Product Description: The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies…, new challenges...read more

Product Description: Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr, Special Editors Table of Contents Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr: “Turns to the Right?” François Noudelmann: A Turn to the Right: “Genealogy” in France since the 1980s  Verena Conley: “Soigne ta droite”  Michel Gueldry:  The Americanization of France Adrian Johnston: The Right Left: Alain Badiou and the Disruption of Political Identities Bénédicte Coste: Against the Grain: Michéa’s Radical Philosophy and Its Discontents Richard J...read more

Product Description: Equal accessibility to public places and services is now required by law in many countries. For the vision-impaired, specialised technology often can provide a fuller enjoyment of the facilities of society, from large scale meetings and public entertainments to reading a book or making music...read more

Product Description: This book is a practical guide to the application of control benchmarking to real, complex, industrial processes. The variety of industrial case studies gives the benchmarking ideas presented a robust real-world attitude. The book deals with control engineering principles and economic and management aspects of benchmarking...read more

Product Description: In the story “El Latigo” (Spanish for “The Whip”), the author recalls a 1967 incident in Tijuana, Mexico, when he and a couple of his rowdy Navy buddies decided to kick up their heels. The other stories, like “Subic Bay Broncs,” which took place on the Subic Bay Navy Station in the Philippine Islands between 1967 and 1968, were inspired by other outdoor adventures, while “Coup” and “In the Face of Death” sprang totally from the author’s imagination...read more

Product Description: Does religious extremism represent an inevitable consequence of firmly held beliefs in life-and-death situations? Is there a way out? Gathering ethicists and scholars from the three major and often conflicting monotheistic traditions, each was asked to correlate a religious tradition's sacred texts and tradition with the contemporary world's pluralism and claims about the inalienable sanctity and dignity of human life...read more

Product Description: Affirmative legislative action in many countries now requires that public spaces and services be made accessible to disabled people. Although this is often interpreted as access for people with mobility impairments, such legislation also covers those who are hearing or vision impaired...read more

Product Description: Adaptive Systems have been studied for a substantial period as the logical intersection between modelling and design in control and signal processing. Because of this, adaptive systems studies need to live in these two worlds while introducing concepts of their own...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Two volumes, which together present a modern and comprehensive overview of the field of optimal control and stochastic estimation. Volume 1 concentrates on the deterministic aspects of linear optimal control theory, whilst Volume 2 is concerned with stochastic optimal control theory and its applications...read more