The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war“Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.”—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s EndIn the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bom...

The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war“Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.”—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s EndIn the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bom...

Christmas--the very word conjures up memories of the most wondrous childhood holiday of all--filled with the glitter of colorfully-wrapped presents, family visits, carols, photographs, decorating the tree, attendance at church to celebrate the birth of the Christ child, and tummy-stuffing dinners tucked with treats seen at no other time of the year.But the yule holiday has been celebrated for at least two centuries in North America, and our writers have been producing memorable sto...

Medicine is on the verge of conquering disease and aging. Of making it possible to clone ourselves and make our children super beings.Or morlocks.What will the world be like when science conquers life itself?Join us as we explore all the possible futures of mankind.

Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving Indigenous literary aesthetic. This book argues for a literary canon that includes Indigenous literature that resists colonizing stereotypes of what has been and often still is expected in art produced by American Indians.The works featured are inventive and current, and the writers covered are visionaries who are boldly ...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to, and application of, heuristic search methods, specifically the genetic algorithm, for use with mission sets operating in multi-body gravitational systems. Detailed dynamical and mission models, as well as accompanying space-focused scenarios will allow the reader to implement different forms of the genetic algorithm to find Pareto optimal architectures within a multi-objective optimization problem. This book covers the Non-Dominated Sorti...

A “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplinesCOVID Studies is a “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic from a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, public policy, political science, history, and science and technology studies. Though varied in their methodologies, whether ethnography, data analysis, or archival...

An important new title on climate change, and its effects on selected non-infectious disorders of fish. Contains contributions by internationally recognized experts who have contributed significantly to our knowledge in this area.

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imi...

The borough of Brooklyn in New York City found itself after World War II. Bobby Jacobs, born in Brooklyn in 1940, grew up in Brooklyn. He was poor in the early part of his life but never realized it. In 1952 his family moved from the poor neighborhood of Brownsville to middle-class Flatbush. He recognized the magnificence of Brooklyn, its people and its institutions. This is a series of short stories about the adventures of the author as he grew up, got educated and fell in love in Brookly...

Path to the Awakened Heart: the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a comprehensive interpretation and analysis of one of the fundamental scriptures in the Indian yoga tradition. In his rendering, Robert Jacobs points to the universality of the teachings and practices in the Yoga Sutras, explaining how they form foundational elements of many spiritual paths. Interpreted in a non-dual manner consistent with teachings of the tantric yoga tradition of India, Robert provides contemplations wi...

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic technology. Art and popular culture are uniquely suited to grapple with the implications of the ...