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Freedom to Win A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People―And Ol


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English | ISBN: 1639363513 | 2023 | 416 pages | EPUB | 26 MB
A classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biting games-with the hockey rink serving as an arena for a nation’s resistance.

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Cold War Film Genres


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English | ISBN: 1474412947 | 2018 | 280 pages | PDF | 6 MB
From the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the expansion of the marketplace, and to turn American cultural values comically and subversively against themselves. With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the ‘rogue cop’ film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances that defined the ‘new woman’,

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Cold Chemistry Molecular Scattering and Reactivity Near Absolute Zero (2024)


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1782625976 | PDF | pages: 692 | 170.9 mb
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in research on cold and controlled molecular collisions, both in theory and in experiment. The advent of techniques to prepare cold and ultracold molecules and ions, to store them in optical lattices or in charged quasicristalline structures, and to use them in crossed or merged beam experiments have opened many new possibilities to study the most fundamental aspects of molecular interactions. At the same time, theoretical work has made progress in tackling these problems and accurately describing quantum effects in complex systems, and in proposing viable options to control chemical reactions at ultralow energies. Through tutorials on both the theoretical and experimental aspects of research in cold and ultracold molecular collisions, this book provides advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and researchers with the foundations needed to understand this exciting field.

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Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031408969 | 861 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 171 MB
Cold-water corals form reef structures in continental margin and seamount settings world-wide, making them more wide-spread and abundant than shallow-water reefs. Their role in these ecosystems is no less important than the influence that shallow-water coral reefs have on tropical systems. They create habitat structure, host endemic species, enhance elemental cycling, alter current flow, sequester carbon, and provide many other ecosystem services that we are just beginning to understand. The rapidly evolving state of knowledge of cold-water and deep-sea coral reefs has not been compiled in over 10 years. This volume synthesizes recent and historical information, reveals new findings from reefs that have been discovered only recently, and presents key avenues for future research. We are on the cusp of understanding the critical role that cold-water coral reefs play in the world’s oceans, and this book lays the foundation on which this knowledge will be built in the future.

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Cold War Combat Prototypes


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Crowood Press | 2005 | ISBN: 186126772X | English | 168 pages | PDF | 137.14 MB
During the Cold War a great many aircraft were built and flown but for various reasons never entered operational service. Some were losers in ‘fly-off’ competitions, others represented journeys up ‘blind alleys’ in aircraft development, and others were cancelled on dubious financial and/or political grounds. This book examines in detail the histories of these aircraft, and seeks to answer the following questions: What might the world’s air forces be like today, had the aircraft in this book entered service? How much did German wartime design contribute to today’s combat aircraft? To what extent did so-called ‘experts’ influence politicians in canceling major projects? Was Duncan Sandys really responsible for the disastrous planning decisions taken in Great Britain in the late 1950s? Could Great Britain have taken the lead in supersonic flight in 1946 – and kept it? Could supersonic VTOL have become a reality in the 1960s?

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Lay Them to Rest On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BWGNK8VK | 2023 | 13 hours and 20 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Laurah Norton
Narrator: Laurah Norton

Take a fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman by exploring the rapidly evolving techniques being used to break the most notorious cold cases. Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to "getting the bad guy" behind bars, your best chance of success boils down to the strength of your evidence-and the forensic science used to obtain it. Beyond the silver screen, forensic science has been used for decades to help solve even the most tough-to-crack cases.

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Containing History How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CFW23YPK | 2023 | 17 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 948 MB
Author: Stephen P. Friot
Narrator: Gary Roelofs

In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with US and Russia relations approaching a breaking point, this book provides a key to understanding how we got here. Specifically, Stephen P. Friot asks, how do Russians and Americans think about each other, and why do they see the world so differently? The answers, Friot suggests, lie in the historical events surrounding the Cold War and their divergent influence on politics and popular consciousness. Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural in its scope, Containing History employs the tools and insights of history, political science, and international relations to explain how 21st century public attitudes in Russia are the product of a thousand years of history, including searing experiences in the 20th century that have no counterparts in US history.

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Cold Rivals The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CMYT8FKR | 2023 | 19 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 551 MB
Author: Evan S. Medeiros
Narrator: Tom Parks

Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future. The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics. The two countries are now competitors locked in a long-term rivalry, but how volatile this rivalry will become is still to be determined. The book explores not only the historical roots and contemporary foreign policy aspects of this era, but also looks at the economic, military, and technological arenas of US-China strategic competition. In doing so, this volume highlights important differences in US and Chinese perspectives. A final section of the volume explores future scenarios for this relationship from a variety of perspectives, all coming to a sobering conclusion. This policy-relevant book provides a comprehensive overview of US-China strategic competition and reinvigorates thinking about how to avoid reaching a crisis point.

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