The Rape Of Ma Bell
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Author | : Constantine Raymond Kraus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The detailed and documented story of the unwarranted and almost criminal dismantling of the monopoly that offered the American people the best telephone service in the world. Written by two phone company engineers.
Author | : Donald J. Dewey |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780231067102 |
Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Author | : Harry G. Lang |
Publisher | : Gallaudet University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Telecommunications devices for the deaf |
ISBN | : 9781563680908 |
Lang, a professor for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, tells about how three enterprising deaf men--Robert Weitbrecht, James Marsters, and Andrew Saks--fought telephone monopolies and bureaucracies and overcame technical difficulties to develop a phone deaf people can use, one that converts sounds into text. Photos.
Author | : Robert J. Chapuis |
Publisher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Telephone stations |
ISBN | : 9781586033729 |
Explores both the technology and marketing decision-making in a world-wide industry where product purchasers represent long-term decisions. This book deals with the mainstream switching systems required for the public network. It is about the history of core switching systems and signaling.
Author | : Olivier Coutard |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780415324588 |
Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.
Author | : Tim Wu |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2010-11-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0307594653 |
A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year "A must-read for all Americans who want to remain the ones deciding what they can read, watch, and listen to.” —Arianna Huffington Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers—Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T—Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry—from the telephone to radio to film—once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"? Here, Tim Wu shows how a battle royale for the Internet’s future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out.
Author | : Jeffrey E. Cohen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2019-07-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 131548675X |
Originally published in 1992. This text is a work from a series entitled ' Bureaucracies, Public Administration and Public Policy. The Politics of Telecommunication regulation: The States and the Divestiture of AT&T is an example of high-quality policy analysis conducted at state level. It substitutes for simple theories of public policy more complex and interesting explanations and relies on massive and time-consuming data-gathering that gives careful attention to measurement issues, providing a sophisticated empirical analysis to evaluate the utility of public policy theories.
Author | : John Patrick Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : John Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1796 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Lawrence Rothfield |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226729435 |
On April 10, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in the heart of Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. Despite the presence of an American tank unit, the pillaging went unchecked, and more than 15,000 artifacts—some of the oldest evidence of human culture—disappeared into the shadowy worldwide market in illicit antiquities. In the five years since that day, the losses have only mounted, with gangs digging up roughly half a million artifacts that had previously been unexcavated; the loss to our shared human heritage is incalculable. With The Rape of Mesopotamia, Lawrence Rothfield answers the complicated question of how this wholesale thievery was allowed to occur. Drawing on extensive interviews with soldiers, bureaucrats, war planners, archaeologists, and collectors, Rothfield reconstructs the planning failures—originating at the highest levels of the U.S. government—that led to the invading forces’ utter indifference to the protection of Iraq’s cultural heritage from looters. Widespread incompetence and miscommunication on the part of the Pentagon, unchecked by the disappointingly weak advocacy efforts of worldwide preservation advocates, enabled a tragedy that continues even today, despite widespread public outrage. Bringing his story up to the present, Rothfield argues forcefully that the international community has yet to learn the lessons of Iraq—and that what happened there is liable to be repeated in future conflicts. A powerful, infuriating chronicle of the disastrous conjunction of military adventure and cultural destruction, The Rape of Mesopotamia is essential reading for all concerned with the future of our past.