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Collins, Brian

Stewart Williams

This book addresses the fundamentals and practical implementations of antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) In this book, the authors discuss the various aspects of GNSS antennas, including fundamentals of GNSS, design approaches for the GNSS terminal and satellite antennas, performance enhancement techniques and effects of user’s presence and surrounding environment on these antennas. In addition, the book will provide the reader with an insight into the most important aspects of the GNSS antenna technology and lay the foundations for future advancements. It also includes a number of real case studies describing the ways in which antenna design can be adapted to conform to the design constraints of practical user devices, and also the management of potential adverse interactions between the antenna and its platform. Key Features: <ul>
<li>Covers the fundamentals and practical implementations of antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)</li> <li>Describes technological advancements for GPS, Glonass, Galileo and Compass</li> <li>Aims to address future issues such as multipath interference, in building operation, RF interference in mobile</li> <li>Includes a number of real case studies to illustrate practical implementation of GNSS</li> </ul>
This book will be an invaluable guide for antenna designers, system engineers, researchers for GNSS systems and postgraduate students (antennas, satellite communication technology). R&amp;D engineers in mobile handset manufacturers, spectrum engineers will also find this book of interest.

Antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Computers & Technology

Chen, Xiaodong

Parini, Clive G.

Yao, Yuan

Rehman, Masood Ur

Networking & Cloud Computing

wiley

The Other Rama: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Parasurama (SUNY Series in Hindu Studies)

The Other Rāma presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma (Rāma with the Axe), an avatára of Viṣṇu best known for decapitating his own mother and annihilating twenty-one generations of the Kṣatriya warrior caste in an extermination campaign frequently referred to as genocide by modern scholars. Compared to Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, the other human forms of Viṣṇu, Paraśurāma has a much darker reputation, with few temples devoted to him and scant worshippers. He has also attracted far less scholarly attention. But dozens of important castes and clans across the subcontinent claim Paraśurāma as the originator of their bloodline, and his mother, Reṇukā, is worshipped in the form of a severed head throughout South India.\nUsing the tools of comparative mythology and psychoanalysis, Brian Collins identifies three major motifs in the mythology of Paraśurāma: his hybrid status as a Brahmin warrior, his act of matricide, and his bloody one-man war to cleanse the earth of Kṣatriyas. Collins considers a wide variety of representations of the myth, from its origins in the Mahābhārata to contemporary debates online. He also examines Paraśurāma alongside the Wandering Jew of European legend and Psycho's matricidal serial killer Norman Bates. He examines why mythmakers once elevated this transgressive and antisocial figure to the level of an avatāra and why he still holds such fascination for a world that continues to grapple with mass killings and violence against women.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

State Univ of New York Pr

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In the beginning, says the ancient Hindu text the Rg Veda, was man. And from man’s sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The Head Beneath the Altar is the first book to present a wide-ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful reading of Girard’s work, drawing connections between his thought and the work of theorists like Georges Dumézil and Giorgio Agamben. Brian Collins examines the idea of sacrifice from the earliest recorded rituals through the flowering of classical mythology and the ancient Indian institutions of the duel, the oath, and the secret warrior society. He also uncovers implicit and explicit critiques in the tradition, confirming Girard’s intuition that Hinduism offers an alternative anti-sacrificial worldview to the one contained in the gospels.

The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Michigan State University Press

STEP OFF THE PORCH AND START YOUR OWN BUSINESS: 4 Real world case studies from a guy who risked it all to make some money. I started 4 businesses for under $10.00 each and have sold 3 so far.

Business & Money

Brian Collins

Crumlin to Pontymister Then & Now

Old Bakehouse Publications

Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind: The Forgotten Life of a 20th-Century Austrian Polymath

History

Europe

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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