1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910695958903321

Autore

Siggerud Katherine

Titolo

U.S. Postal Service [[electronic resource] ] : postal reform law provides opportunities to address postal challenges : testimony before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Services, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives / / statement of Katherine Siggerud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2007]

Descrizione fisica

31 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Testimony ; ; GAO-07-684 T

Soggetti

Postal service - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on June 28, 2007).

"For release ... April 17, 2007."

Paper version available from: U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910416087003321

Autore

Cramer Katharina C

Titolo

A Political History of Big Science : The Other Europe / / by Katharina C. Cramer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030500498

3030500497

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology, , 2730-9738

Disciplina

509

900

Soggetti

Science - History

World politics

World history

History of Science

Political History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction and Framework  -- Chapter 2: Historical Viewpoints on Collaborative Large-Scale Research in Europe -- Chapter 3: Establishing the First Collaborative Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Europe: The Founding History of the ESRF (1977-1988) -- Chapter 4: Founding the European XFEL: The Establishment of a Collaborative Free-Electron Laser, 1992-2009 -- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany. Under the heading of the other Europe, this book presents the history and politics of European Big Science as an alternative road to (Western) European integration besides the mainstream political integration process of the European



Economic Community and the European Union. It shows that Big Science has a role to play in European politics and policymaking and that the crucial and unavoidable symbiosis between science, technology and politics brings the creation of Big Science projects back to geopolitical realities. .