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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dmitry a yakovlev”
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  • Modeling and Optimization of LCD Optical Performance

    by Dmitry A. Yakovlev, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Hoi-Sing Kwok ...
    Series series Wiley Series in Display Technology
    Focusing on polarization matrix optics in many forms, this book includes coverage of a wide range of methods which have been applied to LCD modeling, ranging from the simple Jones matrix method to elaborate and high accuracy algorithms suitable for off-axis optics. Researchers and scientists are constantly striving for improved performance, faster response times, wide viewing angles, improved ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • CIA Target

    The USSR - With a New Critical Introduction

    by Nikolai Yakovlev ...
    Translated by Vic Schneierson ...
    Series Book 209 - The Progress Publishers Library
    A study of American covert operations, and an exhibit in a prosecution.The first four chapters are a survey of American covert action assembled almost entirely from American public sources, and that survey is broadly sound. Yakovlev quotes the 1948 Policy Planning Staff paper drafted under George Kennan on keeping the Soviet Union weak relative to forces outside its control, and works through the ... Read more

    $2.75 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Political Science

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Yakovlev ...
    Translated by David Fidlon ...
    Series Book 121 - The Progress Publishers Library
    A primer is a revealing thing to hold up to the light, because it must tell the beginner where power lies.This one was written for exactly that beginner, and it sets out lucidly and at length to explain the state, class rule, democracy, the party and the world political process. What makes it worth having is who wrote it. The title page credits a group of authors headed by A. N. Yakovlev and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Conditional Function Control of Aircraft

    by Andrey Vyacheslavovich Yakovlev, Andrey Sergeevich Istomin, Dmitry Alexandrovich Zatuchny, Yury Grigorievich Shatrakov ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book highlights the prevention of possible accidents and crashes of aircrafts by analyzing the many factors that affect such events. It includes the theoretical study of known ideas and concepts, as well as a set of new methods and mathematical models. It contains factual information to investigate famous disasters and aviation accidents with aircrafts. The book proposes methods and models ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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    by Moshe Lewin ...
    This classic Soviet Union history traces the USSR from 1917 to its fall, offering “a master class in understanding the structures and intricate workings of the Soviet system” (Ian Kershaw, historian and Hitler biographer).Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Understanding Socialism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A blend of history, analysis, and theory, "Understanding Socialism" is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. "Richard Wolff's book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and ... Read more

    $13.09 CAD

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  • The State and Revolution

    by Vladimir Lenin ...
    Translated by Robert Service ...
    In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Dark Continent

    Europe's Twentieth Century

    by Mark Mazower ...
    An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future."[A] splendid book." —The New York Times Book ReviewDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Steady Aircraft Flight and Performance

    by N. Harris McClamroch ...
    This undergraduate textbook offers a unique introduction to steady flight and performance for fixed-wing aircraft from a twenty-first-century flight systems perspective. Emphasizing the interplay between mathematics and engineering, it fully explains the fundamentals of aircraft flight and develops the basic algebraic equations needed to obtain the conditions for gliding flight, level flight, ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Fascism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kevin Passmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Advanced Aircraft Design

    Conceptual Design, Analysis and Optimization of Subsonic Civil Airplanes

    by Egbert Torenbeek, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Roy Langton, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series series Aerospace Series
    Although the overall appearance of modern airliners has not changed a lot since the introduction of jetliners in the 1950s, their safety, efficiency and environmental friendliness have improved considerably. Main contributors to this have been gas turbine engine technology, advanced materials, computational aerodynamics, advanced structural analysis and on-board systems. Since aircraft design ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Socialism Betrayed

    Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

    by Roger Keeran, Thomas Kenny ...
    "A fresh multi-faceted look at the overthrow of the Soviet State, the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, and the campaign to introduce capitalism from above. Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny have given us a clear and powerful Marxist analysis of the momentous events which most directly shaped world politics today, the destruction of the USSR, the 'Superpower' of socialism."-Norman Markowitz, author ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD