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Examines all the major types of mechatronic systems used in railway
applications Surveys rail vehicle mechatronic design processes with
practical sources and references Outlines modelling approaches for
rail vehicles, from concept to finishined prototype Analyzes system
integration of complex railway mechatronic systems Presents
numerical experiments and mechatronic models with railway transport
applications
This is the first book to explore in depth the science of climbing
and mountaineering. Written by a team of leading international
sport scientists, clinicians and climbing practitioners, it covers
the full span of technical disciplines, including rock climbing,
ice climbing, indoor climbing and mountaineering, across all
scientific fields from physiology and biomechanics to history,
psychology, medicine, motor control, skill acquisition, and
engineering. Striking a balance between theory and practice, this
uniquely interdisciplinary study provides practical examples and
illustrative data to demonstrate the strategies that can be adopted
to promote safety, best practice, injury prevention, recovery and
mental preparation. Divided into six parts, the book covers all
essential aspects of the culture and science of climbing and
mountaineering, including: physiology and medicine biomechanics
motor control and learning psychology equipment and technology.
Showcasing the latest cutting-edge research and demonstrating how
science translates into practice, The Science of Climbing and
Mountaineering is essential reading for all advanced students and
researchers of sport science, biomechanics and skill acquisition,
as well as all active climbers and adventure sport coaches.
With the increasing demands for safer freight trains operating with
higher speed and higher loads, it is necessary to implement methods
for controlling longer, heavier trains. This requires a full
understanding of the factors that affect their dynamic performance.
Simulation techniques allow proposed innovations to be optimised
before introducing them into the operational railway environment.
Coverage is given to the various types of locomotives used with
heavy haul freight trains, along with the various possible
configurations of those trains. This book serves as an introductory
text for college students, and as a reference for engineers
practicing in heavy haul rail network design,
This is the first book to explore in depth the science of climbing
and mountaineering. Written by a team of leading international
sport scientists, clinicians and climbing practitioners, it covers
the full span of technical disciplines, including rock climbing,
ice climbing, indoor climbing and mountaineering, across all
scientific fields from physiology and biomechanics to history,
psychology, medicine, motor control, skill acquisition, and
engineering. Striking a balance between theory and practice, this
uniquely interdisciplinary study provides practical examples and
illustrative data to demonstrate the strategies that can be adopted
to promote safety, best practice, injury prevention, recovery and
mental preparation. Divided into six parts, the book covers all
essential aspects of the culture and science of climbing and
mountaineering, including: physiology and medicine biomechanics
motor control and learning psychology equipment and technology.
Showcasing the latest cutting-edge research and demonstrating how
science translates into practice, The Science of Climbing and
Mountaineering is essential reading for all advanced students and
researchers of sport science, biomechanics and skill acquisition,
as well as all active climbers and adventure sport coaches.
This contributed volume arose from the idea of assembling
scientists from space research and ground development, time
transfer techniques and radio science missions, the time-frequency
community, and both the geodesy-geophysics and solar system
exploration communities. Such a fusion of diverse interests in
these fields related to time measurement has rarely, if ever, been
achieved. The topics covered in these papers include clocks, time
transfer, technology, and the applications of high-precision clocks
in Earth Sciences, Fundamental Physics, Astrophysics, and Solar
System exploration. This book will be of major interest to all
those involved in the implementation and utilization of space-based
high precision timing for a wide range of applications. Originally
published in Space Science Reviews in the Topical Collection "High
Performance Clocks with Special Emphasis on Geodesy and Geophysics
and Applications to Other Bodies of the Solar System"
An atmospheric and chilling crime thriller from an internationally
bestselling author, perfect for readers of Ann Cleeves and Peter
James. If the system can't make them pay, then he will . . . Former
chief of police, Ubbo Heide, is enjoying a peaceful seaside
retirement - until a gruesome package containing a severed head
turns up on his doorstep and catapults him back into a world he
left behind. When a torso is found on the local beach, it's assumed
it's from the same victim. That is until a second head turns up. As
the investigation reaches fever pitch, Chief Inspector Ann Kathrin
Klaasen, now assigned to the case, realises that the two victims
are connected. Soon it's clear that this quiet coastal community is
facing a brutal serial killer. One who is taking justice into his
own hands . . .
IIncludes: "Hound "by Maria Oshodi, "Soft Vengeance "by April de
Angelis, "Sympathy for the Devil "by Roy Winston, "Fittings: The
Last Freakshow "by Mike Kenny, "Into the Mystic "by Peter Wolf, and
"Peeling "by Katie O'Reilly. Introduced by Jenny Sealey, Artistic
Director of Graeae Theatre Company, the U.K.'s leading theatre
company working with disabled artists.
The study pinpoints an example of the origins and political
function of historical identity. It is based on testimonies of
Regensburg's urban history between 1600 and 1800. The argument
structures and transmission patterns discernible in these hitherto
unprinted urban chronicles makes it possible to distinguish images
of history that are Protestant/national or Catholic/Bavarian. For
both traditions the Middle Ages were the highpoint of the city's
development, thus contradicting the popular belief that this period
was 'discovered' by the 19th century.
In Understanding Alan Bennett, Peter Wolfe conveys Bennett's
originality, complexities of thought, and creative vigor while
examining Bennett in his various roles as actor, director,
playwright, and lyricist. As Wolfe illustrates, Bennett's success
in his many spheres was no fluke. Bennett's theatrical eminence has
been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play
Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's best comedy for
1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968,
have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec
Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, and Daniel Day
Lewis. His screenwriting earned The Madness of King George a
nomination for an Academy Award, and Talking Heads was in its
twenty-seventh printing in 1995, after seven years in print.
Bennett's ability to write scripts at once funny and sad has
lifted him to heights occupied by few of his peers. Understanding
Alan Bennett illuminates the writer whose instinct for artistic
choices has helped him succeed on his own terms.
The classic television show "The Twilight Zone" explored the
possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A "Twilight Zone" episode
moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought
provoking. But whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city
pool room, or in the backwoods, it will usually convey both a
folklorist's eye for detail and the born raconteur's sense of pace.
Rod Serling, the show's originator, main scriptwriter, and artistic
director, knew how much burden he could place on his rhetorical and
dramatic gifts. Deservedly celebrated as a pioneer fiction writer
for television, Serling always grounded his work in the human
condition: he wrote movingly about history and loyalty, the grip of
everyday reality, and the dangers of both forgetting about one's
ghosts and giving them the upper hand.
Eric Ambler's novelistic career falls into two halves. In the first
half belong the works he published between 1935-1940. These include
the highly acclaimed "Epitaph for a Spy" (1938) and "The Mask of
Dimitrios" (1939), both of which were made into successful films in
1944. The intrigue books of this period unfold in interwar Europe,
a bitten-up, anxious place reeling between the extremes of fascism
and Soviet communism. To reflect changes in the postwar world,
Ambler set his later books in third-world countries where
first-world financing collides with unstable, often revolutionary,
politics--all within the shadow of large multinational
corporations. These powerful firms with connections in high places
take the same liberties as big governments have always done in
works like "Dr. Frigo" (1974), the only Ambler book set in Latin
America, and the best-selling "The Care of Time "(1981).
The theatrical world Terence Rattigan built is vital but disturbing
and uniquely constructed. His sentences are not impacted or
fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet
his realism isn't all that real. Though sentence by sentence, his
dialogue sounds natural, the creative pulse behind it is
idiosyncratic and self-lacerating. As a gay man writing at a time
when homosexuality was a felony in the UK, Rattigan wrote at a
skewed angle to his culture, making his plays at times easy to
follow but hard to fathom. Terence Rattigan: The Playwright as
Battlefield examines the ways in which Rattigan's works turn their
audiences into participants, encouraging intellectual independence
and freeing them to make decisions for themselves as to the deeper
meanings of the works. The playwright's omission of outright
explanations deepens the audience's emotional commitment to the
outcomes of the performance, and walks a fine line between
restraint and invention. His works convey subtly and deceptively
the cold obstinacy that thwarts our everyday actions in a way which
that is felt viscerally by the audience. This book engages works
from throughout Rattigan's early and late career to examine the
unique methods by which the playwright conveys meaning to various
audiences within an ever-changing sociocultural context.
Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald's canon illuminates
writings he characterizes as possessing unerring dramatic judgment,
a friendly and fluid style, and lyrical and precise descriptive
passages. In this survey of Fitzgerald's life and career, Wolfe
explains how the British novelist brings resources of talent and
craft, thought and feeling, courage and vulnerability, to the
biographies and novels that have earned her renown. With readings
of a broad range of her published works, including her final novel,
The Blue Flower, Wolfe describes the unfolding of Fitzgerald's
writing as a subtle, ongoing process. He maintains that the novels,
though plain and rambling at first glance, grow fuller, stranger,
and more stirring the more we invest in them. He details
Fitzgerald's skill at sequencing events so as to unsettle readers
and her ability to enhance motifs by not leaning too hard on them.
Wolfe suggests that Fitzgerald's refusal to overplay effects and
emotions, while at first puzzling in its disdain for drama, turns
out to be one of her chief virtues, for she enables larger
associations to emerge as she keeps big dramatic scenes from
interfering with wider patterns. While enumerating Fitzgerald's
many talents, Wolfe ultimately attributes much of her success to
her style. He concludes that her exceptionally disciplined prose,
which gives voice to her candor and compassion, imbues her work
with a sense of mood, place, and character.
In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to explore the topic of madness, a
subject little explored in Russian literature before his time. The
works he produced on the theme are three of his greatest
masterpieces: the prose novella The Queen of Spades, the narrative
poem The Bronze Horseman, and the lyric "God Grant That I Not Lose
My Mind." Gary Rosenshield presents a new interpretation of
Pushkin's genius through an examination of his various
representations of madness. Pushkin brilliantly explored both the
destructive and creative sides of madness, a strange fusion of
violence and insight. In this study, Rosenshield illustrates the
surprising valorization of madness in The Queen of Spades and "God
Grant That I Not Lose My Mind" and analyzes The Bronze Horseman's
confrontation with the legacy of Peter the Great, a cornerstone
figure of Russian history. Drawing on themes of madness in western
literature, Rosenshield situates Pushkin in a greater framework
with such luminaries as Shakespeare, Sophocles, Cervantes, and
Dostoevsky providing an insightful and absorbing study of Russia's
greatest writer.
Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged.
Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell
Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him "a serious artist and a very
considerable novelist," while praising him as "one of the finest
novelists of his time." Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of
Chandler and his work-his apparent will to self-destruct, his
obsession with beautiful women, and his apparent brush with
homosexuality-and casts much new and needed light on this major
American author.
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