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British Historical Facts, 1830-1900

By: Chris Cook,Brendan Keith

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British Historical Facts, 1830-1900

By: Chris Cook,Brendan Keith

British Historical Facts, 1830-1900 comes as an original and pioneering attempt to provide within a single volume a comprehensive yet readily accessible source-book of facts and figures on the Victorian period.

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Compact Complex Surfaces

By: W. Barth,K. Hulek,Chris Peters,A.van de Ven

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Compact Complex Surfaces

By: W. Barth,K. Hulek,Chris Peters,A.van de Ven

In the 19 years which passed since the first edition was published, several important developments have taken place in the theory of surfaces. The most sensational one concerns the differentiable structure of surfaces. Twenty years ago very little was known about differentiable structures on 4-manifolds, but in the meantime Donaldson on the one hand and Seiberg and Witten on the other hand, have found, inspired by gauge theory, totally new invariants. Strikingly, together with the theory explained in this book these invariants yield a wealth of new results about the differentiable structure of algebraic surfaces. Other developments include the systematic use of nef-divisors (in ac cordance with the progress made in the classification of higher dimensional algebraic varieties), a better understanding of Kahler structures on surfaces, and Reider's new approach to adjoint mappings. All these developments have been incorporated in the present edition, though the Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten theory only by way of examples. Of course we use the opportunity to correct some minor mistakes, which we ether have discovered ourselves or which were communicated to us by careful readers to whom we are much obliged.

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Programming F#

A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems

By: Chris Smith

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Programming F#

A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems

By: Chris Smith

Why learn F#? This multi-paradigm language not only offers you an enormous productivity boost through functional programming, it also lets you develop applications using your existing object-oriented and imperative programming skills. With Programming F#, you'll quickly discover the many advantages of Microsoft's new language, which includes access to all the great tools and libraries of the .NET platform. Learn how to reap the benefits of functional programming for your next project -- whether it's quantitative computing, large-scale data exploration, or even a pursuit of your own. With this comprehensive guide, F# team member Chris Smith gives you a head start on the fundamentals and advanced concepts of the F# language. Get a clear understanding of functional programming, and how you can use it to simplify code Gain a solid understanding of the language's core syntax, including object-oriented and imperative styles Simplify concurrent and parallel programming with F# Asynchronous Workflows and the Parallel Extensions to .NET Learn advanced F# concepts, such as quotations and computation expressions "This book emphasizes simple, clear explanations of the foundational elements of F#, always with an eye on the enjoyment that comes from programming in general, and programming with F# in particular."Don Syme, Principal Researcher and F# Designer, Microsoft Research

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1449379168

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Turbo Coding

By: Chris Heegard,Stephen B. Wicker

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Turbo Coding

By: Chris Heegard,Stephen B. Wicker

When the 50th anniversary of the birth of Information Theory was celebrated at the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Informa tion Theory in Boston, there was a great deal of reflection on the the year 1993 as a critical year. As the years pass and more perspec tive is gained, it is a fairly safe bet that we will view 1993 as the year when the "early years" of error control coding came to an end. This was the year in which Berrou, Glavieux and Thitimajshima pre sented "Near Shannon Limit Error-Correcting Coding and Decoding: Turbo Codes" at the International Conference on Communications in Geneva. In their presentation, Berrou et al. claimed that a combi nation of parallel concatenation and iterative decoding can provide reliable communications at a signal to noise ratio that is within a few tenths of a dB of the Shannon limit. Nearly fifty years of striving to achieve the promise of Shannon's noisy channel coding theorem had come to an end. The implications of this result were immediately apparent to all -coding gains on the order of 10 dB could be used to dramatically extend the range of communication receivers, increase data rates and services, or substantially reduce transmitter power levels. The 1993 ICC paper set in motion several research efforts that have permanently changed the way we look at error control coding.

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Earth Pressure and Earth-Retaining Structures, Second Edition

By: Chris R.I. Clayton,Rick I. Woods,Jarbas Milititsky

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Earth Pressure and Earth-Retaining Structures, Second Edition

By: Chris R.I. Clayton,Rick I. Woods,Jarbas Milititsky

Retaining structures form an important component of many civil engineering and geotechnical engineering projects. Careful design and construction of these structures is essential for safety and longevity. This new edition provides significantly more support for non-specialists, background to uncertainty of parameters and partial factor issues that underpin recent codes (e.g. Eurocode 7), and comprehensive coverage of the principles of the geotechnical design of gravity walls, embedded walls and composite structures. It is written for practising geotechnical, civil and structural engineers; and forms a reference for engineering geologists, geotechnical researchers and undergraduate civil engineering students.

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CRC Press

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Purely Functional Data Structures

By: Chris Okasaki

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Purely Functional Data Structures

By: Chris Okasaki

This book describes data structures and data structure design techniques for functional languages.

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Cambridge University Press

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Mixed Hodge Structures

By: Chris A.M. Peters,Joseph H. M. Steenbrink

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Mixed Hodge Structures

By: Chris A.M. Peters,Joseph H. M. Steenbrink

This is comprehensive basic monograph on mixed Hodge structures. Building up from basic Hodge theory the book explains Delingne's mixed Hodge theory in a detailed fashion. Then both Hain's and Morgan's approaches to mixed Hodge theory related to homotopy theory are sketched. Next comes the relative theory, and then the all encompassing theory of mixed Hodge modules. The book is interlaced with chapters containing applications. Three large appendices complete the book.

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ARM System Developer's Guide

Designing and Optimizing System Software

By: Andrew Sloss,Dominic Symes,Chris Wright

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ARM System Developer's Guide

Designing and Optimizing System Software

By: Andrew Sloss,Dominic Symes,Chris Wright

Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become one of the most pervasive architectures in the world, with more than 2 billion ARM-based processors embedded in products ranging from cell phones to automotive braking systems. A world-wide community of ARM developers in semiconductor and product design companies includes software developers, system designers and hardware engineers. To date no book has directly addressed their need to develop the system and software for an ARM-based system. This text fills that gap. This book provides a comprehensive description of the operation of the ARM core from a developer's perspective with a clear emphasis on software. It demonstrates not only how to write efficient ARM software in C and assembly but also how to optimize code. Example code throughout the book can be integrated into commercial products or used as templates to enable quick creation of productive software. The book covers both the ARM and Thumb instruction sets, covers Intel's XScale Processors, outlines distinctions among the versions of the ARM architecture, demonstrates how to implement DSP algorithms, explains exception and interrupt handling, describes the cache technologies that surround the ARM cores as well as the most efficient memory management techniques. A final chapter looks forward to the future of the ARM architecture considering ARMv6, the latest change to the instruction set, which has been designed to improve the DSP and media processing capabilities of the architecture.* No other book describes the ARM core from a system and software perspective. * Author team combines extensive ARM software engineering experience with an in-depth knowledge of ARM developer needs. * Practical, executable code is fully explained in the book and available on the publisher's Website. * Includes a simple embedded operating system.

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Statistical Models of Shape

Optimisation and Evaluation

By: Rhodri Davies,Carole Twining,Chris Taylor

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Statistical Models of Shape

Optimisation and Evaluation

By: Rhodri Davies,Carole Twining,Chris Taylor

The goal of image interpretation is to convert raw image data into me- ingful information. Images are often interpreted manually. In medicine, for example, a radiologist looks at a medical image, interprets it, and tra- lates the data into a clinically useful form. Manual image interpretation is, however, a time-consuming, error-prone, and subjective process that often requires specialist knowledge. Automated methods that promise fast and - jective image interpretation have therefore stirred up much interest and have become a signi?cant area of research activity. Early work on automated interpretation used low-level operations such as edge detection and region growing to label objects in images. These can p- ducereasonableresultsonsimpleimages,butthepresenceofnoise,occlusion, andstructuralcomplexity oftenleadstoerroneouslabelling. Furthermore,- belling an object is often only the ?rst step of the interpretation process. In order to perform higher-level analysis, a priori information must be incor- rated into the interpretation process. A convenient way of achieving this is to use a ?exible model to encode information such as the expected size, shape, appearance, and position of objects in an image. The use of ?exible models was popularized by the active contour model, or ‘snake’ [98]. A snake deforms so as to match image evidence (e.g., edges) whilst ensuring that it satis?es structural constraints. However, a snake lacks speci?city as it has little knowledge of the domain, limiting its value in image interpretation.

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Explicit Arithmetic of Jacobians of Generalized Legendre Curves Over Global Function Fields

By: Lisa Berger,Chris Hall,Rene Pannekoek,Rachel Pries,Shahed Sharif

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Explicit Arithmetic of Jacobians of Generalized Legendre Curves Over Global Function Fields

By: Lisa Berger,Chris Hall,Rene Pannekoek,Rachel Pries,Shahed Sharif

The authors study the Jacobian $J$ of the smooth projective curve $C$ of genus $r-1$ with affine model $y^r = x^r-1(x + 1)(x + t)$ over the function field $mathbb F_p(t)$, when $p$ is prime and $rge 2$ is an integer prime to $p$. When $q$ is a power of $p$ and $d$ is a positive integer, the authors compute the $L$-function of $J$ over $mathbb F_q(t^1/d)$ and show that the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture holds for $J$ over $mathbb F_q(t^1/d)$.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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1470442191

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Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

By: Chris Sells,Justin Gehtland

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Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

By: Chris Sells,Justin Gehtland

- The WinForms team at Microsoft praises Chris as a definitive authority; Microsoft has named Chris one of eight Software Legends - The content and structure are based on years of experience both building apps with WinForms as well as teaching other developers about WinForms - Alan Cooper, the 'father of Visual Basic', has provided the foreword for the book

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Lectures on the Theory of Pure Motives

By: Jacob P. Murre,Jan Nagel,Chris Peters

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Lectures on the Theory of Pure Motives

By: Jacob P. Murre,Jan Nagel,Chris Peters

The theory of motives was created by Grothendieck in the 1960s as he searched for a universal cohomology theory for algebraic varieties. The theory of pure motives is well established as far as the construction is concerned. Pure motives are expected to h

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The Low Back and Pelvis

Clinical Applications

By: Chris J. Hutcheson

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The Low Back and Pelvis

Clinical Applications

By: Chris J. Hutcheson

The Low Back and Pelvis is the third volume in the series of technique manuals featuring chiropractic techniques of the late A.L. Logan, DC. To be used by students and practitioners, this book presents and effe ctive approaches to treatment of the low back and pelvis. Case histori es, examination and adjustive techniques, exercises, and numerous illu strations are included.

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Programming F# 3.0

A Comprehensive Guide for Writing Simple Code to Solve Complex Problems

By: Chris Smith

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Programming F# 3.0

A Comprehensive Guide for Writing Simple Code to Solve Complex Problems

By: Chris Smith

Why learn F#? With this guide, you’ll learn how this multi-paradigm language not only offers you an enormous productivity boost through functional programming, but also lets you develop applications using your existing object-oriented and imperative programming skills. You’ll quickly discover the many advantages of the language, including access to all the great tools and libraries of the .NET platform. Reap the benefits of functional programming for your next project, whether you’re writing concurrent code, or building data- or math-intensive applications. With this comprehensive book, former F# team member Chris Smith gives you a head start on the fundamentals and walks you through advanced concepts of the F# language. Learn F#’s unique characteristics for building applications Gain a solid understanding of F#’s core syntax, including object-oriented and imperative styles Make your object-oriented code better by applying functional programming patterns Use advanced functional techniques, such as tail-recursion and computation expressions Take advantage of multi-core processors with asynchronous workflows and parallel programming Use new type providers for interacting with web services and information-rich environments Learn how well F# works as a scripting language

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Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus

International Training School, Shanghai, China, September 17-21, 2007, Advanced Lectures

By: Chris George

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Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus

International Training School, Shanghai, China, September 17-21, 2007, Advanced Lectures

By: Chris George

This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the International Training School on Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus, held in Shanghai, China, as an associated event of ICTAC 2007. Topics addressed in detail are: development of real-time systems, domain engineering using abstract modeling, the area of duration calculus, and formal methods like language description using the operational semantics approach.

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Service Contracts

By: Maurits Barendrecht,Chris Jansen,Marco Loos,Andrea Pinna,Rui Cascao,Stephanie van Gulijk

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Service Contracts

By: Maurits Barendrecht,Chris Jansen,Marco Loos,Andrea Pinna,Rui Cascao,Stephanie van Gulijk

The rules presented in this volume of "Principles of European Law" deal with service contracts. The economic importance of service contracts within the European Union is enormous. The European Commission recently estimated that services account for some 50% of EU GDP and for some 60% of employment in the Union – though an exact figure is hard to determine given that many services are provided by manufacturers of goods. According to the European Commission, many services appear in official statistics as manufacturing activity, meaning that the role of services in the economy is often significantly underestimated.

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Lectures on Contact 3-Manifolds, Holomorphic Curves and Intersection Theory

By: Chris Wendl

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Lectures on Contact 3-Manifolds, Holomorphic Curves and Intersection Theory

By: Chris Wendl

Intersection theory has played a prominent role in the study of closed symplectic 4-manifolds since Gromov's famous 1985 paper on pseudoholomorphic curves, leading to myriad beautiful rigidity results that are either inaccessible or not true in higher dimensions. Siefring's recent extension of the theory to punctured holomorphic curves allowed similarly important results for contact 3-manifolds and their symplectic fillings. Based on a series of lectures for graduate students in topology, this book begins with an overview of the closed case, and then proceeds to explain the essentials of Siefring's intersection theory and how to use it, and gives some sample applications in low-dimensional symplectic and contact topology. The appendices provide valuable information for researchers, including a concise reference guide on Siefring's theory and a self-contained proof of a weak version of the Micallef–White theorem.

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Iterates of Piecewise Monotone Mappings on an Interval

By: Chris Preston

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Iterates of Piecewise Monotone Mappings on an Interval

By: Chris Preston

Piecewise monotone mappings on an interval provide simple examples of discrete dynamical systems whose behaviour can be very complicated. These notes are concerned with the properties of the iterates of such mappings. The material presented can be understood by anyone who has had a basic course in (one-dimensional) real analysis. The account concentrates on the topological (as opposed to the measure theoretical) aspects of the theory of piecewise monotone mappings. As well as offering an elementary introduction to this theory, these notes also contain a more advanced treatment of the problem of classifying such mappings up to topological conjugacy.

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The Canterbury Catch Club 1826

Music in the Frame

By: Chris Price

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The Canterbury Catch Club 1826

Music in the Frame

By: Chris Price

In 1825, an enterprising Canterbury newsagent by the name of Henry Ward raised a subscription to commission a lasting tribute to his beloved musical society. The result was a fine lithograph showing 100 gentlemen in assured poses, carefully placed in surroundings eloquently freighted with classical allusion, cultural literacy, deep-rooted patriotism, and strictly masculine politics. That image is the subject of this book. With insights gleaned from a unique collection of music, papers, and artefacts in the archives of the city and the cathedral, this study considers not only the accomplished performance of bourgeois status which is clearly visible in the print, but other characteristics of the Club which are either less pictorially privileged or entirely omitted. Deploying iconographical, cultural, and musicological analysis, the book discusses this curiously contradictory slice of British social history in which the respectable apparently coexisted happily with the libertine. What emerges is an unusually clear view of the production, performance and consumption of music in a provincial city at a fascinating time: a period when cultural activity was a strategic assertion of socio-political identity.

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The Jeffords Switch

Changing Majority Status and Causal Processes in the U.S. Senate

By: Nathan Monroe,Chris Den Hartog

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The Jeffords Switch

Changing Majority Status and Causal Processes in the U.S. Senate

By: Nathan Monroe,Chris Den Hartog

Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party in May 2001 and became an independent. Because he agreed to vote with the Democrats on organizational votes, this gave that party a 51–49 majority in the Senate. Using the “Jeffords switch,” Chris Den Hartog and Nathan W. Monroe examine how power is shared and transferred in the Senate, as well as whether Democratic bills became more successful after the switch. They also use the data after the switch, when the Republican Party still held a majority on many Democratic Party-led committees, to examine the power of the committee chairs to influence decisions. While the authors find that the majority party does influence Senate decisions, Den Hartog and Monroe are more interested in exploring the method and limits of the majority party to achieve its goals.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472125400

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Verification of Automata with Storage Mechanisms

By: Chris Köcher

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Verification of Automata with Storage Mechanisms

By: Chris Köcher

An important question in computer science is to ask, whether a given system conforms to a specification. Often this question is equivalent to ask whether a finite automaton with certain memory like a stack or queue can reach some given state. In this thesis we focus this reachability problem of automata having one or more lossy or reliable stacks or queues as their memory. Unfortunately, the reachability problem is undecidable or of high complexity in most of these cases. We circumvent this by several approximation methods. So we extend the exploration algorithm by Boigelot and Godefroid under-approximating the reachability problem of queue automata. We also study some automata having multiple stacks with a restricted behavior. These “asynchronous pushdown systems” have an efficiently decidable reachability problem. To show our results we first have to gain knowledge of several algebraic properties of the so-called transformation monoid of the studied storage mechanisms.

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Principles of Program Analysis

By: Flemming Nielson,Hanne R. Nielson,Chris Hankin

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Principles of Program Analysis

By: Flemming Nielson,Hanne R. Nielson,Chris Hankin

Program analysis utilizes static techniques for computing reliable information about the dynamic behavior of programs. Applications include compilers (for code improvement), software validation (for detecting errors) and transformations between data representation (for solving problems such as Y2K). This book is unique in providing an overview of the four major approaches to program analysis: data flow analysis, constraint-based analysis, abstract interpretation, and type and effect systems. The presentation illustrates the extensive similarities between the approaches, helping readers to choose the best one to utilize.

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Forest Certification: A Policy Perspective

By: Chris Elliott

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Forest Certification: A Policy Perspective

By: Chris Elliott

This paper analyses the development of certification programmes in three countries (Indonesia, Canada and Sweden) using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as a theoretical reference point. The ACF is an actor-based framework for analysing policy processes and has not previously been applied in a developing country. Actors in the three countries took different approaches to certification. In Canada, in a programme development process supported by the forest products industry, a management systems approach was taken. In Sweden, performance standards were developed in a process initially driven by NGOs. In Indonesia, certification was led by an NGO within a framework established by government, and a performance standards approach was used. The paper concludes that forest certification can be best understood as a policy instrument that promotes and facilitates policy-orientated learning among actors, and provides indirect incentives for improved forest management. Learning occurs both as the standards to be used for certification are developed, and as they are implemented. The benefits of learning and consensus building among actors (such as NGOs, forest companies, private forest owners, indigenous peoples, governments, etc.) who have traditionally been in conflict with each other can be significant. On the other hand, where fundamental changes in forest policy (such as tenure and forest revenue reform) are needed, certification should not be seen as a substitute for these A further conclusion is that, while public policies change over periods of decades, the private policies of retailers and forest product companies can adapt more rapidly to changing circumstances. The concept of a ‘fast track’ of private policy change, compared to the slower track of governmental policy change, is therefore proposed and described. A number of interesting theoretical and empirical avenues for further research on certification are discussed.

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CIFOR

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9798764560

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A-level Physics Challenging Practice Solutions (Yellowreef)

By: Thomas Bond,Chris Hughes

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A-level Physics Challenging Practice Solutions (Yellowreef)

By: Thomas Bond,Chris Hughes

• actual GCE exam question-types • must-have critical resource for students and tutors • all trick question-types since 1996 covered • full and complete step by step solutions • Complete edition eBook only

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The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939

By: Chris Millington

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The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939

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The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 investigates the political and social imaginaries of "terrorism" in the early twentieth century. Chris Millington traces the development of how the French conceived of terrorism, from the late nineteenth-century notion that terrorism was the deed of the mad anarchist bomber, to the fraught political clashes of the 1930s when terrorism came to be understood as a political act perpetrated against French interests by organized international movements. Through a close analysis of a series of terrorist incidents and representations thereof in public discourse and the press, the book argues that contemporary ideas of terrorism in France as "unFrench"—that is, contrary to the ideas and values, however defined, that make up "Frenchness"—emerged in the interwar years and subsequently took root long before the terrorist campaigns of Algerian nationalists during the 1950s and 1960s. Millington conceptualizes "terrorism" not only as the act itself, but also as a political and cultural construction of violence composed from a variety of discourses and deployed in particular circumstances by commentators, witnesses, and perpetrators. In doing so, he argues that the political and cultural battles inherent to perceptions of terrorism lay bare numerous concerns, not least anxieties over immigration, antiparliamentarianism, representations of gender, and the future of European peace.

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1503636763

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Information and Communications Security

11th International Conference, ICICS 2009

By: Sihan Qing,Chris J. Mitchell

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Information and Communications Security

11th International Conference, ICICS 2009

By: Sihan Qing,Chris J. Mitchell

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2009, held in Beijing, China, in December 2009. The 37 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptanalysis, algorithms and implemantations, public key cryptography, security applications, software security, system security, network security, database security, trust management, and applied cryptography.

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Seismic Design for Engineering Plant

By: Chris Ealing,John MacFarlane

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Seismic Design for Engineering Plant

By: Chris Ealing,John MacFarlane

The importance of continuous research into Seismic Design for Engineering Plant can never be underestimated. Earthquake disaster prevention is a fascinating area requiring ingenious solutions to its unique problems. The benefits of sharing information from developments in this field are also of vital importance. This new book describes and assesses the seismic requirements for different types of structures. In focussing on nuclear chemical plants critical guidance is given on design and cost-effective methods. Bringing together valuable experience from a wide range of disciplines, this important volume covers an informative selection of topics. Contents include: Introduction to Seismic Design Expected accelerations and ways to minimize interaction between structural and mechanical components The practical aspects of designing and assessing mechanical handling equipment for seismic events Nuclear safety requirements for travelling cranes Overview of vessel seismic design Seismic qualification of existing pipework in UK nuclear power plants Construction of a three-dimensional, large-scale shaking table land development of core technology The contributors to this book are experts in their field whether they are from the nuclear, academic, governmental, or engineering consultant sectors. Their experienced and informed contributions will highlight and explore the most recent developments and challenges facing this highly relevant field of mechanical engineering.

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Eco-Effectiveness of Modular Products and Fleets within the Automotive Industry

By: Chris David Gabrisch

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Eco-Effectiveness of Modular Products and Fleets within the Automotive Industry

By: Chris David Gabrisch

The automotive industry is facing the challenge of reducing its environmental impact to comply with stricter fleet emission regulations. Still, an OEM’s contribution to the targets of the Paris Agreement must consider the entire life cycle of a vehicle, surpassing the targets of the current legislations which focusses on the use stage only. This work presents a concept that identifies the ideal configuration of a modular product system like a vehicle to meet a limited environmental impact at the lowest life cycle costs along the entire life cycle. This optimization is based on the ideal combination of modular product components which are selected by an algorithm based on graph theory.

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The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages

The Fourteenth-Century Political Community

By: Chris Given-Wilson

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The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages

The Fourteenth-Century Political Community

By: Chris Given-Wilson

First Published in 2004. Four things dominated the life of the mediaeval noble: warfare, politics, land and family. It is with these central themes that this book is concerned. It encompasses the whole of the upper segment of the late medieval society; examines the relation of social status and political influence; describes the noble household and council; examines in detail the territorial and familial policies pursued by great landholders; emphasises the inter-relationship of local and national affairs; is arranged thematically, making it ideal for student use and has implications for the whole medieval period.

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