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  • Autonomous and Autonomic Systems: With Applications to NASA Intelligent Spacecraft Operations and Exploration Systems

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In the early 1990s, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center started researching and developing autonomous and autonomic ground and spacecraft control systems for future NASA missions. This research started by experimenting with and developing expert systems to automate ground station software and reduce the number of people needed to control a spacecraft. This was followed by research into agent-based ... Read more

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    The Caretaker

    A Novel

    by Ron Rash ...
    Narrated by James Patrick Cronin ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 2 min

    ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash ("One of the great American authors at work today" —The New York Times) is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honor, and love.It ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Lay Of The Motor-Car (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    19 min

    Buckle up for a poetic ride with the wind whipping through your hair (or bonnet, if you prefer). "The Lay of the Motor-Car" by Australia's beloved Banjo Paterson is a rollicking ode to the early days of the automobile. Join the joy of the open road as Paterson celebrates the speed, freedom, and sheer exhilaration of this revolutionary invention. He captures the thrill of the chase, the awe ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Patience for the Ride

    The Art and Life of Will Johnson

    Series series Gary Hartman Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    Jason Isbell describes Will Johnson’s songs as a poetic manipulation of language that employs “multi-syllable words used almost as musical instruments [and] detailed images flying at the listener with no time to fully decipher meaning before the next image appears.” Similar sentiments are echoed in many engaging essays shared here by John Krajicek in Patience for the Ride: The Art and Life of Will ... Read more

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  • The True Story of Freddie Mercury the Parrot

    How a Missing Macaw Captured the Hearts of an Entire Community

    by Victor Rash ...
    When author Victor Rash visited a bird rescue and encountered the bird that would eventually become Freddie Mercury, a blue-and-gold–scarlet macaw mix, he was thrilled. He knew the one-and-a-half-year-old parrot was very special. Freddie quickly made himself part of Victor’s life, playing with toys and living happily in the Florida room at the back of the house. Then one January day a few years ... Read more

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    by Ron Rash ...
    Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives.While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in 1969, sixteen-year-old Eugene and his older brother, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    The Golden Gate

    A Novel

    by Amy Chua ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 19 min

    "Moreira displays his many years of dramatic training and extensive theatrical experience as he animates characters as diverse as low-life thugs, the upper-class Bainbridge women, and even Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Tim Campbell and Suzanne Toren ably narrate the court deposition sequences. This audiobook is part hard-boiled detective story, part family saga, and wholly good listening!"- AudioFileAmy ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Flying Insects and Robots

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Flying insects are intelligent micromachines capable of exquisite maneuvers in unpredictable environments. Understanding these systems advances our knowledge of flight control, sensor suites, and unsteady aerodynamics, which is of crucial interest to engineers developing intelligent flying robots or micro air vehicles (MAVs). The insights we gain when synthesizing bioinspired systems can in turn ... Read more

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  • Human Modelling in Assisted Transportation

    Models, Tools and Risk Methods

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The objective of this Workshop is to confront models, methods and tools developed within the projects with the ongoing research worldwide and to provide an environment for fruitful exchange of ideas. The main topics are: 1. Advanced human models in transportation. 2. Human Errors and Risk Assessment in design processes of assistance systems. 3. Methods and tools to prevent erroneous behaviour to ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Computational Methods and Models for Transport

    New Challenges for the Greening of Transport Systems

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume addresses challenges and solutions in transport and mobility of people and goods with respect to environment, safety, security and socio–economics issues, exploring advanced computational research work and the latest innovations in transport.This book brings together lectures presented at the ECCOMAS Thematic CM3 Conference on Transport held in Jyväskylä, Finland, 25-27 May 2015. It is ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Orbital Dynamics in the Gravitational Field of Small Bodies

    by Yang Yu ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This prizewinning PhD thesis presents a general discussion of the orbital motion close to solar system small bodies (SSSBs), which induce non-central asymmetric gravitational fields in their neighborhoods. It introduces the methods of qualitative theory in nonlinear dynamics to the study of local/global behaviors around SSSBs. Detailed mechanical models are employed throughout this dissertation, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Ionospheres and Plasma Environments

    Volume 2

    by Erdal Yiğit ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The SpringerBriefs on Atmospheric and Space Sciences in two volumes presents a concise and interdisciplinary introduction to the basic theory, observation & modeling of atmospheric and ionospheric coupling processes on Earth. The goal is to contribute toward bridging the gap between meteorology, aeronomy, and planetary science. In addition recent progress in several related research topics, such ... Read more

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