1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451759603321

Titolo

Alexander the Great : a reader / / [edited by] Ian Worthington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-64004-5

0-203-80435-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WorthingtonIan

Disciplina

938/.07092

B

Soggetti

Generals - Greece

Electronic books.

Greece History Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C

Greece Kings and rulers Biography

Greece History Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

ALEXANDER THE GREAT; Copyright; Contents; Revised Preface; Ancient sources and modern books; Alexander's life and reign: the main events; Alexander in quotes; Special notes and abbreviations; List of maps; 1 The sources; 2 Alexander's influences and the Macedonian background; 3 Alexander's aims; 4 Alexander's battles and generalship; 5 Alexander and the Greeks; 6 Alexander and the Persian empire; 7 Alexander, India and the Gedrosian desert; 8 From mass marriage to death; 9 Alexander and the 'unity of mankind'; 10 Alexander and deification; 11 Alexander and conspiracies

12 Alexander: the 'Great'?Index of sources; General index

Sommario/riassunto

This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate and discussion:The SourcesAlexander's Influences and the Macedonian Background



Alexander's Aims Alexander's Battles and Generalship Alexander and the Greeks Ale

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484806203321

Titolo

Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks : 8th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2009, Murcia, Spain, September 22-25, 2009, Proceedings / / edited by Pedro M. Ruiz, J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-642-04383-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 404 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications, , 2945-9184 ; ; 5793

Classificazione

DAT 256f

ELT 745f

SS 4800

Altri autori (Persone)

Garcia-Luna-AcevesJ. J

RuizPedro M

Disciplina

621.3821

Soggetti

Computer networks

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Cryptography

Data encryption (Computer science)

Data structures (Computer science)

Information theory

Electronic data processing - Management

Application software

Computer Communication Networks

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Cryptology

Data Structures and Information Theory

IT Operations

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Regular Papers -- TCP over Multi-Hop Wireless Networks: The Impact of MAC Level Interactions -- Cooperative Signalling and Its Application in a Power-Controlled MAC Protocol -- Joint Source-Channel-Network Decoding and Blind Estimation of Correlated Sensors Using Concatenated Zigzag Codes -- Challenges for Routing and Search in Dynamic and Self-organizing Networks -- Routing Metric for Interference and Channel Diversity in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks -- Minimum Delay Data Gathering in Radio Networks -- Asymptotic Delay Analysis and Timeout-Based Admission Control for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks -- Statistical Properties of the Delivery Rate for Single-Sink and Multiple-Sink Sensor Networks -- Application-Driven Analytic Toolbox for WSNs -- A Diffusion Approximation Analysis of Multilevel Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks -- Localized Sensor Self-deployment with Coverage Guarantee in Complex Environment -- An Efficient and Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Towards Fair Leader Election in Wireless Networks -- Auction Aggregation Protocols for Wireless Robot-Robot Coordination -- On Minimizing the Maximum Sensor Movement for Barrier Coverage of a Line Segment -- Mobile Sinks for Information Retrieval from Cluster-Based WSN Islands -- Secure EPC Gen2 Compliant Radio Frequency Identification -- On the Trade-Off between User-Location Privacy and Queried-Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks -- SenSearch: GPS and Witness Assisted Tracking for Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks -- Monte Carlo Localization of Mobile Sensor Networks Using the Position Information of Neighbor Nodes -- Autonomous Transmission Power Adaptation for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks -- A Decentralized Approach to Minimum-Energy Broadcasting in Static Ad Hoc Networks -- Heavily Reducing WSNs’ Energy Consumption by Employing Hardware-Based Compression -- Optimal and Fair Transmission Rate Allocation Problem in Multi-hop Cellular Networks -- Short Papers -- A Topology Management Routing Protocol for Mobile IP Support of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Implementation and Comparison of AODV and OLSR Routing Protocols in an Ad-Hoc Network over Bluetooth -- Inside-Out OLSR Scalability Analysis -- Proximal Labeling for Oblivious Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- Proposal and Evaluation of a Caching Scheme for Ad Hoc Networks -- A Secure Spontaneous Ad-Hoc Network to Share Internet Access -- A Middleware Family for VANETs -- Joint IP Address and Public Key Certificate Trust Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- A Localized Algorithm for Target Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks -- A Wireless Sensor Network Architecture for Homeland Security Application.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, ADHOC-NOW 2009, held in Murcia, Spain, in September 2008. The 24 revised full papers and the 10 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers deal with advances in Ad-Hoc networks, mesh networks, sensor networks and vehicular networks.