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The Reliability, Availability and Productiveness of Systems

By: D.J. Sherwin,A. Bossche

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The Reliability, Availability and Productiveness of Systems

By: D.J. Sherwin,A. Bossche

This book is about the measurement and prediction of the reliability behaviour of systems of physical items. It is not specifically concerned with human factors with safety analysis as such, although some of the techniques discussed are adaptable to these purposes. A machine or an electronic circuit exemplifies a system. Each machine or circuit may also be treated as an item in a larger system. However, this does not reduce it suddenly to basic component status; it remains complex and can only be treated as unitary under definable restrictions. In particular, the effects of maintenance and component renewal must be considered most carefully. Previous books on system reliability have concentrated on one or two only of the six principal techniques available to the analyst. These are: 1. probability theory; 2. distributional statistics; 3. markov methods (matrix algebra); 4. fault and event trees (Boolean logic); 5. theory of renewal processes; 6. directional graph theory (di-graphs). This book relates these methods to one another and to their applications. The authors feel that previous books which concentrated upon one tech nique and the contortions necessary to use it in every possible situation may have misled readers into believing that there were no other methods and that some real problems were intractable or more difficult to solve than need be. For example, several results which are proved in other books for items with exponentially distributed times to/between failures are shown to be independent of distribution.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401115826

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9789401115827

From Treaties to Reserves

The Federal Government and Native Peoples in Territorial Alberta, 1870-1924

By: D.J. Hall

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From Treaties to Reserves

The Federal Government and Native Peoples in Territorial Alberta, 1870-1924

By: D.J. Hall

Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.J. Hall asserts that - as a result of profound cultural differences - each side interpreted the negotiations differently, leading to conflict and an acute sense of betrayal when neither group accomplished what the other had asked. Hall explores the original intentions behind the government's policies, illustrates their attempts at cooperation, and clarifies their actions. While the government believed that the Aboriginal peoples of what is now southern and central Alberta desired rapid change, the First Nations, in contrast, believed that the government was committed to supporting the preservation of their culture while they adapted to change. Government policies intended to motivate backfired, leading instead to poverty, starvation, and cultural restriction. Many policies were also culturally insensitive, revealing misconceptions of Aboriginal people as lazy and over-dependent on government rations. Yet the first two decades of reserve life still witnessed most First Nations people participating in reserve economies, many of the first generation of reserve-born children graduated from schools with some improved ability to cope with reserve life, and there was also more positive cooperation between government and First Nations people than is commonly acknowledged. The Indian treaties of the 1870s meant very different things to government officials and First Nations. Rethinking the interaction between the two groups, From Treaties to Reserves elucidates the complexities of this relationship.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773597697

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9780773597693

Lead Manufacturing in Britain

A History

By: D. J. Rowe

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Lead Manufacturing in Britain

A History

By: D. J. Rowe

Originally published in 1983. Extensive research into the archives of the lead industry has culminated in this comprehensive and fascinating account of the industry from the earliest times to the 1980’s. It traces the origins of the various types of lead manufacturing and the nineteenth-century expansion of the industry. The technological changes within the industry are traced in detail, and an appraisal of modern industry and its future prospects concluded this definitive and very readable history of the lead industry.

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631

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Routledge

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1351623001

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9781351623001

The Plant-Book

A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants

By: D. J. Mabberley

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The Plant-Book

A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants

By: D. J. Mabberley

A new edition of one of the most practical and authoritative botanical dictionaries available.

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880

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Cambridge University Press

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0521414210

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9780521414210

The World of the John Birch Society

Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War

By: D. J. Mulloy

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The World of the John Birch Society

Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War

By: D. J. Mulloy

A Selection of the History Book Club Named One of "Six Books for Insight on a Trump Presidency" by the Washington Post As far as members of the hugely controversial John Birch Society were concerned, the Cold War revealed in stark clarity the loyalties and disloyalties of numerous important Americans, including Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Earl Warren. Founded in 1958 as a force for conservative political advocacy, the Society espoused the dangers of enemies foreign and domestic, including the Soviet Union, organizers of the US civil rights movement, and government officials who were deemed "soft" on communism in both the Republican and Democratic parties. Sound familiar? In The World of the John Birch Society, author D. J. Mulloy reveals the tactics of the Society in a way they've never been understood before, allowing the reader to make the connections to contemporary American politics, up to and including the Tea Party. These tactics included organized dissemination of broad-based accusations and innuendo, political brinksmanship within the Republican Party, and frequent doomsday predictions regarding world events. At the heart of the organization was Robert Welch, a charismatic writer and organizer who is revealed to have been the lifeblood of the Society's efforts. The Society has seen its influence recede from the high-water mark of 1970s, but the organization still exists today. Throughout The World of the John Birch Society, the reader sees the very tenets and practices in play that make the contemporary Tea Party so effective on a local level. Indeed, without the John Birch Society paving the way, the Tea Party may have encountered a dramatically different political terrain on its path to power.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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082650289X

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9780826502896

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West

By: Karin Breuer,D.J. Waldie,Ed Ruscha

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Ed Ruscha and the Great American West

By: Karin Breuer,D.J. Waldie,Ed Ruscha

The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he mined throughout his career. The everyday landscapes of the West, especially as experienced from the automobileÑgas stations, billboards, building facades, parking lots, and long stretches of roadwayÑare the primary motifs of his often deadpan and instantly recognizable paintings and works on paper, as well as his influential artist books such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations and All the Buildings on the Sunset Strip. His iconic word imagesÑdeclaring Adios, Rodeo, Wheels over Indian Trails, and Honey . . . I Twisted through More Damn Traffic to Get HereÑfurther underscore a contemporary Western sensibility. RuschaÕs interest in what the real West has becomeÑand HollywoodÕs version of itÑplays out across his oeuvre. The cinematic sources of his subject matter can be seen in his silhouette pictures, which often appear to be grainy stills from old Hollywood movies. They feature images of the contemporary West, such as parking lots and swimming pools, but also of its historical past: covered wagons, buffalo, teepees, and howling coyotes. Featuring essays by Karin Breuer and D.J. Waldie, plus a fascinating interview with the artist conducted by Kerry Brougher, this stunning catalogue, produced in close collaboration with the Ruscha studio, offers the first full exploration of the painterÕs lifelong fascination with the romantic concept and modern reality of the evolving American West. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco: July 16ÐOctober 9, 2016

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Univ of California Press

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0520290690

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9780520290693

Spin Now!

The DJ Starter Handbook

By: DJ Shortee

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Spin Now!

The DJ Starter Handbook

By: DJ Shortee

(Technical). Spin Now! puts you on the fast track to DJing, whether you want to be a digital DJ or vinyl junkie. In this book with ccompanying audio and video, Los Angeles DJ, world-class turntablist, producer, and classroom instructor DJ Shortee teaches you everything you need to know so you can start mixing tunes like the pros! From CDJs, turntables, and DJ mixers to DJ Software, MIDI controllers, and more, discover the tools of the trade and how to choose which are best for you. Learn how to set up different gear and how to operate it correctly. Find out where to get music and how to select your tunes in order to create your own unique sound. Learn how to identify beats, count music, sync tempos, and match keys. Master the basics of cueing, scratching, and droppin' on the "one." Learn how to create seamless mixes through beat matching, blending, and EQing. Discover useful practice techniques, get advice on how to promote yourself, learn how to survive your first gig, and more! The included clips contain specific exercises directly correlating with lessons in the text, including material that lets you play along in real time. Each technique is taught using both CDJs and turntables and can easily be applied to any DJ software and controllers. No matter what equipment you use, Shortee's lessons are essential to learning how to DJ like a pro!_Want to become a Pro DJ? Learn from one!

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180

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1458471497

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The Reliability, Availability and Productiveness of Systems

By: D.J. Sherwin,A. Bossche

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By: D.J. Sherwin,A. Bossche

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401115826

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Ultimate Beginner Series DJ Styles Series: The Turntable DJ

By: Ben James,DJ 31hz,DJ KNS

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Ultimate Beginner Series DJ Styles Series: The Turntable DJ

By: Ben James,DJ 31hz,DJ KNS

The DJ revolution has taken the music industry by storm! Popular DJs have perfected and honed their "turntablist" skills to high degrees of technical skill and virtuosity. This book will provide all the resources you need to understand and perfect your skills. Most importantly, as these skills are explained, you will be able to practice and fine-tune your new skills with the included 7" records -- designed specifically to aid in learning these techniques quickly and easily. The Turntable DJ topics include: gear, cueing up, marking records, music theory, beat-matching, mixing, scratching, and much more!

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Alfred Music

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1457404311

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Beauty and the Beats

Memoirs of a Female Dj

By: DJ Shy,Michael Robert Hartman

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Beauty and the Beats

Memoirs of a Female Dj

By: DJ Shy,Michael Robert Hartman

This memoir narrates the story of a Korean-American woman who overcame challenges to become the first female DJ at Americas #1 radio station. Without a DJ, theres no music; without music, theres no party. The right music can make or break a party; promoters, club owners, and stars alike know this. In this memoir, successful turntablist DJ Shy narrates the story of how she became a sought-after DJ and the first female on-air mixer at the No. 1 radio station in America, 102.7 KIIS FM in Los Angeles. Beauty and the Beats tells how this small-town girl from Pennsylvania made it to the big time in California. Shy describes how she a poor, nave, Asian girl from a broken home overcame her lifes challenges and the discrimination in the male-dominated music industry to thrive. From surviving a drive-by shooting and eluding midnight stalkers to being cheated on her paychecks, she shares her story and shows how she remained positive throughout her journey. Providing a sneak peek into the music and entertainment industry, Beauty and the Beats provides motivation and inspiration to encourage teenagers to make sound career choices and follow their dreams to achieve happiness and success.

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iUniverse

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1462001106

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9781462001101

The Beat, the Scene, the Sound

A DJ's Journey Through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City

By: DJ Disciple,Henry Kronk

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The Beat, the Scene, the Sound

A DJ's Journey Through the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of House Music in New York City

By: DJ Disciple,Henry Kronk

This book follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes story of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an international sensation. Interweaving interviews, the book dives into glitzy clubs, underground parties, and diverse communities who made up the scene amidst the tumult of 1980s/90s-era NYC.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153817488X

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9781538174883

The Secret DJ

Book Two

By: The Secret DJ

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The Secret DJ

Book Two

By: The Secret DJ

Through four decades at the pointy end of dance music and club culture, the Secret DJ has seen it all. In this hilarious, gripping, and at times extremely moving follow-up to the smash-hit first book, the mysterious insider pulls no punches, wryly lifting the lid on misbehaving stars, what really goes on backstage, how to survive in the DJ game, and where the real power lies in rave. Most of all, they chart how capitalism bought and sold the utopian dreams of the Acid House generation - and whether those dreams can still be saved. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the dancefloor; past, present and future.

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Velocity Press

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1913231054

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9781913231057

How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons

Learn to spin, scratch and produce your own mixes!

By: DJ Booma

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How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons

Learn to spin, scratch and produce your own mixes!

By: DJ Booma

DJing is probably the coolest way to make music, right? Now you can learn how with How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons! Do you think you have what it takes to be a superstar DJ? Do you daydream about making the hottest mixes behind the turn tables? Well, now is your chance to learn how to be a shredder on the tables with How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons, a simple guide to DJing! Learn the ins and outs of mixing, scratching, and blending and prepare to play in front of a live audience! With easy-to-follow instructions, colorful graphics, and helpful tips from an experienced professional DJ, this handy book breaks down everything you need to know into 10 simple lessons. How to Be a DJ in 10 Easy Lessons covers everything from equipment and software, to basic music theory and tips on performance, this is the perfect introduction to music mixing for aspiring DJs.

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Walter Foster Jr

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1633226417

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9781633226418

Welcome to the club

The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ

By: DJ Paulette

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Welcome to the club

The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ

By: DJ Paulette

In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda’s first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman’s perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women. Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.

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Manchester University Press

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1526166895

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9781526166890

Rhythm Science

By: Paul D. Miller

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Rhythm Science

By: Paul D. Miller

The art of the mix creates a new language of creativity. "Once you get into the flow of things, you're always haunted by the way that things could have turned out. This outcome, that conclusion. You get my drift. The uncertainty is what holds the story together, and that's what I'm going to talk about."—Rhythm Science The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science—the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world. Miller constructed his Dj Spooky persona ("spooky" from the eerie sounds of hip-hop, techno, ambient, and the other music that he plays) as a conceptual art project, but then came to see it as the opportunity for "coding a generative syntax for new languages of creativity." For example: "Start with the inspiration of George Herriman's Krazy Kat comic strip. Make a track invoking his absurd landscapes...What do tons and tons of air pressure moving in the atmosphere sound like? Make music that acts a metaphor for that kind of immersion or density." Or, for an online "remix" of two works by Marcel Duchamp: "I took a lot of his material written on music and flipped it into a DJ mix of his visual material—with him rhyming!" Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W. E. B Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes. Miller's textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and Marcel Hermans). They sustain the book's motifs of recontextualizing and relayering, texts and images bleed through from page to page, creating what amount to 2.5 dimensional vectors. From its remarkable velvet flesh cover, to the die cut hole through the center of the book, which reveals the colored nub holding in place the included audio CD, Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives, this pamphlet truly lives up to Editorial Director Peter Lunenfeld's claim that the Mediawork Pamphlets are "theoretical fetish objects...'zines for grown-ups.

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MIT Press

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026263287X

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9780262632874

First 50 DJ Techniques You Should Know

By: Dj Hapa

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First 50 DJ Techniques You Should Know

By: Dj Hapa

(DJ Instruction). From old-school vinyl records to today's all-digital music platforms, the modern DJ has a huge variety of choices and information to navigate. Look no further than this unique book and video reference guide by seasoned pro DJ Hapa, who provides a wealth of insider tips, tricks, and techniques for DJs of all skill levels, covering topics such as: DJ controllers, CDJs and vinyl; choosing gear; beats, bars & phrases; inputs/outputs; using FX; basic scratching; sampling and looping; transitions & beatmatching; and more. Includes over two hours of video tutorials with DJ Hapa online for download or streaming.

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Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

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1540097544

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From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads

The Secret DJ's Guide to Surviving Dance Music

By: The Secret DJ,Anonymous

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From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads

The Secret DJ's Guide to Surviving Dance Music

By: The Secret DJ,Anonymous

The glamour, the parties, the excess, the highs: and, of course, the lows. The life of an international DJ playing at the most exotic destinations worldwide, in the most precarious of psychic circumstances, is rich to the point of toxicity. A globally-known DJ choosing to keep his identity secret takes us on a journey into the heart of life lived in the hedonistic fast lane of club culture for 30 years. Whether playing to 10,000 fans in Ibiza or in a local pub function room, this is a cautionary tale for the rave generation whose days of pills, thrills, and bellyaches are behind them. It may, as well, contain advice: though we cannot advise that it is always followed. This book is not an instruction manual - more a cautionary tale that may illuminate anyone who has harboured ambition to pack a dancefloor...

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0571334482

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