Accessory to War

• Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson,Avis Lang
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• Release : 11 September 2018

New York Times Bestseller An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and

• Author : Swift Reads
• Publisher : Swift Reads
• Release : 28 June 2019

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military (2018) by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang is a meditation on the history of space research and its interdependence on military research and warfare. The narrative contextualizes discoveries such as the compass and adaptive optics in order to evaluate the present global state of space diplomacy... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

• Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson,Avis Lang
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release : 11 September 2018

“Extraordinary.… A feast of history, an expert tour through thousands of years of war and conquest.” —Jennifer Carson, New York Times Book Review In this far-reaching foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-author Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. Spanning early celestial navigation to satellite-enabled warfare, Accessory to War is a richly researched and provocative examination of the

• Author : Paul Adams / Bookhabits
• Publisher : Blurb
• Release : 09 January 2019

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson: Conversation Starters Astrophysicists have not produced any weapons of war, but they study the things that military focus their energies on like access to space and nuclear fusion. History shows that knowledge between scientists and the military have flowed both ways. Astrophysicists are "curiously complicit" in their alliance with the war industry. In this highly engaging book, the authors discuss scientific space exploration during the

• Author : Swift Reds
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 14 January 2019

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military (2018) by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang is a meditation on the history of space research and its interdependence on military research and warfare. The narrative contextualizes discoveries such as the compass and adaptive optics in order to evaluate the present global state of space diplomacy...Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

• Author : Neil Degrasse Tyson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 25 October 2019

Japanese edition of [Accessory to War] by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang. An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of [Astrophysics for People in a Hurry]. Vol 1 of 2.

• Author : Habits Book
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 2023

• Author : Jean-Francois Caron
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 20 September 2021

When we take a look back at the way Western states have fought terrorist organizations in the last 20 years, it is difficult not to think that these alternatives to war might have been more ethical than the decisions to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and in 2003. These cases speak for themselves as they have both led to the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, which is highly paradoxical in light of the logic that supported these interventions. There

• Author : Terry D. Gill,Robin Geiß,Heike Krieger,Christophe Paulussen
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 31 October 2019

The main theme of this volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is weapons law. In several chapters, how International Humanitarian Law (IHL) copes with old and new weapons as well as political developments in regard to military technology is discussed, while in two chapters the significance of non- or less-lethal weapons in peace-keeping and law enforcement operations as well as the legality of lethal autonomous weapon systems under IHL are analysed. Moreover, the volume describes the current status

• Author : Kenneth Sebastian León
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 23 September 2020

This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case study to describe and explain the routine and embedded nature of corruption and deviance among the regulators and the regulated in the nightlife environment. This text offers a contemporary and incisive theoretical framework

• Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson,Michael Strauss,J. Richard Gott
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 12 September 2017

An essential companion to the New York Times bestseller Welcome to the Universe Here is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton. This problem book features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in the original course—ideal for anyone who wants to deepen

• Author : United States. War Production Board
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 June 2023

• Author : Rosow, Stephen J.,Andreopoulos, George
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release : 19 July 2022

Expansive and engaging, this book investigates the fluidity of sites of power and authority in global politics. Examining the key shifts and turns of politics in globally oriented spaces since the end of the Cold War, contributions from leading scholars explore the continually shifting parameters of global governance.

• Author : Richard Mitten
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 July 2019

Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked, "I think the good in Austria is particularly difficult to understand. In a certain sense it is more subtle than all the rest, and its truth is never on the side of probability." For forty years official Austria, christened by the Allies as Hitler's first "victim," wagered that the sedulously cultivated visions of cherubic choir boys, Lippizaner horses, and Mozartkugels could seduce the world into ignoring another truth about Austria, that of Wehrmacht soldiers, antisemitic slurs,

• Author : Charles Tsun-Chu Liu,Neil de Grasse Tyson,Robert Irion
• Publisher : Joseph Henry Press
• Release : 20 December 1999

A new window opens onto the cosmos... Almost every day we are challenged by new information from the outermost reaches of space. Using straightforward language, One Universe explores the physical principles that govern the workings of our own world so that we can appreciate how they operate in the cosmos around us. Bands of color in a sunlit crystal and the spectrum of starlight in giant telescopes, the arc of a hard-hit baseball and the orbit of the moon, traffic