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Surge Control of Active-magnetic-bearing-suspended Centrifugal Compressors sets out the fundamentals of integrating active magnetic bearing (AMB) rotor suspension technology in compressor systems, and describes how this relatively new bearing technology can be employed in active control of compressor...

Paternalistic federal laws and regulations thwart initiatives to grant women the same economic liberties as men. Why have federal institutions overseeing employment, employee benefits, childcare, taxation, health care, education, retirement, and social security adopted such a warped and antiquated...

Vous en conviendrez sûrement, apprendre est plus facile quand nous y prenons plaisir et progresse mieux quand nous utilisons des moyens compatibles avec le fonctionnement de notre cerveau. Quel que soit votre âge, cet ouvrage vous donnera les clés pour apprendre vite et efficacement ce que vous...

Un guide complet pour une maison mieux rangée, et pour une meilleure organisation ! Vous rêvez d'une maison mieux rangée, mais vous ne savez pas par où commencer ? Grâce à ce livre prenez les choses en main ! Tout d'abord, faites le point avec vous-même : pourquoi le bazar s'accumule-t-il ?...

This book aims to bolster the burgeoning discourse of health and human rights. In so doing, it charts the history of the linkage between health and human rights. It also pinpoints the sense of imperative that surrounds this relationship. More importantly, the book identifies a series of threats and...

Drawing on recently released or previously neglected archive material, this book is the first dedicated to the stage career of Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952). Best known for her work with the women’s suffrage movement, Hamilton was at the same time deeply committed to the commercial stage as an actress,...

This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet...

This detailed ethnographic study explores the intercultural crafting of contemporary forms of Aboriginal manhood in the world of country, rock and reggae music making in Central Australia. Focusing on four different musical contexts – an Aboriginal recording studio, remote Aboriginal settlements,...

La figure de Tolstoï, tel que l’auteur de Résurrection m’est apparu l’automne dernier, malade, persécuté, excommunié et tenant tête à l’orage avec la vigueur passive d’un grand chêne qui brave la foudre, restera inséparable dans...

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the...

This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound in a picture becomes almost a voice. By speaking a name, we...

This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experience, as it interprets codes on the written page, and creates an internal leitmotif that then interacts...

Décryptez Le Veston ensorcelé de Dino Buzzati avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !Que faut-il retenir du Veston ensorcelé, le récit emblématique de la nouvelle fantastique ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.Vous trouverez notamment...

A SENSIBLE GOD This, the third volume in the series, comes from a Celtic soul, a scientific mind and a poetic heart. It is a book of stories and scriptures, of science and psychology, of theology and wisdom, of poetry and passion. The Big Bang was the sound of God laughing uproariously at the wonder...