ICE: "Critical Mass" #4

ICE:
Author: Doug Wagner
Publisher: 12-Gauge Comics
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Flames light up the night sky as Cole and Ezra do everything in their power to stop a terrorist attack from being launched on American soil. You can't miss the final chapter of ICE: CRITICAL MASS, the hottest action series on the shelves!

Critical Mass

Critical Mass
Author: Philip Ball
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2006-05-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1466806834

Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society. Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs. Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.

Critical Mass

Critical Mass
Author: Chris Carlsson
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781902593593

Documenting 10 years of fun, radical, spontaneous bicycle demonstrations that challenge the autocentric world.

Author: Ellen LaConte
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1450259189

LaConte's book offers a compelling answer To The now-universal question suggested by her subtitle. The global economy has gone viral. it is ravaging Earth's equivalent of an immune system the way HIV ravages the human immune system, triggering a Critical Mass of AIDS-like mutually reinforcing environmental, economic, social and political crises that are undermining the ability of human and natural communities to support, protect and heal themselves. LaConte's prognosis? Since Life rules, we don't, Life will last but Life as we know it-and a lot of us-won't. LaConte shows that Life learned two billion years ago how to deal with pathological economies: it put them out of business. it encoded in other-than-human species a set of Economic Rules for Survival that allow them to live within Earth's means long term. In accessible prose LaConte explains how those rules can work for humans too. Recommended as a tool for community transition and cultural transformation, Life Rules offers a solution to our global crisis the publishers call "authentically conserve-ative, deeply Green, and profoundly liberating."

Comics and Migration

Comics and Migration
Author: Ralf Kauranen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1000859045

Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have in relation to migration. The volume examines both individual works of comic art and examples of practical applications of comics from across the world. Comics are well-suited to create understanding, highlight truthful information, and engender empathy in their audiences, but are also an art form that is preconditioned or even limited by its representational and practical conventions. Through analyses of various practices and representations, this book questions the uncritical belief in the capacity of comics, assesses their potential to represent stories of exile and immigration with compassion, and discusses how xenophobia and nationalism are both reinforced and questioned in comics. The book includes essays by both researchers and practitioners such as activists and journalists whose work has combined a focus on comics and migration. It predominantly scrutinises comics and activities from more peripheral areas such as the Nordic region, the German-language countries, Latin America, and southern Asia to analyse the treatment and visual representation of migration in these regions. This topical and engaging volume in the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series will be of interest to researchers and students of comics studies, literary studies, visual art studies, cultural studies, migration, and sociology. It will also be useful reading for a wider academic audience interested in discourses around global migration and comics traditions.

Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics

Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics
Author: Jerry M. Straka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2009-06-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521883385

This book provides a background to the fundamental principles of parameterization physics for accurate numerical predictions of cloud and precipitation.

Critical Mass

Critical Mass
Author: Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813533032

Description: Puts New Jersey at the center of key art movements during the sixties

Planetary Systems

Planetary Systems
Author: Marc Ollivier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2008-11-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540757481

Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from both the observational and theoretical point of view. The presence of many giant exoplanets in the close vicinity of their star shows that these newly discovered planetary systems are very different from the solar system. New theoretical models are being developed in order to understand their formation scenarios, and new observational methods are being implemented to increase the sensitivity of exoplanet detections. In the present book, the authors address the question of planetary systems from all aspects. Starting from the facts (the detection of more than 300 extraterrestrial planets), they first describe the various methods used for these discoveries and propose a synthetic analysis of their global properties. They then consider the observations of young stars and circumstellar disks and address the case of the solar system as a specific example, different from the newly discovered systems. Then the study of planetary systems and of exoplanets is presented from a more theoretical point of view. The book ends with an outlook to future astronomical projects, and a description of the search for life on exoplanets. This book addresses students and researchers who wish to better understand this newly expanding field of research.

Time in Powers of Ten

Time in Powers of Ten
Author: Gerard 't Hooft
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2014
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814494925

In this richly illustrated book, Nobel Laureate Gerard ''t Hooft and Theoretical Physicist Stefan Vandoren describe the enormous diversity of natural phenomena that take place at different time scales. In the tradition of the bestseller Powers of Ten, the authors zoom in and out in time, each step with a factor of ten. Starting from one second, time scales are enlarged until processes are reached that take much longer than the age of the universe. After the largest possible eternities, the reader is treated to the shortest and fastest phenomena known. Then the authors increase with powers of ten, until again the second is reached at the end of the book. At each time scale, interesting natural phenomena occur, spread over all scientific disciplines: orbital and rotation periods of planets and stars, decay times of elementary particles and atoms, biological rhythms and evolution processes, but also the different geological time scales. Readership: Science enthusiasts and students.