1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798536003321

Autore

Hasian Marouf Arif, Jr.

Titolo

Forensic rhetorics and satellite surveillance : the visualization of war crimes and human rights violations / / Marouf Hasian, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-3591-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

363.25/938

Soggetti

Space surveillance - History

War crimes - History

Human rights monitoring - History

Human rights monitoring - Technological innovations

Space surveillance - Moral and ethical aspects

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Chapter One: Satellite Imaging, Humanitarian Dreams, and the Twenty-First Century Pursuit of Forensic Truths; Chapter Two: Visualizing Srebrenica, The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the Growing Acceptance of Satellite Evidence; Chapter Three: Satellite Imagery and the Visual/Virtual Israeli Occupation of the Gaza; Chapter Four: George Clooney, Surveillance of Sudanese Borders, and the Sentinel Project; Chapter Five: The Drone Wars Over Pakistan and the Aerial "Manhunts" for Taliban and Al-Qaeda Enemies

Chapter Six: EUROSUR Surveillance, Mediterranean "Search and Rescue," and the Visualization of Europe's "Migrant Crisis"Chapter Seven: Conclusion: The Constitutive Power of Satellite Surveillance and the Crafting of Securitized and Militarized Dispositifs; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Forensic Rhetorics, Satellite Surveillance, and the Visualization of War Crimes and Human Rights Violations uses critical forensic perspectives in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses of governmental, NGO, and celebrity usage of satellite surveillance systems. The author



contends that while many defenders of this use of satellite imagery often argue that these images speak for themselves, they are in fact contested objects that are contextualized and recontextualized in salient foreign policy controversies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971386403321

Autore

Marshall John

Titolo

Atmosphere, ocean, and climate dynamics : an introductory text / / John Marshall and R. Alan Plumb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; [Burlington, MA], : Elsevier Academic Press, c2008

ISBN

0125586914 (hbk.)

9786612540400

9780125586917 (hbk.)

9781282540408

1282540408

9780080556703

0080556701

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xx, 319 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. ; ; 27 cm

Collana

International geophysics series ; ; v. 93

Altri autori (Persone)

PlumbR. Alan <1948->

Disciplina

551.5246

Soggetti

Atmospheric circulation

Ocean-atmosphere interaction

Ocean circulation

Fluid dynamics

Atmospheric thermodynamics

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. 303-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Characteristics of the atmosphere -- The global energy balance -- The vertical structure of the atmosphere -- Convection -- The meridional structure of the atmosphere -- The equations of fluid motion -- Balanced flow -- The general circulation of the atmosphere -- The ocean and its circulation -- The wind-driven circulation -- The thermohaline circulation of the ocean -- Climate and climate variability.



Sommario/riassunto

For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why they look that way.  The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate is also discussed. The combination of observations, theory and accompanying illustrative laboratory experiments sets this text apart by m

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158996403321

Autore

Reve Gerard

Titolo

The Evenings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pushkin Press, Limited, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781782272274

1782272275

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GarrettSam

Disciplina

839.313/64

Soggetti

Dreams

Young men

Fiction

History

General

Fiction in Translation

Amsterdam (Netherlands) History 20th century Fiction

Netherlands Amsterdam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- X -- About the Authors -- Available and Coming Soon from Pushkin Press Classics -- Copyright.



Sommario/riassunto

Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city street and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him. Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty.