Suitable for students of aerospace engineering, this third edition is illustrated and fully supported with downloadable MATLAB algorithms for project and practical work. It features: a chapter on orbital perturbations; examples and homework problems; and, increased coverage of attitude dynamics, inc[...]
Orbital mechanics is a cornerstone subject for aerospace engineering students. This text focuses on what students at undergraduate and taught masters level need to know. It brings a fresh, modern, approach to teaching and learning orbital mechanics. It is illustrated and supported with downloadable [...]
Suitable for engineers involved in various aspects of aerospace, this book brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. It covers topics ranging from structural components of aircraft, design and airworthiness to aerodynamics and [...]
Orbital mechanics is a subject for aerospace engineering students. Starting with the solution of the two-body problem and formulas for the different kinds of orbits, this text moves on to Kepler's equations, orbits in three dimensions, orbital elements from observations, orbital maneuvers, orbital r[...]
Through the eyes of a kidnapped westerner, literary giant Yasmina Khadra tells a gripping story of moral conflict, cultural awakening and lasting friendship in East Africa.[...]
This is a complete, stand-alone text for this core aerospace engineering subject. It is updated throughout, with new coverage of perturbations, Lambert's problem, attitude dynamics, and techniques for numerically integrating orbits. It includes more examples and homework problems, more Matlab algori[...]
The 35th annual edition of Military Aircraft Markings lists in alphabetical and numerical order all the following military aircraft, plus powered, manned aeroplanes, helicopters, airships, gliders as well as target drones. * Aircraft that carry a UK military serial which are based or might be seen[...]
Raphael Jerusalmy's debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Drained by his illness and isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace only in music. He is horrified to[...]
At the Bar Lume, in a small coastal resort near Livorno, between shots of espresso and hands of cards, four old-timers and Massimo, the barman, wile away the time chatting, arguing, and theorizing about the murder of a young woman in their town.
The girl's body was found in a dumpster bin on th[...]
This new novel by Marco Malvaldi marks the return of the investigative quartet nicknamed the "senile squad." At the Bar Lume, with the exception of the bartender Massimo and his assistant, the beautiful and kindly Tiziana, the youngest regular customer is Aldo, seventy-something owner of the Osteria[...]
In each of the titular "Three Tales", Flaubert studies the nature of humanity and spirituality: the loyal servant who dies alone, having served her masters all her life, not once complaining of the tragic losses she has suffered therein; the young man sanctified at birth whose bloodlust leads him to[...]
Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli sentenced to sixteen years for smuggling drugs into Italy. Everything seems stacked against the appeal, not least the fact that Paolicelli initially confessed to the crime. Guerrieri's reluctance to take on the case is intensified by the fa[...]
A richly textured, melancholy investigation into the human comedy.