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The Hynek UFO Report

The Authoritative Account of the Project Blue Book Cover-Up

By: J. Allen Hynek

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The Hynek UFO Report

The Authoritative Account of the Project Blue Book Cover-Up

By: J. Allen Hynek

Originally released in 1977, this new edition by the world's foremost authority on UFOs distills 12,000 'sightings' and 140,000 pages of Project Blue Book 'evidence' into a coherent explanation"--Back cover.

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Mufon Books

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1590033035

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The Edge of Reality

Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of UFO Phenomenon

By: J. Allen Hynek,Jacques Vallee

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The Edge of Reality

Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of UFO Phenomenon

By: J. Allen Hynek,Jacques Vallee

Two eminent scientists debate UFO incidents, persuasive cases, and exploration of what we still need to know about the phenomena. From the outset, Hynek and Vallee make their position clear: UFOs represent an unknown but real phenomenon. The far-reaching implications take us to the very edge of what we consider the known and real in our physical environment. Perhaps, say the authors, UFOs signal the existence of a domain of nature as yet totally unexplored. These two eminent scientists studied the UFO phenomenon for decades and collaborated on this landmark report. In this mind-stretching book, the authors sample UFO reports, including those allegedly involving humanoids, and describe the patterns that have been perceived in the behavior of the phenomenon. They also establish a framework for the further study of the UFO phenomenon. Where might such study lead? What can be studied, and how? What is the real nature of the UFO phenomenon? Does it originate with the actions of other intelligences in the universe? If so, where, and what, might they be? Does the UFO phenomenon have a purely physical explanation, or is there a vaster, hidden realm that holds the solution? These are the questions that have concerned the authors for many years, and it is with possible answers to them that this book is concerned. The Edge of Reality is a deep dive in discussion between Hynek and Vallee and covers many facets of the UFO phenomena such as: The Betty and Barney Hill experience The Calvin Parker Pascagoula case Project Blue Book This is an invaluable work that gives insight into the thinking of Hynek and Vallee's research and investigations into UFOs. The Edge of Reality was original published in 1975 and has been available for many years.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1590033094

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The UFO Experience

Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers

By: J. Allen Hynek

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The UFO Experience

Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers

By: J. Allen Hynek

Cited by The New York Review of Books as "the best brief for visitation," this classic study presents an analysis of UFO reports and concludes that many sightings cannot be easily dismissed. The case against UFOs and UAPs has not been put to rest. Although UFOs "officially" did not exist for decades according to the government, reports of sightings continue to be made, and the latest releases from the government and related hearings have surprised the world. Although the scientific world has put UFOs out to pasture, the evidence used to dismiss them is extremely scanty and unscientific. Dr. Hynek, a scientist himself, and the only government-paid ufologist in history, looks at the decisions made by officialdom in the early days of ufology, and how these have held us back--to the point that we are still naively talking about UFOs as we were talking about them in the 1950s. Has seventy years of research made no difference at all in our understanding? Dr. Hynek proves that there is a conspiracy afoot to hide the facts and that there are many cases that still need to be explained by mainstream science--not dismissed with facile jokes and stupid logic. Citing specific cases, Hynek challenges those in the ivory tower by raising questions that have still not been answered and refuting mainstream arguments that have yet to be proven. In The UFO Experience, a scientist of impeccable qualifications takes on his colleagues.

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1590033086

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The Edge of Reality

Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of the UFO Phenomenon

By: J. Allen Hynek,Jacques Vallee

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The Edge of Reality

Two Scientists Evaluate What We Know of the UFO Phenomenon

By: J. Allen Hynek,Jacques Vallee

From the outset, Hynek and Vallee make their position clear: UFOs represent an unknown but real phenomenon. The far-reaching implications take us to the very edge of what we consider known and real in our physical environment. Perhaps, say the authors, UFOs signal the existence of a domain of nature as yet totally unexplored. In this mind-stretching book, the authors sample UFO reports, including those allegedly involving humanoids, and describe the perceived patterns in the behavior of the phenomenon. They also establish a framework for further study. Where might such study lead? What can be studied, and how? What is the real nature of the UFO phenomenon? Does it originate with the actions of other intelligences in the universe? If so, where and what might they be? Does the UFO phenomenon have a purely physical explanation, or is there a vast, hidden realm that holds the solution? In this invaluable work, we gain insight into the thinking of Hynek and Vallee’s research and investigations into UFOs, including Project Blue Book, the Pascagoula case, and the Betty and Barney Hill experience

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1633413225

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Night Siege

The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings

By: Joseph Allen Hynek,Philip J. Imbrogno,Bob Pratt

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Night Siege

The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings

By: Joseph Allen Hynek,Philip J. Imbrogno,Bob Pratt

In 1983, a few miles north of New York City, hundreds of people were startled to see a UFO - a series of flashing lights that formed a V as big as a football field, moving slowly and silently. This text explores all the evidence and over 7000 sightings, including those recorded up to 1995.

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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156718362X

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9781567183627

Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

The 'New' Heteronomy

By: Jozef Bátora

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Fringe Players and the Diplomatic Order

The 'New' Heteronomy

By: Jozef Bátora

This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and the EU – have been accommodated within that order, revealing that the modern diplomatic order is less state-centric than conventionally assumed and is instead better conceived of as a heteronomy.

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Springer

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1137314699

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Human Security as Statecraft

Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

By: Nik Hynek

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Human Security as Statecraft

Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences

By: Nik Hynek

This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what has been behind and underneath a certain spatio-temporal articulation of human security, and with what political implications and consequences. Each human security assemblage is composed of messy discourses and practices which are loosely related and sometimes even disconnected. This book examines the Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security and establishes the kinds of structural terrains have enabled, shaped, or blocked the unfolding of these versions of human security. The pivotal contention of the book is that Canadian and Japanese articulations of human security have been different because they have grown from completely different domestic economies of power governing the relationship between the state apparatus and the non-profit and voluntary sector. While the Canadian human security assemblage has been shaped by transformations in the country’s advanced liberal model of government, the Japanese has been shaped by the continuities of Japan’s bureaucratic authoritarianism. A novel approach is employed for the related process-tracing: a general series linking structural conditions with actual articulations of the human security projects, and their further development, including analysis of their unintended consequences. This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Security Studies, human security, global governance, foreign policy and IR/Security studies.

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Routledge

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1136460721

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9781136460722

Plasma Polymer Films

By: Hynek Biederman

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Plasma Polymer Films

By: Hynek Biederman

Annotation. Plasma Polymer Films examines the current status of the deposition and characterization of fluorocarbon-, hydrocarbon- and silicon-containing plasma polymer films and nanocomposites, with plasma polymer matrix. It introduces plasma polymerization process diagnostics such as optical emission spectroscopy (OES, AOES), and describes special deposition techniques such as atmospheric pressure glow discharge. Important issues for applications such as degradation and stability are treated in detail, and structural characterization, basic electrical and optical properties and biomedical applications are discussed.

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World Scientific

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1860945384

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Quantum Waveguides

By: Pavel Exner,Hynek Kovařík

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Quantum Waveguides

By: Pavel Exner,Hynek Kovařík

This monograph explains the theory of quantum waveguides, that is, dynamics of quantum particles confined to regions in the form of tubes, layers, networks, etc. The focus is on relations between the confinement geometry on the one hand and the spectral and scattering properties of the corresponding quantum Hamiltonians on the other. Perturbations of such operators, in particular, by external fields are also considered. The volume provides a unique summary of twenty-five years of research activity in this area and indicates ways in which the theory can develop further. The book is fairly self-contained. While it requires some broader mathematical physics background, all the basic concepts are properly explained and proofs of most theorems are given in detail, so there is no need for additional sources. Without a parallel in the literature, the monograph by Exner and Kovarik guides the reader through this new and exciting field.

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Springer

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3319185764

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9783319185767

May

By: Mari Kesselring

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May

By: Mari Kesselring

Do you know the 12 months of the year? This illustrated nonfiction book tells young readers what makes May special, including when it is and what holidays it has. Charming illustrations and rhyming text make learning the months of the year a snap! Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades P-2.

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ABDO Publishing Company

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161785736X

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Philosophy and Dietetics in the Hippocratic On Regimen

A Delicate Balance of Health

By: Hynek Bartos

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Philosophy and Dietetics in the Hippocratic On Regimen

A Delicate Balance of Health

By: Hynek Bartos

This book offers the first extended study published in English on the Hippocratic treatise On Regimen, one of the most important pre-Platonic documents of the discussion of human nature and other topics at the intersection of ancient medicine and philosophy. It is not only a unique example of classical Greek dietetic literature, including the most elaborated account of the micro-macrocosm and phusis-technē analogies, but it also provides the most explicit discussion of the soul-body opposition preceding Plato. Moreover, Bartoš argues, it is a rare example of an extant medical text which systematically draws on philosophical authorities, such as Heraclitus, Empedocles and Anaxagoras, and which had a decisive influence on both physicians, such as Galen, and philosophers, most notably Plato and Aristotle.

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BRILL

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9004289550

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9789004289550

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Theory, Technology, and Regulation

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

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Militarizing Artificial Intelligence

Theory, Technology, and Regulation

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

This book examines the military characteristics and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the new global revolution in military affairs. Offering an original perspective on the utilization, imagination, and politics of AI in the context of military development and weapons regulation, the work provides a comprehensive response to the question of how we might reflect on the AI revolution in warfare and what can be said about the ways in which this has been handled. In the first part of the book, AI is accommodated, both theoretically and empirically, in the strategic context of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The book offers a novel understanding of autonomous weapons as multi-layered composite systems, pointing to a complex, non-linear interplay between evolutionary and revolutionary dynamics. In the second section, the book provides an impartial analysis of the related politics and operations of power, whereby increases in military budgets and R&D of the great powers are met and countered by advocacy networks and scientists campaigning for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. As such, it moves beyond popular caricatures of ‘killer robots’ and points out some of the problems which result from over-reliance on such imagery. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, critical security studies, arms control and disarmament, science and technology studies and general International Relations.

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Routledge

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1000609294

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9781000609295

Paul Lazarsfeld and the Origins of Communications Research

By: Hynek Jeřábek

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Paul Lazarsfeld and the Origins of Communications Research

By: Hynek Jeřábek

The manuscript discusses the early days of communication research, explicitly the first works of Paul Lazarsfeld’s radio and media research in Vienna, Newark, NJ, Princeton and New York during the years between the early 1930s, and the end of the 1940s. Lazarsfeld’s Viennese radio research, especially the world’s first extensive audience research – RAVAG study (1931) – is entirely new information for English speaking scholars. The book shows the details of Lazarsfeld’s methodological reasoning in his projects in the field of communication. The book also presents the research institutes that Lazarsfeld founded in Vienna in 1931, from Newark Center in New Jersey (1935) to Princeton Office of Radio Research in 1937, and up to the foundation of Lazarsfeld’s famous BASR at Columbia University in New York in the 1940s. The monograph shows how important Lazarsfeld’s first studies were for the future development of communication.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315533847

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9781315533841

The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

A Power-Analytical Approach

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

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The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament

A Power-Analytical Approach

By: Nik Hynek,Anzhelika Solovyeva

This novel and original book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in international security regimes. These regimes, varying in degree from regulatory to prohibitory, are understood as sets of normative discourses, political structures and dependencies (anarchies, hierarchies, and heterarchies), and agencies through which power operates within a given security issue area with a regulatory effect. In International Relations, regime analysis has been dominated by several generations of regime theory/theorization. As this book makes clear, not only has the IR Regime Theory been of limited utility for security domain due to its heavy focus on economic and environmental regimes, but it, too, heuristically suffered from its rigid pegging to general IR Theory. It is not surprising then that the evolution of IR Regime Theory has largely been mirroring the evolution of IR Theory in general: from the neo-realist/neo-liberal institutionalist convergence regime theory; through cognitivism; to constructivist regime theory. The commitment of this book is to remedy this situation by bringing together robust power analysis and international security regimes. It provides the reader with a theoretically and empirically uncompromising and comprehensive analysis of the selected international security regimes, which goes beyond one or another school of IR Regime Theory. In doing so, it completely abandons existing, and piecemeal, analysis of regimes within the intellectual field of IR based on conventional grand/mid-range theorization.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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178661166X

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9781786611666

Lazarsfeld’s Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe

The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology

By: Hynek Jeřábek

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Lazarsfeld’s Methodology and Its Influence on Postwar Sociology in Europe

The Rise of the Columbia Model of Sociology

By: Hynek Jeřábek

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.F. Lazarsfeld, became a dominant sociological school of thought in American and European postwar sociology. Providing an overview of Lazarsfeld’s inventions and his methodological, organisational, and institutional innovations, it describes the means by which a particular model of sociology was gradually adopted in departments headed by Lazarsfeld and in the work of his successors. With attention to the use by Lazarsfeld of methodological texts published by prestigious publishing houses in his research and teaching, his activity in international organisations – including the UN – his collaboration with figures such as Robert K. Merton and Raymond Boudon, and his attempts to show how the roots of his empirical research methodology lay in the work of early European scholars, this volume shows how a particular sociological paradigm came to prevail over others for more than a decade. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in the history of the discipline and questions of research methodology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040228062

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9781040228067

Social and Psychosocial Determinants of Self-Rated Health in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Hynek Pikhart

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Social and Psychosocial Determinants of Self-Rated Health in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Hynek Pikhart

Life expectancy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe is substantially shorter than in Western Europe, and a similar divide exists in self-rated health. This exhaustive study of populations in seven Central and European countries - Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary - examines the social and psychosocial determinants of this divide. Practitioners and graduate students of public health and social psychology will find this an invaluable resource.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461508398

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9781461508397

The Relationship Between Psychosocial Risk Factors and Health Outcomes of Chronic Diseases: a Review of the Evidence for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases

By: Hynek Pikhart,Jitka Pikhartova

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The Relationship Between Psychosocial Risk Factors and Health Outcomes of Chronic Diseases: a Review of the Evidence for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases

By: Hynek Pikhart,Jitka Pikhartova

This report summarizes the best available evidence for a link between psychosocial factors and cardiovascular and cancer morbidity and mortality in Europe. A total of 1822 Medline and PubMed articles published in English since January 2000 were searched, identifying 37 systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Among the psychosocial factors repeatedly identified as related to chronic diseases, in and outside work, were high job demand, low autonomy, low control or high effort-reward imbalance, interpersonal conflicts, and low social support or low trust. The evidence suggests that multiple adverse psychosocial factors are independently associated with a range of adverse chronic diseases throughout adulthood. In addition, the social gradient in health observed throughout adulthood may partly operate through psychosocial factors on the pathway between socioeconomic characteristics and health. Psychosocial factors, therefore, might become part of complex total risk-reducing interventions focusing on multiple risk factors.

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9289050837

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9789289050838

Hidden Cues in Voice

Stress, Emotion, and Lombard Effect

By: John H. L. Hansen,Hynek Boril

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Hidden Cues in Voice

Stress, Emotion, and Lombard Effect

By: John H. L. Hansen,Hynek Boril

*Balanced focus on speech science, perception, and speech processing/engineering. *Comprehensive survey of speech production modalities and assessment/equalization techniques for increased robustness of speech systems in real-world applications. *All topics are accompanied with critical comments and original research by the authors. *The text introduces readers to closely-related subjects that rarely appear together in a single book. The bookprovides a survey on the variability of speech production due to stress, emotions, and Lombard effect, and its impacts on speech-enabled systems. The book is structured in 2 parts: speech analysis and speech systems. In the speech analysis section, both aspects of speech production and perception are studied, with the emphasis on significant trends of interest to speech scientists and phenomena that help engineers design robust automated speech systems. Attention is given to stress modalities underrepresented in the literature, such as physical task stress and cognitive load in real world scenarios. The authors comment on experimental design and confront studies conducted on simulated and real data. In the speech systems section, the authors focus on automated speech assessment, speech recognition, and speaker identification, with the emphasis on the design of the key system stages - front-end feature extraction and acoustic modeling. The text presents state-of-the-art techniques that increase system robustness when exposed to varying speech modalities.

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de Gruyter

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1614517150

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9781614517153

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