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Author : Juliet Kinchin
Release : 2011
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 082/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Counter Space by : Juliet Kinchin
Download or read book Counter Space written by Juliet Kinchin. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 15, 2010-May 2, 2011.
Author : William B. Scott
Release : 2011-08-02
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Counterspace by : William B. Scott
Download or read book Counterspace written by William B. Scott. This book was released on 2011-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if North Korea detonates a nuclear weapon in space and silences dozens of satellites? What if an Iranian missile threatens to destroy Israel, while a Venezuelan “research” satellite endangers one of the US’s most promising space initiatives? What if tech-savvy terrorist cells unleash back-to-back horrors in California while national leaders, robbed of spy satellite imagery, are forced to make “blind” decisions? These are the scenarios of Counterspace, a frighteningly plausible look at threats to the United States and the world. Scott, Coumatos, and Birnes use war gaming scenarios to show how the US Strategic Command might use current and near-future technology to prevent global disaster. Counterspace is equally the revelation of a terrifying possibility and the hopeful affirmation that America will triumph in the face of danger.
Author : Nick C. Thomas
Release : 2008
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 700/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Space and Counterspace by : Nick C. Thomas
Download or read book Space and Counterspace written by Nick C. Thomas. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an alternative view of science based on the theory of counterspace
Author : Marco Aliberti
Release : 2023-07-18
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 71X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power, State and Space by : Marco Aliberti
Download or read book Power, State and Space written by Marco Aliberti. This book was released on 2023-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains on what basis a nation can claim the status of space power, what are the criteria differentiating a space power from “lesser” space actors, and how their spacepower can be empirically measured and assessed. To this end, it sets forth a comprehensive multidisciplinary framework to enable a dynamic comparison of space actors and of the pathways that lead them in and out of the space powers’ club. Drawing upon a critical review of the existing literature, it conceptualises spacepower as a form of state power based on the complex interplay between the two defining dimensions of stateness, namely the well-studied dimension of capacity and the often neglected yet exceedingly important dimension of autonomy. The book demonstrates that only actors possessing high levels of both autonomy and capacity qualify as space powers. Different levels of either capacity or autonomy produce other types of space actors, including skilled spacefarers, self-reliant spacefarers, primed spacefarers, and emerging space actors. This innovative conceptual framework is complemented by an in-depth comparative assessment that collects and processes a large amount of hard-to-find data on the most active global space actors and aggregates multiple indicators into a compound, non-hierarchical index of space power visualised in the form of a matrix.
Author : Kelli Lyon Johnson
Release : 2005
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Julia Alvarez by : Kelli Lyon Johnson
Download or read book Julia Alvarez written by Kelli Lyon Johnson. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first book-length examination of the writings of Julia Alvarez, the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and nearly a dozen other books of fiction and non-fiction and one of today's most widely read Latina writers. Kelli Lyon Johnson perceptively illuminates the themes, ideals, and passions that unite these diverse and rich works, all of which explore issues of understanding and representing identity within a global society. Forced by political oppression to leave the Dominican Republic when still young, Alvarez has lived most of her adult life in the United States. Johnson argues that through her narratives, poetry, and essays, Alvarez has sought to create "a cartography of identity in exile." Alvarez inscribes a geography of identity in her work that joins theory and narrative across multiple genres to create a new map of identity and culture. By asserting that she is "mapping a country that's not on the map," Alvarez places creativity and multiplicity at the center of this emerging cartography of identity. Rather than elaborating a "hybrid" identity that surreptitiously erases distinctions and difference, Alvarez embraces the mestizaje or mixture and accumulation of identities, experience, and diversity. To Alvarez, linguistic and cultural multiplicity represents the reality of what it means to be American, and she offers a compelling vision of both self and community in which the homeland Alvarez seeks is the narrative space of her own writings. As Johnson shows, Alvarez will continue to shape American literature by stretching the literary cartography of identity and of the Americas.
