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Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites (The Scott and ...
Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, ...

University of Washington Press, 2002

Confinement and Ethnicity documents in unprecedented detail the various facilities in which persons of Japanese descent living in the western United States were confined during World War II: the fifteen ìassembly centersî run by the U.S. Armyís Wartime Civil Control Administration, the ten "relocation centers" created by the War Relocation Authority, and the internment camps, penitentiaries, and other sites under the jurisdiction of the Justice ...

A Place to Stand

25 reviews
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Grove Press, 2002

Can't shake it
I'm giving this book five stars, not because it is a literary masterpiece, but because it is a compelling memoir that I can't forget. I felt a gamut of emotions while reading this book, but for the most part I ached for Mr. Baca and the pain and anguish he suffered. I thank him for writing about his life so eloquently.

Fusion and Technology: An Introduction to the Physics and Technology of Magnetic Confinement Fusion
Weston M. Stacey

Wiley-Interscience, 1984

A broad, comprehensive introduction that brings together all aspects of magnetic fusion and magnetic fusion technology. Each topic is developed from first principles to engineering applications. Special features are the inclusion of physical property data relevant to fusion technology, and a summary of fusion reactor design parameters.

Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road
Barron H. Lerner

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Most historians of tuberculosis have focused on the sanatorium era of the early twentieth century, losing interest in the disease with the discovery of curative antibiotics in the 1940s. In Contagion and Confinement, Barron H. Lerner offers the first in-depth look at the history of tuberculosis control in the antibiotic era, providing a vital account of this neglected chapter in the history of the disease. He argues that the new antibiotic ...

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

7 reviews
Philip F. Williams, Yenna Wu

University of California Press, 2004

Shockingly educative
The language and content of the book makes for an educational yet engrossing read. The absurd and revealing facts concerning the Chinese prison labor camps are presented in a highly organized and easily understood, despite the complexity of the subject matter. Highly recommended to all readers.

White Slaves of Maquinna: John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

1 review
John Jewitt

Heritage House Publishing, 2000

Define Contentment
Taken as a historical account of Hewitt's confinement with the Nootka, the book is rich in anthropological data. Under obvious duress Hewitt nonetheless maintains a British calm to his plight and his detailed descriptions shed light on an enigmatic people. But what I found more interesting was Hewitt's personal transformation as a result of his separation from the civilized(?) world. I doubt ...

Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (California Series in Public ...

2 reviews
Lorna A. Rhodes

University of California Press, 2004

Highly recommended
This is a meticulously researched and theoretically sophisticated expose of a deeply hidden yet increasingly important facet of American culture. As the United States more and more becomes a prison nation, books like this will become essential reading not only for scholars but for average citizens.

The Physics of Inertial Fusion: Beam Plasma Interaction, Hydrodynamics, Hot Dense Matter ( Series of ...
Stefano Atzeni, Jurgen Meyer-ter-Vehn

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams. Two huge laser facilities are presently under construction to show that this method works. It involves the compression of tiny amounts (micrograms) of fuel to thousand times solid density and pressures otherwise existing only in the centre of stars. Thanks to advances in laser technology, it ...

States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons

2 reviews

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

An outstanding collection!
Joy James has collected a great group of essays from engaged academics and thoughtful activists dealing with a wide range of issues related to the prison-industrial complex. The best way to convey the content is probably to list some of the essays: * Robbie Meeropol, "Testimony" (of a Rosenberg son) * Dan Williams, lawyer for Mumia, on the case * Manning Marable, "Black Radicalism & an ...

Plasma Confinement
R. D. Hazeltine, J. D. Meiss

Dover Publications, 2003

Detailed and authoritative, this graduate-level text examines the essential physics underlying international research in magnetic confinement fusion. It offers readable, thorough accounts of the fundamental concepts behind methods of confining plasma at or near thermonuclear conditions. 1992 edition.

New Ideas in Tokamak Confinement (Research Trends in Physics)

1 review

AIP Press, 1994

The Tokamak Thermonuclear Fusion
Nuclear Fusion.Vol.38.No.3(1996) This book provides a valuable perspective, circa early 1992, on ideas for improving the tokamak. It is one of the La Jolla International School of Physics' Research Trends in Physics Series (V. Stefan, Series Editor), a forum for the publication of edited topical books within key fields of physics. The papers have been reproduced from camera ready copy supplied ...

Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Cornell University Press, 2007

Contributors Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon Clare Anderson, University of Leicester David Arnold, Warwick University Florence Bernault, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ian Brown, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Frank Dikotter, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Anthony Gorman, University of Edinburgh Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity ...

The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices (Series on Plasma Physics)
P.C Stangeby

Taylor & Francis, 2000

The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices introduces the physics of the plasma boundary region, including plasma-surface interactions, with an emphasis on those occurring in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The book covers plasma-surface interaction, Debye sheaths, sputtering, scrape-off layers, plasma impurities, recycling and control, 1D and 2D fluid and kinetic modeling of particle transport, plasma properties at the edge, diverter ...

Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950 ...

Cambridge University Press, 2003

A study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe that grew out of discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias. Seventeen contributors from six different countries with backgrounds in history, sociology and criminology utilize various methodological ...

Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity As Confinement (Crosscurrents)

2 reviews
Philippe Beneton

ISI Books, 2004

A splendid account of late modernity
As the subtitle of the book states, "an essay on modernity as confinement," this book focuses primarily on modernity. By "equality by default", the author examines egalitarianism in a modern sense, in which the Self is elevated to a divine level, authority has been eroded, science is the only accepted form of reason, and procedure has subjugated form. I would recommend this book particularly ...

The Theory of Toroidally Confined Plasmas
Roscoe B. White

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006

This invaluable book provides a basic introduction to plasma equilibrium, particle orbits, transport, and those ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities which dominate the behavior of toroidal magnetically confined plasmas, and to develop the mathematical methods necessary for their theoretical analysis. The book deals primarily with the consequences of ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics, these theories being responsible for ...

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