1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820521403321

Autore

Wolf Koenraad de

Titolo

Dissident for life : Alexander Ogorodnikov and the struggle for religious freedom in Russia / / Koenraad De Wolf ; translated by Nancy Forest-Flier ; foreword by David Alton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Grand Rapids, Michigan ; ; Cambridge, England : , : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4674-3741-7

1-4674-3774-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 303 p., [32] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

281.9092

Soggetti

Dissenters - Soviet Union

Dissenters - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

"This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.  In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child. Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other



accomplishments. Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work."--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807985203321

Autore

Fox Sarah Alisabeth <1981->

Titolo

Downwind : a people's history of the nuclear West / / Sarah Alisabeth Fox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4962-0766-1

0-8032-6950-1

0-8032-6949-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Disciplina

363.7380978

Soggetti

Uranium miners - Health and hygiene - West (U.S.)

Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects - Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah

Nuclear weapons testing victims - West (U.S.)

Nuclear weapons - Testing - West (U.S.) - History

Nuclear weapons - Testing - Health aspects

Radioactive fallout - Health aspects - West (U.S.)

Radiation - Health aspects - West (U.S.)

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Infrastructure

SOCIAL SCIENCE - General

HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah

Nuclear industry - Health aspects

Nuclear weapons testing victims

Radiation - Health aspects

Uranium miners - Health and hygiene

Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects

West United States



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

Living under the cloud -- Unearthing yellow monsters -- Home on the range -- Locally grown -- Writing down names -- Critical mass -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this incredibly important book, Sarah Alisabeth Fox effectively shows how the stories of regular people are to be trusted more than the words of the government and the experts when the latter are lying in a misguided attempt to protect national security."-Doug Brugge, professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine<DIV></DIV>

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367564803321

Autore

Dinnat Emmanuel P

Titolo

Sea Surface Salinity Remote Sensing / Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Xiaobin Yin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783039210770

3039210777

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (296 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Special Issue gathers papers reporting research on various aspects of remote sensing of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) and the use of satellite SSS in oceanography. It includes contributions presenting



improvements in empirical or theoretical radiative transfer models; mitigation techniques of external interference such as RFI and land contamination; comparisons and validation of remote sensing products with in situ observations; retrieval techniques for improved coastal SSS monitoring, high latitude SSS and the assessment of ocean interactions with the cryosphere; and data fusion techniques combining SSS with sea surface temperature (SST). New instrument technology for the future of SSS remote sensing is also presented.