Category: Aerospace Equipment

By Robin Collyns

By Walt Truszkowski, Harold Hallock, Christopher Rouff, Jay Karlin, James Rash, Michael Hinchey, Roy Sterritt

ISBN-10: 1846282322

ISBN-13: 9781846282324

This booklet presents an in-depth dialogue of self reliant and autonomic platforms, their interdependencies, changes and similarities. present and pending concerns in those evermore more and more vital matters are highlighted and mentioned. innovations, rules and studies are explored when it comes to real-life NASA structures in spacecraft keep an eye on and within the exploration area.

By Paul Bloom, Mary A. Peterson, Lynn Nadel, Merrill F. Garrett

ISBN-10: 0262522667

ISBN-13: 9780262522663

An outstanding quantity for bringing readers brand new with contemporary advancements. . . . Language and area may be thought of a blueprint that are supposed to advisor the longer term examine during this quarter for years to come back. -- Laura A. Carlson-Radvansky, modern Psychology

The learn of the connection among ordinary language and spatial cognition has the capability to yield solutions to vexing questions on the character of the brain, language, and tradition. The fifteen unique contributions in Language and house assemble the main vital theoretical viewpoints within the components of psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, delivering a miles wanted synthesis throughout those different domain names. Chapters handle such questions as: How does the mind characterize house, how can we discover ways to discuss house, and will experimental checks of the kinfolk among house and language be limited to closed-class linguistic components or needs to the position of open-class components be regarded as good?

By Anthony Vidler

ISBN-10: 026222061X

ISBN-13: 9780262220613

ISBN-10: 0585436436

ISBN-13: 9780585436432

Named one of many artwork Book's most sensible Books of the last decade (March 2003). starting with agoraphobia and claustrophobia within the past due 19th century, through shell surprise and panic worry after international conflict I, phobias and nervousness got here to be noticeable because the psychological of contemporary existence. They grew to become included into the media and humanities, specifically the spatial arts of structure, urbanism, and movie. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped through digitalization and digital truth. Anthony Vidler is anxious with varieties of warped area. the 1st, a mental house, is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This house isn't empty yet packed with traumatic varieties, together with these of structure and the town. the second one type of warping is produced while artists holiday the bounds of style to depict house in new methods. Vidler strains the emergence of a mental thought of area from Pascal and Freud to the id of agoraphobia and claustrophobia within the 19th century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement within the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin. concentrating on present stipulations of displacement and placelessness, he examines ways that modern artists and designers have produced new kinds of spatial warping. The dialogue levels from theorists corresponding to Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists akin to Vito Acconci, Mike Kelley, Martha Rosler, and Rachel Whiteread. ultimately, Vidler seems to be on the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry, Coop Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis, and Eric Owen Moss within the gentle of latest electronic ideas that, whereas hoping on conventional viewpoint, have extensively reworked the composition, creation, and experience—perhaps even the topic itself—of structure.

By National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

ISBN-10: 0929600703

ISBN-13: 9780929600703

ISBN-10: 1429498919

ISBN-13: 9781429498913

By Liana F. Piehler

ISBN-10: 0820462012

ISBN-13: 9780820462011

ISBN-10: 0820480584

ISBN-13: 9780820480589

Spatial dynamics and imagery floor as unique and insightful parts for investigating woman figures in Victorian artwork and literature. This publication explores the idea that house could be a effective and artistic realm, instead of in basic terms an empty or confining classification, for private improvement. via discussing consultant Victorian work of the mid- to late-1800s, in addition to novels by way of girls authors, Spatial Dynamics and feminine improvement in Victorian artwork and Novels illustrates the methods visible and literary genres make the most of house. This booklet sharpens our view of nineteenth-century women’s views on themselves, and acknowledges connections among the visible and literary arts.

By Deborah Todd

ISBN-10: 0816046395

ISBN-13: 9780816046393

Designed for top university via early students, A to Z of Scientists in area and Astronomy is a perfect connection with awesome female and male scientists within the box of area and astronomy, from antiquity to the current. Containing greater than one hundred sixty entries and 50 black-and-white photos, the authors emphasize the scientists' contributions to the sphere in addition to his or her impact on scientists who've undefined. The ebook is prepared with a normal advent that explains who's within the e-book and why; a listing of entries; the entries themselves; indexes by way of box of specialization, nationality, topic region, and chronology; a bibliography; and an index.

By Shapley H.

By Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger

ISBN-10: 1417566744

ISBN-13: 9781417566747

ISBN-10: 9042011963

ISBN-13: 9789042011960

Of curiosity to proficient readers aware of mixed textual and cultural methods to Chicano/a literature and literature usually, Battlegrounds and Crossroads weaves in numerous serious and theoretical threads to inquire into the connection among intimate and public areas in Chicana literature. with out claiming the borderlands as unique of the Chicana/o mind's eye, this booklet recognizes the significance of this metaphor for bringing to view a extra intercultural usa, permitting it to develop into inflected with the particularity of every textual content. The analyses of Chicana fiction, drama, and autobiography discover the development of identification in the course of the illustration of social house and the transformation of literary area. For dialogue of a diacritical territory this quantity attracts on a interdisciplinary perform that allows the adventure from the main intimate areas to the main public areas of modernity, in order that the cultured textual content yields its wisdom of the contingent historic situations of its construction in fabric and existential phrases. the plain regionalism and localism of this literature is not anything yet a mirrored image of the connection among the neighborhood and the worldwide, the personal and the general public, the private and the political, the classy and the ideological, the subversive and the mainstream. each one textual content stands on its own whereas it additionally reaches out to the sociopolitical imaginary for interpretation via an interdisciplinary method that's imperative to do justice to a politicized aesthetics.

By A. Bertram Chandler