J. Mitchell

THEY SAY THE FLOATING CITY OF ANTERRA IS LIKE THE HUMAN HEART...It shows very little on the outside - mere glimpses of its true self to the casual observer. Underneath lies much, much more, understood only by those who know it well.Three months have passed since Jill Branch abandoned a life on the streets and joined the classified crime fighting force known as The Nexus. Something big is brewing among Anterra's criminal elite, and the department is hot on the trail. The chase will take Jill and her team into the darkest depths of the city - and face to face with the past they've tried so desperately to forget.More information at JKraftMitchell.com

Book Two of the NEXUS

The Dark Beneath

Kansas Blood

A. Harding

S. Hunter

T. Takahashi

Taiji Mizuno

E. Groth

P. Chen

L. Barbier

G. Bogaert

H. Tajima

Y. Fukazawa

J. Ng

J. Krizmanic

R. Streitmatter

R. Fernholz

P. Bloser

T. Kamae

V. Andersson

G. Madejski

Y. Saito

Goddard /Princeton U. /Royal Ins NASA

We are developing a new balloon-borne instrument (PoGO), to measure polarization of soft gamma rays (30-200 keV) using asymmetry in azimuth angle distribution of Compton scattering. PoGO is designed to detect 10% polarization in 100mCrab sources in a 6-8 hour observation and bring a new dimension to studies on gamma ray emission/transportation mechanism in pulsars, AGNs, black hole binaries, and neutron star surface. The concept is an adaptation to polarization measurements of well-type phoswich counter consisting of a fast plastic scintillator (the detection part), a slow plastic scintillator (the active collimator) and a BGO scintillator (the bottom anti-counter). PoGO consists of close-packed array of 217 hexagonal well-type phoswich counters and has a narrow field-of-view ({approx} 5 deg{sup 2}) to reduce possible source confusion. A prototype instrument has been tested in the polarized soft gamma-ray beams at Advanced Photon Source (ANL) and at Photon Factory (KEK). On the results, the polarization dependence of EGS4 has been validated and that of Geant4 has been corrected.

Large-Area Balloon-Borne Polarized Gamma Ray Observer (PoGO).

D. Berg-Schlosser

Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39 offers a comprehensive analysis of the survival or breakdown of democracy in interwar Europe. The contributors explore factors such as the historical, social-structural and political-cultural backgrounds of the policies that European countries attempted to implement to counter the world economic crisis of 1929. The analysis serves as an important backdrop for the assessment of current democratic developments in former communist Europe and highlights some of the problems and risks involved in the transition process.

Comparative Analyses

Authoritarianism and Democracy in Europe, 1919-39

Why did democracy survive in some European countries between the wars while fascism or authoritarianism emerged elsewhere? This innovative study approaches this question through the comparative analysis of the inter-war experience of eighteen countries within a common comprehensive analytical framework. It combines (social and economic) structure- and (political) actor-related aspects to provide detailed historical accounts of each case which serve as background information for the systematic testing of major theories of fascism and democracy.

J. Mitchell

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