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Planetary Rovers: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System
The increasing adoption of terrain mobility – planetary rovers – for the investigation of planetary surfaces emphasises their central importance in space exploration. This imposes a completely new set of technologies and methodologies to the design of such spacecraft – and planetary rovers are indeed, first and foremost, spacecraft. This introduces vehicle engineering, mechatronics, robo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-642-03259-2
- Collation
- XXIX, 702
- Series Title
- Springer Praxis Books
- Call Number
- 919.9204 ELL p
Please God Send Me a Wreck; Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australi…
This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. T…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4939-2642-8
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- XV, 243
- Series Title
- When the Land Meets the Sea
- Call Number
- 994 DUN p
A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide : 1876-2012
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) was the first recognised degree at the University of Adelaide. Although informal classes for some subjects were held at the University between 1873 and 1875, the first official University lecture was a Latin lecture at 10 am on Monday 28 March 1876. This was followed by lectures in Greek, English and Mental Philosophy. By 1878, the first BA student, Thomas Ainslie Cate…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922064363
- Collation
- 412 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 900 HAR h
Behind the Essenes : History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls
A collection of essays by Philip Davies on aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls. While composed to stand along, together these essays create a strong synthetic argument about the Essenes and the production of the Dead Sea Scrolls that remains important and challenging to the present day.
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- -
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- 9781946527219
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 900 DAV b
Explorations and Encounters in French
With a title derived literally from the explorations of the French in the Pacific and metaphorically from classroom encounters with another culture—both of which form important subsections to the volume—Explorations and Encounters in French actively seeks to unite those fields of enquiry sometimes seen as separate, namely, culture and language. The essays selected for inclusion in Explorati…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780980672329
- Collation
- 322 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940 FOR e
Timor-Leste's Bill of Rights : A Preliminary History
The Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste of 2002 contains over 40 human rights provisions in its Bill of Rights. In addition to providing an overview of the process leading up to the adoption of the Constitution, this book brings together information relating to each section of the Bill of Rights, presenting: progressive texts produced during the process of the Constituent …
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- -
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- 9781925022391
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 900 DEV t
Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Systems: P…
The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Systems (ICAEES 2014) held at Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil, India. These research papers provide the latest developments in the broad area of use of artificial intelligence and ev…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-81-322-2135-7
- Collation
- XVII, 873
- Series Title
- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
- Call Number
- 006.3 ART a
Digital Media and Textuality : From Creation to Archiving
Due to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsolescence? And how can digital media be used or taught inside classrooms? These and other questions…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839440919
- Collation
- 284 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302 DIG
Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality : Dickens as a Reader
While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass literature, this collection of essays shows that Dickens was not only a reader of high-brow literature, but also expected his readers to understand them in the context of contemporary scientific and economic debates. Covering a wide range of writers –…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783847102861
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- -
- Series Title
- Close Reading
- Call Number
- 920 KOC t
Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern America : A Revolution on the H…
Most literature on the Civil War focuses on soldiers, battles, and politics. But for every soldier in the United States Army, there were nine civilians at home. The war affected those left on the home front in many ways. Westward expansion and land ownership increased. The draft disrupted families while a shortage of male workers created opportunities for women that were previously unknown. …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780821423387
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- -
- Series Title
- Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877
- Call Number
- 900 CIV
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