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Competing with the Soviets

Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

By: Audra J. Wolfe

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Competing with the Soviets

Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

By: Audra J. Wolfe

A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War. Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history itself, and science figured prominently in the picture. Competing with the Soviets offers a short, accessible introduction to the special role that science and technology played in maintaining state power during the Cold War, from the atomic bomb to the Human Genome Project. The high-tech machinery of nuclear physics and the space race are at the center of this story, but Audra J. Wolfe also examines the surrogate battlefield of scientific achievement in such diverse fields as urban planning, biology, and economics; explains how defense-driven federal investments created vast laboratories and research programs; and shows how unfamiliar worries about national security and corrosive questions of loyalty crept into the supposedly objective scholarly enterprise. Based on the assumption that scientists are participants in the culture in which they live, Competing with the Soviets looks beyond the debate about whether military influence distorted science in the Cold War. Scientists’ choices and opportunities have always been shaped by the ideological assumptions, political mandates, and social mores of their times. The idea that American science ever operated in a free zone outside of politics is, Wolfe argues, itself a legacy of the ideological Cold War that held up American science, and scientists, as beacons of freedom in contrast to their peers in the Soviet Union. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the book highlights how ideas about the appropriate relationships among science, scientists, and the state changed over time.

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JHU Press

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1421409011

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9781421409016

Freedom's Laboratory

The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science

By: Audra J. Wolfe

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Freedom's Laboratory

The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science

By: Audra J. Wolfe

Closing in the present day with a discussion of the 2017 March for Science and the prospects for science and science diplomacy in the Trump era, the book demonstrates the continued hold of Cold War thinking on ideas about science and politics in the United States.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421439085

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9781421439082

A Real Human Life

The Life of Jesus Christ in You

By: Michael J. Wolfe

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A Real Human Life

The Life of Jesus Christ in You

By: Michael J. Wolfe

The book God gave Mike to write is so practical. The section on the sin nature is probably the most important section of the book, helping explain the struggle with why we still sin. Mike has put into words what I have never heard articulated. -Linda Sarver Milken National Educator 2003, contributor to teacher’s edition of America, the Last Best Hope by Bill Bennett, and follower of Jesus for 61 years If you are struggling with finding how to live the Christian life and long to discover the secret of the victorious life, this is the book you need to read. -Graham Stamford, Bible Teacher and Evangelist. Field Representative of Torchbearers and founder of SportsReach A Real Human Life reminds readers that the Lord Jesus lived a fully human life the way God intended, and He is the only one who can live His life in us. So each of us can live a real human life, too, if it is Christ living His life in us. Many Christians/churchgoers live in frustration and disappointment not seeing Bible-sized things in their lives, but they know God promises those things. This book, written from a pastor’s perspective, is a “blue collar” offering to help regular people deal with that frustration and disappointment. A Real Human Life relies on the Scripture to lay out a logical and biblical case for the reality of Christ in you, the hope of glory, and the subsequent human life He produces.

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WestBow Press

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197364469X

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9781973644699

Marbled Paper

Its History, Techniques, and Patterns : with Special Reference to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World

By: Richard J. Wolfe

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Marbled Paper

Its History, Techniques, and Patterns : with Special Reference to the Relationship of Marbling to Bookbinding in Europe and the Western World

By: Richard J. Wolfe

For 250 years after its introduction to Europe around 1600, the method of decorating paper known as marbling reigned supreme as the chief means of embellishing the fine work of hand-bookbinders. Richard J. Wolfe reconstructs the rise and fall of the craft and offers the most comprehensive account available of its history, techniques, and patterns. A publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Series

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316

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812281888

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9780812281880

Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions.

Proceedings of the Pelzczynski Conference Held at Kent State University, July 12-16, 1976.

By: J. Baker,C. Cleaver,J. Diestel

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Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions.

Proceedings of the Pelzczynski Conference Held at Kent State University, July 12-16, 1976.

By: J. Baker,C. Cleaver,J. Diestel

With contributions by numerous experts

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Springer

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3540372628

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9783540372622

Power and Privatization

Choice and Competition in the Remaking of British Democracy

By: J. Wolfe

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Power and Privatization

Choice and Competition in the Remaking of British Democracy

By: J. Wolfe

This book shows that privatization in Britain constitutes a form of state power. After analyzing the historical and ideological background, the study examines how market processes indirectly extend state control by governing participation in state asset sales, regulatory regimes, deregulated policymaking and the marketization of trade unions. Privatizing control remade British democracy. Direct state power has been concentrated and held in reserve, while market processes guide wide areas of routine decision-making. Thus, it is demonstrated that privatization has depoliticized choice and diminished freedom.

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Springer

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023037185X

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9780230371859

Lawman

A Murphy Western

By: Ethan J. Wolfe

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Lawman

A Murphy Western

By: Ethan J. Wolfe

Synopsis:Living in semiretirement with Kai, his soon to be wife, Murphy is called back to action by his former boss, ex-President Grant. Writing his memoirs, Grant is about to embark on a cross-country speaking tour and wants Murphy to act as his private bodyguard. Murphy agrees and the tour starts without a hitch until they reach Washington DC. At a prominent university in the Washington area, a man suddenly stands in the middle of Grant's lecture, pulls a gun, screams "The South shall rise again," and attempts to assassinate Grant. Ever close at hand, Murphy kills the assassin before he can carry out his assassination plot. At first, President Chester Arthur and his special advisor William Burke treat the incident as the act of a bitter crazy man. Undaunted by the attempt on his life, Grant continues the tour westward with Murphy by his side. Shortly thereafter, the real motive for the assassination attempt is revealed when it is learned that the niece of the British Ambassador, a student at the University of Virginia, where the shooting took place, has been kidnapped and the ransom is a quarter of a million in gold

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Thorndike Press Large Print

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1432857428

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9781432857424

The Horse Soldier

By: Ethan J. Wolfe

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The Horse Soldier

By: Ethan J. Wolfe

Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, he has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As he travels south to Laramie, Tillman relives his life in flashbacks. From the Big Woods of Wisconsin, where he was born and met his wife, Tillman's life in full is exposed"--

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1432871129

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9781432871123

History of the USS Kidd (DD661) and the Fletcher Class Destroyers

By: Larry W. Wolfe,Lisa J. Wolfe,Kelly O'Hara

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History of the USS Kidd (DD661) and the Fletcher Class Destroyers

By: Larry W. Wolfe,Lisa J. Wolfe,Kelly O'Hara

The history of the USS Kidd (DD-661) during World War II & Korea, with brief individual histories of the remaining 174 Fletcher Class Destroyers. Also features a chapter on the USS Kidd Museum in Baton Rouge, LA. Exquisite photographs & informative text. Endsheets feature a full length photo of the USS Kidd, the Pirate of the Pacific.

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168

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Turner

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1563110393

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9781563110399

The Illinois Detective Agency

The Case of the Missing Cattle

By: Ethan J. Wolfe

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The Illinois Detective Agency

The Case of the Missing Cattle

By: Ethan J. Wolfe

n 1884, the founder and matriarch of the Illinois Detective Agency is now elderly and active in the way that "Charlie" of Charlie's Angels was. Founded in 1848 as a stock detective agency, the founder is still the backbone of the business he built from the ground up. In The Case of the Missing Cattle, the Stock Growers Association of Montana appeals to Porter for help with a major cattle theft problem inside the Montana Territory. Hundreds, 2 maybe even thousands of cattle are being stolen off the open ranges, and the local sheriffs and army outposts are helpless to stop it. Porter assigns two of his best agents to the case, James Duffy and Jack Cavill. Both are experts in forensics of the day, expert marksmen, superior detectives, and fearless"--"--

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Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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143287120X

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9781432871208

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Competing with the Soviets

Competing with the Soviets

Freedom's Laboratory

Freedom's Laboratory

A Real Human Life

A Real Human Life

Marbled Paper

Marbled Paper

Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions.

Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions.

Power and Privatization

Power and Privatization

Lawman

Lawman

The Horse Soldier

The Horse Soldier

History of the USS Kidd (DD661) and the Fletcher Class Destroyers

History of the USS Kidd (DD661) and the Fletcher Class Destroyers

The Illinois Detective Agency

The Illinois Detective Agency

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