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Author | : Jeff Rovin |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-05-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250026881 |
Former US Ambassador to the Ukraine Douglas Flannery meets with an old friend and former spy near New York’s South Street Seaport. She is seeking his help to thwart a Russian plan to overrun her native Ukraine, but those for whom she is working propose an infinitely more dangerous scheme, one that could draw in NATO forces and possibly ignite World War III. Moments later, as she jogs along the East River, her throat is slashed. Within hours, Op-Center learns of the killing and alarm bells go off. Director Chase Williams and his team have been following events as both Ukraine, her NATO allies, and Russia rapidly deploy forces in a dangerous game of brinksmanship. But the secret that Flannery has learned threatens to take the looming battle to a whole new and very lethal level. Using cutting edge techniques of cyber warfare and spycraft, Op-Center must respond to the rapidly unfolding crisis before the U.S. is forced to take sides in a conflict that could change history.
Author | : Stephen Coonts |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cyberterrorism |
ISBN | : 9781587248887 |
Charlie Dean must try to stop a group of terrorists from setting off an underwater nuclear explosion which could shift the earth's foundation, and find the double agent who has infiltrated the secret Deep Black organization.
Author | : Daniel Heller-Roazen |
Publisher | : Mit Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781935408338 |
An exploration of secret languages, moving among hermetic artificial tongues as diverse as criminal jargons and divine speech. Dark Tongues constitutes a sustained exploration of a perplexing fact that has never received the attention it deserves. Wherever human beings share a language, they also strive to make from it something new: a cryptic idiom, built from the grammar that they know, which will allow them to communicate in secrecy. Such hidden languages come in many shapes. They may be playful or serious, children's games or adults' work. They may be as impenetrable as foreign tongues, or slightly different from the idioms from which they spring, or barely perceptible, their existence being the subject of uncertain, even unlikely, suppositions. The first recorded jargons date to the time of the Renaissance, when writers across Europe noted that obscure languages had suddenly come into use. A varied cast of characters--lawyers, grammarians, and theologians--denounced these new forms of speech, arguing that they were tools of crime, plotted in tongues that honest people could not understand. Before the emergence of these modern jargons, however, the artificial twisting of languages served a different purpose. In epochs and regions as diverse as archaic Greece and Rome and medieval Provence and Scandinavia, singers and scribes also invented opaque varieties of speech. They did so not to defraud, but to reveal and record a divine thing: the language of the gods, which poets and priests alone were said to master. Dark Tongues moves among these various artificial and hermetic tongues. From criminal jargons to sacred idioms, from Saussure's work on anagrams to Jakobson's theory of subliminal patterns in poetry, from the arcane arts of the Druids and Biblical copyists to the secret procedure that Tristan Tzara, founder of Dada, believed he had uncovered in Villon's songs and ballads, Dark Tongues explores the common crafts of rogues and riddlers, which play sound and sense against each other.
Author | : Nicole Loraux |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2002-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
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An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for---if not invent---amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis. More precisely, what they agree to deny is that stasis---simultaneously partisanship, faction, and sedition---is at the heart of their politics. Continuing a criticism of Athenian ideology begun in her pathbreaking study The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux argues that this crucial moment of Athenian political history must be interpreted as constitutive of politics and political life and not as a threat to it. Divided from within, the city is formed by that which it refuses. Conflict, the calamity of civil war, is the other, dark side of the beautiful unitary city of Athens. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting, diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of democratic life. Voting appears as the process of dividing up, of disagreement---in short, of agreeing to divide and choose. Not only does Loraux reconceptualize the definition of ancient Greek democracy, she also allows the contemporary reader to rethink the functioning of modern democracy in its critical moments of internal stasis.
Author | : Stephen King |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1501141155 |
The #1 New York Times bestseller and “compulsive page-turner” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) about a reluctant clairvoyant man who must weigh his options when he suddenly sees the terrible future awaiting mankind—from master storyteller Stephen King. When Johnny Smith was six years old, head trauma caused by a bad ice-skating accident left him with a nasty bruise on his forehead and, from time to time, those hunches…infrequent but accurate snippets of things to come. But it isn’t until Johnny’s a grown man—now having survived a horrifying auto injury that plunged him into a coma lasting four-and-a-half years—that his special abilities really push to the fore. Johnny Smith comes back from the void with an extraordinary gift that becomes his life’s curse…presenting visions of what was and what will be for the innocent and guilty alike. But when he encounters a ruthlessly ambitious and amoral man who promises a terrifying fate for all humanity, Johnny must find a way to prevent a harrowing predestination from becoming reality.
Author | : Anjal Prakash |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9788125028246 |
Over the past twenty years in Gujarat, technological changes in agricultural and intensive use of groundwater have led to a spurt in water markets. The development of competitive markets, dependent on the sinking of tubewells, has been advocated on the basis of efficiency and accessibility to the resource. However, this has generally been done without unpacking nuances of unequal social relationships, ecological and historical functions that shape groundwater access and use. The Dark Zone aims to fill this gap. It focuses on the politics of groundwater markets and its interrelation with social differentiation and class-caste relations. Based on an intensive social anthropological study of a village in north Gujarat, the book investigates the factors that shaped unrestrained use of groundwater and the responses of various social groups to this process. Using a triadic framework of the theory of agrarian institutions, ecological variables in agrarian change and the influence of the state, Prakash locates the study in the larger political economy of Gujarat. Drawing upon rich empirical material, the book should interest anthropologists, sociologists, researchers, policy makers, NGOs and water resource specialists.
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Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1998-05 |
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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Author | : Naminosuke Kubota |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2015-04-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3527693513 |
This third edition of the classic on the thermochemical aspects of the combustion of propellants and explosives is completely revised and updated and now includes a section on green propellants and offers an up-to-date view of the thermochemical aspects of combustion and corresponding applications. Clearly structured, the first half of the book presents an introduction to pyrodynamics, describing fundamental aspects of the combustion of energetic materials, while the second part highlights applications of energetic materials, such as propellants, explosives and pyrolants, with a focus on the phenomena occurring in rocket motors. Finally, an appendix gives a brief overview of the fundamentals of aerodynamics and heat transfer, which is a prerequisite for the study of pyrodynamics. A detailed reference for readers interested in rocketry or explosives technology.
Author | : Elizabeth R. Walsh |
Publisher | : Elsevier Inc. Chapters |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0128060271 |
Because of the ever-increasing number of pathogenic organisms and their rapid mutation rates, the humoral immune system must have the ability to adapt and change along with evolving pathogens. The ability to rearrange germline antibody receptors during B-cell development and then modify these receptors in germinal centers is a means of ensuring that the antibody repertoire diversifies to be able to expunge a broad range of pathogens. However, the randomness of the mechanisms involved in diversifying the antibody repertoire can also generate specificities that attack the host. Because of this, strict regulation of B-cell development and activation is utilized to maintain humoral self tolerance. In this chapter, we broadly overview B-cell biology and the mechanisms used to introduce diversity into the antibody repertoire. We also discuss checkpoints that occur during development that ensure maintenance of self-tolerance. Finally, we discuss the special role that the inhibitory Fc receptor, FcγRIIB, plays in maintaining humoral tolerance.
Author | : Nikhil Marwah |
Publisher | : JP Medical Ltd |
Total Pages | : 1137 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9352705297 |
This new edition is a complete guide to paediatric dentistry for undergraduate and postgraduate dental students. Divided into nineteen sections, the book begins with an introduction to the specialty, oral examination, teeth identification and numbering, imaging, and growth and development of a child’s face, mouth and teeth. The next chapters discuss diet and nutrition, plaque control and fluorides, and dental caries. Dental subspecialties including endodontics, orthodontics, restorative dentistry, periodontics, and surgery, each have their own dedicated sections. The concluding chapters cover oral pathology, forensics, lasers, dental advances, and research. The fourth edition has been fully revised to provide the latest information in the field and features many new topics including zirconia crowns, revascularisation and pulp regeneration, silver diamine fluoride, general anaesthesia, and presurgical nasoalveolar moulding in the management of cleft lip and palate. Key points Complete guide to paediatric dentistry for dental students Fully revised fourth edition with many new topics Highly illustrated with more than 1000 clinical photographs, diagrams and tables Previous edition (9789351522324) published in 2014