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Bracketing the Enemy

Author : John R. Walker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806150343
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Bracketing the Enemy written by John R. Walker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines who directed the artillery fire. Until now, the vital role of forward observers in ground combat has received little scholarly attention. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker remedies this oversight by offering the first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II. As early as the U.S. Civil War, artillery fire could reach as far as two miles, but without an “FO” (forward observer) to report where the first shot had landed in relation to the target, and to direct subsequent fire by outlining or “bracketing” the targeted range, many of the advantages of longer-range fire were wasted. During World War II, FOs accompanied infantrymen on the front lines. Now, for the first time, gun crews could bring deadly accurate fire on enemy positions immediately as advancing riflemen encountered these enemy strongpoints. According to Walker, this transition from direct to indirect fire was one of the most important innovations to have occurred in ground combat in centuries. Using the 37th Division in the Pacific Theater and the 87th in Europe as case studies, Walker presents a vivid picture of the dangers involved in FO duty and shows how vitally important forward observers were to the success of ground operations in a variety of scenarios. FO personnel not only performed a vital support function as artillerymen but often transcended their combat role by fighting as infantrymen, sometimes even leading soldiers into battle. And yet, although forward observers lived, fought, and bled with the infantry, they were ineligible to wear the Combat Infantryman’s Badge awarded to the riflemen they supported. Forward observers are thus among the unsung heroes of World War II. Bracketing the Enemy signals a long-overdue recognition of their distinguished service.

Techniques of the Observer

Author : Jonathan Crary
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262531078
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Techniques of the Observer written by Jonathan Crary and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992-02-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle. In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.

Observers in Control Systems

Author : George Ellis
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080513010
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Observers in Control Systems written by George Ellis and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observers are digital algorithms that combine sensor outputs with knowledge of the system to provide results superior to traditional structures, which rely wholly on sensors. Observers have been used in selected industries for years, but most books explain them with complex mathematics. Observers in Control Systems uses intuitive discussion, software experiments, and supporting analysis to explain the advantages and disadvantages of observers. If you are working in controls and want to improve your control systems, observers could be the technology you need and this book will give you a clear, thorough explanation of how they work and how to use them. Control systems and devices have become the most essential part of nearly all mechanical systems, machines, devices and manufacturing systems throughout the world. Increasingly the efficiency of production, the reliability of output and increased energy savings are a direct result of the quality and deployment of the control system. A modern and essential tool within the engineer's kit is the Observer which helps improve the performance and reduce the cost of these systems. George Ellis is the author of the highly successful Control System Design Guide (Second Edition). Unlike most controls books, which are written by control theorists and academics, Ellis is a leading engineer, designer, author and lecturer working in industry directly with the users of industrial motion control systems. Observers in Control Systems is written for all professional engineers and is designed to be utilized without an in-depth background in control theory. This is a "real-world" book which will demonstrate how observers work and how they can improve your control system. It also shows how observers operate when conditions are not ideal and teaches the reader how to quickly tune an observer in a working system. Software Available online: A free updated and enhanced version of the author's popular Visual ModelQ allows the reader to practice the concepts with Visual ModelQ models on a PC. Based on a virtual laboratory, all key topics are demonstrated with more than twenty control system models. The models are written in Visual ModelQ ,and are available on the Internet to every reader with a PC. Teaches observers and Kalman filters from an intuitive perspective Explains how to reduce control system susceptibility to noise Shows how to design an adaptive controller based on estimating parameter variation using observers Shows how to improve a control system's ability to reject disturbances Key topics are demonstrated with PC-based models of control systems. The models are written in both MatLab® and ModelQ; models are available free of charge

Good Observers of Nature

Author : Tina Gianquitto
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336556
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Good Observers of Nature written by Tina Gianquitto and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Good Observers of Nature" Tina Gianquitto examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experiences of nature and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences. Many women writers of this period used the natural world as a platform for discussing issues of domesticity, education, and the nation. To what extent, asks Gianquitto, did these writers challenge the prevalent sentimental narrative modes (like those used in the popular flower language books) and use scientific terminology to describe the world around them? The book maps the intersections of the main historical and narrative trajectories that inform the answer to this question: the changing literary representations of the natural world in texts produced by women from the 1820s to the 1880s and the developments in science from the Enlightenment to the advent of evolutionary biology. Though Gianquitto considers a range of women's nature writing (botanical manuals, plant catalogs, travel narratives, seasonal journals, scientific essays), she focuses on four writers and their most influential works: Almira Phelps (Familiar Lectures on Botany, 1829), Margaret Fuller (Summer on the Lakes, in 1843), Susan Fenimore Cooper (Rural Hours, 1850), and Mary Treat (Home Studies in Nature, 1885). From these writings emerges a set of common concerns about the interaction of reason and emotion in the study of nature, the best vocabularies for representing objects in nature (local, scientific, or moral), and the competing systems for ordering the natural world (theological, taxonomic, or aesthetic). This is an illuminating study about the culturally assumed relationship between women, morality, and science.

The World's Cyclopedia of Science

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The World's Cyclopedia of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Observer

Author : Todd Stottlemyre
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1641465557
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The Observer written by Todd Stottlemyre and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal Best Selling Book The two anchors in Kat's frenzied life have been her father; a famous baseball pitcher turned team manager, and her son, who is following in his grandfather's footsteps. When both anchors become unstable, Kat's life tips dangerously out of balance. The market and her finances flip, and relationships start slipping through her fingers. Eager for solutions, she turns to find uncanny wisdom from places she never expected. The Observer unpacks the idea of 180-degree thinking, which changes everything for Kat. Now, seemingly impossible goals come into focus with crystal clear clarity. As Kat focuses on the right things, the impossible becomes her new reality. Imparted with truth and wisdom, The Observer is a classic for discovering the peak performer within yourself. This timeless story of success principles is more important today than it has ever been before as uncertainty lurks right around the corner. “A powerful work with insights that, once applied, will help you lift your life to a completely new level.” —Robin Sharma, #1 bestselling author of The 5AM Club and The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Kat has it all—money, success, recognition, influence—except the one thing she desperately desires: a fulfilled life. A business entrepreneur in the high-end sportswear industry, Kat is driven in relentless pursuit of ever-greater success.

The Assignment

Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653054X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Assignment written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent photograph of the supposed murder victim happily reunited with her husband, F. becomes trapped in an apocalyptic landscape riddled with political intrigue, crimes of mistaken identity, and terrorism. F.’s labyrinthine quest for the truth is Dürrenmatt’s fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agee’s elegant translation will introduce a fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literature’s masters of language, suspense, and dystopia. “The narrative is accelerated from the start. . . . As the novella builds to its horripilating climax, we realize the extent to which all values have thereby been inverted. The Assignment is a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.”—New York Times Book Review “His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankind’s most fiendish crimes.”—Chicago Tribune “A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing.”—Village Voice

The Observers

Author : Damon Knight
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575111313
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Observers written by Damon Knight and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McNulty's Disease has escaped the Sea Venture and is now epidemic on land. The disease kills only a few of its victims...but no one knows what long-term effects it has on those who survive. For the public's safety, the U.S. government sets up a giant internment camp on the old CV herself, and attempts to find as many survivors as possible to keep safely on board the ship. Fortunately, Julie Prescott has a most resourceful and clever husband (he used to be a high-priced hired killer) who doesn't want his wife locked up forever. So he sets himself up against the entire government bureaucracy - with remarkable results.

The Weather Observer's Handbook

Author : Stephen Burt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009260545
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Weather Observer's Handbook written by Stephen Burt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Durham Weather and Climate since 1841, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Social Graces

Author : Max Kozloff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781576870488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Social Graces written by Max Kozloff and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted with a new design and a number of never-before-seen images is the famed first monograph of two-time National Endownment for the Arts Fellow, Larry Fink. In an elegant exploration of two distinctly different cultures and classes, Frink captured a sense of stale emptiness lurking in the sensuous decadence of the upper crust of NYC, only to turn the tide and let loose with the often raucous, emotional and intimate photographs of the down-home folk of Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. Illustrated with 92 duotone photos.

The World Bank Research Observer

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The World Bank Research Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Earthquake Observers

Author : Deborah R. Coen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226111814
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Earthquake Observers written by Deborah R. Coen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences.

Engaged Observers

Author : Brett Abbott
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060228
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Engaged Observers written by Brett Abbott and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey of nine documentary photographers who were at the cutting edge of this form of journalism during the second half of the 20th century, 'Engaged Observers' shows how since the sixties photographers such as Leonard Freed & Susan Meiselas have challenged the conventional objectivity of the newsroom.

Catholic World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Observer

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From May 1894 to Sept. 1895 the sections Outdoor world and Practical microscopy were issued as separate publications.

The Observer's Book of Furniture

Author : John Woodforde
Publisher : Frederick Warne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Observer's Book of Furniture written by John Woodforde and published by Frederick Warne. This book was released on 1964 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much more profitable visits to country houses and auction rooms would be if we were familiar with the antique furniture which we would be likely to see there. For these purposes the author has prepared this little volume with special attention to quick, on-the-spot reference.

The Observer Effect

Author : Kieron Dowling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781291950939
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Observer Effect written by Kieron Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Observer Effect is a term used in quantum physics to describe the effect an observer has in the quantum field, which in this book is the universe at large. An observer is a measuring device, which equates to your beliefs. I'm going to show you how, as an observer, can change the way you perceive things to effect a change in the things you perceive. You will find the Golden Key, a term coined by ancients to unlock the most powerful door known to humans. The term is, however, a metaphor; inside you exists one key place you can instantly unlock with nothing more than believing it is there. Few realise this, and live their lives as though reality is separate from them, out of their personal control. Nothing could be further from the truth. You are in a position to observe reality in any way you desire by simply harnessing the emotions you most want and literally creating a new, better reality.