Superior: The Return of Race Science, Saini Angela

Автор: Saini Angela
Название: Superior Hb
ISBN: 0008341001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008341008
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Описание: For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit of believing their own people to be the best, deep down: the more powerful they become, the more power begins to be framed as natural, as well as cultural. When you see how power has shaped the idea of race, then you can start to understand its meaning.

Автор: Saini Angela
Название: Inferior
ISBN: 000817203X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008172039
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Описание: `Inferior is more than just a book. It`s a battle cry - and right now, it`s having a galvanising effect on its core fanbase` Observer

Автор: Saini Angela
Название: Superior: The Return of Race Science
ISBN: 0807076910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807076910
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Описание: An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences

Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.

After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of unrepentant eugenicists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races.

If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas, and considered race a social construct, it was still an idea that managed to somehow make its way into the research into the human genome that began in earnest in the mid-1990s and continues today. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Saini shows us how, again and again, science is retrofitted to accommodate race. Even as our understanding of highly complex traits like intelligence, and the complicated effect of environmental influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between "races"--to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores or to justify cultural assumptions--stubbornly persists.

At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a powerful reminder that biologically, we are all far more alike than different.

Автор: Saini Angela
Название: Superior: The Return of Race Science
ISBN: 1974962202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781974962204
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Описание: Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science. After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream scientific world turned its back on eugenics and the study of racial difference. But a worldwide network of unrepentant eugenicists quietly founded journals and funded research, providing the kind of shoddy studies that were ultimately cited in Richard Hernstein's and Charles Murray's 1994 title, The Bell Curve, which purported to show differences in intelligence among races. If the vast majority of scientists and scholars disavowed these ideas, and considered race a social construct, it was still an idea that managed to somehow make its way into the research into the human genome that began in earnest in the mid-1990s and continues today. Dissecting the statements and work of contemporary scientists studying human biodiversity, most of whom claim to be just following the data, Saini shows us how, again and again, science is retrofitted to accommodate race. Even as our understanding of highly complex traits like intelligence, and the complicated effect of environmental influences on human beings, from the molecular level on up, grows, the hope of finding simple genetic differences between races--to explain differing rates of disease, to explain poverty or test scores or to justify cultural assumptions--stubbornly persists. At a time when racialized nationalisms are a resurgent threat throughout the world, Superior is a powerful reminder that biologically, we are all far more alike than different.

Автор: Saini, Angela
Название: What are you?
ISBN: 000829383X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008293833
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Описание: `We can draw lines across the world any way we choose, and in the history of race science, people have. What matters isn`t where the lines are drawn, but what they mean.`

Автор: Sidharth Saini
Название: Corrosion and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries
ISBN: 168117037X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681170374
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Описание: This book gives a comprehensive review of corrosion problems during oil and gas production and its mitigation. The effect of corrosion in the oil industry leads to the failure of parts. This failure results in shutting down the plant to clean the facility. The chemistry of corrosion mechanism had been examined with the various types of corrosion and associated corroding agents in the oil and gas industry.

Автор: Sidharth Saini
Название: Water for Energy and Fuel Production
ISBN: 1681170329 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681170329
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Описание: Energy and water are valuable resources that underpin human prosperity and are, to a large extent, interdependent. Water is ubiquitous in energy production: in power generation; in the extraction, transport and processing of fossil fuels; and, increasingly, in irrigation to grow feedstock crops used to produce biofuels. Similarly, energy is vital to the provision of water, needed to power systems that collect, transport, distribute and treat it.

Автор: Sidharth Saini
Название: Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events
ISBN: 1681170124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681170121
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Описание: Flood management planning and design of flood control facilities has evolved in recent years. Today, management of floods include planning and construction of facilities such as dams and detention facilities, coordinated operations of the reservoirs with flood control reservations, improvement of flood channels and levees, watershed management and proper land use planning. Flood control refers to all methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Floods are caused by many factors: heavy rainfall, highly accelerated snowmelt, severe winds over water, unusual high tides, tsunamis, or failure of dams, levees, retention ponds, or other structures that retained the water. Flooding can be exacerbated by increased amounts of impervious surface or by other natural hazards such as wildfires, which reduce the supply of vegetation that can absorb rainfall.

Автор: Shewta Saini
Название: Future Energy
ISBN: 1681173816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681173818
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Описание: Future Energy is a former accreditation scheme for green electricity in the United Kingdom, designed to support and stimulate electricity generation from renewable energy sources. The coming decades will bring big changes in energy systems throughout the world. The systems are expected to change from central power plants producing electricity and maybe heat for the customers to a combination of central units and a variety of distributed units such as renewable energy technologies or fuel cells. Future Energy will allow us to make reasonable, logical and correct decisions on our future energy as a result of two of the most serious problems that the civilized world has to face; the looming shortage of oil (which supplies most of our transport fuel) and the alarming rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (resulting from the burning of oil, gas and coal and the loss of forests) that threatens to change the worlds climate through global warming. The Future of Energy discusses the sources, technologies, and tradeoffs involved in meeting the worlds energy needs. A historical, scientific, and technical background set the stage for discussions on a wide range of energy sources, including conventional fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal, as well as emerging renewable sources like solar, wind, geothermal, and biofuels.

Автор: Nitin Saini
Название: Environmental Management Systems Handbook for Refineries
ISBN: 1681173670 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681173672
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Описание: Refinery operations in complying with environmental laws and improving the overall efficiency of their operations. The authors approach has been recognized internationally as an integrated model that captures improved compliance and financial savings by reducing operating costs through dedicated pollution prevention programs. The focus is on refinery operations; however, the principles and general discussions are applicable to all manufacturing sectors. All business operations are faced with global challenges involving dynamic interactions between changing regulations, market competitiveness, and spiralling costs for raw materials and labour. It is impossible to separate environmental management issues and infra-structure investments from the primary strategies of any business. In fact, any company, facility, or refinery that focuses on pollution control as opposed to environmental management will not find itself in business over the next decade. There simply are too many costs and financial exposures to businesses that do not focus on continual improvement of their environmental performance. A commitment to continual improvement of environmental performance is increasingly becoming the standard of care for industry.

Автор: Sidharth Saini
Название: Fundamentals of Ground Engineering
ISBN: 1681170000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681170008
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Описание: Ground Engineering is an understanding of geological structures, materials and processes, combined with the systematic application of investigative, scientific and mathematical techniques to produce practical solutions to ground related problems for the benefit of society. This book, Fundamentals of Ground Engineering, summarizes the basic principles and theories of soil mechanics, the procedures for creating a geotechnical model, and the common analyses for slopes, foundations, and walls.