Authors: David A. Scott, Jerry Podany, Brian B. Considine,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: research, symposium, proceedings, scientific, conservation, historic, metals, ancient
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1995-04-27
ISBN-10: 0892362316
ISBN-13: 9780892362318

The preservation and study of metals in terms of the problems of deterioration and appropriate methods of examination and treatment increasingly involve collaboration between scientists and conservators. The sixteen essays in this volume focus on actual objects from a wide range of periods and cultures. Contributors include Thomas Chase of the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., on the technology of Chinese bronze casting; Paola Fiorentino of the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome on the conservation of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius; Knud Holm of the National Museum of Denmark on

Authors: Charles M. Judd, David A. Kenny,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: intervention, social, effects, estimating
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1981-10-30
ISBN-10: 0521297559
ISBN-13: 9780521297554

From the book: In the fall of 1977, we jointly offered a graduate course in the Department of Psychology and Social Relations at Harvard University. That course, "Psychology and Social Relations 2570: Methods of Applied Social Research," was 也ased on two convictions that we shared. The 岳rst was that our graduate students were likely sometime in their professional careers to engage in applied social scienti岳c research. At some point they would all be called upon to evaluate a social intervention. Our second shared conviction was that although the research methods we normally teach to soc

Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Tor Tee
Keywords: win
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2010-05-11
ISBN-10: 0765322161
ISBN-13: 9780765322166

In the virtual future, you must organize to survive At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual “gold,” jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, others seek to exploit this vast shadow economy, running electronic sweatshops in the world’s poorest countries, where countless “gold farmers,” bound to their work by abusive contracts and physical threats, harvest virtual treasure for their employers to sell to First World gamers who are willing to spend real mone

Author: Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.) Cent
Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency
Keywords: war, cold, intelligence, reagan, ronald
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2012-02-28
ISBN-10: 0160899737
ISBN-13: 9780160899737

Prepared in cooperation with the National Archives, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, following a November 2, 2011, symposium. Uses a historical collection of newly declassified documents to tell the fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of US intelligence during the Reagan Administration and the key issues in US-Soviet relations that led to the end of the Cold War, including analysis of Mikhail Gorbachev. Contains many rare photographs, a Reagan Cold War time line, and a DVD which contains over 200 declassified documents from both US and Soviet sides. Ronald Reagan became the 40th president

Authors: Ph.D. Steven J. Dick, Mark L. Lupisella Ph.D., Na
Publisher: US National Aeronautics and Space Admi
Keywords: cosmic, context, evolution, cultural, culture, cosmos
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2010-03-09
ISBN-10: 0160831199
ISBN-13: 9780160831195

During the last 50 years, coincident with the Space Age, cosmic evolution has been recognized as the master narrative of the universe, history writ large. Cosmic evolution includes physical, biological, and cultural evolution, and of these the latter is by far the most rapid.  In this volume, authors with diverse backgrounds in science, history, anthropology, and more, consider culture in the context of the cosmos. How does our knowledge of cosmic evolution affect terrestrial culture? Conversely, how does our knowledge of cultural evolution affect our thinking about po

Author: Library of Congre
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Keywords: study, country, korea, north
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN-10: 0844411884
ISBN-13: 9780844411880

This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Divison of the Library of Congress under the Coun­ try Studies/Area Handbook Program, formerly sponsored by the Department of the Army and revived in FY 2004 with congressionally mandated funding under the sponsorship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J–5). Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationshi

Author: Rex A. Hudson Federal Research Division Library
Publisher: Library of Congre
Keywords: handbook, area, study, country, colombia
Number of Pages: 539
Published: 2010-09-08
ISBN-10: 0844495026
ISBN-13: 9780844495026

This volume is one in a continuing series of book prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program, formerly sponsored by the Department of Army and revived in FY 2004 with congressionally mandated funding under the sponsorship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J05).   Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those syst