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UNINA9910418318903321 |
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Autore |
Moreillon Olivier |
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Titolo |
Reading the post-apartheid city : Durbanite and Capetonian literary topographies in selected texts beyond 2000 / / Olivier Moreillon |
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Berlin/Germany, : Logos Verlag Berlin, 2019 |
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Berlin, Gemany : , : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Cities and towns in literature |
Urbanization - South Africa |
South Africa Cape Town Literature |
South Africa Durban Literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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This study analyses the representation of Durbanite and Capetonian urban spaces in the following selection of post-apartheid works: Mariam Akabor's ''Flat 9'', Rozena Maart's ''Rosa's District Six'', Johan van Wyk's ''Man Bitch'', K. Sello Duiker's ''Thirteen Cents'', Bridget McNulty's ''Strange Nervous Laughter'', and Lauren Beukes' ''Moxyland''. The focus lies on the interrelatedness of shifting post-apartheid subjectivities and urban space (and place) in these literary works. The analysis not only grants access to different ‘new voices` of post-apartheid literature, it also sheds light on the perception of South African history, urban geography, and cultural topography – essentially, on real as well as imagined South African urban spaces – as the literary representations of city-spaces become archives of cultural transformation processes; a gateway to the understanding of the developments and changes of, and within, the two cities in question. |
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UNINA9910968831403321 |
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Autore |
Dhillon B. S (Balbir S.), <1947, > |
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Transportation systems reliability and safety / / B.S. Dhillon |
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Boca Raton, Fla., : CRC Press, 2011 |
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Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2011 |
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1-04-015782-3 |
0-429-06420-9 |
1-62870-602-3 |
1-4398-4641-3 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 pages) |
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Transportation engineering |
Transportation - Safety measures |
Transportation - Reliability |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Contents; Preface; About the Author; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Reliability and Safety Mathematics; Chapter 3: Reliability and Safety Basics; Chapter 4: Methods for Performing Transportation System Reliability and Safety Analysis; Chapter 5: Transportation System Failures; Chapter 6: Transportation System Reliability Modeling; Chapter 7: Rail Safety; Chapter 8: Truck and Bus Safety; Chapter 9: Airline and Ship Safety; Chapter 10: Human Error in Rail and Road Transportation Systems; Chapter 11: Human Error in Aviation and Sea Transportation Systems |
Bibliography: Literature on the Reliability and Safety of Transportation SystemsBack Cover |
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During day-to-day use, thousands of lives are lost each year due to accidents, directly or indirectly, resulting from poor transportation system reliability and safety. In the United States, automobile accidents alone result in around 42,000 deaths per year, costing billions of dollars to the economy each year. A common subject in journal articles and conference proceedings, most of the recent research on transportation systems reliability and safety is scattered in different |
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resources. Until now.Drawing together the latest research spread throughout the literature, Transportation Systems Reliability and Safety eliminates the need to consult many different and diverse sources to obtain up-to-date information and research. It contains a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter on reliability and safety basics that form a foundation for understanding the contents of subsequent chapters. The book also presents a chapter devoted to methods for performing transportation system reliability and safety analysis. It includes a reference section at the end of each chapter for readers who wish to delve deeper into a specific area. The author clearly and concisely covers topics in such a manner that readers require no previous knowledge to understand the concepts. He provides examples and their solutions as well as numerous problems at the end of each chapter to test reader comprehension. The presentation of historical information paired with recent research give readers a foundation for understanding where the field is now and snapshot of where it may be going-- |
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