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UNINA9910459097803321 |
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Stoker Donald J |
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The grand design [[electronic resource] ] : strategy and the U.S. Civil War / / Donald Stoker |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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1-282-63925-0 |
9786612639258 |
0-19-970660-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (513 p.) |
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Strategy - History - 19th century |
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United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns |
United States Military policy |
Confederate States of America Military policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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 and index. |
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Contents; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Policy and War; 2 The Sinews of War; 3 Mr. Lincoln Goes to War; 4 The Border States: Policy, Strategy, and Civil-Military Relations; 5 McClellan on Top: Union Strategy, July 1861-October 1861; 6 Union Strategy: November 1861-March 1862; 7 The Foundations of Naval Strategy; 8 The War in the West: Breaking the Cordon; 9 A New Year-and a New Strategy; 10 War in Virginia; 11 Confusion in the West: The Summer of 1862; 12 The Tyranny of Time; 13 Facing the Arithmetic: Escalation and Destruction; 14 The Enormous Proportions of War |
15 Vicksburg and Exhaustion16 The Cruel Summer of 1863: The Gettysburg Campaign; 17 The Autumn of 1863: Playing the Deep Game; 18 The Siren Song of Tennessee: The Winter of 1863-64; 19 Decision and Desperation, 1864; 20 The Full Fury of Modern War; 21 War Termination; 22 Conclusion: In War's Shadow; Abbreviations; Notes; Index |
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Of the tens of thousands of books exploring virtually every aspect of the Civil War, surprisingly little has been said about what was in fact |
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the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis identified |
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UNINA9910450177003321 |
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Autore |
Silva Luciano Afonso da <1973-> |
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Robust range image registration [[electronic resource] ] : using genetic algorithms and the surface interpenetration measure / / Luciano Silva and Olga R.P. Bellon, Kim L. Boyer |
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Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2005 |
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1-281-87674-7 |
9786611876746 |
981-256-312-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (173 p.) |
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Series in machine perception and artificial intelligence ; ; v. 60 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BellonOlga R. P |
BoyerKim L |
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Computer simulation |
Mathematical models |
Electronic books. |
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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 (p. 157-162) and index. |
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Preface; Contents; Introduction; Range Image Registration; Surface Interpenetration Measure (SIM); Range Image Registration using Genetic Algorithms; Robust Range Registration by Robust Range Registration by; Multiview Range Image Registration; Closing Comments; Appendix - Experimental Results; Bibliography; Index |
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This book addresses the range image registration problem for automatic 3D model construction. The focus is on obtaining highly precise alignments between different view pairs of the same object to |
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