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Understanding the Cold War - Elspeth O'riordan - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Understanding the Cold War - Elspeth O'riordan - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book provides an advanced introduction to the Cold War, assessing its origins, development and conclusion as a dynamic interaction between superpower confrontation and complex regional and local situations. The evolution of the subject''s scholarly debate is discussed throughout and the contest situated alongside enduring historical themes including decolonisation, development, nationalism and globalisation. Regional case studies, on Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, illuminate the Cold War''s global reach. Thematic analysis considers competition in military, strategic and economic spheres, as well as in aspects of culture, ideology, society, and Human Rights. The Cold War''s transnational elements and facets of international cooperation are also highlighted. The book unpacks the subject''s extensive scholarly discourse, underlining the interdisciplinary character of today''s Cold War historiography and the importance of understanding that its development has been informed by a vibrant interface between international history, international relations and the Cold War itself.

DKK 326.00
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Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Systems (SMES) for Distributed Supply Networks - Antonio Colmenar Santos - Bog - Springer International

Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Systems (SMES) for Distributed Supply Networks - Antonio Colmenar Santos - Bog - Springer International

This book explores the potential of magnetic superconductors in storage systems, specifically focusing on superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems and using the Spanish electricity system, controlled by Red Eléctrica de España (REE), as an example. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic costs associated with the manufacture and maintenance of SMES systems, as well as a regulatory analysis for their implementation in the complex Spanish electrical system. The analysis also compares this system with the regulations of other countries, providing a comprehensive case study. The book examines the possible economic and environmental benefits of using magnetic superconductors in electrical systems and provides a technical study of the use of these systems in hybrid storage systems that complement each other to optimize network performance. The study is conducted from the perspective of new distribution networks, distributed generation, and the concepts of the smart city. The book also explores potential applications and developments, such as electric vehicles. Overall, this book offers an insightful and comprehensive analysis of the potential of magnetic superconductors in storage systems. It will be an invaluable resource for researchers, engineers, and policymakers interested in the future of energy storage systems

DKK 391.00
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Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage, SpaCCS 2016, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2016.The 40 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They are organized in topical sections including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage.

DKK 426.00
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Landslides in Cold Regions in the Context of Climate Change - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Landslides in Cold Regions in the Context of Climate Change - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Landslides in cold regions have different mechanisms from those in other areas, and comparatively few research efforts have been made in this field. Recently, because of climate change, some new trends concerning landslide occurrence and motion have appeared, severely impacting economic development and communities. This book collects key case studies from the cold regions all over the world, providing an overview of the general situation.

DKK 780.00
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Powder Consolidation Using Cold Spray - Atieh Moridi - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Powder Consolidation Using Cold Spray - Atieh Moridi - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book firstpresents different approaches to modeling of the cold spray process with theaim of extending current understanding of its fundamental principles and thendescribes emerging applications of cold spray. In thecoverage of modeling, careful attention is devoted to the assessment ofcritical and erosion velocities. In order to reveal the phenomenologicalcharacteristics of interface bonding, severe, localized plastic deformation andmaterial jet formation are studied. Detailed consideration is also given to theeffect of macroscopic defects such as interparticle boundaries andsubsequent splat boundary cracking on the mechanical behavior of cold spraycoatings. The discussion of applications focuses in particular on therepair of damaged parts and additive manufacturing in various disciplinesfrom aerospace to biomedical engineering. Key aspects include a systematicstudy of defect shape and the ability of cold spray to fill the defect,examination of the fatigue behavior of coatings for structural applications,and a novel working window at subcritical conditions toobtain porous structures. This book is exceptional in scope, and its review offinite element modelling at different length scales sheds light on futuredesign and process improvement in emerging applications such as structuralrepair, metal additive manufacturing and metal foam design.

DKK 426.00
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Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of six workshops held at the 9th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage, SpaCCS 2016, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2016: the 7th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data, TrustData 2016; the 6th International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Emerging Applications, TSP 2016; the 4th International Workshop on Network Optimization and Performance Evaluation, NOPE 2016; the Second International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, DependSys 2016; the Annual Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust Workshop, BigDataSPT 2016; and the First International Workshop on Cloud Storage Service and Computing, WCSSC 2016. The 37 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. The papers deal with research findings, ideas and emerging trends in information security research and cover a broad range of topics in security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage.

DKK 426.00
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Cold Chain Management - Yoon Seok Chang - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Cold Chain Management - Yoon Seok Chang - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This text helps readers to build a solid understanding of the key concepts in the management and operation of supply chains involving chilling, refrigeration or freezing. Emphasis is placed on environmental—particularly temperature—control as important in avoiding irreversible damage to product quality and safety and the resulting loss of profit and consumer confidence. The authors explain the important issues arising within the supply chain of perishable goods from production to consumption: topics that include planning and design, instrumentation and methods of implementation, and process monitoring and control. Reminding the student that cold supply chains are essential for the supply of products more various than foods, product-specific studies and examples are included for handling bananas and vaccines. The importance of product traceability and automation are highlighted. Cold Chain Management is a self-contained guide for graduate and final-year undergraduate students specializing in the study of supply chains, and their instructors. Researchers interested in logistics will find this book instructive when they wish to consider the particular problems associated with cold chains and anyone looking to begin a business in which refrigeration or freezing will be necessary will be well-served by reading this text.

DKK 407.00
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Cold Chain Management - Yoon Seok Chang - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Cold Chain Management - Yoon Seok Chang - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This text helps readers to build a solid understanding of the key concepts in the management and operation of supply chains involving chilling, refrigeration or freezing. Emphasis is placed on environmental-particularly temperature-control as important in avoiding irreversible damage to product quality and safety and the resulting loss of profit and consumer confidence. The authors explain the important issues arising within the supply chain of perishable goods from production to consumption: topics that include planning and design, instrumentation and methods of implementation, and process monitoring and control. Reminding the student that cold supply chains are essential for the supply of products more various than foods, product-specific studies and examples are included for handling bananas and vaccines. The importance of product traceability and automation are highlighted. Cold Chain Management is a self-contained guide for graduate and final-year undergraduate students specializing in the study of supply chains, and their instructors. Researchers interested in logistics will find this book instructive when they wish to consider the particular problems associated with cold chains and anyone looking to begin a business in which refrigeration or freezing will be necessary will be well-served by reading this text.

DKK 434.00
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The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean - Scott B. Macdonald - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The New Cold War, China, and the Caribbean - Scott B. Macdonald - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the slide into a new Cold War in the Caribbean. The primary argument is that the Caribbean''s geopolitics have shifted from a period of relative great power disinterest in the aftermath of the Cold War to a gradual movement into a new Cold War in which a global rivalry between the U.S. and China is acted out regionally. The result of this is a gradual polarization of countries in the Caribbean as they are increasingly pressured to choose between Washington and Beijing (this being very evident during the Trump years). It can be argued that the U.S. focus on the Caribbean in the late 1990s through the early 21st century diminished, leaving the region open to a China ready and eager to do business and guided by a diverse set of objectives. The book brings the reader into a discussion on international relations with a main focus on U.S.-Chinese relations being played out in the Caribbean, an important strategic region for the North American country.

DKK 778.00
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Media and the Cold War in the 1980s - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies'' ability to control the domestic public sphere. This collection examines how this struggle played out on screen, radio, and in print from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, a time when breaking news stories such as Ronald Reagan''s "Star Wars" program and Mikhail Gorbachev''s policy of glasnost captured the world''s attention. Ranging from the United States to the Soviet Union and China, these essays cover photojournalism on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Polish punk, Norwegian film, Soviet magazines, and more, concluding with a contribution from Stuart Franklin, one of the creators of the iconic "Tank Man" image during the Tiananmen Square protests. By investigating an array of media actors and networks, as well as narrative and visual frames on a local and transnational level, this volume lays the groundwork for writing media into the history of the late Cold War.

DKK 986.00
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The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration''s Cold War foreign policy. It analyzes the democracy initiatives launched under Reagan and the role of administration officials, neoconservatives and non-state actors, such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in shaping a new model of democracy promotion, characterized by aid to foreign political movements and the spread of neoliberal economics. The book discusses the ideological, strategic and organizational aspects of U.S. democracy promotion in the 1980s, then analyzes case studies of democracy promotion in the Soviet bloc and in U.S.-allied dictatorships in Latin America and East Asia, and, finally, reflects on the legacy of Reagan''s democracy promotion and its influence on Clinton, Bush and Obama. Based on new research and archival documents, this book shows that the development of democracy promotion under Reagan laid the foundations for US post-Cold War foreign policy.

DKK 986.00
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Cold Waters - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Cold Waters - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book addresses the Arctic and the northern regions by exploring cold waters and northern seascapes. It focuses on cultural discourses and artistic representations concerning the human experience and imagination of how the Arctic Ocean has been explored and used. It aims to assess what is specific to the northern waters vis-à-vis other sea and water areas in the world. The contextual background is provided by the fundamental shift from terra-based thinking towards aqua-based thinking, including the histories of the northern waters and the innovative ocean studies of the last decades. This book will be of interest to readers in Arctic studies and Sea and Ocean studies (including those with interests in literature, history, cultural and film studies, anthropology and politics), Environmental History and Cultural studies as well as in Russian studies.The book has been assembled with a view towards upper-level undergraduate and post-graduate students and scholars and will also be appropriate for courses in the fields mentioned above. The book will be of interest to specialists working in and with Arctic environmental issues. There is a broad array of international academic networks, environmental, governance and cultural associations outside academia whose members may also find the book of interest.

DKK 939.00
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Transaction Processing on Modern Hardware - Spyros Blanas - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Transaction Processing on Modern Hardware - Spyros Blanas - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The last decade has brought groundbreaking developments in transaction processing. This resurgence of an otherwise mature research area has spurred from the diminishing cost per GB of DRAM that allows many transaction processing workloads to be entirely memory-resident. This shift demanded a pause to fundamentally rethink the architecture of database systems. The data storage lexicon has now expanded beyond spinning disks and RAID levels to include the cache hierarchy, memory consistency models, cache coherence and write invalidation costs, NUMA regions, and coherence domains. New memory technologies promise fast non-volatile storage and expose unchartered trade-offs for transactional durability, such as exploiting byte-addressable hot and cold storage through persistent programming that promotes simpler recovery protocols. In the meantime, the plateauing single-threaded processor performance has brought massive concurrency within a single node, first in the form of multi-core, and now with many-core and heterogeneous processors. The exciting possibility to reshape the storage, transaction, logging, and recovery layers of next-generation systems on emerging hardware have prompted the database research community to vigorously debate the trade-offs between specialized kernels that narrowly focus on transaction processing performance vs. designs that permit transactionally consistent data accesses from decision support and analytical workloads. In this book, we aim to classify and distill the new body of work on transaction processing that has surfaced in the last decade to navigate researchers and practitioners through this intricate research subject.

DKK 519.00
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Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold War Spy Fiction - Sian Macarthur - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold War Spy Fiction - Sian Macarthur - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War. It offers an introduction to the development of spy fiction both in England and in the United States and explores the ways in which issues such as the atomic bomb, double agents, paranoia, propaganda and megalomania manifest themselves within the genre. The book examines the ongoing marginalization of women within spy fiction texts, exploring the idea that this unique period in global history is responsible for the active promotion and celebration of masculinity and male superiority. From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the book evaluates the ongoing enforcement of patriarchal ideas and oppressions that, in the name of national security and patriotic duty, have contributed to the development of a genre in which discrimination and bias continue to dominate.

DKK 986.00
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Russia, China and the West in the Post-Cold War Era - Suzanne Loftus - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Russia, China and the West in the Post-Cold War Era - Suzanne Loftus - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book analyzes international affairs in the post-Cold War era by taking a special look at identity, norms and interests and the limits of liberal normative universalism. The book assesses the causes of the deterioration of Russian - Western relations, the management of the liberal international order, the challenges liberal democracies face today, the rise of China and its consequences on global governance, and the war in Ukraine as an outcome of the dynamics described throughout the book. China and Russia represent different normative frameworks, have their own national interests, have increased their relative strength and influence and represent alternative economic and diplomatic partners for the Global South. Meanwhile, rising populist sentiment in western liberal democracies reflects important dissatisfaction with establishment policies. This research is particularly important for crafting creative solutions to the dynamic changes of the 21 st century and the rise of nonwestern powers with different identities, interests and norms.

DKK 967.00
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Renewable Energy - Peter Yang - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Renewable Energy - Peter Yang - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book empowers college students and young professionals to develop a critical capacity of climate action in the energy transformation, which is necessary to address unprecedented climate crises. It illuminates the monumental challenges and pioneering solutions in accelerating renewable energy technologies, including solar energy, wind power, bioenergy, hydropower, and geothermal energy, as well as energy storage, along with their practical applications. The book offers the most current insights into innovations in renewable energy and energy storage, which are pivotal in forging a reliable and sustainable future powered exclusively by renewables. Its chapters equip the younger generation with the knowledge and critical skills needed to become well-informed and discerning professionals, ready to meet the demands of future sustainable job markets. Readers are encouraged to actively engage in and contribute to the ongoing revolution in renewable energy andenergy storage.

DKK 689.00
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Ideals, Interests, and U.S. Foreign Policy from George H. W. Bush to Donald Trump - Ronald E. Powaski - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG -

Ideals, Interests, and U.S. Foreign Policy from George H. W. Bush to Donald Trump - Ronald E. Powaski - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG -

This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post-Cold War era, beginning with George H. W. Bush and ending with the first 17 months of Donald Trump''s presidency. During this period, the United States emerged from the Cold War as the world''s most powerful nation. Nevertheless, the presidents of this era faced a host of problems that tested their ability to successfully blend realism and idealism. Some were more successful than others.

DKK 279.00
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From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War - Alison Kraft - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War - Alison Kraft - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War. Conceived by western scientists dissenting from their own government''s position on nuclear weapons, the conferences brought together elite scientists from across the East-West divide to work towards nuclear disarmament and for peace. The analysis follows two lines. First, the book charts the emergence during the conferences of a distinctive form of technopolitical communication that was crucial to the role of Pugwash in Informal cross-bloc dialogue about disarmament. This enabled Pugwash to realize its paradoxical vision of working both with and against governments to promote disarmament and was key to its role as both a forum for and actor within the realm of informal diplomacy. It is argued that Pugwash scientists formed the vanguard of what came in the 1960s to be called Track II diplomacy. The relevance of the contemporary concept of Science Diplomacy for Pugwash is discussed. The second analytical focus of the book centers on the internal dynamics of the international Pugwash organization. It is argued that informal modes of working and a code of confidentiality accorded the leadership enormous power and autonomy: this small network of senior figures was able to control the Pugwash agenda and priorities, and to launch diplomatic initiatives beyond the conferences. However, by 1967, competing interests were fueling tensions and instability within Pugwash as it struggled for coherence and direction amid with the political challenges posed by the Vietnam War and European security. This crisis manifest the limits of the Pugwash project and placed its future in doubt .

DKK 434.00
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