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UNINA9910451879103321 |
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Autore |
Jesshope C. R |
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Titolo |
Microprocessor and peak oil [[electronic resource] ] : discontinuities in our civilisation / / C.R. Jesshope |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2006 |
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1-280-95860-X |
9786610958603 |
90-485-0563-1 |
1-4294-5459-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (24 p.) |
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Technology - Social aspects |
Computer engineering |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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This lecture will explore the challenges of working in an exponentially changing world from the perspective of a computer engineer and architect. The benefits and problems associated with exponential change in computer systems will be illustrated by also exploring current events that follow the exactly the same trends. The challenges of introducing concurrency into our computer chips is the main topic of the lecture but both the growth of technology and our use of oil have been significant events in our society, appearing to be discontinuous but in fact following a predictable and challenging |
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UNINA9910450348903321 |
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Autore |
Gilligan Emma <1967, > |
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Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 / / Emma Gilligan |
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London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004 |
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1-134-34850-9 |
1-280-23159-9 |
9786610231591 |
0-203-34872-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 11 |
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Human rights - Russia (Federation) |
Human rights - Soviet Union |
Human rights workers - Russia (Federation) |
Human rights workers - Soviet Union |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index. |
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Introduction -- Dissidentstvo -- The dissident nomenklatura -- The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- The Chechen War 1994 - 1996 -- Troubling times. |
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Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles, was arrested by the KGB, tried, imprisoned and subjected to internal exile. After his release, he continued to work for human rights, eventually becoming chairman of the Soviet Human Rights Committee and chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, in which positions he was extremely influential in framing human rights provisions in post-Communist Russia. He subsequently took President Yeltsin to task for |
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