Tags: books
03/08/10
10:32:11 am by misblog, Categories: Books, Net Neutrality, Censorship, Internet , Tags: books, hr 275, internet censorship, internet surveillance, oni, open net initiative The Open Net Initiative (ONI) has consolidated five years of nation-state Internet censorship and surveillance research into a recently published book, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering.Access Denied significantly ad… more »
11/26/09
10:31:58 am by misblog, Categories: Books , Tags: books, christopher hitchens, god is not great, religion Originally Published July 13, 2007; Updated and Republished August 12, 2008; Updated and Republished May 20, 2009:God is not Great, by Christopher Hitchens should be on every American high school library shelve, in multiple copies. The book should be… more »
07/29/08
09:10:06 pm by misblog, Categories: Books, Economics, Slavery , Tags: atlantic slave trade, books, david eltis, economics of slavery, north carolina, slavery Originally Published March 26, 2007; Updated and Republished July 29, 2008 to include the apology by the United States House of Representatives:
Britain’s Tony Blair places the Atlantic Slave Trade among history's most shameful enterprises. He express… more »
07/03/08
09:21:16 pm by admin, Categories: Books, GWOT_Costs, Economics , Tags: books, economics, gwot costs, three trillion dollar war The Three Trillion Dollar War is a book format of a paper published by economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and government budget-finance policy wonk Linda J. Bilmes. Their original paper provoked quite a few comments and the book addresses those comments while… more »
10/28/07
01:54:26 am by halibut, Categories: American Submarines, Missions, Books, This Day In History, Deep Submergence Vehicles, Russian Submarines , Tags: all hands down, books, compass island, edward offley, glomar explorer, halibut, jerome preisler, k-129, kenneth sewell, project jennifer, pueblo, scorpion, scorpion down, seawolf, ssn 575, ssn 587, ssn 589, submarines On this day, October 28, 1968, the USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) towed her magnetometer and cameras over a sunken wreckage two miles below. Two days later the United States Navy declared to the world that the sunken USS Scorpion (SSN 589) had been located.
A… more »
09/20/07
03:30:41 am by misblog, Categories: Books, China, War and Peace, American History, Taiwan , Tags: antisession law, books, china, china: fragile superpower, defense of taiwan act, march 2008 referendum, susan l. shirk, taiwan Taiwan's (台湾) fifteenth application for membership in the United Nations (UN) has been denied.Taiwanese president, Chen Shui-bian, said he will seek the Taiwanese people's support for United Nations (联合国) membership… more »
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