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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2022 Some of the most beautiful,
era-defining music has been co-composed by Karl Bartos. 'The
Robots', 'Computer Love', 'Neon Lights', 'Tour De France' and
Kraftwerk's 1982 number one single 'The Model' all contain his deft
musical touch. For the first time, in The Sound of the Machine,
Bartos speaks candidly and with wit and humour about his life in
Kraftwerk, a band widely acknowledged as being one of the most
important in modern music. In The Sound of the Machine, Karl
vividly recalls what it was like to be in the Kling Klang studios
during recording, describing the process and perfectly capturing
the joy and passion of three people composing and recording. Now,
with a successful solo career of 30 years, Karl Bartos recalls his
post-war childhood, the amazement he felt on first hearing The
Beatles, his first bands, his parallel career as a musician and
teacher, his years with Kraftwerk, and his hopes and fears for
today's musical culture. 'Full and frank disclosure of life in the
world's most influential electronic band... Karl Bartos' enjoyable
tome.' Record Collector, 4* 'A full-blooded insider's account of
life inside the Kling Klang studio. This is a must read for the
robots' fans.' Prog Magazine 'Funny, cultured, detailed.' Classic
Rock, 8/10
This book forms the proceedings of the International RILEM Workshop
held in Paisley in March 1993. It contains contributions on
theoretical and practical aspects of the use of special concretes,
with a particular focus on their behaviour in the fresh state. A
significant and increasing proportion of concrete mixes differ
considerably from ordinary mixes. These are used where high
performance is needed or for special applications, such as high
strength concrete, underwater concrete, flowing concrete, sprayed
concrete. Mixes containing fibres, silica fume, polymers, special
aggregates and cements, also demand a different approach to normal
practice, such as the use of modified mixing equipment. Outstanding
performance of special concretes can be achieved but successful
applications depend strongly on the behaviour of the mixes when
fresh. At present there is insufficient guidance on the properties,
specification, methods of assessment and compliance testing of
fresh special concrete. This book brings together expert
contributions in this fast developing field and aims to assist
civil engineering and concrete technologists concerned with
improving the quantity and economy of construct
This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern
yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake
a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have
successfully transcended geographical boundaries and endured over
time, whilst others have dwindled and failed. Using fresh empirical
data of the different ways in which posture practice was
disseminated transnationally by Krishnamacharya, Sivananda and
their leading disciples, the book provides an original perspective.
The author draws upon extensive archival research and numerous
fieldwork interviews in India and the UK to consider how the field
of yoga we experience today was shaped by historic decisions about
how it was transmitted. The book examines the specific ways in
which a small group of yogis organised their practices and
practitioners to popularise their styles of yoga to mainstream
audiences outside of India. It suggests that one of the most
overlooked contributions has been that of Sivananda Saraswati
(1887-1963) for whom this study finds his early example acted as a
cornerstone for the growth of posture practice. Outlining how yoga
practice is organised today on the world stage, how leading brands
fit into the wider field of modern yoga practice and how historical
developments led to a mainstream globalised practice, this book
will be of interest to researchers in the field of Yoga Studies,
Religious Studies, Hindu Studies, South Asian History, Sociology
and Organisational Studies.
This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern
yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake
a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have
successfully transcended geographical boundaries and endured over
time, whilst others have dwindled and failed. Using fresh empirical
data of the different ways in which posture practice was
disseminated transnationally by Krishnamacharya, Sivananda and
their leading disciples, the book provides an original perspective.
The author draws upon extensive archival research and numerous
fieldwork interviews in India and the UK to consider how the field
of yoga we experience today was shaped by historic decisions about
how it was transmitted. The book examines the specific ways in
which a small group of yogis organised their practices and
practitioners to popularise their styles of yoga to mainstream
audiences outside of India. It suggests that one of the most
overlooked contributions has been that of Sivananda Saraswati
(1887-1963) for whom this study finds his early example acted as a
cornerstone for the growth of posture practice. Outlining how yoga
practice is organised today on the world stage, how leading brands
fit into the wider field of modern yoga practice and how historical
developments led to a mainstream globalised practice, this book
will be of interest to researchers in the field of Yoga Studies,
Religious Studies, Hindu Studies, South Asian History, Sociology
and Organisational Studies.
This book forms the Proceedings of the International RILEM Workshop
held in Paisley in March 1993. It contains contributions on
theoretical and practical aspects of the use of special concretes,
with a particular focus on their behaviour in the fresh state.
Practical production of ordinary and special, high performance
concretes and their behaviour and properties when fresh are the
main themes of this book. It derives from the International RILEM
Conference held in Paisley, Scotland in June 1996, and represents
the culmination of the work of two RILEM Technical Committees (145
WSM Workability of Special Mixes, and 150 ECM Efficiency of
Concrete Mixers). Very significant advances have been made recently
in the development of concrete with outstanding properties. Such
advances in research must be matched by progress in the technology
of concrete production. This book focuses on production methods and
on workability and handling, two fundamental and closely linked
stages of the concrete construction process. It has a strongly
practical emphasis, with many contributions showing how to build
effectively using the many high performance concretes which have
progressed from research into construction in recent years. The
main themes covered are: production mixers and mixing processes;
production methods; sprayed and very dry precasting mixes; fibre
reinforced concrete; flowing and superfluid mixes; rheology; test
methods; mix design and models; special cements and concretes.
The importance of nanotechnology related research and development
has become recognised worldwide. Substantial public and private
investment is now being ploughed into research and development in a
number of industrial sectors, where nanotechnology has become
established and has led to new commercial products. The
construction industry, having major economic significance with
nano-scale research and development which is only emerging, offers
a wide scope for exploitation of nanotechnology. With international
contributions from experts in the field, Nanotechnology in
Construction amalgamates previously fragmented research and
emerging trends. It reflects the inherent multi-disciplinary nature
of nano-scale research in construction and contributions cover a
wide spectrum, from highly scientific investigations to futuristic
applications. The book is organised into four broad sections, the
first reviews and analyses the prospects of exploitation of
nanotechnology in construction, the second discusses novel tools
and their capabilities, the final two sections show existing
significant products where nanotechnology has been already been
exploited or where product development is under-way. Nanotechnology
in Construction will appeal to researchers already working in this
field as well as those wishing to enter it. It will also inform
governmental and other funding agencies of the most promising
future directions and their related timescales. Practical
applications are considered and explanations of the underlying
basics are given, raising awareness and understanding of what
nanotechnology can offer to construction professionals in general.
Practical production of ordinary and special, high performance
concretes and their behaviour and properties when fresh are the
main themes of this book. It derives from the International RILEM
Conference held in Paisley, Scotland in June 1996, and represents
the culmination of the work of two RILEM Technical Committees (145
WSM Workability of Special Mixes, and 150 ECM Efficiency of
Concrete Mixers). Very significant advances have been made recently
in the development of concrete with outstanding properties. Such
advances in research must be matched by progress in the technology
of concrete production. This book focuses on production methods and
on workability and handling, two fundamental and closely linked
stages of the concrete construction process. It has a strongly
practical emphasis, with many contributions showing how to build
effectively using the many high performance concretes which have
progressed from research into construction in recent years. The
main themes covered are: production mixers and mixing processes;
production methods; sprayed and very dry precasting mixes; fibre
reinforced concrete; flowing and superfluid mixes; rheology; test
methods; mix design and models; special cements and concretes.
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The Missing (Blu-ray disc)
Tchéky Karyo, Csaba Bartos, James Nesbitt, Anastasia Hille, Frances O'Connor, …
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All eight episodes of the BBC miniseries starring James Nesbitt and
Frances O'Connor. When Tony and Emily Hughes (Nesbitt and O'Connor)
travel to France with their five-year-old son Oliver (Oliver Hunt),
their family holiday turns into a nightmare when Oliver disappears
into the crowd of a busy French street. As the frantic father loses
patience with the police and their lack of motivation to search for
Oliver, Tony takes matters into his own hands and begins to form a
private investigation. The cast also includes Tchéky Karyo and
Anastasia Hille.
This volume offers a selection of interface studies in generative
linguistics, a valuable "one-stop shopping" opportunity for readers
interested in the ways in which the various modules of linguistic
analysis intersect and interact. The boundaries between the lexicon
and morphophonology, between morphology and syntax, between
morphosyntax and meaning, and between morphosyntax and phonology
are all being crossed in this volume. Though its focus is on
theoretical approaches, experimental studies are also included. The
empirical focus of many of the contributions is on Hungarian, and
several chapters respond to work published by Istvan Kenesei, to
whom the volume is dedicated.
'In this wide ranging and comprehensive survey of the designed
landscapes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,
James Bartos argues convincingly that ornamental wildernesses
should be viewed as distinctive design features which, when linked
across an extensive terrain, took on the character of the whole
landscape. As a result of this striking analysis, our understanding
of the celebrated layouts at Wrest Park, Chiswick and Stowe, and
many more besides, must be revised. Contrary to the received wisdom
that wildernesses led inexorably to the more informal parkscapes
associated with William Kent and Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, it
was only when they were dismantled in the mid-eighteenth century to
provide more loosely controlled, open glades and greensward that
the English Landscape Style emerged. This ground-breaking study
ranges in its literary compass from classical authors through
contemporary writers on gardens and gardening to modern critical
authorities, while its visual focus on design manuals and
individual gardens and landscapes is presented through a wealth of
engraved prints, maps and present day photographs. Bartos considers
the making, planting and maintenance of wildernesses, their
continental precedents, thematic resonances - Classical, Biblical,
Druidic, Patriotic - and the eventual development of these often
numinous spaces into mature gardens followed by their inevitable
demise. The book has all the attributes of a true wilderness -
surprise, variety and, above all, delight - is engagingly written
and a tour de force of meticulous scholarship.' Professor Timothy
Mowl FSA The Ornamental Wilderness in the English Garden
reinterprets the English formal garden of the late seventeenth and
early eighteenth centuries through the perspective of a typical
feature of those gardens, the ornamental grove, called a
wilderness. In its mature form, the wilderness constituted most of
the garden, shady and private, a place for retreat as well as
social activity, with a seeming naturalness achieved through
artifice, where cultural incident and nature were equally
appreciated.
This work deals with the issue of geodetic network structures, i.e.
methods of verifying the condition of existing geodetic controls in
terms of their compatibility and thereby their applicability. The
presented work addresses these problems only for geodetic controls
on a local scale. This is a common surveying issue in a number of
countries, especially where there are concerns about the quality of
the structure and homogeneity of national spatial and triangulation
networks. There is a need for verification, not only for the use of
terrestrial methods of determination of points but also for other
surveying technology, since all technology operates with a certain
threshold accuracy and using physical marks located on an unstable
earth surface as survey control points. Issues of the compatibility
of points whose coordinates are defined as functions of time by
specific equations with respect to basal positions of points at
certain epochs (points in systems ITRS, ETRS and others) are not
considered.
The 3rd International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Construction
(NICOM 3) follows the highly successful NICOM 1 (Paisley, UK 2003)
and NICOM 2 (Bilbao, Spain 2005) Symposia. The NICOM3 symposium was
held in Prague, Czech Republic from May 31 to June 2, 2009 under
the auspices of the Czech Technical University in Prague. It was a
cross-disciplinary event, bringing together R&D experts and
users from different fields all with interest in nanotechnology and
construction. The conference was aimed at: Understanding of
internal structures of existing construction materials at
nano-scale Modification at nano-scale of existing construction
materials. Production and properties of nanoparticulate materials,
nanotubes and novel polymers. Modeling and simulation of
nanostructures. Instrumentation, techniques and metrology at
nano-scale. Health and safety issues and environmental impacts
related to nanotechnology during research, manufacture and product
use. Review of current legislation. Societal and commercial impacts
of nanotechnology in construction, their predictions and analysis.
The 3rd International Symposium on Nanotechnology in
Construction (NICOM 3) follows the highly successful NICOM 1
(Paisley, UK 2003) and NICOM 2 (Bilbao, Spain 2005) Symposia. The
NICOM3 symposium was held in Prague, Czech Republic from May 31 to
June 2, 2009 under the auspices of the Czech Technical University
in Prague. It was a cross-disciplinary event, bringing together
R&D experts and users from different fields all with interest
in nanotechnology and construction. The conference was aimed
at:
- Understanding of internal structures of existing construction
materials at nano-scale
- Modification at nano-scale of existing construction
materials.
- Production and properties of nanoparticulate materials,
nanotubes and novel polymers.
- Modeling and simulation of nanostructures.
- Instrumentation, techniques and metrology at nano-scale.
- Health and safety issues and environmental impacts related to
nanotechnology during research, manufacture and product use. Review
of current legislation.
- Societal and commercial impacts of nanotechnology in
construction, their predictions and analysis.
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Rocky 4 (DVD)
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, …
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Discovery Miles 890
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Fourth instalment in the 'Rocky' saga. Rocky (Sylvester Stallone)
heads to the Soviet Union after Russian boxer Drago (Dolph
Lundgren) beats his friend and trainer Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers)
to death in the ring. However, will the Italian Stallion be able to
vanquish a fighter whose punches can deliver a one tonne-per-square
inch impact?
The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used
text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research
areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning, one of
the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a
computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to
maximize the total amount of reward it receives while interacting
with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning,
Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account
of the field's key ideas and algorithms. This second edition has
been significantly expanded and updated, presenting new topics and
updating coverage of other topics. Like the first edition, this
second edition focuses on core online learning algorithms, with the
more mathematical material set off in shaded boxes. Part I covers
as much of reinforcement learning as possible without going beyond
the tabular case for which exact solutions can be found. Many
algorithms presented in this part are new to the second edition,
including UCB, Expected Sarsa, and Double Learning. Part II extends
these ideas to function approximation, with new sections on such
topics as artificial neural networks and the Fourier basis, and
offers expanded treatment of off-policy learning and
policy-gradient methods. Part III has new chapters on reinforcement
learning's relationships to psychology and neuroscience, as well as
an updated case-studies chapter including AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero,
Atari game playing, and IBM Watson's wagering strategy. The final
chapter discusses the future societal impacts of reinforcement
learning.
Glassfibre reinforced concrete (GRC) is the most complex material
widely used in current construction practice. It is an unusual
composite, in which both the matrix and the reinforcement
themselves are composites. This book provides guidance on the
properties, its specification, testing and the latest methods for
efficient production. Detailed information is presented about the
unique aspects of the internal structure and fracture mechanisms of
GRC and how the latest advances in nanotechnology are leading
towards a fuller understanding of the rational design of GRC and
the potential for further improvement of properties beyond those
used in contemporary construction practice. GRC is already firmly
established as the high-tech material of choice for architects and
designers and recent decades have witnessed a rapid increase in
production of GRC world-wide. However, to provide the full picture
and encompass the most recent developments in GRC and how it can be
exploited in major projects, a substantial part of the book is made
up of case studies. GRC has been always a very versatile material;
however, its range of practical applications has grown
significantly. From small, simple items (flowerpots, drainage
channels, window sills, etc.) to large-scale, high-tech iconic
projects from leading architects, where GRC has to cope with the
highest demands regarding structural complexity, freedom of shape,
striking appearance combined with durability and overall quality
and excellent environmental performance. The composite is well used
in the reconstruction of complex historic facades and GRC has moved
beyond construction into the domain of art and interior decorations
and furniture. The case studies show numerous examples of such
designs and products, including recently developed large
double-curved panels with unusual surfaces and strong colours, and
selfcleaning and photocatalytic (air-cleaning) e-GRC.
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