Bøger af Steven Miller

In 1968, American soldiers are participating in operations in the mountainous jungles in the northern part of South Vietnam. While on patrol investigating a road that is a suspected supply route from North Vietnam, the Americans are ambushed on a steep hillside. In the fierce firefight, two soldiers, William Tracey and Carl Hulls are separated from their unit. They climb up through the thick jungle, and in trying to reach high ground and escape an American air strike, they discover a cave carved into the hillside, hidden by the dense undergrowth. Inside the cave they find a small statue made of gold and encrusted with precious gems. Knowing they can't take it out with them, they agree to bury it in the floor of the cave with the hopes they can return to Vietnam someday and retrieve it. They then make their way to the top of the mountain where there is a huge rock formation that resembles an Eagle's head. They are able to signal to an American Chopper to pick them up. Ten years later, either man's life has gone well. Tracey, pursuing a PhD has been dismissed from the program in the final stages of his dissertation after an altercation with his adviser. Hulls, suffering from the trauma resulting from his experiences in Vietnam and the wounds he received, has seen his life and marriage fall apart. Tracey reconnects with Hulls and convinces him to return to Vietnam and retrieve the statue. They recruit a former soldier, Norman Cheney to assist them. Cheney, the son of a career NCO, was a Special Forces soldier who spent much of his three tours in Vietnam on Long Range Patrols and was outraged by the US withdrawal from Vietnam and the abandonment of US POW/MIA. He agrees to take them into the jungle. His motives, however, are different from theirs.

Autonomous vehicles use global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to provide a position within a few centimeters of truth. Centimeter positioning requires accurate measurement of each satellite's direct path propagation time. Multipath corrupts the propagation time estimate by creating a time-varying bias. A GNSS receiver model is developed and the effects of multipath are investigated. MATLABtm code is provided to enable readers to run simple GNSS receiver simulations. More specifically, GNSS signal models are presented and multipath mitigation techniques are described for various multipath conditions. Appendices are included in the booklet to derive some of the basics on early minus late code synchronization methods. Details on the numerically controlled oscillator and its properties are also given in the appendix.

This book discusses the complexities inherent in preserving and interpreting the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. From how museums acquire their holdings, to how they are conserved, to how accessible they are, the book presents an encompassing look at every aspect of the duties museum by definition assume

How to Get a Museum Job discusses ways people can seek and apply for the full range of positions found in most museums. It is based on the author's experience in hiring and being hired within what can be a mysterious and even esoteric world. The book is designed to be very practical offers clear and comprehensive directions.

Deaccessioning Today: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive international overview of deaccessioning. Author Steven Miller covers reasons for removing items from collections, looks at how and why deaccessioning occurs in museums around the world, and discusses recommended disposition procedures.

Reevaluates the role of war in politics and society based on an expanded definition of the violence that it entails, with special attention to the destruction of nonliving things such as dead bodies, cities, artworks, archives, or languages, and to extreme violence such as torture and rape.