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Sextants at Greenwich

A Catalogue of the Mariner's Quadrants, Mariner's Astrolabes, Cross-staffs, Backstaffs, Octants, Sextants, Quintants, Reflecting Circles and Artificial Horizons in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

By: W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns,Richard Dunn

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Sextants at Greenwich

By: W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns,Richard Dunn

This book describes the history and development of navigating instruments. Before satellites these were used to measure the altitude of the sun and stars above the horizon, to determine the ship's position at sea. The book also contains a catalogue of 347 mariner's astrolabes, cross-staffs, backstaffs, and octants, sextants and artificial horizons.

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353

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199532540

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9780199532544

Nonlinear Dynamics

Techniques and Applications in Psychology

By: Richard A. Heath

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Nonlinear Dynamics

Techniques and Applications in Psychology

By: Richard A. Heath

Additional Resource Materials Human behavior would not be interesting to us if it remained the same from one moment to the next. Moreover, we tend to be sensitive to changes in people's behavior, especially when such change impacts on our own, and other's, behavior. This book describes a variety of techniques for investigating change in behavior. It employs conventional time series methods, as well as recently developed methodology using nonlinear dynamics, including chaos, a term that is not easy to define, nor to confirm. Although nonlinear methods are being used more frequently in psychology, a comprehensive coverage of methods, theory and applications, with a particular focus on human behavior, is needed. Between these covers, the reader is led through various procedures for linear and nonlinear time series analysis, including some novel procedures that allow subtle temporal aspects of human cognition to be detected. Analyses of reaction times, heart-rate, psychomotor skill, decision making, and EEG are supplemented by a contemporary review of recent dynamical research in developmental psychology, psychopathology, and human cognitive processes. A consideration of nonlinear dynamics assists our understanding of deep issues such as: Why is our short-term memory capacity limited? Why do chronic disorders, and also cognitive development, progress through stage-like transitions? Why do people make irrational decisions? This book will be of particular interest to researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in a variety of areas in psychology, particularly in human experimental and physiological psychology. Data analyses are performed using the latest nonlinear dynamics computer packages. A comprehensive WWW resource of software and supplementary information is provided to assist the reader's understanding of the novel, and potentially revolutionary, procedures described in the book.

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410

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Psychology Press

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1135670544

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9781135670542

Conflict and Consensus

A study of values and attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

By: Bernadette Hayes,Richard Sinnott

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Conflict and Consensus

A study of values and attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

By: Bernadette Hayes,Richard Sinnott

This study uses a wide range of survey data to examine present-day differences in identity and political allegiance between Catholics and Protestants on the island of Ireland but also to show the extensive cultural similarities that cut across the Catholic-Protestant divide.

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305

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BRILL

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9047408160

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9789047408161

The Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop

By: Richard Gough

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The Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop

By: Richard Gough

This history of the parish of Myddle in Shropshire and its families, written in 1700-1, was published in 1875.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108079199

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9781108079198

Road to Egdon Heath

The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature

By: Richard Bevis

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The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature

By: Richard Bevis

Bevis examines a wide range of English, European, and North American texts, literary works as well as religious, scientific, and travel writing. He surveys the literature on mountain climbing, sea voyages, desert travel, and polar exploration, and its metaphorical uses in poetry and fiction. Relying on Addison's term "the Great" rather than "the sublime," he shows how works such as Darwin's journals, Lyell's studies in geology, and de Saussure's books on the Alps helped form an outlook on nature that also found frequent literary expression. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work in the history of ideas, The Road to Egdon Heath traces the growth of an aesthetic sensibility that is now ubiquitous but which would have been incomprehensible prior to the Renaissance. This sensibility underlies not only much of modern literature but also our modern ideas about conservation, ecology, and environmentalism.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773567534

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9780773567535

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Sextants at Greenwich

Sextants at Greenwich

Nonlinear Dynamics

Nonlinear Dynamics

Conflict and Consensus

Conflict and Consensus

The Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop

The Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop

Road to Egdon Heath

Road to Egdon Heath

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