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January 30, 2024

Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks II (2024)

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Free Download Anna Orlova, David Cole, "Advances in Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks II"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031073045 | PDF | pages: 1274 | 193.7 mb
This book offers a snapshot of the latest research and developments in road and railway vehicle dynamics. Gathering peer-reviewed contributions to the 27th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD), held online on August 17-19, 2021, from Saint Petersburg, Russia, it offers extensive information for both researchers and professionals in the field of ground vehicle dynamics, control and design. It covers cutting-edge methods and solutions for solving ground vehicle system dynamics-related problems, concerning control and monitoring, performance, safety and braking of road and rail vehicles, including electric and autonomous ones. Further, it reports on significant advances in vehicle design, and important applications to improve ride comfort. Overall, the book provides academics and professional with a timely reference guide on theories and methods to understand, analyze and improve vehicle stability and dynamics in a broad range of different operating conditions.

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January 5, 2024

Dog Tracks

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Free Download Ruby Slipperjack, "Dog Tracks"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1927083591 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.2 mb
Abby is having trouble fitting in at Bear Creek Reserve. After having lived most of her life with her grandparents in town, it’s definitely a transition moving back to the reserve. When Choom, her grandfather, falls ill, Abby must leave her best friends at school, her supportive grandparents, and her perfect pink bedroom, and adjust to living with her mom. But it’s not only being back with Mom that is hard – there’s a new father, John, and a pesky half-brother, Blink. There is also a schoolroom full of kids who don’t know her (and don’t seem to want to), not to mention a completely different way of life that seems so traditional, so puzzling and complicated.

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January 4, 2024

Tracing Their Tracks Identification of Nordic Styles from the Early Middle Ages to the End of the Viking Period

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Free Download Peter Hupfauf, "Tracing Their Tracks: Identification of Nordic Styles from the Early Middle Ages to the End of the Viking Period"
English | 2015 | pages: 214 | ISBN: 1443866733 | PDF | 7,1 mb
Understanding the relation of semiology to Western iconography is essential, as it is the element that, often unconsciously, influences perception in Western society. Scholars, such as Klaus Duwel with his outstanding knowledge of runic script, sometimes reach their limits if inscriptions are complemented with abstract images that may be accidental scratches or, on the other hand, a sign or signs indicating symbolic meaning. The detailed definition of the Medieval World by Margaret Clunies Ross (University of Sydney) created the background for this book in which artefacts from Old Norse culture are considered in order to understand their often complex context, providing an insight into the development of visual communication in Western society. Artefacts from Medieval Scandinavia show techniques and principles from visual perception consciously or unconsciously adopted by artists and craftsmen more than a thousand years earlier than was initially recognised by scientists. Today, such elements are recognised by some artists and designers. However, in the relevant literature, discussion of this important aspect of visual art with respect to Medieval Scandinavia has been lacking-until now!

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September 28, 2023

Tracks on Damp Sand

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Free Download Franco Pagnucci, "Tracks on Damp Sand"
English | 2014 | pages: 84 | ISBN: 0878397566 | EPUB | 4,3 mb
Tracks on Damp Sand is a book about light, about seeing, and about the power of words to capture and save what we see and save ourselves. The 62 lyric poems also include the story of a pair of bald eagles building their first nest and hatching their first young.

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September 28, 2023

In the Tracks of Historical Materialism

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Free Download Perry Anderson, "In the Tracks of Historical Materialism"
English | 1983 | pages: 116 | ISBN: 0860917762, 0226017885 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies? Have they on balance represented an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole? In the Tracks of Historical Materialism looks at some of the paradoxes in the evolution of Marxist thought in this period. It starts by considering the remarkable and variegated growth of historical materialism in the Anglo-American world, spreading across a broad field from history to economics, politics to literature, sociology to philosophy. By contrast, the same years have seen a drastic recession of Marxist influences in the Latin cultures where it was traditionally strong-France or Italy. Its main theoretical challengers there proved to be successive forms of structuralism and post-structuralism. The common coordinates of these-tracing the outer bounds of the work of Levi-Strauss or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida-are surveyed and criticized, in the light of the inherent limitations of the language model from which they derived. In Germany, on the other hand, the theoretical scene has been largely dominated by the accumulating work of Habermas, with its roots in the Frankfurt School. Yet Habermas’s philosophy also reveals unexpected affinities with the trend of prevalent Parisian concerns, in its unifying emphasis on communication-while at the same time diverging from them in the constancy of its political commitments. The historical background of international class struggles against which these variant fates of Marxism in the west were played out is then explored, with special attention to the interconnection between the destinies of Maoism and Eurocommunism. What, finally, is the nature of the relationship between Marxism as a theory and socialism as a goal? A conclusion reviews the wider issues posed for the labour movement by the rise of the peace movement and the women’s movement, and suggests a range of priorities for the further development of Marxist thought in the eighties.

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