1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701911303321

Autore

Tacina Kathleen M

Titolo

Evolution of combustion-generated particles at tropospheric conditions [[electronic resource] /] / Kathleen M. Tacina and Christopher M. Heath ; prepared for the Turbo Expo 2010 sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, June 14-18, 2010

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, , [2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (11 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

NASA/TM ; ; 2012-217257

Altri autori (Persone)

HeathChristopher M

Soggetti

Particulates

Combustion

Aerosols

Temperature distribution

Radial distribution

Noise prediction

Jet engine fuels

Altitude simulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 6, 2012).

"January 2012."

"GT2010-23689."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-11).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812765303321

Autore

Gieseke Jens

Titolo

The history of the Stasi : East Germany's secret police, 1945-1990 / / Jens Gieseke ; translated by David Burnett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

ISBN

1-78238-255-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurnettDavid

Disciplina

363.28/30943109045

Soggetti

Internal security - Germany (East) - History

Secret service - Germany (East) - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published under title: Mielke-Konzern. Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Antifascism, Stalinism, cold civil war : origins and influences, 1945 to 1956 -- The safest GDR in the world : the driving forces of Stasi growth -- The unofficial collaborator : a new type of informer -- Blanket surveillance? state security in East German society -- Resistance, opposition, persecution -- Wolf and Co. : MFS operations abroad -- Final crisis and collapse, 1989-90 -- Legacy, aufarbeitung, culture of memory : the second life of the Stasi.

Sommario/riassunto

The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Masterful and thorough at once, he takes the reader through t