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UNINA9910793667203321 |
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Newell Catherine L. |
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Destined for the stars : faith, the future, and America's final frontier / / Catherine L. Newell |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Christianity and astronautics |
Discoveries in geography - Public opinion |
Outer space Exploration Public opinion |
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Materiale a stampa |
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"Where did humanity get the idea that outer space is a frontier waiting to be explored? Destined for the Stars unravels the popularization of the science of space exploration in America between 1944 and 1955, arguing that the success of the US space program was due not to technological or economic superiority, but was sustained by a culture that had long believed it was called by God to settle new frontiers and prepare for the inevitable end of time and God's final judgment. Religious forces, Newell finds, were in no small way responsible for the crescendo of support for and interest in space exploration in the early 1950s, well before Project Mercury--the United States' first human spaceflight program--began in 1959. In this remarkable history, Newell explores the connection between the art of Chesley Bonestell--the father of modern space art whose paintings drew inspiration from depictions of the American West--and the popularity of that art in Cold War America; Bonestell's working partnership with science writer and rocket expert Willy Ley; and Ley and Bonestell's relationship with Wernher von Braun, father of both the V-2 missile and the Saturn V rocket, whose millennial conviction that God wanted humankind to leave Earth and explore other planets animated his life's work. |
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Together, they inspired a technological and scientific faith that awoke a deep-seated belief in a sense of divine destiny to reach the heavens. The origins of their quest, Newell concludes, had less to do with the Cold War strife commonly associated with the space race and everything to do with the religious culture that contributed to the invention of space as the final frontier"--Back cover. |
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UNINA9910972477403321 |
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Autore |
Krueger Russell |
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Some Principles for Development of Statistics for a Gulf Cooperation Council Currency Union / / Russell Krueger, Ettore Kovarich |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006 |
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9786613825124 |
9781462302383 |
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9781452718866 |
1452718865 |
9781283512671 |
128351267X |
9781452701370 |
1452701377 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (23 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Monetary unions - Middle East |
Banking |
Banks and Banking |
Banks and banking |
Banks |
Computer Programs: Other |
Currencies |
Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology |
Depository Institutions |
Econometrics & economic statistics |
Exports and Imports |
Finance |
Financial Aspects of Economic Integration |
Financial statistics |
Government and the Monetary System |
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Income economics |
International economics |
Labor economics |
Labor Economics: General |
Labor |
Labour |
Macroeconomics |
Micro Finance Institutions |
Monetary economics |
Monetary Systems |
Monetary unions |
Money and Monetary Policy |
Money |
Mortgages |
Payment Systems |
Regimes |
Standards |
Statistics |
Middle East Economic conditions Statistics |
United Arab Emirates |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 21). |
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""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. BACKGROUND ON THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL CURRENCY UNION""; ""III. PREPARATORY STATISTICAL WORK�EXPERIENCES OF THE EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION""; ""IV. PRINCIPLES FOR STATISTICS FOR A CURRENCY UNION""; ""V. WHAT STATISTICS MUST BE PREPARED?""; ""A. Convergence Criteria""; ""B. The Core Currency Union Statistics""; ""C. Statistics on the External Aspects of a Currency Union""; ""D. Statistics on the Macroeconomy and the Effectiveness of Policy""; ""E. Statistics for Dissemination to the Public""; ""F. Specialized Statistics""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS"" |
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Looking ahead to the creation of a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Currency Union in 2010, the paper covers some implications for the statistical programs of the GCC countries. Despite uncertainty over the structure of the proposed union, the paper envisions several types of mutually reinforcing statistics-convergence criteria, statistics on the core policy variables and instruments, additional macroeconomic data, specialized statistics related to the economic and institutional conditions within the union, and public information. Major changes to national statistical programs are needed that should begin soon. |
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