Improbable Warriors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improbable Warriors write by Kathleen Broome Williams. This book was released on 2001. Improbable Warriors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the outbreak of World War II, four scientists left their comfortable college teaching positions to work for the government. Three served in uniform, the fourth oversaw contracts for the Navy. Such dramatic changes in life styles during the period were common -- for men. But these established scientists were women, and each made significant contributions to a Navy embroiled in a modern, science-dependent war. Mary Sears, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution planktonologist, headed the Hydrographic Office's Oceanographic Unit. Grace Hopper, a Yale-trained mathematician, went to the Bureau of Ships Computation Laboratory at Harvard where she worked on one of the first computers, churning out essential data for ordnance and other projects. Florence van Straten, a New York University chemist, served as an aerological engineer analyzing the use of weather in combat. Mina Rees was the chief technical aide to the applied mathematics panel of the National Defense Research Committee. This book firmly places the women within the context of their times. Deeply rooted in previously unexamined primary sources, the work helps readers understand the personal and professional experiences of women in the military and the attitudes they faced, and fully appreciate the educational and occupational barriers faced by women scientists in the 1930s and 1940s. The author focuses on their efforts during the war, but also discusses the women's skills and training, tells how they came to war work, and examines the contributions they made once there. She further considers how the war changed their lives, especially their professional lives, and how it affected their future careers. While other books havebeen written about women in the military, this is the first to focus on Navy women scientists.
Speak Up
Speak Up - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speak Up write by Douglas M. Fraleigh. This book was released on 2011-01-04. Speak Up available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When was the last time you actually looked forward to reading a textbook? With "Speak Up", thousands of students have been doing just that -- getting more out of their speech courses and having fun while doing it. It's a different kind of textbook, combining great writing and examples with more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations that bring speechmaking to life. It's all designed to help you ace the course and prepare you to speak effectively on campus, on the job, and beyond. -- From publisher's description.
Mathematics and War
Mathematics and War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mathematics and War write by Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Mathematics and War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help destroy it. At present, it is not an easy task to view the bellicose potentials of mathematics in a proper perspective. The book presents historical evidence and recent changes in the interaction between mathematics and the military. It discusses the new mathematically enhanced development of military technology which seems to have changed the very character of modern warfare.
Fifteen Years in Exile
Fifteen Years in Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fifteen Years in Exile write by Barry Callaghan. This book was released on 1992. Fifteen Years in Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Digital Cash
Digital Cash - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digital Cash write by Finn Brunton. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Digital Cash available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.
