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UNINA9910464664103321 |
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Deery Phillip |
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Red apple : communism and McCarthyism in cold war New York / / Phillip Deery |
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New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014 |
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0-8232-5372-4 |
0-8232-7179-X |
0-8232-5373-2 |
0-8232-6134-4 |
0-8232-5448-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Anti-communist movements - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
Political persecution - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century |
Anti-communist movements - United States - History - 20th century |
Political persecution - United States - History - 20th century |
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New York (N.Y.) History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - The Doctor: Edward Barsky -- Chapter 3 - The Writer: Howard Fast -- Chapter 4 - The Professors: Bradley and Burgum -- Chapter 5 - The Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich -- Chapter 6 - The Lawyer: O. John Rogge -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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"Set against a backdrop of mounting anti-communism, Red Apple documents the personal, physical, and mental effects of McCarthyism on six political activists with ties to New York City. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, McCarthyism disfigured the American political landscape. Under the altar of anticommunism, domestic Cold War crusaders undermined civil liberties, curtailed equality before the law, |
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and tarnished the ideals of American democracy. In order to preserve freedom, they jettisoned some of its tenets. Congressional committees worked in tandem, although not necessarily in collusion, with the FBI, law firms, university administrations, publishing houses, television networks, movie studios, and a legion of government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels to target "subversive" individuals. Exploring the human consequences of the widespread paranoia that gripped a nation, Red Apple presents the international and domestic context for the experiences of these individuals: the House Un-American Activities Committee, hearings of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, resulting in the incarceration of its chairman, Dr. Edward Barsky, and its executive board; the academic freedom cases of two New York University professors, Lyman Bradley and Edwin Burgum, culminating in their dismissal from the university; the blacklisting of the communist writer Howard Fast and his defection from American communism; the visit of an anguished Dimitri Shostakovich to New York in the spring of 1949; and the attempts by O. John Rogge, the Committee's lawyer, to find a "third way" in the quest for peace, which led detractors to question which side he was on. Examining real-life experiences at the "ground level," Deery explores how these six individuals experienced, responded to, and suffered from one of the most savage assaults on civil liberties in American history. Their collective stories illuminate the personal costs of holding dissident political beliefs in the face of intolerance and moral panic that is as relevant today as it was seventy years ago"-- |
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UNINA9910300101303321 |
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Coupled Mathematical Models for Physical and Biological Nanoscale Systems and Their Applications : Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, 28 August - 2 September 2016 / / edited by Luis L. Bonilla, Efthimios Kaxiras, Roderick Melnik |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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1 online resource (X, 314 p. 100 illus., 68 illus. in color.) |
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Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, , 2194-1017 ; ; 232 |
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Mathematical physics |
Mathematics - Data processing |
Biomathematics |
Mathematical Physics |
Computational Science and Engineering |
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics |
Mathematical and Computational Biology |
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Preface -- Part A. Charge and Spin Transport in Low-Dimensional Structures: Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics: Björn Birnir -- Chaotic Current Self-Oscillations in Doped, Weakly Coupled Semiconductor Superlattices for True Random Number Generation: Yaohui Zhang et al -- Transport out of Locally Broken Detailed Balance: Rafael Sánchez -- Non-Perturbative Approaches in Nanoscience and Corrections to Finite-Size Scaling: J. Kaupuzs et a -- Continuum Model for Coupled Acousto-Optical Phonons in Piezoelectric Materials: Morten Willatzen et al -- Part B. Modeling Biological Phenomena from Nano to Macro Scales: Stochastic Models of Tumor Induced Angiogenesis: L.L. Bonilla et al -- Biofilm Mechanics and Patterns: A. Carpio et al -- Modelling the Unfolding Pathway of Biomolecules: Theoretical Approach and Experimental Prospect: Carlos A. Plata et al -- The Geometry of Most Probable Trajectories in Noise-Driven Dynamical Systems: John C. Neu |
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et al -- Part C. Mathematics for 2D Materials and Properties of Confined Nanostructures: Classical Density-Functional Theory Studies of Fluid Adsorption on Nanopatterned Planar Surfaces: Peter Yatsyshin et al -- Modeling Metastability in CdTe Solar Cells Due to Cu Migration: Da Guo et al -- A Multiscale Molecular Dynamics and Coupling with Nonlinear Finite Element Method: S. Urata et al -- Modeling Electronic Properties of Twisted 2D Atomic Heterostructures: Stephen Carr et al -- Molecular Dynamics and Related Computational Methods with Applications to Drug Discovery: Jordane Preto et al -- Macroscopic Models for the Bioelectronic Interface of Engineered Artificial Membranes: William Hoiles et al. |
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This volume gathers selected contributions from the participants of the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) workshop Coupled Mathematical Models for Physical and Biological Nanoscale Systems and their Applications, who explore various aspects of the analysis, modeling and applications of nanoscale systems, with a particular focus on low dimensional nanostructures and coupled mathematical models for their description. Due to the vastness, novelty and complexity of the interfaces between mathematical modeling and nanoscience and nanotechnology, many important areas in these disciplines remain largely unexplored. In their efforts to move forward, multidisciplinary research communities have come to a clear understanding that, along with experimental techniques, mathematical modeling and analysis have become crucial to the study, development and application of systems at the nanoscale. The conference, held at BIRS in autumn 2016, brought together experts from three different communities working in fields where coupled mathematical models for nanoscale and biosystems are especially relevant: mathematicians, physicists (both theorists and experimentalists), and computational scientists, including those dealing with biological nanostructures. Its objectives: summarize the state-of-the-art; identify and prioritize critical problems of major importance that require solutions; analyze existing methodologies; and explore promising approaches to addressing the challenges identified. The contributions offer up-to-date introductions to a range of topics in nano and biosystems, identify important challenges, assess current methodologies and explore promising approaches. As such, this book will benefit researchers in applied mathematics, as well as physicists and biologists interested in coupled mathematical models and their analysis for physical and biological nanoscale systems that concern applications in biotechnology and medicine, quantum information processing and optoelectronics. |
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