Author: Michael TrinkleinPublisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 0785834524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
The history of proposed states which were never granted statehood
An Astounding Atlas of Altered States
Author: Michael TrinkleinPublisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 0785834524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
The history of proposed states which were never granted statehood
The Art Salon in the Arab Region
Author: Monique BellanPublisher: Ergon
ISBN: 9783956505270
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This volume discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Institutional forms of exhibiting and teaching art emerged in the Middle East and North Africa in late colonial and early post-colonial contexts. The book examines how the salon had an impact on the formation of taste and on debates on art, and discusses the transfers and cultural interactions between the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Following the institutional model of the Paris salons, art salons emerged in Algiers, Tunis and Cairo starting in the late 1880s. In Beirut, the salon tradition reached its peak only after independence in the mid-twentieth century. Baghdad never had a formal salon, but alternative spaces and exhibition formats developed in Iraq from the late 1940s onwards. As in Paris, the salons in the region often defined the criteria of artistic production and public taste. The impact of the salon also lay in its ability to convey particular values, attitudes and aspirations. At the same time, the values and attitudes promoted by the salon as well as the salon itself were often subject to debate, which led to the creation of counter-salons or alternative exhibition practices. The art salon helps us to understand changes in the art systems of these countries, including the development of art schools, exhibition spaces and artist societies, and gives insight into the power dynamics at play. It also highlights networks and circulations between the Arab region and Europe.
The Royal Dictionary Abridged ... The Fourth Edition, Carefully Corrected, Etc
Author: Abel BOYERThe Life of William Shakespeare
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The most excellent workes of chirurgerye. 1543
Author: Joannes de VIGOQuaternions and Rotation Sequences
Author: J. B. KuipersPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691211701
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Ever since the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton introduced quaternions in the nineteenth century--a feat he celebrated by carving the founding equations into a stone bridge--mathematicians and engineers have been fascinated by these mathematical objects. Today, they are used in applications as various as describing the geometry of spacetime, guiding the Space Shuttle, and developing computer applications in virtual reality. In this book, J. B. Kuipers introduces quaternions for scientists and engineers who have not encountered them before and shows how they can be used in a variety of practical situations. The book is primarily an exposition of the quaternion, a 4-tuple, and its primary application in a rotation operator. But Kuipers also presents the more conventional and familiar 3 x 3 (9-element) matrix rotation operator. These parallel presentations allow the reader to judge which approaches are preferable for specific applications. The volume is divided into three main parts. The opening chapters present introductory material and establish the book's terminology and notation. The next part presents the mathematical properties of quaternions, including quaternion algebra and geometry. It includes more advanced special topics in spherical trigonometry, along with an introduction to quaternion calculus and perturbation theory, required in many situations involving dynamics and kinematics. In the final section, Kuipers discusses state-of-the-art applications. He presents a six degree-of-freedom electromagnetic position and orientation transducer and concludes by discussing the computer graphics necessary for the development of applications in virtual reality.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Nonlinear Composite Beam Theory
Author: Dewey H. HodgesPublisher: Progress in Astronautics and A
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
From an authoritative expert whose work on modern helicopter rotor blade analysis has spanned over three decades, comes the first consistent and rigorous presentation of beam theory. Beginning with an overview of the theory developed over the last 60 years, Dr. Hodges addresses the kinematics of beam deformation, provides a simple way to characterize strain in an initially curved and twisted beam, and offers cross-sectional analysis for beams with arbitrary cross sections and composed of arbitrary materials. He goes on to present a way to accurately recover all components of cross-sectional strain and stress before providing a natural one-dimensional (1-D) theory of beams. Sample results for both cross-sectional and 1-D analysis are presented as is a parallel treatment for thin-walled beams.
History of the Virginia Company of London
Author: Edward Duffield NeillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Middle English Dictionary
Author: Robert E. LewisPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472010448
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies