Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture

• Author: Stephen Duncombe
• Publisher: Verso
• ISBN: 9781859841587
• Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Page: 240
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Traces the history of zine publishing from its origins by science fiction cults, its growth with the 1960s counter culture, and its attachment to punk rock

• Author: Gennady Kanevskiy
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• ISBN: 1938781279
• Category:
• Page: 77
• View: 9635

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What Is the Government Trying to Hide?

• Author: Richard Sauder
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
• ISBN: 9780932813374
• Category: Science
• Page: 142
• View: 6319

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Go behind the scenes into little-known corners of the public record and discover how corporate America has worked hand-in-glove with the Pentagon for decades -- dreaming about, planning, and actually constructing secret underground bases. And newly-uncovered information indicates that the strangeness continues with bizarre, high-tech gadgets like portable, hand-held surgical lasers and injectable electronic IDs as small as a grain of rice!

• Author: KrishnanR.
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 1351406663
• Category: Technology & Engineering
• Page: 700
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This text describes topics discussed at the conference, including: tunnelling and construction in soft ground and rocks; geological investigations; tunnelling machines; planning for underground infrastructure; safety issues and environmental and social aspects of underground development.

Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China

• Author: Paul Pickowicz,Yingjin Zhang
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• ISBN: 9780742554382
• Category: Performing Arts
• Page: 268
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This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Exploring the complex and shifting world of Chinese underground and independent film, leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence in the new century. With its fresh and knowledgeable analysis of Chinese underground and independent filmmaking, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in a society caught between socialism and global currents.

Engineering Fundamentals and International Case Studies

• Author: William A. Hustrulid,W. A. Hustrulid,Richard C. Bullock
• Publisher: SME
• ISBN: 0873351932
• Category: Technology & Engineering
• Page: 718
• View: 9242

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Underground Mining Methods: Engineering Fundamentals and International Case Studies presents the latest principles and techniques in use today. Reflecting the international and diverse nature of the industry, a series of mining case studies is presented covering the commodity range from iron ore to diamonds extracted by operations located in all corners of the world. Industry experts have contributed sections on General Mine Design Considerations; Room-and-Pillar Mining of Hard Rock/Soft Rock; Longwall Mining of Hard Rock; Shrinkage Stoping; Sublevel Stoping; Cut-and-Fill Mining; Sublevel Caving; Panel Caving; Foundations for Design; and Underground Mining Looks to the Future.

• Author: William J. Switala
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• ISBN: 9780811716291
• Category: History
• Page: 216
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Includes detailed maps of the known routes and railroad sites. Organized in antebellum America to help slaves escape to freedom, the Underground Railroad was cloaked in secrecy and operated at great peril to everyone involved. The system was extremely active in Pennsylvania, with routes in all parts of the state.This book retraces those routes, discusses the large city networks, identifies the houses and sites where escapees found refuge, and records the names of the people who risked their lives to support the operation.

Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

• Author: Suelette Dreyfus,Julian Assange
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• ISBN: 085786260X
• Category: Computers
• Page: 320
• View: 7360

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Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.

• Author: Jim Holland
• Publisher: iUniverse
• ISBN: 059524744X
• Category: Fiction
• Page: 360
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After his Mom walked out on them, Jerry and his father moved to Princeview for a fresh, new start. But Jerry soon falls back into his rebellious ways and is consequently sent to the "Underground," a secret world where kids are taught life's toughest lessons. And the only way out is to pass six burdensome tests. It is here that Jerry is chased by ferocious dogs, pushed into a raging river, locked in a primitive jail, and enslaved by his enemies. The real test, though, is using what he's learned to make amends with his teachers, reconcile with his workaholic father, confront his runaway mother, and overcome one of the greatest tragedies of all. He will need someone to lean on through it all. Darren Jones, his downstairs neighbor is just the one that could help him in Escaping the Underground.

Proceedings of the ITA World Tunnelling Congress 2003, 12-17 April 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Author: Jan Saveur,International Tunnelling Association
• Publisher: CRC Press
• ISBN: 9789058095435
• Category: Technology & Engineering
• Page: 1171
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This book contains papers, presented at the ITA World Tunnelling Congress 2003 held in Amsterdam, which reflects the state of the art with regard to research, analysis, design and practical experience in almost all fields of tunnelling and underground space construction.