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    Stifling Political Competition : How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties (2009)
    New York, NY : Springer New York
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    ISBN: 9780387098210
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Public Choice 12
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Ring, Peter, 1941 - The nuclear many-body problem
    RVK:
    UL 3000
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    UL 1000
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    UN 1500
    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Political science ; Social Sciences ; History ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Kerntheorie ; Kernphysik ; Vielkörperproblem ; Kerntheorie ; Kernphysik ; Vielkörperproblem
    Abstract: Stifling Political Competition examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The analysis synthesizes political science, economics and American history to demonstrate how the two-party system is the artificial creation of a network of laws, restrictions and subsidies that favor the Democrats and Republicans and cripple potential challenges. The American Founders, as it has been generally forgotten, distrusted political parties. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are parties mentioned, much less given legal protection or privilege. This provocative book traces how by the end of the Civil War the Republicans and Democrats had guaranteed their dominance and subsequently influenced a range of policies developed to protect the duopoly. For example, Bennett examines how the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as amended in 1974 and 1976), which was sold to the public as a nonpartisan act of good government reformism actually reinforced the dominance of the two parties. While focused primarily on the American experience, the book does consider the prevalence of two-party systems around the world (especially in emerging democracies) and the widespread contempt with which they are often viewed. The concluding chapter considers the potential of truly radical reform toward opening the field to vigorous, lively, contentious third-party candidacies that might finally offer alienated voters a choice, not an echo.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09821-0
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    Exploring the Moon : The Apollo Expeditions (2008)
    New York, NY : Praxis Publishing Ltd., Chichester, UK
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    ISBN: 9780387746418
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 404 p. 176 illus., 16 illus. in color, online resource)
    Edition: Second Edition
    Series Statement: Springer Praxis Books
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Harland, David M., 1955 - Exploring the moon
    RVK:
    US 8300
    Keywords: Project Apollo US ; Popular works ; History ; Planetology ; Observations, Astronomical ; Astronomy Observations ; Space sciences ; Astronomy ; Aerospace engineering ; Astronautics ; Popular Science ; Science (General) ; Science History ; Planetology ; Astronomy ; Astrophysics ; Space flight to the moon
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Two columns to the page
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-74641-8
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    Star Maps : History, Artistry, and Cartography (2007)
    New York, NY : Praxis Publishing Ltd
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    ISBN: 9780387716695
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (online resource)
    Series Statement: Springer Praxis Books
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Kanas, Nick, 1945 - Star maps
    RVK:
    UB 2475
    Keywords: Science (General) ; Astronomy ; Popular Science ; Science (General) ; Astronomy ; Stars Atlases ; History ; Constellations Atlases ; History ; Cartography History ; Stars Charts, diagrams, etc. ; Constellations Charts, diagrams, etc. ; Einführung ; Astronomie ; Kunst ; Sternbild ; Karte ; Geschichte Anfänge-2006 ; Astronomie ; Geschichte
    Note: "Published in association with Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK , Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71669-5
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    Einstein’s Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath (2006)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : C. V. Vishveshwara, Bangalore, India
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    ISBN: 9783540332008
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 360 p, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Vishveshwara, C. V., 1938 - Einstein's enigma or black holes in my bubble bath
    RVK:
    US 2200
    Keywords: Popular works ; History ; Gravitation ; Astronomy ; Astrophysics ; Cosmology ; Physics ; Popular Science ; Science (General) ; Science History ; Astronomy ; Relativity (Physics) ; Physics History ; Mathematics ; Einführung ; Schwarzes Loch
    Abstract: Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath is a humourous and informal rendition of the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins to the latest developments in astrophysics, focusing on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and black-hole physics. Through engaging conversations and napkin-scribbled diagrams come tumbling the rudiments of relativity, spacetime and much of modern physics, narrated with high didactic and literary talent, and each embedded in casual lessons given by a worldly astrophysicist to his friend. Join the intellectual fun and exalt in the frothy ideas while vicariously taking relaxing baths in this magical bathtub. Prof. C.V. Vishveshwara is a renowned theoretical physicist, who participated in the golden age of black-hole physics, making pioneering contributions. Also an enthusiastic teacher and planetarium director, he has written several popular-level articles, scripts for planetarium shows and produced documentary movies on science.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Bathtub; The Stellar Bed; The Casanova Connection; Footprints of the Giants; Cosmic Framework; A Moving Experience; The Fabric of Spacetime; Grappling with Gravity; Beetles on a Branch; Tub Talk; The First Solution and the Last Statement; Sphere of Darkness; The Voracious Whirlpool; Dynamics of the Unique; A Date With Dante; Imprints of the Invisible; Celestial Swan Song; Cibo Per La Mente; Curtain Call; Foundations of Fact and Fantasy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-357) , Popular treatment
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-33200-6
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