1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784957003321

Autore

Enloe Cynthia H. <1938->

Titolo

Nimo's war, Emma's war : making feminist sense of the Iraq War / / Cynthia Enloe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-76394-6

9786612763946

0-520-94595-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

956.7044/3082

Soggetti

Women and war - Iraq

Women soldiers - Iraq

Women - Iraq

Iraq War, 2003-2011

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 (pages 271-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Eight Women, One War -- 2. Nimo: Wartime Politics in a Beauty Parlor -- 3. Maha: A Widow Returns to Baghdad -- 4. Safah: The Girl from Haditha -- 5. Shatha: A Legislator in Wartime -- 6. Emma and the Recruiters -- 7. Danielle: From Basketball Court to Baghdad Rooftop -- 8. Kim: "I'm in a Way Fighting My Own War" -- 9. Charlene: Picking Up the Pieces -- Conclusion: The Long War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives of eight ordinary women, four Iraqis and four Americans, during the Iraq War. Among others, Enloe profiles a Baghdad beauty parlor owner, a teenage girl who survived a massacre, an elected member of Parliament, the young wife of an Army sergeant, and an African American woman soldier. Each chapter begins with a close-up look at one woman's experiences and widens into a dazzling examination of the larger canvas of war's gendered dimensions. Bringing to light hidden and unexpected theaters of operation-



prostitution, sexual assault, marriage, ethnic politics, sexist economies-these stories are a brilliant entryway into an eye-opening exploration of the actual causes, costs, and long-range consequences of war. This unique comparison of American and Iraqi women's diverse and complex experiences sheds a powerful light on the different realities that together we call, perhaps too easily, "the Iraq war."

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959402703321

Autore

Eichler Jörg <1934->

Titolo

Lectures on ion-atom collisions : from nonrelativistic to relativistic velocities / / Jorg Eichler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Elsevier, 2005

ISBN

1-280-63848-6

9786610638482

0-08-046111-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

North-Holland personal library

Disciplina

539.7/57

Soggetti

Ion-atom collisions

Collisions (Nuclear physics)

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Contents; Nonrelativistic collisions; Introduction; Classification of collisions; Units; Quantum formulation; Classical description of the nuclear motion; Semiclassical description; Single-electron approximation; Classical-trajectory Monte Carlo calculations (CTMC); Low-cncrgy collisions: Basis expansions; Coupled-channel description: General outline; Electron translation factors; Molecular orbital model: The Born- Oppenheimer expansion; Molecular orbitals: Correlation diagrams and couplings; Molecular orbital (MO) x-rays; Two levels: Landau-Zener approximation

Two levels: Stiickelberg oscillationsMolecular orbitals: Dynamical calculations; Two-center atomic expansions; Mathematical appendix: Single-center basis functions; High-energy collisions: Perturbation theory for direct reactions; The Born expansion; The Magnus



expansion; The distorted-wave Born approximation (DWBA); Excitation and ionization: Partial-wave expansion; Ionization: The CDW-EIS approximation; High-energy collisions: Charge transfer; The Oppenheimer-Brinkman-Kramers approximation; The Jackson-Schiff and the Strong-Potential Born approximations

Coulomb boundary conditions and gauge transformationsThe boundary-corrected first Born (BIB) approximation; The continuum-distorted wave (CDW) approximation; The eikonal approximation; Coupled-channel calculations for transfer at high energies; The Thomas double-scattering mechanism; Relativistic collisions; Relativistic kinematics and fields of moving charges; The Lorentz transformation; Transformation between a moving frame and the laboratory frame; Transformation of differential cross sections; Relativistic motion of interacting point charges; Lienard-Wiechert potentials

The equivalent-photon methodRelativistic electron motion; The Dirac equation for a central potential; Bound states in a Coulomb potential; Coulomb-Dirac continuum wavefunctions; Relativistic ion-atom collisions: General theory; Dirac equation for moving Coulomb potentials; Perturbative transition amplitudes; Two-center coupled-channel methods; Asymptotic solutions; Basis states satisfying Coulomb boundary conditions; Numerical solutions on a lattice in position space; Numerical solutions on a lattice in momentum space; Direct reactions: Excitation and ionization

First-order perturbation theoryLong-range couplings in perturbation theory; Two-center coupled-channel methods; Calculations on a lattice; Relativistic electron transfer; The cross section in first order; The relativistic eikonal approximation; Two-center coupled-channel methods; Theoretical and experimental cross sections; Frame- and basis-set dependence; Radiative electron capture (REC); The impulse approximation; Some basics: Born approximation for K-shell photoionization and REC; The Stobbe formula for K-shell photoionization and REC; Exact relativistic calculations

REC cross sections from exact calculations

Sommario/riassunto

Atomic collisions offer some unique opportunities to study atomic structure and reaction mechanisms in experiment and theory, especially for projectiles of high  atomic number provided by modern accelerators. The book is meant as an introduction into the field and provides some basic theoretical understanding of the atomic processes occurring when a projectile hits another atom. It also furnishes the tools for a mathematical description, however, without going deeper into the technical details, which can be found in the literature given.  With this aim, the focus is on reactions, in which only