1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910677339003321

Titolo

Tuberculosis and the tubercle bacillus / / edited by William R. Jacobs, Jr. [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : American Society For Microbiology, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-68367-305-0

1-68367-083-3

1-55581-956-7

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (726 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables

Disciplina

614.5/42

Soggetti

Tuberculosis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795420503321

Titolo

World War II, uncontrived and unredacted : testimonies from Ukraine / / edited and collected by Vakhtang Kipiani ; translated from Ukrainian by Zenia Tompkins and Daisy Gibbons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-8382-7621-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages)

Collana

Ukrainian Voices ; ; Volume 22

Disciplina

940.534777092

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945

World War, 1939-1945 - Ukraine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Vakhtang Kipiani: The Truth About War -- Romko Malko:  My Family's War Began in 1939 -- Oleh Kotsarev: How My Great-Grandfather Helped  Establish the Third Reich in Kharkiv -- Pavlo Solodko: Over the Course of Their Wartime Separation, My Grandma and Grandpa Wrote Two Hundred and Fifty Letters to One Another -- Dmytro Krapyvenko: "The Infantry Had Deserted Us, but We Had Already Taken Our Positions, So We Weren't about to Retreat." -- Taras Shamaida: A German Tried Persuading My Grandfather to Marry His Daughter-So That the Red Army Wouldn't Touch Her -- Serhii Taran: "One Grandfather Went to Fight in Bessarabia in 1940, While the Other Joined Stepan Bandera's Insurgent Army." -- Taras Antypovych: A Life Bought with Milk and Cheese -- Oleh Pokalchuk: "The Officer Showed My Mother HowGermany Planned to Expand Its Lebensraum." -- Iryna Slavinska: They Used Girls to Help "Get the German Tongues" or Obtain Information. -- Elina Slobodianiuk: A Wartime Fairytale:  "Cinderella? That's My Grandma." -- Sevhil Musaieva: My Crimea: "They Can't Really Want to Take Our Homeland Again, Can They?" -- Ihor Shchupak: Why a Nazi Officer's Daughter Would VisitUkraine to Investigate Her Father's past Crimes -- Oleksandr Zinchenko: Petro Movchan, a Man Who Won Us the War -- Sviatoslav Lypovetskyi: "The Most Terrifying Moment Was When They Bombed Their Own Artillery" -- Valentyn Stetsiuk: War,



Occupation, and Evacuation -- Eleonora Koval: A Potato on a Tree: Happy New Year 1942! -- Yurii Kolomyiets: War Has Broken Out!  Alas, War Has Broken Out! -- Anastasia Lebid: When Bolshevik Rule Was First Installed,  It Was Initially Quite Benign. -- Nataliia Popovych  (Natalka Talanchuk-Hrebinska): "Oh Mama, Life Is So Hard without You …".

Oles Kulchynskyi: As She Watched the News Years Later, My Grandma Used to Say, "I'm Stupid for Not Having Grabbed a Revolver after the War!" -- Stepan Semeniuk: Seventy-Nine Days in a Death Cell -- Yevhen Klimakin: "My Grandfather Was in the SS." "And Mine Was Killed in Auschwitz." -- Volodymyr Parkhomenko: Surviving Fire and Water:  My Father, Who Escaped Bombing and Drowning in the Dnipro -- Boris Artemov: The Two Lives and One Victory  of Yukhym Eisenberg -- Danuta Kostura: "My Father Carried His Rifle in the Red Armythe Way He Had Learned to in the Galician Division of the German Armed Forces." -- Maria Matios: Peace, War, and People -- Dmytro Stembkovskyi: "My Grandpa Was in the Underground Resistance in Kyiv and Blew up a Dnipro River Bridge." -- Ihor Lubkivskyi: My Grandfather Fought in Both  the First and Second World War -- Iryna Yatsyshyn: "Many Families Were Deported to Siberia. Some People Were Punished by  Their Own Families for Their Alleged Cooperation with the NKVD." -- Volodymyr Ushenko: Three Stories about My Family: An Officer, a Partisan, and a Murdered Teacher -- Liudmyla Taran: Vasyl Taran -  "How I Made It through the War" -- Eduard Zub: The German Attack Wasn't Unexpected:  "We All Knew That There Would Be a War. How Did Stalin Not Know?" -- Vladyslav Faraponov: My Family's War: Their Unheard  Memories and Their Heroic Deeds  Have Now Been Uncovered. -- Bohdan Ivchenko: The History of Victory Day in the  Soviet Union (1947 - 1965) -- Contributing Authors.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782572603321

Autore

Foerstner Abigail <1949->

Titolo

James Van Allen [[electronic resource] ] : the first eight billion miles / / Abigail Foerstner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2007

ISBN

1-58729-720-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

523.01092

B

Soggetti

Astrophysicists - Iowa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontier roots -- Heartland boyhood -- The making of a scientist -- Physicists to the war effort -- Enter Abigail Fithian Halsey -- The dawn of space exploration -- The mighty little aerobee -- It's a rocket! It's a balloon! It's a rockoon! -- Sputnik and the space race -- Countdown to explorer I -- Celebrity scientist and the birth of NASA -- Discovery of the radiation belts -- Space shield for the Cold War -- Space as a cottage industry -- The mariners -- Pioneers to the outer planets -- Space politics -- Journey to the edge of the solar system.

Sommario/riassunto

Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for twenty-four space missions, including Explorer I in 1958, the first successful U.S. satellite; Mariner 2's 1962 flyby of Venus, the first successful mission to another planet; and the 1970's Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, missions that surveyed Jupiter and Saturn. Abigail Foerstner blends space science, drama, military agenda's, cold war politics, and the events of Van Allen's lengthy career to create the first biography of this highl