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The Age of the Aviator
THE AGE OF THE AVIATOR is the story of a unique period in history. It was a time when no one was yet certain of the potential of flight and when the task of testing its limits fell to a handful of eccentric and ingenious daredevils. This sweeping novel describes the century-long life of one such adventurer: someone who loved danger more than safety; a man of common origins who rose to uncommon heights and lifted up a generation of people with him.
Modern Hungers
This text explores Germany's role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars
Sky and Ocean Joined
As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.
High-Performance Fibres
This important new handbook provides comprehensive coverage of how high performance fibres are designed and manufactured and covers their capabilities and applications. The high-modulus, high-tenacity (HM-HT) fibres fall naturally into three groups – polymer fibres such as aramids and polyethylene fibres; carbon fibres such as Kevlar; and inorganic fibres based on glass and ceramic fibres.The books shows how high performance fibres are being increasingly used for a wide range of applications including goetextiles and geomembranes and for construction and civil engineering projects as well as in specialist fibres within composite materials where their ability to fulfil demanding roles makes them an effective choice for the engineer and materials scientist. - Provides a comprehensive overview of how high performance fibres are designed and manufactured and covers their capabilities and applications - Explains how high performance fibres are being increasingly used for a wide range of applications, including geotextiles and geomembranes and construction and civil engineering projects
Becoming East German
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
Psychiatrie in der DDR III
Psychiatrie in der DDR wird bis heute widersprüchlich wahrgenommen: Während viele Patientinnen und Patienten ihre Behandlung als wenig individualisiert wahrnahmen, engagierten sich viele professionell Agierende im Klinikalltag, der häufig von einer desolaten materiellen Lage geprägt war, bis an ihre Grenzen. Verschiedene Beiträge dokumentieren dieses Spannungsfeld und ziehen einen breiten thematischen und zeitlichen Bogen. Eingebettet in grundlegende Entwicklungen des Gesundheitswesens der DDR werden diagnostische und therapeutische Ansätze und Entwicklungen einschließlich medikamentöser Therapien und der Psychotherapie betrachtet. Der differenzierte Einblick in den mikrohistorischen Sozialraum Psychiatrie zeigt, welche enormen Unterschiede in einzelnen Einrichtungen vorhanden waren und in welchem Ausmaß die Qualität der medizinischen und therapeutischen Versorgung von engagierten Akteuren vor Ort abhängig war.
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