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UNINA9910463178403321 |
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Ward Bob |
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Dr. Space [[electronic resource] ] : the life of Wernher von Braun / / Bob Ward, foreword by John Glenn |
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New York, : Naval Institute Press, 2013 |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Rocketry - Germany |
Rocketry - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""1. The Accursed Blessing ""; ""2. To the Manor Born ""; ""3. Pioneering Rocketry ""; ""4. Peenemunde Priority ""; ""5. Encounters with Hitler""; ""6. Comes Now the V-2""; ""7. Bound for America ""; ""8. A Fort Called Bliss""; ""9. New Home Alabama ""; ""10. Early Media Trail ""; ""11. Toward the Cosmos ""; ""12. Nobody's Perfect ""; ""13. New Age of Space""; ""14. Child of the Moon ""; ""15. En Route to Victory ""; ""16. Lunar Triumph ""; ""17. Rocket City Legacy ""; ""18. After Apollo, What? ""; ""19. D.C. and the Gods"" |
""20. Perigee in Washington """"21. On the Private Side""; ""22. Too Soon Dying ""; ""Epilogue ""; ""Appendix A: Letter on Goddard Patents""; ""Appendix B: Letter on Moral Responsibility in Hitler's Germany ""; ""Notes ""; ""Selected Bibliography ""; ""Index ""; ""About the Author "" |
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Written by veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward, who spent years investigating his subject, this biography presents a revealing but even-handed portrait of the father of modern rocketry. As he chronicles Wernher von Braun's life, Ward explodes many myths and misconceptions about the controversial genius who was a hero to some, a villain to others. The picture of von Braun that emerges is of a brilliant scientist with limitless curiosity and a drive to achieve his goals at almost any price from, developing the world's first ballistic missile |
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used against the Allies in World War II to helping l |
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UNINA9910454744203321 |
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Autore |
Everitt Brian |
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Chance rules [[electronic resource] ] : an informal guide to probability, risk and statistics / / Brian Everitt |
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New York ; ; London, : Springer, 2008 |
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1-282-28764-8 |
1-283-62168-1 |
9786612287640 |
9786613934130 |
0-387-77415-7 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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1 online resource (211 p.) |
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Chance |
Probabilities |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A Brief History of Chance -- What Are the Chances? Assigning Probabilities -- Choice and Chance; Permutations and Combinations -- Tossing Coins and Having Babies -- Rolling Dice -- Gambling for Fun: Lotteries and Football Pools -- Serious Gambling: Roulette, Cards and Horse Racing -- Balls, Birthdays and Coincidences -- Conditional Probability and the Reverend Thomas Bayes -- Puzzling Probabilities -- Taking Risks -- Statistics, Statisticians and Medicine -- Alternative Therapies#x2014;Panaceas or Placebos? -- What Does the Future Hold? -- Chance, Chaos and Chromosomes. |
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Chance continues to govern our lives in the 21st Century. From the genes we inherit and the environment into which we are born, to the lottery ticket we buy at the local store, much of life is a gamble. In |
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business, education, travel, health, and marriage, we take chances in the hope of obtaining something better. Chance colors our lives with uncertainty, and so it is important to examine it and try to understand about how it operates in a number of different circumstances. Such understanding becomes simpler if we take some time to learn a little about probability, since probability is the natural language of uncertainty. This second edition of Chance Rules again recounts the story of chance through history and the various ways it impacts on our lives. Here you can read about the earliest gamblers who thought that the fall of the dice was controlled by the gods, as well as the modern geneticist and quantum theory researcher trying to integrate aspects of probability into their chosen speciality. Example included in the first addition such as the infamous Monty Hall problem, tossing coins, coincidences, horse racing, birthdays and babies remain, often with an expanded discussion, in this edition. Additional material in the second edition includes, a probabilistic explanation of why things were better when you were younger, consideration of whether you can use probability to prove the existence of God, how long you may have to wait to win the lottery, some court room dramas, predicting the future, and how evolution scores over creationism. Chance Rules lets you learn about probability without complex mathematics. Brian Everitt is Professor Emeritus at King's College, London. He is the author of over 50 books on statistics. . |
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UNINA9910790955303321 |
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Autore |
Hansen Thomas Blom <1958-> |
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Melancholia of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : social life in an Indian township in South Africa / / Thomas Blom Hansen |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
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1-4008-4261-1 |
9786613589873 |
1-280-49464-6 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (373 p.) |
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East Indians - South Africa - Durban |
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Race relations |
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Social conditions |
Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Religion |
Durban (South Africa) Race relations |
Durban (South Africa) Social conditions |
Durban (South Africa) Religion |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality". |
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The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined |
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enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state. |
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