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UNINA9910451477903321 |
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Hamblin Jacob Darwin |
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Poison in the well [[electronic resource] ] : radioactive waste in the oceans at the dawn of the nuclear age / / Jacob Darwin Hamblin |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
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1-281-39720-2 |
9786611397203 |
0-8135-4423-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Radioactive waste disposal in the ocean |
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-299) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Threshold Illusions -- Chapter 2. Radiation Anxieties -- Chapter 3. The Other Atomic Scientists -- Chapter 4. Forging an International Consensus -- Chapter 5. No Atomic Graveyards -- Chapter 6. The Environment as Cold War Terrain -- Chapter 7. Purely for Political Reasons -- Chapter 8. Confronting Environmentalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In the early 1990's, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did scientists and politicians choose the sea for waste disposal? How did negotiations about the uses of the sea change the way scientists, government officials, and ultimately the lay public envisioned the |
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oceans? Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970's. This is an important book for students and scholars in the history of science who want to explore a striking case study of the conflicts that so often occur at the intersection of science, politics, and international diplomacy. |
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UNINA9910779188703321 |
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Autore |
DashtiÌ 'AliÌ <1895-1982., > |
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In search of Omar Khayyam / / Ali Dashti ; translated from the Persian by L.P. Elwell-Sutton |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-84084-2 |
1-280-67013-4 |
1-136-84085-0 |
9786613647061 |
0-203-83309-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Routledge library editions. Iran ; ; v. 12 |
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Elwell-SuttonL. P (Laurence Paul) |
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Note generali |
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First published in English in 1971. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; In search of omar khayyam; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Note on transliteration; Preface to the persian second edition; Part One: In search of khayyam; 1. Khayyam as poet; 2. Khayyam as seen by his contemporaries; 3. Meanness or common sense?; 4. Hero or martyr?; 5. A dispute with a prince; 6. Khayyam from his own writings; 7. Khayyam and sufism; 8. Khayyam and isma'ilism; Part Two: In search of the quatrains; 1. The key quatrains; 2. The axis of life and death; 3. Khayyam's literary style; 4. Khayyam and his imitators; 5. Khayyam's wine-poetry; 6. Khayyam as seen by the west |
7. The selected quatrains8. Some khayyam-like quatrains; Part Three: |
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Random thoughts; 1. 'Whence we have come, and whither do we go?'; 2. 'If it was bad, whose was thefault but his?'; 3. 'A tiny gnat appears-anddisappears'; 4. 'The withered tulip never blooms again'; 5. 'Whether this breath i take will be my last'; Appendix I: Biographical notes; Appendix II: glossary of technical terms; Bibliography; Index |
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Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar. There is no conclusive evidence to prove which of the many quatrains attributed to Khayyam are authentic. Ali Dashti therefore constructs a likeness of the poet from references found in the works of writers of his day or immediately after, and from Khayyam's own works on philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, of which the auth |
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