Enabling Technologies for Petaflops Computing

Building a computer ten times more powerful than all the networked computing capability in the United States is the subject of this book by leading figures in the high performance computing community. It summarizes the near-term initiatives, including the technical and policy agendas for what could be a twenty-year effort to build a petaFLOP scale computer. (A FLOP -- Floating Point OPeration -…

A journal kept by Miss Sarah Foote (Mrs. Sarah Foote Smith) while journeying …

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Introduction signed : Chester W. Smith,With autograph of Olive Percival

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"Ask mamma", or, The richest commoner in England

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[2], viii, [4], 423 p., [32] leaves of plates : 23 cm,Title vignette, in colors

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"Plain or ringlets?"

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[2], x, [4], 398 p., [20] leaves of plates : 23 cm,Title vignette, in colors

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The ex-meridian calculator. Complete table for finding the latitude by an ex-…

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American autographs, historical and literary

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Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution

Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a lengthy and creative period in the history of industrialization,…

Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Interrogation of Theory …

Over the last ten years, “open” innovations—the sharing of information and communications resources without access restrictions or cost—have emerged within international development. But do these innovations empower poor and marginalized populations? This book examines whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of information and communication re…

The health of nations : infectious disease, environmental change, and their e…

In recent decades, new pathogens such as HIV, the Ebola virus, and the BSE prion have emerged, while old scourges such as tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria have grown increasingly resistant to treatment. The global spread of disease does not threaten the human species, but it threatens the prosperity and stability of human societies.In this pathbreaking book, Andrew Price-Smith investigates th…

Oil, illiberalism, and war: An analysis of energy and US foreign policy

The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in interventionism, exploitation, and other illiberal behaviors that hide behind a facade of liberal internationalism. The symbiotic relationship between the state and the oil industry has produced dev…