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The Fix
Author | : Michael Massing |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2000-05-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780520223356 |
Massing confronts the failure of the "war on drugs" and documents the much greater potential for reclaiming drug addicts that can be had by treatment and support rather than criminalization, and at a lower cost than building ever more prisons and militarizing drug source countries in Latin America.
The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer
Author | : Mara Rockliff |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1536225673 |
This true story of a woman whose brilliance and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II is sure to inspire STEM readers and fans of amazing women in history. Beatrice Shilling wasn’t quite like other children. She could make anything. She could fix anything. And when she took a thing apart, she put it back together better than before. When Beatrice left home to study engineering, she knew that as a girl she wouldn’t be quite like the other engineers—and she wasn’t. She was better. Still, it took hard work and perseverance to persuade the Royal Aircraft Establishment to give her a chance. But when World War II broke out and British fighter pilots took to the skies in a desperate struggle for survival against Hitler’s bombers, it was clearly time for new ideas. Could Beatrice solve an engine puzzle and help Britain win the war? American author Mara Rockliff and British illustrator Daniel Duncan team up for a fresh look at a turning point in modern history—and the role of a remarkable woman whose ingenuity, persistence, and way with a wrench (or spanner) made her quite unlike anyone else. An author’s note and a list of selective sources provide additional information for curious readers.
We are at War
Author | : Simon Garfield |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : 0091903874 |
Includes portions of the diaries of: Pam Ashford, Christopher Tomlin, Tilly Rice, Eileen Potter, and Maggie Joy Blunt.
The Technological Fix
Author | : Lisa Rosner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135938504 |
The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it solves. This collection sets out the distinction between a technological fix and a true technological solution. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, the essays trace the technological fix as it has appeared throughout the twentieth century. Addressing such "fixes" as artificial hearts, industrial agriculture and climate engineering, these essays examine our need to turn to technology for solutions to all of our problems.
Find, Fix, Finish
Author | : Aki Peritz |
Publisher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1610392388 |
Two intelligence experts with unique access to inside sources reveal the fascinating story behind the evolution of AmericaÕs new, effective approach to counterterrorism
The Fourth Turning
Author | : William Strauss |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 1997-12-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0767900464 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
Techno-Fix
Author | : Michael Huesemann |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0865717044 |
Challenges beliefs about technology's assumed potential for enabling a continuation of current consumption rates, arguing for extensive reform while explaining that technological advances are hastening an environmental collapse. Original.