The Great Imprisonment, Schlosser, Eric

Автор: Eric Schlosser
Название: Fast Food Nation
ISBN: 0141006870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141006871
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the story of our love affair with fast food. This title examines the safety records of abattoirs; reveals why the fries really taste so good and what lurks between the sesame buns - and shows how fast food is transforming not only our diets but our world.

Автор: Schlosser, Eric
Название: Reefer Madness
ISBN: 0141010762 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141010762
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Follows the money to uncover made the country rich: porn, pot and exploitation. This title traces the history of the contemporary `war on drugs` from its origins in Reagan`s social conservatism through to its profound impact on civil society, creating a justice system that punishes marijuana offences more harshly than rape and murder.

Автор: Schlosser Eric
Название: Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
ISBN: 0143125788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143125785
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: **The documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal.**

The documentary will air on PBS's American Experience on January 10th.

A myth-shattering expos of America's nuclear weapons

Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved--and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind. While the harms of global warming increasingly dominate the news, the equally dangerous yet more immediate threat of nuclear weapons has been largely forgotten.

Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, policy makers, and military officers to ensure that nuclear weapons can't be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. At the heart of the book lies the struggle, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States.

Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with people who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons, Command and Control takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that, until now, has been largely hidden from view. Through the details of a single accident, Schlosser illustrates how an unlikely event can become unavoidable, how small risks can have terrible consequences, and how the most brilliant minds in the nation can only provide us with an illusion of control. Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, Command and Control is a tour de force of investigative journalism, an eye-opening look at the dangers of America's nuclear age.

Автор: Michael Simonson, Charles Schlosser
Название: Quarterly Review of Distance Education, Volume 18, Number 1: `Research that Guides Practice``
ISBN: 1681239388 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681239385
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors.

Автор: Michael Simonson, Charles Schlosser, John G. Flores, Eunice Luyegu
Название: Distance Learning - Volume 14: Issue 2
ISBN: 1641130962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641130967
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 66530.00 T
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Описание: Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e-learning, telecommunications, and related areas. It is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing instruction to all kinds of learners, of all ages, using telecommunications technologies of all types. Stories are written by practitioners for practitioners with the intent of providing usable information and ideas. Articles are accepted from authors--new and experienced--with interesting and important information about the effective practice of distance teaching and learning.Distance Learning is published quarterly. Each issue includes eight to ten articles and three to four columns, including the highly regarded ""And Finally..."" column covering recent important issues in the field and written by Distance Learning editor, Michael Simonson. Articles are written by practitioners from various countries and locations, nationally and internationally.

Автор: Michael Simonson, Charles Schlosser
Название: Quarterly Review of Distance Education " "Research That Guides Practice
ISBN: 1641130911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641130912
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 104410.00 T
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Описание: The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally-based formal education in which the learning group is separated and interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group.

Автор: Schlosser S. E.
Название: Spooky Florida: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
ISBN: 1493044850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493044856
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Цена: 19700.00 T
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Описание: Tales of hauntings, strange happenings and other local lore throughout the Sunshine state!

Автор: Schlosser S. E.
Название: Spooky North Carolina: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
ISBN: 1493044893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493044894
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Цена: 19700.00 T
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Описание: Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in North Carolina.

Автор: Schlosser S. E.
Название: Spooky Great Smokies: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
ISBN: 1493044834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493044832
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Цена: 19700.00 T
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Описание: The eastern side of the Smokies abounds with spooky tales, like the story of a Shadow Woman who appeared to a farmer each morning and evening to beg for a cup of milk. Skinned Tom is another East Tennessee haunt, though his is a sinister tale that warns the unfaithful to steer clear of local lover's lanes for their illicit trysting. From the farmer who finds a Cavern of Skulls to a moonshiner who makes a deal with a water demon; and the Half Shaved ghost seeking vengeance to the first (and only) meeting of the Asheville Ghost Club, the Great Smoky Mountains and its foothills abound with spooky tales. My favorites are in this collection.

Автор: Schlosser, Eric
Название: The Great Imprisonment
ISBN: 110190710X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101907108
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Supersummary
Название: Study Guide: Chew on This by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson (SuperSummary)
ISBN: 168887982X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781688879829
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13730.00 T
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Описание: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 51-page guide for "Chew on This" by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 8 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Disruptive Entrepreneurship and Exploitation.