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D. Allan Bromley, Nuclear Scientist and Policy Innovator

Proceedings of the Memorial Symposium in Honor of D. Allan Bromley, Yale University, USA 8-9 December 2005

By: David Allan Bromley,Paul A. Fleury

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D. Allan Bromley, Nuclear Scientist and Policy Innovator

Proceedings of the Memorial Symposium in Honor of D. Allan Bromley, Yale University, USA 8-9 December 2005

By: David Allan Bromley,Paul A. Fleury

This book covers two aspects of the career of D Allan Bromley: the science policy aspect and the scientific aspect.In the first half of the book, contributions from Governor John Sununu, former White House Chief of Staff under President George H W Bush; Neal Lane, former Science Adviser to President William Clinton; John Marburger III, Science Adviser to President George W Bush; and Mary Good, former Undersecretary of Commerce, highlight the role of Bromley as Science Adviser to President George H W Bush and a maker of science policy in the second part of the 20th Century. This part is of interest to science policy scholars, historians, and young persons wishing to start a career in science policy.In the second half of the book, articles by directors of laboratories and leading scientists discuss future programs in all areas of nuclear physics ? low-energy, medium-energy and high-energy ? to which Bromley greatly contributed, in the USA, Europe and Japan. This part of the book is of interest to all researchers in the field of nuclear physics, as it provides a comprehensive but succinct overview of the field and indicates directions for future research in the first part of the 21st century.

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318

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World Scientific

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9812568115

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9789812568113

Space Between Words

The Origins of Silent Reading

By: Paul Saenger

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The Origins of Silent Reading

By: Paul Saenger

Silent reading is now universally accepted as normal; indeed reading aloud to oneself may be interpreted as showing a lack of ability or understanding. Yet reading aloud was usual, indeed unavoidable, throughout antiquity and most of the middle ages. Saenger investigates the origins of the gradual separation of words within a continuous written text and the consequent development of silent reading. He then explores the spread of these practices throughout western Europe, and the eventual domination of silent reading in the late medieval period. A detailed work with substantial notes and appendices for reference.

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Stanford University Press

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080474016X

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9780804740166

Engineers of Independence

A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783

By: Paul K. Walker

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Engineers of Independence

A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775-1783

By: Paul K. Walker

This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.

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The Minerva Group, Inc.

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1410201732

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9781410201737

Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200

Contact, Myth and History

By: Caroline Brett,Fiona Edmonds,Paul Russell

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Contact, Myth and History

By: Caroline Brett,Fiona Edmonds,Paul Russell

Brittany is rich in arch ...

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Cambridge University Press

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1108486517

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D. Allan Bromley, Nuclear Scientist and Policy Innovator

D. Allan Bromley, Nuclear Scientist and Policy Innovator

Space Between Words

Space Between Words

Engineers of Independence

Engineers of Independence

Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200

Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200

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