Critical Mass

Download Critical Mass full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Critical Mass ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Critical Mass

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374530419
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Philip Ball

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Philip Ball and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ball shows how much can be understood of human behavior when we cease to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions--whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict--on our laws, institutions and customs.

Critical Mass

Author : Daniel Suarez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593183649
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Daniel Suarez

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Daniel Suarez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid—kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance. When unforeseen circumstances during an innovative—and unsanctioned—commercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of climate change and unable to take the risks necessary to make rapid progress in space, the crew must build their own nextgen spacecraft capable of mounting a rescue in time for the asteroid's next swing by Earth. In the process they'll need to establish the first spin-gravity station in deep space, the first orbiting solar power satellite and refinery, and historic infrastructure on the moon's surface—all of which could alleviate a deepening ecological, political, and economic crisis back on Earth, and prove that space-based industry is not only profitable, but possibly humanity's best hope for a livable, peaceful future.

Critical Mass

Author : James Wolcott
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767930630
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : James Wolcott

Download or read book Critical Mass written by James Wolcott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Wolcott’s career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with “O.K. Corral Revisited,” Wolcott’s career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer–Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena Dunham Patti Smith, Johnny Carson, Woody Allen, and John Cheever. And we witness his legendary takedowns, which have entered into the literary lore of our time. In an age where a great deal of back scratching and softball pitching pass for criticism, Critical Mass offers a bracing taste of the real thing.

Critical Mass

Author : Chris Carlsson
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 9781902593593
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Chris Carlsson

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Chris Carlsson and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting 10 years of fun, radical, spontaneous bicycle demonstrations that challenge the autocentric world.

Critical Mass

Author : Steve Martini
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101550236
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Steve Martini

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Steve Martini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Joss has no significant clients other than a group of commercial fisherman suffering from a strange and serious illness, a condition that doctors cannot diagnose, and which Joss believes has an industrial cause. Then into her office comes Dean Belden, a well-heeled client in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business in the islands. Within days Belden is subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. Less than an hour after testifying, and before Joss can discover what happened in the secrecy of the grand jury room, Belden dies in a fiery explosion of his float plane on Seattle's Lake Union. Gideon Van Ry is a nuclear fission expert and a scholar in residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. One of his duties is to update the Center's database, an extensive catalog listing fissionable materials and weapons of mass destruction. Gideon is troubled by the apparent failure to account for two small tactical nuclear devices missing from a storage facility in the former Soviet Union.The two weapons were last seen in packing crates, to be shipped to an American company called Belden Electronics. Gideon has been unable to locate this firm, and now he is left with only one possible lead, the lawyer who incorporated the company-Jocelyn Cole. Fraught with tension and suspense, Critical Mass is Steve Martini at his electrifying best. It is the story of what can happen in a world where private hate and public apathy combine to uncork the sleeping but deadly genie of nuclear terror.

Critical Mass

Author : Sara Paretsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101636505
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Sara Paretsky

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Sara Paretsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago’s V. I. Warshawski “is at her stubborn, reckless, compassionate best in this complicated page-turner about selfish secrets passed down through generations” (Booklist). In 1939, Dr. Lotty Herschel, V. I. Warshawki’s closest friend in Chicago, escaped the Holocaust in Vienna with her childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. Though the two drifted and animosities grew between them over the years, when Kitty’s daughter finds her life in danger, she turns to Lotty for help. In turn, Lotty summons V. I. to take the case. The threats on the daughter’s life at first seem a simple case of bad drug dealings, but V. I. soon discovers that they are just the tip of an iceberg of lies secrets and silence whose origins trace back to the deadly race among America, Germany, Japan, and England to develop the atomic bomb. And while the secrets may be old, the people who continue to guard them will do anything to make sure they stay buried...

Critical Mass

Author : Dinur Blum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000467597
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Dinur Blum

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Dinur Blum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines social patterns in 2,000 mass shootings in the United States between 2013 through 2020. While mass shootings are often described as psychological, the authors show that there are social factors that produce the anger needed to commit a mass shooting. These factors are fairly common and can be addressed to stem the anger earlier. The factors include chronic poverty, sudden unemployment, relationship problems, domestic violence, social isolation, and alcohol. Common social strains can metastasize and be lethally dangerous. By understanding the social factors, we can reduce the anger and frustration people feel that would drive them to killing others.

Critical Mass

Author : Richard Noyce
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408109395
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Richard Noyce

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Richard Noyce and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book showcases the work of a very diverse selectionof 52 artists from 28 countries, against a spectrum of the concernsthat inform the role and function of art in the increasinglytechnological global society. The mediums used by these artists rangefrom new variations on traditional intaglio and relief techniques, toextreme forms of digital techniques, including time-based forms such asfilm and multi-media presentation. Printmaking continues to evolve asartists develop the traditionaltechniques and experiment with new techniques and materials. In recentyears the boundaries between the once distinct fields of the visualarts have become blurred, and growing numbers of artists nowincorporate printmaking techniques within their practice. This bookprovides a broad-ranging and challenging source of information on themost exciting cutting edge developments in international printmaking,which will be of value to students, professional artists and all thosewith an interest in the contemporary visual arts

Critical Mass

Author : Jacque Srouji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Jacque Srouji

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Jacque Srouji and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical Mass

Author : Carter Plymton Hydrick
Publisher : Whitehurst & Company/Jifyline Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780975985304
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Carter Plymton Hydrick

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Carter Plymton Hydrick and published by Whitehurst & Company/Jifyline Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Manhattan Project you haven't heard about! On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders "lined with gold," was 560 kilograms, 1,120 pounds, of enriched uranium oxide labeled "U235"-the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Following ten years of research, author Carter Hydrick presents documentation that demonstrates surrendered German components from U-234 were used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki to defeat the Japanese, win World War Two and usher in the Nuclear Age.

Critical Mass

Author : Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813533032
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Mead Art Museum (Amherst College) and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Puts New Jersey at the center of key art movements during the sixties

Critical Mass

Author : William E. Burrows
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671748951
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (489 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : William E. Burrows

Download or read book Critical Mass written by William E. Burrows and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1994 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third World superweapon proliferation is more frightening than the cold war arms race. This new arms race is a genocidal contest, fueled by hatred and meant to settle old racial, ethnic, and religious scores.

Shift Happens!

Author : Chris Carlsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780926664081
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Shift Happens! by : Chris Carlsson

Download or read book Shift Happens! written by Chris Carlsson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology celebrating the accomplishments of the Critical Mass movement over the past twenty years. From both theoretical and practical perspectives, the book explores how Critical Mass has gone around the world, how it has evolved along the way, and the impacts it has had on local politics, transportation, and cultures. Includes contributions from San Francisco, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, Puerto Elegre, Manchester, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Rome, São Paulo, A Coruña, Guadalajara, Nuevo León, Budapest, Prague, Helsinki, Ponce, Mexico City, Bilbao, Baton Rouge, Capetown, Vigo, Naples, New York City, Portland, London, Berkeley, Florianopolis, Calais, Dubai, and Palestine!

Critical Mass

Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553109481
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Critical Mass by : Frederik Pohl

Download or read book Critical Mass written by Frederik Pohl and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Author : Denise Markonish
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791358219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Trenton Doyle Hancock by : Denise Markonish

Download or read book Trenton Doyle Hancock written by Denise Markonish and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trenton Doyle Hancock has created a world of characters through drawings, paintings, and installations and this "field guide" immerses readers in his creative process and inspirations. Trenton Doyle Hancock has transformed his childhood love of comic books, toys, and superhero culture into his own creation myth. That mythology and the fascinating, multimedia iterations that it has sparked are told in this captivating and revealing book. Accompanied by images of his paintings, drawings, and installations alongside pictures of his own vast toy and pop culture collections as well as pages from his forthcoming graphic novel, the artist traces the birth of the Mounds and Vegans--the plants and mutants that are forever at war--through which he explores good, evil, authority, race, moral relativism, and religion. Hancock takes readers inside his largest exhibition yet at MASS MoCA--a multi-media work that blends sculpture, painting, and installations to bring the Mounds' world to life. Included in this book are contributions by the exhibition curator Denise Markonish, an art historical essay about Hancock's paintings, and illuminating conversations between Hancock and some of his influences, including Frank Oz. With this book, Hancock merges his personal history with his imagination to create a rich panoply of color, image, and language. Copublished by MASS MoCA and DelMonico Books

Delta-v

Author : Daniel Suarez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524742414
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Delta-v by : Daniel Suarez

Download or read book Delta-v written by Daniel Suarez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime candidate for Joyce's high-risk venture to mine a near-earth asteroid--with the goal of kick-starting an entire off-world economy. The potential rewards and personal risks are staggering, but the competition is fierce and the stakes couldn't be higher. Isolated and pushed beyond their breaking points, Tighe and his fellow twenty-first century adventurers--ex-soldiers, former astronauts, BASE jumpers, and mountain climbers--must rely on each other to survive not only the dangers of a multi-year expedition but the harsh realities of business in space. They're determined to transform humanity from an Earth-bound species to a space-faring one--or die trying.

The Critical Mass in Collective Action

Author : Gerald Marwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521308399
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Critical Mass in Collective Action by : Gerald Marwell

Download or read book The Critical Mass in Collective Action written by Gerald Marwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of collective action is that each group member wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Therefore, no one does the work and the common interest is not realized. This book analyses the social pressure whereby groups solve the problem of collective action.