Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics – From Molecules to Man examines the current state and future direction of research into developing clinically-useful next-generation novel antibiotics. An internationally-recognized team of experts cover topics including glycopeptide antibiotic resistance, anti-tuberculosis agents, anti-virulence therapies, tetracyclines, the molecular and structural determinants of resistance, and more. Presents a multidisciplinary approach for the optimization of novel antibiotics for maximum potency, minimal toxicity, and appropriated degradability Highlights critical aspects that may relieve the problematic medical situation of antibiotic resistance Includes an overview of the genetic and molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance Addresses contemporary issues of global public health and longevity Includes full references, author remarks, and color illustrations, graphs, and charts Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics – From Molecules to Man is a valuable source of up-to-date information for medical practitioners, researchers, academics, and professionals in public health, pharmaceuticals, microbiology, and related fields.

Author : Drew M. Dalton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350042056
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Resistance written by Drew M. Dalton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to discover and affirm some conception of the absolute good. Without rejecting the essential role the absolute plays within ethical reasoning, Dalton interrogates the assumed value of the absolute. Dalton brings some of the most influential contemporary philosophical traditions into dialogue with each other: speculative realists like Badiou and Meillassoux; phenomenologists, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas; German Idealists, especially Kant and Schelling; psychoanalysts Freud and Lacan; and finally, post-structuralists, specifically Foucault, Deleuze, and Ranciere. The relevance of these thinkers to concrete socio-political problems is shown through reflections on the Holocaust, suicide bombings, the rise of neo-liberalism and neo-nationalism, as well as rampant consumerism and racism. This book re-defines ethical reasoning as that which refuses absolutes and resists what Milton's devil in Paradise Lost called the “tyranny of heaven.” Against traditional ethical reasoning, Dalton sees evil not as a moral failure, but as the result of an all too easy assent to the absolute; an assent which can only be countered through active resistance. For Dalton, resistance to the absolute is the sole channel through which the good can be defined.

Author : Sir Oswald Stoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Survival written by Sir Oswald Stoll and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ignatius Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Unrecognized Laws of Nature written by Ignatius Singer and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Luiz Valério P. Trindade
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890806
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media written by Luiz Valério P. Trindade and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media’ examines the social phenomenon of construction and dissemination of colonial-like racist discourses fostered against upwardly-mobile black women through disparagement humour on social media platforms, adopting a fresh and innovative perspective. In this book, Luiz Valério P. Trindade explores the idea that disparagement humour might not be as exempt of social impact as the jokers might believe, and that, in fact, this kind of humour reveals the hidden facet of deep-seated colonial ideologies still present in Brazilian society despite being hailed as a unique model of a post-racial society. The author argues that these ideologies establish and naturalise superior social positions and symbolic privileges to whites while undermining and delegitimising black women’s upward social mobility. Social media platforms enable the proponents of these beliefs not only to engage in the practice of online hate speech but also to attract a considerable number of like-minded people, creating a long-lasting echo chamber effect in the cyberspace. This way, they manage to amplify the reach and reverberation of their racist discourses in the online environment in ways not commonly seen in Brazilian offline social contexts. This monograph is of great interest and relevance to students, scholars, and researchers across a variety of disciplines, most notably Critical Race Studies, Media Communication Studies and Critical Humour Studies, and also academics in other areas such as Critical Discourse Analysis, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Latin American Studies.