This revised text provides a comprehensive yet practical understanding of the principles and technological issues behind satellite communications. Subjects include satellite networking, interference considerations, digital video broadcasting by satellite, military applications and future trends.
The Proceedings of the International Materials Symposium on Ceramic Microstructures '86: Role of Interfaces presents a comprehensive coverage of the past decade's advances in ceramic science and technology related to microstructures. The term microstructure is used in the broad sense and is synonymous with char~cter. Character is defined as a complete detailed description of chemical and physical characteristics of a material. This symposium i...
The practical difficulties we all face in deciding what to do for the best have a wider context. This book is about the way this morning's dilemma fits among the big moral issues. Drawing on a range of thinkers from the past, the book explores the way such practical questions of behaviour have been approached in past centuries. This provides the modern reader with a framework of reference to get their bearings and begin to develop a personal r...
* What are modern universities for?* How can universities preserve their integrity when they have to bid for commercial funding?* Are academics out of touch with the 'real world'?Gillian Evans examines how far the traditional purposes of the universities are still relevant to their encounters with the changed priorities of the modern world. Increasingly, it seems, academia is expected to engage with the 'real world'. For instance, university t...
An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
Es verdad que nunca es demasiado tarde para limpiar nuestro corazón, pero eso sólo puede ser cuando nos acercamos a Dios y depositamos nuestra vida en sus manos. Cuando permitimos que haga un cambio en nuestra alma y que nos dirija por los caminos correctos. Pero si no aceptamos nuestros errores, si no buscamos su ayuda, el tiempo nos cobrará lo que una vez hicimos y el pago será lo que nadie quiere escuchar, la muerte. Es ahí cuando ya es dem...
Es verdad que nunca es demasiado tarde para limpiar nuestro corazón, pero eso sólo puede ser cuando nos acercamos a Dios y depositamos nuestra vida en sus manos. Cuando permitimos que haga un cambio en nuestra alma y que nos dirija por los caminos correctos. Pero si no aceptamos nuestros errores, si no buscamos su ayuda, el tiempo nos cobrará lo que una vez hicimos y el pago será lo que nadie quiere escuchar, la muerte. Es ahí cuando ya es dem...
Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately four to eight literary figures who died between 1800 and 1899 by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among the people profiled in this volume are: < ul> < li>Charles Brockden Brown< li> Tabitha Gilman Tenney < li> Ivan Turgenev< /ul>
Excerpt from Keeping the Seas
Nor is the book written for those who believe too strongly in the proverb, They also serve who stand and wait. It is rather for those whose motto is Go in and win.
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Excerpt from Pulpit and Politics
Brave soul He uttered his truthful message, and for it was smitten in the face by a false prophet, and sent to pris on by the enraged and characterless king.
Every minister of the Gospel is a bearer of messages from God to man. And neither the hatred of political powers, nor the opposition of pulpit and press should deter him from giving a full and faithful deliverance of his message.
It may be his duty to p...
Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 3: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lansi's Storia Pittorica
Chap V. On the Origin, Progress, and Corrupt Nature of the Venetian Government 64 - 78 chap. VI.
Journey to Milan - Banks of the Brenta: Padua, The Bra della Valle, The Santo, Church of St. Justina, Hall of Justice, University: Arqua, Petrarch's Tomb, the Sonnet: Abano, Plain of Padua, Cultiva...