1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451993603321

Autore

Brown Richard Harvey

Titolo

Culture, capitalism, and democracy in the New America [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Harvey Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-72978-7

9786611729783

0-300-12787-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 355 p.))

Disciplina

306.2/0973

Soggetti

Democracy - United States

Political culture - United States

Capitalism - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-342) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Differences that make a difference : some exceptional features of the United States -- A peculiar democracy : race, class, and corporate power in the United States -- Ideology after the millennium : problems of legitimacy in American society -- Social movements, politics, and religion in a postliberal era -- The dialectics of American selfhood : individualism and identity in the United States -- Transformations of American space and time -- Genders and generations : new strains in the American family -- The postmodern transformation of art : from production of beauty to consumption of signs.

Sommario/riassunto

The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements of these changes from more global influences. His answer focuses on the ways in which economic imperatives give shape to the shifting experience of being American.Drawing on a wide knowledge of American history and literature, the latest social science, and contemporary social issues, Brown investigates continuity and change in American race relations,



politics, religion, conception of selfhood, families, and the arts. He paints a vivid picture of contemporary America, showing how postmodernism is perceived and felt by individuals and focusing attention on the strengths and limitations of American democracy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783720903321

Autore

Yurkevich Valery D

Titolo

Design of nonlinear control systems with the highest derivative in feedback [[electronic resource] /] / Valery D. Yurkevich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2004

ISBN

1-281-88095-7

9786611880958

981-256-924-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

Series on stability, vibration, and control of systems. Design of nonlinear control systems with the highest derivative in feedback

Series on stability, vibration, and control of systems. Series A ; ; v. 16

Disciplina

629.8

629.836

Soggetti

Nonlinear control theory

Nonlinear theories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Regularly and singularly perturbed systems; Chapter 2 Design goal and reference model; Chapter 3 Methods of control system design under uncertainty; Chapter 4 Design of SISO continuous-time control systems; Chapter 5 Advanced design of SISO continuous-time control systems; Chapter 6 Influence of unmodeled dynamics; Chapter 7 Realizability of desired output behavior; Chapter 8 Design of MIMO continuous-time control systems; Chapter 9 Stabilization of internal dynamics; Chapter 10 Digital controller design based on pseudo-continuous approach

Chapter 11 Design of discrete-time control systemsChapter 12 Design of sampled-data control systems; Chapter 13 Control of distributed



parameter systems; Appendix A Proofs; Appendix B Notation system; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This unique book presents an analytical uniform design methodology ofcontinuous-time or discrete-time nonlinear control system design whichguarantees desired transient performances in the presence of plantparameter variations and unknown external disturbances.