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The department of mad scientists : how DARPA, is remaking our world, from the Internet to artificial limbs / by Belfiore, Michael P.,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-281) and index.LSC
Subjects: United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.; Science and state; Military research; Research;
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Future war : preparing for the new global battlefield / by Latiff, Robert H.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Military art and science; Military art and science; War; War;
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Grunt : the curious science of humans at war / by Roach, Mary.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.Second skin: what to wear to war -- Boom box: automotive safety for people who drive on bomb -- Fighting by ear: the conundrum of military noise -- Below the belt: the cruelest shot of all -- It might get weird: a salute to genital transplants -- Carnage under fire: how do combat medics cope? -- Sweating bullets: the war on heat -- Leaky SEALs: diarrhea as a threat to national security -- The maggot paradox: flies on the battlefield, for better and worse -- What doesn't kill you will make you reek: a brief history of stink bombs -- Old chum: how to make and test shark repellent -- That sinking feeling: when things go wrong under the sea -- Up and under: a submarine tries to sleep -- Feedback from the fallen: how the dead help the living stay that way.LSC
Subjects: Military art and science; Military art and science; Military research;
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Recessional : the death of free speech and a cost of the free lunch / by Mamet, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Renowned author and playwright David Mamet decries how activists on the left are repressing free thinking, freedom of speech, and the bohemian American spirit, in this hard-hitting, definitive account of how cultural commissars are trying to turn America into a homogenous state.
Subjects: Political culture; Right and left (Political science);
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The imagineers of war : the untold history of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world / by Weinberger, Sharon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Military research; Military art and science; Science and state; National security;
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Where we go from here : two years in the resistance / by Sanders, Bernard,author.;
The Democratic presidential candidate, senator, and economist traces the first year of the Trump administration and what he and his colleagues are doing to reinforce the progressive movement.
Subjects: Sanders, Bernard.; Progressivism (United States politics); Opposition (Political science);
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Breaking through! : helping girls succeed in science, technology, engineering, and math / by Mosatche, Harriet S.,1949-; Lawner, Elizabeth K.; Matloff-Nieves, Susan.;
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Subjects: Science; Mathematics; Girls; Sex differences in education;
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Beyond the messy truth : how we came apart, how we come together / by Jones, Van,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and Internet addresses.Introduction -- America Betrayed-By Both Parties -- An Open Letter to Liberals -- An Open Letter to Conservatives -- Whitelash: Myth and Facts -- Prince, Newt, and the Way Forward: Portraits in Strange Bedfellows -- The Beautiful Work: Four Solutions -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Our Founding Dream.LSC
Subjects: Right and left (Political science); Political parties;
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Why we're polarized / by Klein, Ezra,1984-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index.America's political system isn't broken: it's working exactly as designed. But Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disastrous results. In examining the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction, he shows that everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Now our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together.
Subjects: Polarization (Social sciences); Right and left (Political science); Identity politics; Political culture;
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Battling the big lie : how Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA media are destroying America / by Pfeiffer, Dan,author.;
"In BATTLING THE BIG LIE, bestselling author Dan Pfeiffer returns to lay out how the Right Wing built such a robust and successful disinformation machine, how they have used it to amass power despite representing a dwindling share of the country, and how readers can fight back against disinformation with step-by-step guides on spotting fake news, becoming their own fact checker, and talking to their conspiracy theory-obsessed relatives. Over the last twenty years, the Right Wing has built a massive media apparatus that is weaponizing misinformation for political purposes. The Right Wing media ecosystem personified by Fox and fueled by Facebook is waging war on the very idea of objective truth -- and it's winning. This misinformation campaign is at the root of much that is rotten in America and around the world. Trump is a product of this eco-system as is the immense polarization and division and our inability to deal rationally with immense threats like COVID and Climate Change. Here, Pfeiffer lays bare the tactics used by the Right Wing propaganda machine and how to combat them, including: QAnon and its proponents, from Facebook groups to members of congress ; The optimization of Facebook as the ultimate carrier of Right Wing clickbait ; Educating the Left to "fight fire with fire" and nurture progressive media ; How to have hard conversations with the Fox News-watching, conspiracy theory-believing relative in your life. A functioning democracy depends on a shared understanding of reality. America is teetering on the edge because one of the two parties in our two-party system views truth, facts, and science as their opponent. As BATTLING THE BIG LIE proves, time is running out to fix this problem. There are no easy answers or quick fixes, but something must be done.
Subjects: Disinformation; Polarization (Social sciences);
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