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Phantom Reflections

Author : Mike McCarthy
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 1461751470
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Phantom Reflections written by Mike McCarthy and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hair-raising descriptions of aerial combat as seen from the cockpit of a fighter jet Thoughtful reflections on what it meant to fight in Vietnam As the Vietnam War raged thousands of miles away, Mike McCarthy completed his flight training in the United States, eager to get into the war and afraid it would end before he could participate. He needn't have worried. By 1967, he was flying his F-4 Phantom II fighter with the U.S. Air Force's 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, also known as Satan's Angels. Before his tour ended, McCarthy completed 124 missions during the intense air war over North Vietnam and Laos and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. His memoir recreates the horror and exhilaration of air combat.

Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections

Author : Frederick Burwick
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038802
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections written by Frederick Burwick and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Romantic theories of art and literature, the notion of mimesis&—defined as art&’s reflection of the external world&—became introspective and self-reflexive as poets and artists sought to represent the act of creativity itself. Frederick Burwick seeks to elucidate this Romantic aesthetic, first by offering an understanding of key Romantic mimetic concepts and then by analyzing manifestations of the mimetic process in literary works of the period. Burwick explores the mimetic concepts of &"art for art's sake,&" &"Idem et Alter,&" and &"palingenesis of mind as art&" by drawing on the theories of Philo of Alexandria, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friederich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Thomas De Quincey, and Germaine de Sta&ël. Having established the philosophical bases of these key mimetic concepts, Burwick analyzes manifestations of mimesis in the literature of the period, including ekphrasis in the work of Thomas De Quincey, mirrored images in the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, and the twice-told tale in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and James Hogg. Although artists of this period have traditionally been dismissed in discussions of mimesis, Burwick demonstrates that mimetic concepts comprised a major component of the Romantic aesthetic.

Musimathics, Volume 1

Author : Gareth Loy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262292750
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Musimathics, Volume 1 written by Gareth Loy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A commonsense, self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music; essential reading for musicians, music engineers, and anyone interested in the intersection of art and science. “Mathematics can be as effortless as humming a tune, if you know the tune,” writes Gareth Loy. In Musimathics, Loy teaches us the tune, providing a friendly and spirited tour of the mathematics of music—a commonsense, self-contained introduction for the nonspecialist reader. It is designed for musicians who find their art increasingly mediated by technology, and for anyone who is interested in the intersection of art and science. In Volume 1, Loy presents the materials of music (notes, intervals, and scales); the physical properties of music (frequency, amplitude, duration, and timbre); the perception of music and sound (how we hear); and music composition. Calling himself “a composer seduced into mathematics,” Loy provides answers to foundational questions about the mathematics of music accessibly yet rigorously. The examples given are all practical problems in music and audio. Additional material can be found at http://www.musimathics.com.

Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Library of Universal Knowledge

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Library of Universal Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History Hacking

Author : Mario Arndt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3756821285
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book History Hacking written by Mario Arndt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History analyst and author Mario Arndt writes about topics you won't find in traditional history books. His analyses of official history reveal how the Middle Ages, the ancient world, and the associated chronologies were fabricated and forged. This is a book like no other! Hack #0: History Hacking - Anything goes Hack #1: The made-up lists of kings in the Middle Ages Hack #2: The made-up chronology of antiquity Hack #3: The numerical code of the Bible in history Hack #4: The 800-year cycle in history Hack #5: Charlemagne - the made-up Emperor Hack #6: Augustus - the made-up first Roman Emperor Hack #7: The new dating of the astronomical reports of antiquity Hack #8: Jesus Christ on the imperial throne Hack #9: The made-up list of popes Hack #10: An new chronology of the history of mankind This book is so intelligent and entertaining at the same time that it is a must read.

The Essential Vygotsky

Author : Robert W. Rieber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387306005
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Vygotsky written by Robert W. Rieber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy years after his death, the visionary work of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934) continues to have a profound impact on psychology, sociology, education, and other varied disciplines. The Essential Vygotsky selects the most significant writings from all phases of his work, and material from all six volumes of his Collected Works, so that readers can introduce themselves to the pioneering concepts developed by this influential Russian therapist, scholar, and cultural theorist, including: • The cultural-historical approach • The role of language in creating the mind • The development of memory and perception • Defectology (abnormal psychology/learning disabilities/special education) • The Zone of Proximal Development Each section features an insightful introduction exploring relevant aspects of Vygotsky’s life and illuminating the revolutionary historical context in which these writings were conceived. Together, they reflect the studies he was conducting at the time of his death and the pathbreaking clinical observations that made his reputation. For years, these papers were available mainly in hastily translated underground editions; now The Essential Vygotsky distills them into their most accessible form. Readers will be impressed and inspired by his insights, his optimism, his prescience, and his humanity. These papers are particularly relevant for students of developmental psychology, language, special education, and the history of these fields.

Tiger Check

Author : Steven A. Fino
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423286
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Tiger Check written by Steven A. Fino and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did American fighter pilots respond to the challenges posed by increasing automation? Spurred by their commanders during the Korean War to be “tigers,” aggressive and tenacious American fighter pilots charged headlong into packs of fireball-spewing enemy MiGs, relying on their keen eyesight, piloting finesse, and steady trigger fingers to achieve victory. But by the 1980s, American fighter pilots vanquished their foes by focusing on a four-inch-square cockpit display, manipulating electromagnetic waves, and launching rocket-propelled guided missiles from miles away. In this new era of automated, long-range air combat, can fighter pilots still be considered tigers? Aimed at scholars of technology and airpower aficionados alike, Steven A. Fino’s Tiger Check offers a detailed study of air-to-air combat focusing on three of the US Air Force’s most famed aircraft: the F-86E Sabre, the F-4C Phantom II, and the F-15A Eagle. Fino argues that increasing fire control automation altered what fighter pilots actually did during air-to-air combat. Drawing on an array of sources, as well as his own decade of experience as an F-15C fighter pilot, Fino unpacks not just the technological black box of fighter fire control equipment, but also fighter pilots’ attitudes toward their profession and their evolving aircraft. He describes how pilots grappled with the new technologies, acutely aware that the very systems that promised to simplify their jobs while increasing their lethality in the air also threatened to rob them of the quintessential—albeit mythic—fighter pilot experience. Finally, Fino explains that these new systems often required new, unique skills that took time for the pilots to identify and then develop. Eschewing the typical “great machine” or “great pilot” perspectives that dominate aviation historiography, Tiger Check provides a richer perspective on humans and machines working and evolving together in the air. The book illuminates the complex interactions between human and machine that accompany advancing automation in the workplace.

The Automotive Body

Author : L. Morello
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400705131
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Automotive Body written by L. Morello and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Automotive Body” consists of two volumes. The first volume produces the needful cultural background on the body; it describes the body and its components in use on most kinds of cars and industrial vehicles: the quantity of drawings that are presented allows the reader to familiarize with the design features and to understand functions, design motivations and fabrication feasibility, in view of the existing production processes. The second volume addresses the body system engineer and has the objective to lead him to the specification definition used to finalize detail design and production by the car manufacturer or the supply chain. The processing of these specifications, made by mathematical models of different complexity, starts always from the presentations of the needs of the customer using the vehicle and from the large number of rules imposed by laws and customs. The two volumes are completed by references, list of symbols adopted and subjects index. These two books about the vehicle body may be added to those about the chassis and are part of a series sponsored by ATA (the Italian automotive engineers association) on the subject of automotive engineering; they follow the first book, published in 2005 in Italian only, about automotive transmission. They cover automotive engineering from every aspect and are the result of a five-year collaboration between the Polytechnical University of Turin and the University of Naples on automotive engineering.

Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Author : Monika Loewy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000753549
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder written by Monika Loewy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder discusses the conditions of Phantom Limb Syndrome and Body Integrity Identity Disorder together for the first time, exploring examples from literature, film, and psychoanalysis to re-ground theories of the body in material experience. The book outlines the ways in which PLS and BIID involve a feeling of rupture underlined by a desire for wholeness, using the metaphor of the mirror-box (a therapeutic device that alleviates phantom limb pain) to examine how fiction is fundamentally linked to our physical and psychical realities. Using diverse examples from theoretical and fictional works, including thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Maurice Blanchot, D.W. Winnicott, and Georges Perec, and films by Powell and Pressburger and Quentin Tarantino, each chapter offers a detailed exploration of the mind/body relationship and experiences of fragmentation, bodily ownership, and symbolic reconstitution. By tracing these concepts, the monograph demonstrates ways in which fiction can enable us to understand the psychosomatic conditions of PLS and BIID more thoroughly, while providing new ways of reading psychoanalysis, literary theory, and fictional works. The first book to analyse BIID in relation to PLS, Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder will be essential reading for academics and literary readers interested in the body, psychoanalysis, English literature, literary theory, film, and disability.

Songs Of Malantor

Author : Patricia Pereira
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451643764
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Songs Of Malantor written by Patricia Pereira and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, medical transcriptionist Patricia Pereira suddenly started receiving telepathic communications from the star Arcturus and was requested to begin a series of galactically inspired manuscripts. The mission of this series of books is to awaken us to our individual and collective spiritual obligation for the health and well-being of our planet and all creatures who live upon her. Philosophical in cope, the essays in these books provide pragmatic, practical suggestions for emotional, mental physical, and spiritual transformation. They remind us of our familial relationships to beings of light who inhabit the great star nations. Songs of Malantor offers cosmic information of expanded complexity to assist humans in the times of change and to prepare them for citizenship in the greater galactic community. Malantor is best describes as a fifth- and sixth-dimensional being of light from Arcturus, the primary star of the Boötes system. Malantor is a creator of melodious lyrics, an Arcturian poet and intergalactic counselor-teacher who volunteered for Earth assignment. He resides on board the Intergalactic Brotherhood’s principal mother ship, Marigold—City of Lights.

MIGs Over North Vietnam

Author : Roger Boniface
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811706966
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book MIGs Over North Vietnam written by Roger Boniface and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until now, the day-to-day operations of the Vietnam People's Air Force have remained relatively unknown. In MiGs over North Vietnam, Roger Boniface relies largely on interviews with the participants to describe fighter combat above Vietnam from 1965 to 1975, giving voice to North Vietnamese pilots whose stories have never been told, from deadly dogfights between MiGs and American F-4s to persistent efforts to shoot down B-52 bombers.This is the air war in Vietnam as seen by the other side."--Back cover.

Two One Pony

Author : Charles R. Carr
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811745864
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Two One Pony written by Charles R. Carr and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful, reflective narrative of a reluctant soldier in Vietnam.

Fighting in Vietnam

Author : James Westheider
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811708314
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Fighting in Vietnam written by James Westheider and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vietnam War differed from previous American wars of the twentieth century. It was an undeclared and limited war that divided the country and was fought disproportionately by minorities and working-class whites, many of whom did not want to serve. This is the story of the men and women who participated in this generation-defining conflict overseas and stateside -- a war of search-and-destroy missions and combat with an ill-defined enemy, but also a war of drug use, fragging, and antiwar protests ... James Westheider captures the many dimensions of what it was like to fight in the Vietnam War"--Page 4 of cover.

Memory and Survival the French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351198610
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Memory and Survival the French Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski written by Emma Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness. This study is the first to offer specific focus on Kies'lowski's last films, on his French-language cinema and its place within the broader context of French film-making. Engaging with Deleuze's discussions of the time-image, and recent work in trauma theory, Emma Wilson offers radical insights into the innovation in Kies'lowski's explorations of memory, temporality, loss and desire. A charged defence of Kies'lowski's work, Memory and Survival offers new readings of this cinema of blind chance and fleeting beauty."

Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore

Author : Todd A. Comer
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786464534
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore written by Todd A. Comer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Moore, the idiosyncratic, controversial and often shocking writer of such works as Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta, remains a benchmark for readers of comics and graphic novels. This collection investigates the political, social, cultural, and sexual ideologies that emerge from his seminal work, Lost Girls, and demonstrates how these ideologies relate to his larger body of work. Framed by Moore's insistence upon deconstructing the myth of the superhero, each essay attends to the form and content of Moore's comics under the rubric of his pervasive metaphor of the "politics of sexuality/the sexing of politics."

Sound Reproduction

Author : Floyd E. Toole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240520092
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Sound Reproduction written by Floyd E. Toole and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering designing listening experiences, acoustics and psychoacoustics this book shows how to design the best possible listening experience for recording control rooms and home entertainment systems.