1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00289819

Autore

BAUMANN, Lothar

Titolo

Die erzählende Prosa der deutschsprachigen Dadaisten dargestellt am Beispiel von Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck und Kurt Schwitters. Inaugural-Dissertation der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität zu Mainz / Lothar Baumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mainz, : [s.n.], 1977

Descrizione fisica

152 p. ; 21 cm.

Disciplina

830.09

Soggetti

SCHWITTERS KURT

LETTERATURA NARRATIVA TEDESCA - Sec. 20 - Studi

DADAISMO - Germania

BALL HUGO

HUELSENBECK RICHARD

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911009379303321

Autore

Goodman Nicole

Titolo

Voting Online : Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9780228021797

0228021790

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance Series

Altri autori (Persone)

HayesHelen A

McGregorR. Michael

PruysersScott

SpicerZachary

Disciplina

324.6/502854678

Soggetti

Internet voting

Local elections

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- VOTING ONLINE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Studying Online Voting in Ontario Local Elections -- 2 The Rise of Online Voting in Ontario -- 3 The Effects of Online Voting -- 4 Who Votes Online? Perception versus Reality -- 5 Candidates and Online Voting -- 6 What Do Administrators Think? -- 7 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Voting Online investigates the effects of cyber elections by looking at how adoption of online voting affects attitudes towards democracy, who uses and who benefits from the voting mode, the extent to which candidates support it, and what factors election administrators consider when deciding to adopt it. The authors provide important lessons for all interested in the health of democratic societies.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962182903321

Autore

Samuel Wolfgang W. E

Titolo

American raiders : the race to capture the Luftwaffe's secrets / / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2004

ISBN

1-60473-136-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 493 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

940.54/8673

Soggetti

Aeronautics, Military - Research - United States - History - 20th century

Technology transfer - Germany - History - 20th century

Technology transfer - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - Science

World War, 1939-1945 - Technology

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. 479-484) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. The Way Things Were-1945; 2. The German Jets; 3. Jet Encounters; 4. The Defiant Few; 5. Colonel Harold E. Watson; 6. The 1st Tactical Air Force (Provisional); 7. Organizing to Disarm the Luftwaffe; 8. Operation Lusty; 9. Solving the Japanese Riddle; 10. A Mother Lode of Aviation Technology; 11. The Secrets of Völkenrode and Kochel; 12. The Feudin' 54th; 13. Watson Picks His Team; 14. Lager Lechfeld; 15. P-47 Jug Pilots; 16. Watson's Whizzers; 17. The Merseburg Fan Club; 18. Project Seahorse; 19. Melun-Villaroche

20. Roast Duck at Aalborg21. The Arado 234 Caper; 22. So Far, So Good; 23. The Conquering Hero; 24. The Focke-Wulf 190 Tragedy; 25. Air Shows and Air Races; 26. The Birth of Project Overcast; 27. Project Overcast and One Man's Experience; 28. From Overcast to Paperclip; 29. How Captain Wenzel Made American Citizens Out of Enemy Aliens; 30. The Way Things Changed; Afterword: What Became of All These Good Men?; Notes; Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

World War II  ̈ Cold War-->. At the close of World War II, Allied forces faced frightening new German secret weapons--buzz bombs, V-2s,



and the first jet fighters. When Hitler's war machine began to collapse, the race was on to snatch these secrets before the Soviet Red Army found them. The last battle of World War II, then, was not for military victory but for the technology of the Third Reich. In American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets Wolfgang Samuel assembles from official Air Force records and survivors' interviews the largely untold stories of the disarmament of the