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Cambridge University Press A Students Guide to the Ising Model
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Cambridge University Press Challenging the Caliphate
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Cambridge University Press Combustion Thermodynamics and Dynamics
Book SynopsisCombustion Thermodynamics and Dynamics builds on a foundation of thermal science, chemistry, and applied mathematics that will be familiar to most undergraduate aerospace, mechanical, and chemical engineers to give a first-year graduate-level exposition of the thermodynamics, physical chemistry, and dynamics of advection-reaction-diffusion. Special effort is made to link notions of time-independent classical thermodynamics with time-dependent reactive fluid dynamics. In particular, concepts of classical thermochemical equilibrium and stability are discussed in the context of modern nonlinear dynamical systems theory. The first half focuses on time-dependent spatially homogeneous reaction, while the second half considers effects of spatially inhomogeneous advection and diffusion on the reaction dynamics. Attention is focused on systems with realistic detailed chemical kinetics as well as simplified kinetics. Many mathematical details are presented, and several quantitative examples are Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Reactive Systems: 1. Introduction to chemical kinetics; 2. Gas mixtures; 3. Mathematical foundations of thermodynamics; 4. Thermochemistry of a single reaction; 5. Thermochemistry of multiple reactions; 6. Nonlinear dynamics of reduced kinetics; Part II. Advective-Reactive-Diffusive Systems: 7. Reactive Navier–Stokes equations; 8. Simple linear combustion; 9. Idealized solid combustion; 10. Premixed laminar flame; 11. Oscillatory combustion; 12. Detonation.
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Cambridge University Press Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization 29 Cambridge Aerospace Series Series Number 29
Book SynopsisThis is a long-overdue volume dedicated to space trajectory optimization. Interest in the subject has grown, as space missions of increasing levels of sophistication, complexity, and scientific return - hardly imaginable in the 1960s - have been designed and flown. Although the basic tools of optimization theory remain an accepted canon, there has been a revolution in the manner in which they are applied and in the development of numerical optimization. This volume purposely includes a variety of both analytical and numerical approaches to trajectory optimization. The choice of authors has been guided by the editor's intention to assemble the most expert and active researchers in the various specialities presented. The authors were given considerable freedom to choose their subjects, and although this may yield a somewhat eclectic volume, it also yields chapters written with palpable enthusiasm and relevance to contemporary problems.Table of Contents1. The problem of spacecraft trajectory optimization Bruce A. Conway; 2. Primer vector theory and application John E. Prussing; 3. Spacecraft trajectory optimization using direct transcription and nonlinear programming Stephen W. Paris and Bruce A. Conway; 4. Elements of a software system for spacecraft trajectory optimization Cesar Ocampo; 5. Low-thrust trajectory optimization using orbital averaging and control parameterization Craig A. Kluever; 6. Analytic representation of optimal low-thrust transfer in circular orbit Jean A. Kechichian; 7. Global optimization and space pruning for spacecraft trajectory design Dario Izzo; 8. Incremental techniques for global space trajectory design Massimiliano Vasile and Matteo Ceriotti; 9. Optimal low-thrust trajectories using stable manifolds Christopher Martin and Bruce A. Conway.
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National Academies Press Views of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2027
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Design Chronicles
Book SynopsisHere are the design stories of everyday material, stuff, from cars to Dustbusters, phonographs to DVDs, that makes our lives easier, more exciting, and more comfortable through mass-production. Descriptive vignettes and over 400 illustrations of popular culture as it progressed through the 20th century. Each year is an illustrated double-page spread, showing how design evolved in a precise timeline. Learn fascinating stories behind familiar products, the men and women who invented or designed them, and how their designs came to life or, in some cases, failed. It is the story of how America rose to world leadership through its unique ability to bring household conveniences and technological benefits to all, at reasonable cost, thus raising the nation''s standard of living. Major technological developments and new materials that made innovative designs possible are also identified. For the industrial designer or student of design, this is a fantastic history of the profession, illustrati
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Antique Dresser Sets
Book SynopsisSlip into the romantic world of a private dressing room. Here fancy and jeweled perfume bottles, powder jars, trinket boxes, hairbrushes, mirrors, and matching trays in sets of up to twenty items cover a dressing table or dresser top. Cosmetics, scents, and tools of beauty wait to transform mere mortals into memorable personalities, day in and day out. This book explores the feminine, fragile, and alluring vintage accessories that are collected today by many seekers of romance and history. Beautiful dressing table accessories convey an aristocratic atmosphere that has been popularized in film. Here are hundreds of elegantly designed matching dressing tools in metals, plastics, enamels, and glass presented in boxed, travel, and manicure sets. Even special boxes, lined with luxurious fabrics housing items for individual boudoir tasks, are included. Over 340 color photographs, including over 100 authentic catalog pages, are on display. They accurately portray the magnificent creative skil
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Talking Machine
Book SynopsisAntique talking machines are among today's hottest collectibles. Names like Edison and Victrola call to mind an era of polished wood, brightly-painted morning glory horns, and fascinating machinery. This revised and expanded second edition of The Talking Machine contains over 525 color photographs showing an incredible variety models, and including over 30 never before published photos. The authoritative text and up-to-date values complement the wealth of visuals, making this book a veritable library of information in one volume! Topping off this award-winning combination is a music CD featuring some of the rarest and most historically important recordings of all time. Hear the voice of explorer Ernest Shackleton describe his perilous expedition to the South Pole. Listen to a dramatic recreation of the San Francisco earthquake recorded mere months after the actual event. Enjoy two different recordings of the voice of the great inventor Thomas A. Edison.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Toy Robots from Japan Techno Fantasies
Book SynopsisThis fascinating book charts toy robot design of the last half of the 20th century and explores Japanese aesthetics in tinplate toys, especially robots. Over 200 photographs and original conceptual drawings illustrate this captivating history, from the wind-up walking mechanism of the Diamond Planet Robot to the sophisticated Answer Game Machine, the first robot computer capable of doing mathematical problems. Tomy, Horikawa, Waco, and Sony are just a few of the manufacturers whose robotic designs are featured here. The captions provide much relevant information, including date, size, manufacturer, and current values. This important book is of compelling interest to historians, collectors, designers, and students of Japanese studies and popular culture in the golden age of toy production.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bridges A Postcard History
Book SynopsisTake a tour through time and learn about the exciting engineering developments that allowed the primitive bridges of ancient man evolve to the masterworks of today. This unique treatment, showing the large variety of bridge forms, is illustrated with postcards, archival photographs, and technical drawings and diagrams. These detailed images show stone arch, suspension, movable, and many more bridges. Laymen and engineers alike are certain to come away with a better understanding of the role of bridges in our built environment from the expert explanations of bridge types, materials, and construction to amusing anecdotes associated with these structures. Landmark bridges, construction methods, the interstate system, railroad bridges, and even bridge disasters are all documented in this technical record of civil engineering challenges and feats.
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Intellect Books Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to love with technology? Does data improve our emotional interactions? The collection approaches the query with critical essays and works of new media art to look into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships. With expertise coming from recognized researchers, critics and artists in the field of media and cultural studies, it analyses relationship trends and affect cultures that have emerged from technological acceleration. Data Dating: Love, Technology and Desire is a comprehensive study of love and intimacy under digitalism that reflects on the structure of feeling(s) and libido environments in the high-tech and media-bound landscapes of contemporary technocracies. Organized around ten chapters and ten works of new media art, the collection offers an extensive critical analysis of technologized romance (and other emotional relations), as well as provides an insight into the codification, execution, deployment, and evolution of the patterns of togetherness in the so-called Tamagotchi era. The chapters engage in the problems of new material planes that have emerged from the abstraction of networked communication and dispersion of traditional notions of physicality. They close-read the templates of contemporary fantasy, fetish and eroticism, as shaped by platform capitalism, datafication, and new commodity cultures, in which self-promotion for bonding relies on the new possibilities that are coming in with new media self-mediation formats. Central to the analysis is the carbon-silicon dynamics of love’s contemporary DNA and libidinal techne – practiced in the environment where screens, interfaces, algorithms, data protocols and non-organic objects of affection and affect delineate, organize and program the trajectories of encounter, limerence and erotic pleasure. All the chapters are authored by recognized researchers in the field of love, emotion, media, technology and cultural studies, and they critically explore various aspects of love/intimacy under technocracy, approaching them with expertise the goes beyond the typical high-modernist and post-structural reading of the media-ridden life practices and environments. More importantly, the collection includes landmark works of new media art coming from prominent new media artist gathered around 'Data Dating' – new media art exhibition, curated by Valentina Peri (co-editor of the collection) and presented in Paris, Tel Aviv and London. As such, the collection proffers a unique and original critical approach – one that combines artistic practice and cultural criticism – to comment upon the transformation of human relationships and emotional standards under technological development with reference to the social change and cultural condition. The collection of essays, each accompanied by a work of media art, that provides a comprehensive insight into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships. Primary readership will be among educators, researcher and students in disciplines including cultural studies, media and communications, philosophy, sociology, psychology and gender, LGBTQ+ and sexual studies. It will be an extremely valuable resource for those in these fields. It will be of interest to other groups including art curators, online platform designers, social media content managers and designers and data specialists.Trade Review'This is not the catalogue of the homonymous exhibition which took place between 2018 and 2022 at Galerie Charlot in Paris and Tel Aviv, at Watermans in London and at iMAL in Brussels. Or rather it is, and much more. Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire is a collection of ten essays, each one related to an artwork in the exhibition. These are not meant as commentaries on the artworks but rather elaborate on their individual themes. [...] Within the ten chapters, the exhibition expands theoretically through an indirect dialogue, intertwining the artistic and academic. It’s another excellent example of an innovative format and project that celebrates cultural production.' -- NeuralTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Introduction: Dating (the) Data and Other Intimacies Ania Malinowska and Valentina Peri 1. WIRED LIMERENCE (feat. Deep Love by Antoine Schmitt) Technology, Commerce and the Intimacy Revolution Lauren Rosewarne 2. LOVE INFO-STRUCTURES (feat. Glaciers by Zach Gage) Romance in a Time of Dark Data Lee McKinnon 3. MEDIATED MATCHMAKING (feat. A Truly Magical Moment by Adam Basanta) Fast Love. Temporalities of Digitized Togetherness Ania Malinowska 4. EMOTIONS WITH THE MACHINE (feat. Ashley Madison Angels at Work by !Mediengruppe Bitnik) ‘Emotoys’: Ethics, Emotions and Empathic Technologies Andrew McStay and Gilad Rosner 5. SELF-FASHIONING DESIRE (feat. Kill Your Darlings by Jeroen van Loon) The Greatest Love of All: Recognition, Self-Love and the Imaging of Desire Derek Conrad Murray 6. DIGITAL ONSCENITIES (feat. Peeping Tom (Porn Version) by Thomas Israel) The New Onscenity. Navigating Digital Desires in the Twenty First Century Pornoscape Lynn Comella 7. LIBIDINAL TECHNO-SCAPES (Webcam Venus by Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia) The Proxemics of Digital Intimacy Kyle Machulis 8. TOUCHLESS EMBRACES (feat. VR Hug by Tom Galle and Moises Sanabria) Virtual Hugs and the Crises of Touch David Parisi 9. SOUNDS OF FEELING (feat. Digital Synaesthetic E.E.G. Kiss by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat) I Can Hear Your Feelings Andrew Blanton 10. INTERFACES OF EMOTIONAL SURVEILLANCE (feat. Face Messenger by Tom Galle and John Yuyi) Timestamp Anxieties Kristin Veel and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Notes on Contributors
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Classiques Garnier Les Ingenieurs,: La Production d'Un Groupe Social
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