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UNISA996472056203316 |
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Autore |
Carruthers Susan L (Susan Lisa) |
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Titolo |
Cold War captives [[electronic resource] ] : imprisonment, escape, and brainwashing / / Susan L. Carruthers |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
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1-282-77264-3 |
9786612772641 |
0-520-94479-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (351 p.) |
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Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Cold War - Social aspects - United States |
Captivity narratives |
Political prisoners - History - 20th century |
Repatriation - History - 20th century |
Defection - History - 20th century |
Brainwashing - History - 20th century |
Cold War in mass media |
Cold War in motion pictures |
Cold War in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Between Camps -- 1. Upper East Side Story: Repatriation, Romance, and Cold War Mobilization -- 2. Bloc-Busters: The Politics and Pageantry of Escape from the East -- 3. Stalin's Slaves: The Rise of Gulag Consciousness -- 4. First Captive in a Hot War: The Case of Robert Vogeler -- 5. Prisoners of Pavlov: Korean War Captivity and the Brainwashing Scare -- Epilogue: Returns and Repercussions -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by |
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stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a "leap for freedom" from the Soviet Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and forgotten stories, Cold War Captives explores a central dimension of American culture and politics-the postwar preoccupation with captivity. "Menticide," the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Drawing upon a rich array of declassified documents, movies, and reportage-from national security directives to films like The Manchurian Candidate-his book explores the ways in which east-west disputes over prisoners, repatriation, and defection shaped popular culture. Captivity became a way to understand everything from the anomie of suburban housewives to the "slave world" of drug addiction. Sixty years later, this era may seem distant. Yet, with interrogation techniques derived from America's communist enemies now being used in the "war on terror," the past remains powerfully present. |
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UNINA9910792493803321 |
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Autore |
Munz Dietrich |
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Ceramics [[electronic resource] ] : Mechanical Properties, Failure Behaviour, Materials Selection / / by Dietrich Munz, Theo Fett |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999 |
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[1st ed. 1999.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X, 299 p.) |
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Springer Series in Materials Science, , 0933-033X ; ; 36 |
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Industrial engineering |
Production engineering |
Materials science |
Mechanics |
Mechanics, Applied |
Industrial and Production Engineering |
Materials Science, general |
Characterization and Evaluation of Materials |
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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1 Overview and Basic Properties -- 1.1 General Behaviour -- 1.2 Overview of Ceramic Materials -- 1.3 Fields of Application -- 2 Physical Properties -- 2.1 Thermal Expansion Coefficient -- 2.2 Thermal Conductivity -- 2.3 Electrical Conductivity -- 2.4 Specific Heat -- 2.5 Density -- 2.6 Elastic Constants -- 3 Fracture Mechanics -- 3.1 Fundamentals -- 3.2 Experimental Methods for the Determination of the Mode-I Fracture Toughness KIc -- 3.3 Experimental Methods for the Determination of Mode-II and Mixed-Mode Fracture Toughness -- 3.4 Mixed-Mode Criteria and Experimental Results -- 4 R-Curve Behaviour -- 4.1 Experimental Observation -- 4.2 Determination of R-Curves -- 4.3 Reasons for R-Curve Behaviour -- 4.4 Influence of R-Curves on Strength -- 4.5 Computation of R-Curves -- 4.6 Determination of Bridging Stresses from Crack Profiles -- 5 Subcritical Crack Growth -- 5.1 Basic Relations -- 5.2 Computation of Lifetimes -- 5.3 Methods of Determining Subcritical Crack Growth -- 5.4 Influence of R-Curve Behaviour on Subcritical Crack Growth -- 5.5 Some Theoretical Considerations on Subcritical Crack Growth -- 6 Cyclic Fatigue -- 6.1 Representation of Cyclic Fatigue Results -- 6.2 Proof of a Cyclic Effect -- 6.3 Methods for the Determination of da/dN-?K Curves -- 6.4 Effect of R-Ratio -- 6.5 Theoretical Considerations -- 6.6 Differences Between Micro- and Macrocracks -- 7 Determination of Strength -- 7.1 Measurement of Tensile Strength -- 7.2 Measurement of Compressive Strength -- 8 Scatter of Mechanical Properties -- 8.1 Principal Behaviour -- 8.2 Determination of Weibull Parameters -- 8.3 The Size Effect -- 8.4 Scatter of Lifetimes -- 8.5 Some Specific Problems -- 9 Proof Test Procedure -- 9.1 Proof Test Without Subcritical Crack Growth -- 9.2 Proof Test Including Subcritical Crack Growth -- 9.3 Problems in Proof Tests -- 10 Multiaxial Failure Criteria -- 10.1 Representation in Multiaxiality Diagrams -- 10.2 Global Multiaxiality Criteria -- 10.3 Defect Models -- 10.4 Experimental Methods -- 10.5 Experimental Results -- 11 Thermal Shock Behaviour -- 11.1 Thermal Stresses -- 11.2 Measurement of Thermal Shock Sensitivity -- 11.3 Fracture Mechanical Treatment of Thermal Shock -- 11.4 Thermal Shock Parameters -- 11.5 Size Effect in Thermal Shock -- 11.6 Thermal Fatigue -- 12 High-Temperature Behaviour -- 12.1 Creep Deformation -- 12.2 Failure in the Creep Range -- 12.3 Creep Crack Growth -- 13 Plasticity -- 13.1 Plasticity During Contact Loading -- 13.2 Plasticity During Surface Grinding -- 13.3 Plasticity by Phase Transformation in Zirconia -- 13.4 Plasticity by Domain Switching in Piezoelectric Ceramics -- 13.5 Measurement of Plastic Deformations in Bending Tests -- 13.6 Time-Dependent Plasticity Effects -- A.1 Rectangular Bar -- A.2 Comact-Tension (CT) Specimen -- A.3 Round Compact Tension (RCT) Specimen -- A.4 Double-Cantilever-Beam Specimen (DCB) -- A.5 Weight Function for Chevron-Notched Bending Bars -- A.6 Specimens for Mixed-Mode Tests. |
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Ceramic materials are widely used as components in a great variety of applications. They are attractive due to their good high temperature strength, high wear resistance, good corrosion restistance and other special physical properties. Their major drawback is their brittleness and the large scatter of mechanical properties. This book describes failure phenomena in ceramic materials under mechanical loading, methods for determining the material properties, and the principles that one should apply when selecting a material. The fracture- |
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mechanical and statistical principles and their use in describing the scatter of strength and lifetime are also covered. Special chapters are devoted to creep behaviour, multiaxial failure criteria and thermal shock behaviour. |
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