04801nam 2200673Ia 450 991045696370332120200520144314.01-282-74425-997866127442591-932595-70-8(CKB)2550000000006246(EBL)478935(OCoLC)609854491(SSID)ssj0000356407(PQKBManifestationID)11286628(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356407(PQKBWorkID)10349533(PQKB)10119219(MiAaPQ)EBC478935(Au-PeEL)EBL478935(CaPaEBR)ebr10335146(CaONFJC)MIL274425(EXLCZ)99255000000000624620050308d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAgainst civilization[electronic resource] readings and reflections /edited by John Zerzan ; illustrations by R.L. TubbesingEnlarged ed.Los Angeles, CA Feral House20051 online resource (288 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-922915-98-9 Includes bibliographical references.CONTENTS; Foreword: Chellis Glendinning; Introduction: John Zerzan; Preface: Kevin Tucker, Unintended Consequences; SECTION I. OUTSIDE CIVILIZATION; Roy Walker, The Golden Feast; Hoxie Neale Fairchild, The Noble Savage: A Study in Romantic Naturalism; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality; Henry David Thoreau, ""Excursions""; Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!; Arnold DeVries, Primitive Man and His Food; Marshal Sahlins, ""The Original Affluent Society""; Lynn Clive, ""Birds Combat Civilization""; John Landau, ""Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Thesis""Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged LifeMarvin Harris, Our Kind; Ramon Wilson, Spokane Museum; SECTION II: THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION; George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness; James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America; John Zerzan, Elements of Refusal; Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness; Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the Rise of Civilization; Robin Fox, The Search for SocietyChellis Glendinning, My Name of Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western CivilizationPierre Clastres, Society Against the State; Madhusree Mukerjee, The Land of the Naked People; Robert Wolff, Reading and Writing; SECTION III: THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION; Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man; Charles Fourier, Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies; Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents; John Landau, ""Civilization and the Primitive""; Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason; Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline; Richard Heinberg, ""Was Civilization a Mistake?""Barbara Mor, Here: a small history of a mining town in the american southwest: Warren/Bisbee AZIvan Illich, Toward a History of Needs; Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust; T. Fulano, ""Civilization Is Like a Jetliner""; Unabomber (AKA ""FC""), ""Industrial Society and Its Future""; Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization; Ursula Legun, Women/Wilderness; SECTION IV: THE PATHOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION; Max Nordau, Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization; William Koetke, The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the FutureJoseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex SocietiesTheodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society; Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution; Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason; Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time; Labor of Ludd, ""The Medium Is the Medium""; Des Rėfractaires, ""How Nice to be Civilized!""; David Watson, ""Civilization in Bulk""; Richard Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise; Chrystos, ""They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry""Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of LifeThe primer of anarcho-primitivism.AnarchismCivilization, Modern20th centuryCivilization, Modern21st centuryElectronic books.Anarchism.Civilization, ModernCivilization, Modern335.83Zerzan John972021MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456963703321Against civilization2210073UNINA05120oam 2200541 450 991077988330332120190911112729.0981-4460-25-7(OCoLC)852149531(MiFhGG)GVRL8RBK(EXLCZ)99255000000109603920130510h20132013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrAchieving the rare Robert F. Christy's journey in physics and beyond /I.-Juliana Christy, California Institute of Technology, USAHackensack, NJ World Scientific2013New Jersey :World Scientific,[2013]�20131 online resource (xv, 349 pages) illustrations (some color)Gale eBooksIncludes index.981-4460-24-9 1-299-71363-7 Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. His Childhood; The Origin of Robert's Names; The Sinking of the Titanic; Marriage of Moise and Hattie (Robert's Parents); Death of Robert's Father; Robert's Early Years; No More Gambling; Death of Robert's Mother; Early Interests; Academic Successes; Chapter 2. The Formative UBC Years; Robert's Social Life at UBC; Summer Jobs While at UBC; Moving On from UBC; Chapter 3. Exciting Graduate Years with Oppenheimer; Becoming Part of the Birth of Particle Physics; Robert's Years at Berkeley in His Own Words; Chapter 4. The First Marriage, to Dagmar von LievenRobert's Parenting of His Sons Ted and PeterRobert's Memories of His Sons; Ted and Peter in College and as Adults; An Unusually Amicable Divorce; Chapter 5. The Very First Nuclear Reactor; An Unfulfilling Job Teaching at Illinois Tech in 1941; Background: The Discovery of Nuclear Fission in Germany; Origin of the German Nuclear Project; Origin of the U.S. Nuclear Project; The Early British Nuclear Project; The Manhattan Project Begins; Robert Joins the Project; The Creation of the First Nuclear Reactor, Chicago Pile-1; Founding of the Hanford Reactors; Founding of the Argonne ReactorsRobert's Friendship with FermiThe Fizzling of the Nazi Nuclear Project; The 1962 White House Reception Commemorating Chicago Pile-1; Chapter 6. Designing the First Atomic Bomb; Robert's Arrival at Los Alamos in Early 1943; Robert's Bosses at Los Alamos: Peierls, Bethe, Oppenheimer, and Groves; The Spy Klaus Fuchs; Robert's "Instant Fame" from His "Water Boiler" Reactor Calculations; The One-Dollar Patents at Los Alamos; Understanding Large Explosions such as the Volcano Krakatoa; Robert's Work on the Implosion Bomb: the "Christy Gadget"; Why the "Christy Gadget" and Not the "Christy Bomb"?The Trinity Test for the Implosion DesignFirst Attempts to Prevent the Actual Use of Atomic Bombs; Firebombing vs. Atomic Bombs; Groves' Motivation for Dropping the Bombs; The Use of the Two Atomic Bombs; After the War Had Ended; Robert's Memories of His Colleagues at Los Alamos; Robert's Memories of Visitors von Neumann and Bohr; Recreational Activities at Los Alamos; The Patent for the "Water Boiler" Reactor; A 1991 Package of Declassified Information on the "Water Boiler" Reactor; A Retrospective Article in the Pasadena Star-News; Chapter 7. Opposing Nuclear Weapons ProliferationRobert's View of the "Christy gadget"The Association of Los Alamos Scientists; The Oppenheimer Trial; The Teller Handshake Incident; Security Interview of Robert in 1955, Regarding Communism; The 1963 Enrico Fermi Award for Oppenheimer; Working Towards an Atmospheric Test Ban; The Los Angeles Times Gamble; Robert Discovers the Cause of Mysterious Communication Failures; Robert's Work Towards Initiating the SALT Talks; Robert's Opposition to Higher-Tech Weapons in the Vietnam War; Chapter 8. Becoming Oppenheimer's Successor at Caltech; Working with Fermi in Chicago, and Co-Habiting with TellerLeaving for CaltechRobert F Christy was a fascinating physicist who was one of the key players in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century.He was one of Oppenheimer's students, whom Oppenheimer hailed as "one of the best in the world." He was a co-creator of the world's first nuclear reactor and the first atom bombs, of which the most practical design was called the "Christy Gadget." Later, he became a leader in the effort to contain nuclear proliferation, leading up to the SALT talks, and headed a study on long-term health effects of radiation crucial for medical safety standards. He also made pionePhysicistsUnited StatesBiographyNuclear physicsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAstrophysicsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPhysicistsNuclear physicsHistoryAstrophysicsHistory530.092BChristy I.-Juliana1502055MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910779883303321Achieving the rare3729548UNINA