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European social democracy is in crisis. In the last decade it has
ceased to be about either society or democracy. The authors explore
its values, how it can be revived and what kind of political
economy it requires to thrive. This book includes a foreword by the
two leaders of the 'Building the Good Society' project, Andrea
Nahles and Jon Cruddas.
While many contemplate roaming the world, at 22, Laurie Rutherford
Pederson embarked on a solo journey of 365 days, beginning in
December 1976. She recorded her many adventures, sublime to
horrific, in twenty-seven journals from which this book emerged.
The Victoria, B.C. native worked as a travel agent, creating her
own itinerary to countries that intrigued her. She explored these
exotic locations, each replete with its historic and often perilous
political landscapes, using all means of transport: from a luggage
rack on a train in India to rickshaws to horseback, even a boat on
the Canal du Midi. Family friends in several countries provided
respites of gracious hospitality and rollicking entertainment; but,
to her credit, Pederson writes with equal appreciation of the many
strangers-locals and fellow travellers-she encountered along the
way. Her prose sparkles with hilarious interior monologues and a
cinematographer's attention to detail. From a near-fatal motorcycle
accident on Bali to a brush with death at the Israel-Lebanese
border, there is adventure, romance, fear and reflection. The
author left her secure home in Victoria as a young adventuress; she
returned a woman. Pederson's memoir is contemplative yet
spontaneous, capturing a time of great change in the world.
This book introduces a comprehensive and mathematically rigorous
controller design for families of nonlinear systems with
time-varying parameters and unstructured uncertainties. Although
the presented methodology is general, the specific family of
systems considered is the latest, NextGen, unconventional
fixed-wing unmanned aircraft with circulation control or morphing
wings, or a combination of both. The approach considers various
sources of model and parameter uncertainty, while the controller
design depends not on a nominal plant model, but instead on a
family of admissible plants. In contrast to existing controller
designs that consider multiple models and multiple controllers, the
proposed approach is based on the 'one controller fits all models'
within the unstructured uncertainty interval. The book presents a
modeling-based analysis and synthesis approach with additive
uncertainty weighting functions for accurate realization of the
candidate systems. This differs significantly from existing designs
in that it is capable of handling time-varying characteristics.
This research monograph is suitable for scientists, engineers,
researchers and graduate students with a background in control
system theory who are interested in complex engineering nonlinear
systems.
This book introduces a comprehensive and mathematically rigorous
controller design for families of nonlinear systems with
time-varying parameters and unstructured uncertainties. Although
the presented methodology is general, the specific family of
systems considered is the latest, NextGen, unconventional
fixed-wing unmanned aircraft with circulation control or morphing
wings, or a combination of both. The approach considers various
sources of model and parameter uncertainty, while the controller
design depends not on a nominal plant model, but instead on a
family of admissible plants. In contrast to existing controller
designs that consider multiple models and multiple controllers, the
proposed approach is based on the 'one controller fits all models'
within the unstructured uncertainty interval. The book presents a
modeling-based analysis and synthesis approach with additive
uncertainty weighting functions for accurate realization of the
candidate systems. This differs significantly from existing designs
in that it is capable of handling time-varying characteristics.
This research monograph is suitable for scientists, engineers,
researchers and graduate students with a background in control
system theory who are interested in complex engineering nonlinear
systems.
European social democracy is in crisis. In the last decade it has
ceased to be about either society or democracy. The authors explore
its values, how it can be revived and what kind of political
economy it requires to thrive. This book includes a foreword by the
two leaders of the 'Building the Good Society' project, Andrea
Nahles and Jon Cruddas.
While many contemplate roaming the world, at 22, Laurie Rutherford
Pederson embarked on a solo journey of 365 days, beginning in
December 1976. She recorded her many adventures, sublime to
horrific, in twenty-seven journals from which this book emerged.
The Victoria, B.C. native worked as a travel agent, creating her
own itinerary to countries that intrigued her. She explored these
exotic locations, each replete with its historic and often perilous
political landscapes, using all means of transport: from a luggage
rack on a train in India to rickshaws to horseback, even a boat on
the Canal du Midi. Family friends in several countries provided
respites of gracious hospitality and rollicking entertainment; but,
to her credit, Pederson writes with equal appreciation of the many
strangers-locals and fellow travellers-she encountered along the
way. Her prose sparkles with hilarious interior monologues and a
cinematographer's attention to detail. From a near-fatal motorcycle
accident on Bali to a brush with death at the Israel-Lebanese
border, there is adventure, romance, fear and reflection. The
author left her secure home in Victoria as a young adventuress; she
returned a woman. Pederson's memoir is contemplative yet
spontaneous, capturing a time of great change in the world.
Title: Upper Teviotdale and the Scotts of Buccleuch, a local and
family history ... With illustrations of Border scenery by T. H.
Laidlaw.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF EUROPE
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the
development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights
include the development of language, political and educational
systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents
periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion
into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of
new nations, and European expansion into the New World. ++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Oliver, J Rutherford.; 1887. xii, 470 p.; 8 .
9509.i.4.
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