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Tales of electronologica : computers, software and people /
Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Electrologica, a Gem -- 1.1 Electrologica Is a Gem in the History of Dutch Computing -- 1.1.1 Organizing Research -- 1.1.2 Mathematical Culture -- 1.1.3 Owning Electrologica -- 1.2 State of the Art -- 1.2.1 The Company -- 1.2.2 The Mathematical Center -- 1.2.3 Software, Language, and ALGOL -- 1.2.4 The Dijkstra-Zonneveld Compiler -- 1.2.5 Industrial Design and Cold War -- 1.3 On Offer -- 2 Philips and the Fate of Electrologica -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Calculating Machines in the Postwar Innovation Spirit -- 2.3 The English Tour -- 2.4 The Harvest of 1953…”
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The ocean reader : history, culture, politics /
Table of Contents: “…/ Benjamin Labaree -- Surviving the Slave Trade / Olaudah Equiano -- Hating the China Trade / Frederick Law Olmsted -- About All Kinds of Ships / Mark Twain -- Loving Cape Horn / Irving Johnson -- "Bitter Strength" : the International "Coolie" Trade / The Chinese Cuba Commission Report of 1876 -- The Container Ship / Roz Hamlett -- The Epic Galley Battle of the Ancient Sea / Herodotus -- The Crest of Islamic Sea Power / Matthew Merighi -- Elizabethan England's Plausibly Deniable War in the Pacific Ocean / Francis Pretty -- The Iconic Tactic of the Age of Sail / Godfrey Basil Mundy and Gilbert Blane -- Captain Marryat's War / Frederick Marryat -- World War I Beneath the Waves / Captain Baron Edgar Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim -- The Far-Flung Battle of Midway / Office of Naval Intelligence -- The Barents Sea, Most Dangerous Waters of World War II / Jack Bowman -- The Unfinished Cold War at Sea / Anatoly Miranovsky -- China Returns to the Ocean / The U.S. …”
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Korea 2010 : politics, economy and society /
Table of Contents: “…Migration in the post-Cold War era --…”
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Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory : essays from the Sawyer Seminar /
Table of Contents: “…Adler -- Classified federal records and the end of the Cold War : the experience of the Assassination Records Review Board / William L. …”
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The history of the priority dispute between Newton and Leibniz : mathematics in history and culture /
Table of Contents: “…3.2.3 The Young Doctor Utriusque Iuris3.2.4 Lawyer and Diplomat; 4 The Cold War Begins; 4.1 The Mathematician: Leibniz in Paris; 4.1.1 The First Journey to London; 4.1.2 The Aftermath of the Pell Affair; 4.1.3 Leibniz Conquers Mathematics; 4.2 The Priority Quarrels of Huygens; 4.2.1 The Quarrel Concerning the Rectification of Curves; 4.2.2 Turbulent Times: Hooke versus Huygens; 4.2.3 Atmospheric Disturbances; 4.3 Times are Changing; 4.3.1 Leibniz's Letter of 30th March 1675 and its Immediate Consequence; 4.3.2 Analysis Becomes Calculus; 4.3.3 Leibniz Gains a Companion…”
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7771
Reverse engineering : mechanisms, structures, systems & materials /
Table of Contents: “…History of reverse engineering -- The likely emergence of reverse engineering -- Reverse engineering in the middle ages -- Reverse engineering during the industrial revolution -- Reverse engineering during world war ii -- Reverse engineering in the cold war and beyond -- Summary -- Cited references -- Recommended readings -- Thought questions and problems -- 4. …”
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7772
Migration and social pathways : biographies of highly educated people moving east-west-east in Europe /
Table of Contents: “…Border crossings during the Cold War --…”
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7773
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7774
Restoring the mystery of the rainbow : literature's refraction of science /
Table of Contents: “…Kowalski -- "So Cold, so Lofty and so Distant": Science, Religion and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American and Canadian Women's Poetry / Marguérite Corporaal -- Literary Portrayals of Science as a Function of Socio-Environmental Relations in the Spanish-Speaking World / Jerry Hoeg -- "The Curious Desire of Knowing": Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Science / John Cusatis -- Reprising the Epistemological Function of Narrative: Intersections of Science and Mysticism in Ceremony and Slaughterhouse-Five / Patricia McCloskey Engle -- Luddites of the Nuclear Age: Cold War Satire and the Fallacies of Quasi-Scientific Rhetoric / Derek C. …”
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The Cambridge world history of medical ethics /
Table of Contents: “…The ethics of military medical research in the United States during the Cold War / Jonathan D. Moreno -- 58. Medical ethics and the military in South Africa during apartheid : judging history / Wendy Orr -- C. …”
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Women's America : refocusing the past /
Table of Contents: “…Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America /…”
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Introduction to Political Science
Table of Contents: “…International Political Economy -- Introduction -- 16.1 The Origins of International Political Economy -- 16.2 The Advent of the Liberal Economy -- 16.3 The Bretton Woods Institutions -- 16.4 The Post-Cold War Period and Modernization Theory -- 16.5 From the 1990s to the 2020s: Current Issues in IPE -- 16.6 Considering Poverty, Inequality, and the Environmental Crisis -- Summary.…”
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