Captured

Author : Sheldon Whitehouse
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620972083

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A U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.

Author : Erica Stevens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477679995

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Author : Moose Peterson
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 1266 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780132118460

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Captured: Behind the Lens of a Legendary Wildlife Photographer is more than just a photography book—it's a chronicle of more than 30 years' worth of unbelievable moments that only nature can reveal. And Moose Peterson is more than just a wildlife photographer—he's a storyteller in both prose and pictures. If you're looking for the ultimate guide to wildlife photography from a man who has devoted his entire career to capturing nature's finest and most rare moments, you'll find it here in Captured. If you're looking to be transported into the wild to confront a grizzly bear and her cubs, stumble upon a pack of wolves, or capture an owl in flight, you'll find it here, as well. You'll also find a healthy dose of inspiration as the stories behind the photos are revealed as only Moose can tell them. In the end, you'll come away with invaluable photographic techniques gained through a lifetime of experience and a new appreciation for the passion of wildlife photography. You'll gain knowledge that you can put to use on your next excursion into the wild, your local or state park, or even your own backyard.

Author : Scott Zesch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429910118

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On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity. "A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews

Author : Alvin Townley
Publisher : Scholastic Nonfiction
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1338255665

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A critically acclaimed author of adult nonfiction delivers a searing YA debut about American POWs during the Vietnam War--an extraordinary narrative of human resilience and endurance.

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439405572

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In the first book in the Guardians... series, the reader is introduced to Soren, a barn owl and the centerpiece of the series.

Author : Matto Mildenberger
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262357289

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Carbon Captured by Matto Mildenberger Pdf

A comparative examination of domestic climate politics that offers a theory for cross-national differences in domestic climate policymaking. Climate change threatens the planet, and yet policy responses have varied widely across nations. Some countries have undertaken ambitious programs to stave off climate disaster, others have done little, and still others have passed policies that were later rolled back. In this book, Matto Mildenberger opens the “black box” of domestic climate politics, examining policy making trajectories in several countries and offering a theoretical explanation for national differences in the climate policy process. Mildenberger introduces the concept of double representation—when carbon polluters enjoy political representation on both the left (through industrial unions fearful of job loss) and the right (through industrial business associations fighting policy costs)—and argues that different climate policy approaches can be explained by the interaction of climate policy preferences and domestic institutions. He illustrates his theory with detailed histories of climate politics in Norway, the United States, and Australia, along with briefer discussions of policies in in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. He shows that Norway systematically shielded politically connected industrial polluters from costs beginning with its pioneering carbon tax; the United States, after the failure of carbon reduction legislation, finally acted on climate reform through a series of Obama administration executive actions; and Australia's Labor and Green parties enacted an emissions trading scheme, which was subsequently repealed by a conservative Liberal party government. Ultimately, Mildenberger argues for the importance of political considerations in understanding the climate policymaking process and discusses possible future policy directions.

Author : Lily Cho
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228009337

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Mass Capture by Lily Cho Pdf

Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to 1953, they included date of birth, place of residence, occupation, identifying marks, known associates, and, significantly, identification photographs. The originals were transferred to microfilm and destroyed in 1963; more than 41,000 grainy reproductions of CI 9s remain. Lily Cho explores how the CI 9s functioned as a form of surveillance and a process of mass capture that produced non-citizens, revealing the surprising dynamism of non-citizenship constantly regulated and monitored, made and remade, by an anxious state. The first mass use of identification photography in Canada, they make up the largest archive of images of Chinese migrants in the country, including people who stood no chance of being photographed otherwise. But CI 9s generated far more information than could be processed, and there is nothing straightforward about the knowledge that they purported to contain. Cho finds traces of alternate forms of kinship in the archive as well as evidence of the ways that families were separated. In attending to the particularities of these images and documents, Mass Capture uncovers the alternative story that lies in the refusals and resistances enacted by the mass captured. Illustrated with painstakingly reconstituted digital reproductions of the microfilm record, Mass Capture reclaims the CI 9s as more than documents of racist repression, suggesting the possibilities for beauty and dignity in the archive, for captivation as well as capture.

Author : David A. Kessler
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781443444965

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Dr. David A. Kessler, the dynamic and controversial former FDA commissioner known for battling the tobacco industry, has spent the past two decades studying how certain addictive substances influence our behaviour. In his first two books, Dr. Kessler explored the ways in which tobacco and food can exert control over our thoughts and actions; in Capture, he broadens this conversation exponentially, exploring the very underpinnings of why we suffer from any mental affliction—such as addiction, depression, anxiety, neurosis and panic—under which our logical minds and better intentions feel as though they have been hijacked by something we cannot control. Capture draws upon the latest thinking in psychology, medicine and neuroscience to examine the common mechanism by which this range of mental disorders takes hold in the mind; it also offers a sweeping narrative history of the role of “capture”—the term Dr. Kessler coins for the phenomenon by which the mind is taken hostage—throughout literature, philosophy, religion and art. From Aristotle’s belief in the triumph of human virtue to William James’ concept of selective attention to Freud’s model of repressed desire, Kessler traces the history of Western thought on capture. In doing so, he illuminates history’s most valuable contributions as well as its shortcomings in understanding and treating mental distress. Kessler argues that to truly understand the nature of capture, we must view it not only through the lens of intellect, but also our own human experiences—and so the book begins with stories, and continues to offer narratives of people who are, or were at some point, in capture’s throes; stories that offer an incredibly evocative, almost palpable viewpoint of anguish. This includes candid conversations and raw accounts of substance abuse, anorexia, obsessive love, gambling and sexual compulsions in everyday people; the words of writers such as David Foster Wallace, Franz Kafka and Anne Sexton, who elucidated their own despair with urgency and eloquence; and portraits of those cases of capture that have become infamous for their violent outcomes—including Sirhan Sirhan and Ted Kaczynski. Through this storytelling Kessler offers an extraordinary portal into the realm of capture, a chance to better understand its manifestations, and a way of considering how it can seize our attention and overtake our behavior in ways that can be benign, tragic or—for some—transcendent. The closer we can come to fully comprehending this mechanism, Dr. Kessler argues, the better chance we stand at being able to both alleviate its deleterious effects and, ultimately, overcome its grip by changing our thoughts and behaviour. More than twenty years in the making, this impeccably researched book is nothing less than a successful effort to inform everything from the smallest action to the largest life aim, a unified field theory of human activity that draws in how we form thoughts, manage trauma and even try to reconcile will and cause. “A fascinating account of the science of human appetite, as well as its exploitation by the food industry.” —MICHAEL POLLAN, AUTHOR OF IN DEFENCE OF FOOD, ON THE END OF OVEREATING

Author : Alberto Menache
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0124906303

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Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games by Alberto Menache Pdf

Motion capture is a technique for recording a performance and then translating it into mathematical terms. Animating motion is critical for the development of applications such as animation, virtual environments and video games. Character animation is the process by which natural movements are modelled and digitized so that digital character movements appear as natural as possible. There are three approaches to character animation: keyframe animation, motion capture, and simulation.

Author : Glenn Rand,David Litschel,Robert G. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781136107412

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Digital Photographic Capture by Glenn Rand,David Litschel,Robert G. Davis Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Christopher L. Tucci,Allan Afuah,Gianluigi Viscusi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198816225

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Creating and Capturing Value Through Crowdsourcing by Christopher L. Tucci,Allan Afuah,Gianluigi Viscusi Pdf

The book is made up of a unique collection of contributions of leading scholars from different research areas to provide a systematic overview of the research on crowdsourcing, based on a clear definition of the concept, its difference for innovation, and its value for both private and public sector.

Author : Mai Bui,Graeme Douglas Puxty,Matteo Gazzani,Salman Masoudi Soltani,Carlos Pozo
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782889715855

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The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies in a Net-Zero Carbon Future by Mai Bui,Graeme Douglas Puxty,Matteo Gazzani,Salman Masoudi Soltani,Carlos Pozo Pdf

Author : Jordan Marie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Erotic stories
ISBN : 1523889977

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Beth and Skull must overcome many obstacles and personal problems in order to be together.

Author : Ivan Jelev Tashev
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0470994436

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Sound Capture and Processing by Ivan Jelev Tashev Pdf

Provides state-of-the-art algorithms for sound capture, processing and enhancement Sound Capture and Processing: Practical Approaches covers the digital signal processing algorithms and devices for capturing sounds, mostly human speech. It explores the devices and technologies used to capture, enhance and process sound for the needs of communication and speech recognition in modern computers and communication devices. This book gives a comprehensive introduction to basic acoustics and microphones, with coverage of algorithms for noise reduction, acoustic echo cancellation, dereverberation and microphone arrays; charting the progress of such technologies from their evolution to present day standard. Sound Capture and Processing: Practical Approaches Brings together the state-of-the-art algorithms for sound capture, processing and enhancement in one easily accessible volume Provides invaluable implementation techniques required to process algorithms for real life applications and devices Covers a number of advanced sound processing techniques, such as multichannel acoustic echo cancellation, dereverberation and source separation Generously illustrated with figures and charts to demonstrate how sound capture and audio processing systems work An accompanying website containing Matlab code to illustrate the algorithms This invaluable guide will provide audio, R&D and software engineers in the industry of building systems or computer peripherals for speech enhancement with a comprehensive overview of the technologies, devices and algorithms required for modern computers and communication devices. Graduate students studying electrical engineering and computer science, and researchers in multimedia, cell-phones, interactive systems and acousticians will also benefit from this book.