Автор: Haigh Jennifer Название: Heat and Light ISBN: 0061763497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061763496 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 10440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR
Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart--a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.
Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas.
To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn't count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother's skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling--until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives.
Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders' meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the "strippins," haunting reminders of Pennsylvania's past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America--a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.
Автор: Haigh, Jo Название: Business Rules ISBN: 0749927062 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780749927066 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 13150.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The business world is awash with legal pitfalls and opportunities. This book highlights essential business practice to provide insight and guidelines to alert and arm you before you enter the proverbial lion`s den of the business world. Drawing on legislation and case histories, it covers approximately 80 key topics.
Автор: Jennifer Haigh Название: Baker towers ISBN: 0007150873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007150878 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Jennifer Haigh's second novel is an intimate portrait of love and family, which will appeal to fans of Anne Tyler and Carol Shields. Stanley Novak is a first-generation Polish immigrant. Seeking a better life, he settles in Bakerton and finds work in the booming local mine. He meets and marries Rose, a shy, beautiful Italian girl. They move to a mine-owned house in an area of town known as Polish Hill, teeming with immigrants from all over Europe, all chasing the American Dream. Five children follow for the Novaks. The Novak children belong to what will someday be known as the Greatest Generation, but for now, they are just trying to find their identities in a vastly changing world. The five children could not be more different. The eldest, George, avoids signing up but is drafted to the Pacific when America joins the war. He comes home determined to leave Bakerton behind, but finds it much more difficult the second time around. Dorothy is a fragile and naive girl, who finds it hard to cope with her desk job in Washington. Joyce, fiercely intelligent, must hold the family together and remains bitterly aware of the life that she could have had. Sandy, the youngest boy, swans through life with his movie-star looks, never taking responsibility for his actions. And Lucy, the youngest, must find her own path in the shadow of her formidable siblings. Haigh gives us a beautiful snapshot of a small town -- of company houses and union squabbles; the boom and bust of the post-war years; the immigrant neighbourhoods of Swedetown, Little Italy and Polish Hill; the miners, undertakers, soldiers, firemen and housewives who populate the town and bring it to life.
Автор: Haigh, Philip A. Название: From wakefield and towton: the wars of the roses ISBN: 0850528259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780850528251 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case-studies it investigates the applicability of the term to a wide range of historical settings. The contributors show how past understandings of the term were often very different from (even in some respects the exact opposite of) those held today.
Автор: Haigh, Paul Anthony Название: Visible light : data communications and applications ISBN: 0750316780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780750316781 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 262090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book offers an overview of the state-of-the-art of visible light communication systems across emerging areas of increasing importance within the field. It is divided into two parts, with the first describing the latest developments in data communication using VLC technologies. It includes the fundamental mechanics of the semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) used in academic and commercial systems, areas of high-speed circuit design including circuit diagrams and small-signal analysis. Exotic modulation formats and digital signal processing including machine learning architectures are then covered before the book looks at emerging areas within the VLC research community, including colour balancing and colour-based modulation. The second part of the book looks at applications that do not consider indoor data communication in general, such as localisation/positioning, sensing and the intelligent transport systems paradigm. Finally, the completely new area of oxygen sensing is also included with the aim of inspiring researchers to test news fields and apply ideas across domains.
Visible Light is aimed at new researchers entering the VLC domain, particularly at the PhD stage, or those wishing to explore new areas within it, and readers should be comfortable with undergraduate-level mathematics and physics to make the most of the derivations and descriptions written throughout the book. It will provide researchers with a solid summary of the global progress in VLC systems that can be used to generate new ideas and advancements in the field.
Key Features
A new approach to VLC literature: describing both communications and new applications
Enables interdisciplinary new approaches to research and industry through the collection of ideas from separate disciplines that researchers and industrialists may not be aware of
Discussion of technological enablers from semiconductor materials, through to devices, circuits, systems and applications: the first book on the subject to do so
The first book that brings healthcare sensing to the general VLC community, potentially adding significant value to the research community through ideas generation and awareness of literature
A reference text for researchers and industrialists to discover immediately any of the key advances in the field from any subdomain, enabling off-the-shelf knowledge generation
Автор: Haigh, Gideon Название: Inside out ISBN: 0522855539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780522855531 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 30640.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Celebrates the centenary of Bradman`s birth; ponders the quintessence of the `Don`; dissects the Australian way of cricket across demography, politics and the politics of race; attempts to unravel the mystery that is cricket administration. This title explains the finer points of cricket technique from taking guard to the leave.
Автор: Karen Haigh, Julia Andrusenko Название: Cognitive Electronic Warfare: An Artificial Intelligence Approach ISBN: 1630818119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781630818111 Издательство: Artech House Рейтинг: Цена: 115810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This comprehensive book gives an overview of how cognitive systems and artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in electronic warfare (EW). Readers will learn how EW systems respond more quickly and effectively to battlefield conditions where sophisticated radars and spectrum congestion put a high priority on EW systems that can characterize and classify novel waveforms, discern intent, and devise and test countermeasures. Specific techniques are covered for optimizing a cognitive EW system as well as evaluating its ability to learn new information in real time. The book presents AI for electronic support (ES), including characterization, classification, patterns of life, and intent recognition. Optimization techniques, including temporal tradeoffs and distributed optimization challenges are also discussed. The issues concerning real-time in-mission machine learning and suggests some approaches to address this important challenge are presented and described. The book covers electronic battle management, data management, and knowledge sharing. Evaluation approaches, including how to show that a machine learning system can learn how to handle novel environments, are also discussed. Written by experts with first-hand experience in AI-based EW, this is the first book on in-mission real-time learning and optimization.
Автор: Gideon Haigh Название: Shadows on the Pitch: The Long Summer of 2017-18 ISBN: 1925642526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925642520 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 38590.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This collection of Gideon Haighs previously published articles distils from his daily reporting the essence of the 2017-18 cricket season, from victories and celebrations to the controversy that captured the worlds attention. The Australian mens cricket team arrived in Bangladesh in mid-August 2017 and departed South Africa in mid-April 2018, having deployed thirty-seven players in eleven Tests, ten one-day internationals and seven T20 internationals. They came from behind to draw a series in Asia; they regained the Ashes, rising from fi fth to third in the worlds Test championship; they slipped to fourth on the ODI table and rose to second in the T20I rankings. But the souring of the achievements began around 3pm on 24 March 2018 at Newlands, when umpires summoned Cameron Bancroft to discuss attempts to alter the condition of the 42-over-old ball to which they had been alerted.Ten weeks earlier, Bancroft had posed on a stage at the Sydney Cricket Ground celebrating victory over England; within two weeks, he and three of his fellow revellers, captain Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner and coach Darren Lehmann, had become casualties of perhaps the angriest and suddenest sports controversies of the century.
Автор: Haigh, Gideon Название: On warne ISBN: 1471101118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471101113 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Australia`s greatest cricketer by one of the world`s most celebrated cricket journalists
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph?
For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to their homes, they met, mingled, collaborated, and created electronically. At length, they returned to something approaching normality. Or had they glimpsed the normal to come?
In The Momentous, Uneventful Day, Gideon Haigh reflects on our ambivalent relationship to office work and office life, how we ended up with the offices we have, how they have reflected our best and worst instincts, and how these might be affected by a world in a time of contagion. Like the factory in the nineteenth century, the office was the characteristic building form of the twentieth, reshaping our cities, redirecting our lives. We all have a stake in how it will change in the twenty-first.
Enlivened by copious citations from literature, film, memoir, and corporate history, and interspersed with relevant images, The Momentous, Uneventful Day is the ideal companion for a lively current debate about the role offices will play in the future.
Автор: Haigh Martin Название: Get Ready for Work ISBN: 1913170225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913170226 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Focusing on your direction in life comes easy to some people but for others, deciding on a career path is a daunting experience. This book provides an array of tools and ideas to help prepare for and find interesting, stimulating employment (or self-employment). The contents and exercises in the book are cross-referenced to the Gatsby Benchmarks.
Автор: Haigh Richard, Macintosh J. C. Название: With the Tanks: Two First-Hand Accounts of British Tanks & Tank-Men at War in Europe During the First World War---Life in a Tank by Ri ISBN: 1846779774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846779770 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Complete 1. Discover the rich traditions, history, origins, and pioneering artists of exciting styles from around the globe. Learn the characteristic rhythms and techniques used in some of the worlds most remarkable music. All the music in this book is arranged for the guitar and will enlighten every guitarist---from beginners to advanced players.Volume 1 of this series features diverse music from six distinct parts of the world. From the lively rhythms of Italy to the exotic modes of Japan, this book will give you all the tools you need to infuse your playing with a new and unique flavor. All the music is presented in
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