Military avionics is a complex and technically challenging field which requires a high level of competence from all those involved in the aircraft design and maintenance. As the various systems on board an aircraft evolve to become more and more inter-dependent and integrated, it is becoming increasingly important for designers to have a holistic view and knowledge of aircraft systems in order to produce an effective design for their individual components and effectively combine the systems involved. This book introduces the military roles expected of aircraft types and describes the avionics systems required to fulfil these roles. These range from technology and architectures through to navigations systems, sensors, computing architectures and the human-machine interface. It enables students to put together combinations of systems in order to perform specific military roles.
The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is developed. Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one that is fully embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and enfleshed and their meanings realised in the context of given social dimensions. The organisation of this book corresponds with carnival practices of taking the high down to the low before replenishing its meaning anew. Thus early discussions of official language and the chronotope become exposed to descending levels of analysis and emphasis. Patients and practitioners are shown to occupy an entirely different spatio-temporal topography. These chronotopes have powerful borders and it is necessary to use the Carnival powers of cunning and deception in order to enter and to leave them. The book provides an overview of practitioners who have attempted such transgression and the author records his own unnerving experience as a pseudopatient. By exploring the context of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its terminology, jokes, parodies, and everyday narratives, the clinical landscape is shown to rely heavily on unofficial dialogues in order to safeguard an official identity.
Positive thinking can help you realize your goals, but for most people, it's a skill that has be learned and practiced regularly. This book uses expert tips, clear text, and hard-working illustrations to show you how to assess your thinking patterns and change your negative perceptions in order to live a confident, fulfilled life.
The field of Order and Chaos had a remarkable expansion in the last 50 years. The main reason was the use of computers, and the development of new theoretical methods that we call now 'the theory of chaos'.The author describes this fascinating period in a relaxed and sometimes humorous autobiographical way. He relates his interactions with many people in dynamical astronomy and he quotes several anecdotes from these interactions. He refers also to his experiences when he served in various international positions, such as general secretary of the IAU and chairman of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Morrell (best known for First Blood, 1972) returns to his favorite revenge theme in this thriller, which focuses on a hit man who renounces violence, only to be flushed out of his monastic retreat, back to the counterterrorist circuit. Drew MacLane is the quintessential loner, his destiny sealed at age nine in Tokyo, where he sees his beloved diplomat father blown away by a hand-delivered bomb. Sensing the youngster's need for vengeance, his uncle Ray, himself an agent, steers him toward Scalpel, a US counterterrorist outfit, for which Drew performs loyally until the traumatic moment when he perceives his latest victims to be facsimiles of his parents and himself. Instead of executing his next hit (against the then-exiled Ayatollah, in Paris), he returns stateside and enters an order of Carthusian brothers in Vermont. Six years later, a mass poisoning wipes out the entire order, but Drew escapes, thanks to his pet mouse, and also to his old combat skills (he rams a crucifix up an adversary's nostril). With the aid of his old flame Arlene, and a Polish priest who belongs to an organization that kills for the Mother Church, Drew moves slowly to a showdown with - Uncle Ray! Drew's childhood protector is now his archenemy, his still-simmering scheme to overthrow the Ayatollah threatened by Drew's survival. Drew, ultimately victorious, retreats into exile in Egypt. This is all very slow going. While Morrell periodically splatters his landscape with gore, he chokes his narrative with awkward flashbacks, fails to mesh his rival conspiracies (four top secret networks feel like three too many), and he can't whip up an interest in Drew's supposed inner conflict: we know this guy will pick his Mauser over his monk's habit every time. (Kirkus Reviews)
