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"I know exactly how you feel" [Sir Eric Willis weighed down by Tom Lewis and Neville Wran weighed down by Gough Whitlam] [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer.; "1976, NSW State Election, Lib Willis weighed down by reputation of right wing predecessor Lewis, Wran weighed down by Whitlam, now fed oppn leader." -- Printed in ink on verso.; Published in the Bulletin on 1 May 1976.; Part of the Moir collection of cartoons and drawings.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3081525
Development of an aircraft design expert system
Full text linkThe aircraft design process is characterised by the application
of a wide range of knowledge across many disciplines based upon a
certain degree of judgement and experience of the designer. A two
pass approach has been taken towards the development of an aircraft
design expert system based on the requirements of two conceptually
different design steps namely, wing design and aircraft configuration.
The current status of the work is one where an actual program for wing
design exists with supporting documentation, and a very effective
examination of the knowledge base performed based on the detail
investigation of overall aircraft design process with particular
emphasis on the wing design and the aircraft configuration design
steps.
The approach taken accomplishes the objectives of the current
research in defining the knowledge base, providing tools and
specifications for tools to be used within an aircraft design expert
system closely following the problem-solving techniques utilised by
the design expert
Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
In Alan Turing’s Name: Pardoning the Dead, Forgetting the Living
No full textThis special panel discussion brought together authorities on Alan Turing and the statutory pardon legislation intended to honour him. Leading academics, in conversation with those who have unsuccessfully petitioned to have offences disregarded, were joined by the Turing Bill’s author
Bernard Williams
No full textAn edited multi-author volume assessing the moral philosophy of the late British philosopher Bernard Williams. Contributors: Adrian Moore, John Skorupski, Alan Thomas, Robert B Louden, Michael Stocker, A. A. Long, Edward Crai
An MDO concept for large civil airliner wings
Full text linkThis thesis investigates the application of Multi-Disciplinary Design, Anal-
ysis and Optimisation to the design of a large civil airliner, similar in size as
the future A3XX. For the first time structural optimisation, manufacturing
cost and aerodynamic effects are simultaneously integrated within a realistic,
complex aircraft design problem: the wing box of such a large airliner.
A novel multi-level system was developed to incorporate structural effects
and manufacturing cost: mass is treated at a top-level while costs are treated
at a structural sub-level. It allows a designer to study cost changes with
respect to design changes and the interaction of cost with other disciplines
such as structures and aerodynamics. The flexibility of the system allows
companies to import their own results or cost data and to perform cost
studies based on historical data or highly novel processes.
Structural optimisation of the wing box using MSc/NASTRAN and STARS,
the development of a metal and composite cost model and the overall MDO
methodology are being discussed
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
Full text linkThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art
No full textThe book is the catalogue of the exhibition Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art, which the author curated from the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Arts Council, London, Southampton City Art Gallery and private collections. The author provided three essays, 'The Geometry of Modern British Art', 'West Country Constructivism', and 'Abstract Art and the Decline of Modernism' to advance critical histories of three distinct moments of importance in the development of British abstract art. A fourth, edited by him, was by a research student under his supervision (Alan Fowler) and covered Systems Art and Constructionism
Observations on the music and life of pianist/composer Herbie Hancock
No full textAn analysis of Hancock's musical style, pianism and biographyM.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Alan SimonIncludes discograph
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