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Australia is dying of thirst. The northern half of the continent has become an independent Islamic state. The remaining territories have amalgamated into the United States of Southern Australia, with the exception of Tasmania, which has joined the emerging economic powerhouse of New Zealand. Cattle and sheep can only be raised in the Muslim state of Capricornia. Meat production in USSA is dependent upon the farming of kangaroos, and water has become more valuable than oil. Despite a respectable history of peace and stable international relations, three school-leavers in the central Capricornian town of Whitlam form a terrorist cell. In Canberra, a disillusioned security chief plots to enhance his agencys funding. And in what was once South Australia, the half-Aboriginal descendant of an eccentric itinerant works on a kangaroo farm. He dreams. Will the future of central Australia be determined by arrogance, malice, and incompetence?
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The embryonic development of femtoscience stems from advances made in the generation of ultrashort laser pulses. Beginning with mode-locking of glass lasers in the 1960s, the development of dye lasers brought the pulse width down from picoseconds to femtoseconds. The breakthrough in solid state laser pulse generation provided the current reliable table-top laser systems capable of average power of about 1 watt, and peak power density of easily watts per square centimeter, with pulse widths in the range of four to eight femtoseconds. Pulses with peak power density reaching watts per square centimeter have been achieved in laboratory settings and, more recently, pulses of sub-femtosecond durat...
In the last years of Ronald Reagan's life, his voluminous writings on politics, policy, and people finally emerged and offered a Rosetta stone by which to understand him. From 1975 to 1979, in particular, he delivered more than 1,000 radio addresses, of which he wrote at least 680 himself. When drafts of his addresses were first discovered, and a selection was published in 2001 as Reagan, In His Own Hand by the editors of this book, they caused a sensation by revealing Reagan as a prolific and thoughtful writer, who covered a wide variety of topics and worked out the agenda that would drive his presidency. What was missed in that thematic collection, however, was the development of his ideas...
White House photographers during Ronald Reagan's presidency took some million and a half still photos, films, and videotapes. Remembering Reagan includes the best of these images to illustrate the many high points of the two Reagan terms, as well as the dark days--the assassination attempt, the Challenger disaster, and the Iran-Contra issue. 200 full-color photos.
President Calvin Coolidge has only recently begun to get the reappraisal he deserves.
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