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Midnight in Chernobyl
A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a movie” (The Wall Street Journal)—a powerful investigation into Chernobyl and how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the history’s worst nuclear disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has b...
The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Thirteen
The Blizzard is a quarterly football publication, put together by a cooperative of journalists and authors, its main aim to provide a platform for top-class writers from across the globe to enjoy the space and the freedom to write what they like about the football stories that matter to them. Contents of Issue Thirteen ---------------- History ---------------- * Uli Hesse, Never the Twain - The story of the meeting between West Germany and East Germany at the 1974 World Cup * Greg Johnson, Hearts and Minds - Spain threaten, like Lennox Lewis, to be a great but unloved champion * Richard Jolly, The Clubs behind the Countries - Which clubs have produced the most World Cup winners? * Martín Ma...
Web Engineering
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Engineering, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2011. The 22 revised full papers and 15 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers topics cover a broad range of areas, namely, the Semantic Web, Web Services, Mashups, Web 2.0, Web quality, Web development, etc.
TOTAL SA Patent Landscape Analysis – January 1, 1994 to December 31, 2013
The following analysis illustrates the underlying trends and relationships of U.S. issued patents of the subject company. The analysis employs two frequently used patent classification methods: US Patent Classification (UPC) and International Patent Classification (IPC). Aside from assisting patent examiners in determining the field of search for newly submitted patent applications, the two classification methods play a pivotal role in the characterization and analysis of technologies contained in collections of patent data. The analysis also includes the company’s most prolific inventors, top cited patents as well as foreign filings by technology area.
Černobyl
Tento hrubý nástin vystihuje, co se v dubnu 1986 odehrálo v Černobylské jaderné elektrárně. Autor seznamuje čtenáře s genezí sovětského jaderného výzkumu, konstrukcí dvou hlavních typů reaktorů užívaných v SSSR, s jejich přednostmi i chybami. Nastiňuje i výstavbu jaderné elektrárny u Černobylu, spojenou s problémy i proslulou sovětskou fušeřinou. Hlavní část knihy je zaměřena na události, které vedly k explozi reaktoru č. 4. Kniha ilustruje zmatek technického personálu elektrárny, který nebyl schopen zjistit, co se vlastně stalo, i velmi nepružnou reakci ze strany místních i celostátních orgánů. Popsáno je úsilí hasičů o zvládnutí p...
Cernobil
„O cronică realizată cu o mână de maestru" – New York Review of Books Premiul Pushkin House pentru Cartea Rusă 2019 Premiul Baillie Gifford pentru Non-Ficțiune 2018 „O cronică realizată cu o mână de maestru" – New York Review of Books O relatare tulburătoare, care recreează filmul evenimentelor petrecute la Cernobîl în 1986 în tot dramatismul lor, istorisind poveștile celor care s-au trezit prinși în mijlocul unui Armageddon nuclear și au reușit să facă imposibilul: să stingă incendiul și să „adoarmă" reactorul. Dincolo de narațiunea alertă și palpitantă, cartea semnată de Serhii Plokhy, el însuși supraviețuitor al dezastrului, sondează însă î...
Chernobyl
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018 'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, Observer The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of t...
Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland
Interkulturelle Literatur bezeichnet die Literatur der in Deutschland lebenden Autor/innen nicht-deutscher Herkunft. Auf Grundlage der politisch-rechtlichen und wirtschaftlich-sozialen Bedingungen der Migration in Deutschland in den letzten fünfzig Jahren, die umfassend vorgestellt werden, gibt dieser Band einen Überblick über die Literatur der Migrant/innen unterschiedlichster nationaler Herkunft. Die geographische Vielfältigkeit reicht weit über den europäischen Kontinent hinaus bis nach Asien, Lateinamerika oder Schwarzafrika. In 18 Artikeln stellen Wissenschaftler/innen die Literatur der Migrant/innen der verschiedenen Nationalitäten vor und bieten in zahlreichen Porträts einen Einblick in Leben und Werk.
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