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Reflections on power prediction modeling of conventional high-speed craft / Dejan Radojčić

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Active control of offshore steel jacket platforms Bao-Lin Zhang, Qing-Long Han, Xian-Ming Zhang, Gong-You Tang

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A Holistic Approach to Ship Design. Apostolos Papanikolaou, editor

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018). K. Murali, V. Sriram, Abdus Samad, Nilanjan Saha, editors

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Contemporary ideas on ship stability: risk of capsizing / editors, Vadim L. Belenky, Kostas J. Spyrou, Frans van Walree, Marcelo Almeida Santos Neves and Naoya Umeda

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018). K. Murali, V. Sriram, Abdus Samad, Nilanjan Saha, editors

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Suffrage on the Menu: Traces of the Life and Legacy of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont

Written by Ina R. Bort Recently acquired by the New-York Historical Society, this small plate adorned with the “Votes for Women” slogan is linked to Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a notable New Yorker whose fascinating, improbable life trajectory began as a society doyenne and ended as suffrage activist. This, the first of three posts, explores perhaps the...

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Mobilizing the Military: Enlistment Posters in World War I

Written by Kelly Morgan Before America’s entry into World War I in 1917, citizens significantly debated whether the United States should remain neutral. Artists contributed to this national conversation through their artwork. Consequently, the government depended on these artists in a variety of ways. From garnering support from the American public to ascertaining information from...

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Suffrage on the Menu, Part III: Alva’s Political Equality Association Lunchroom

Written by Ina Bort In our last two posts, we explored the life of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and dropped in at her Marble House suffrage conferences in Newport, where “Votes for Women” plates like this one may very well have been used. But it may be that these plates were instead (or also) used—that is,...

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Bringing It All Back Home: The Vietnam War in Public History and Personal Memory

Written by Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society I was born in 1953, three months before the signing of the armistice that ended the Korean War. My uncle, a U.S. soldier stationed in the Philippines, came home to New York that summer, bearing souvenirs. Among them was an exquisite embroidered silk kimono. A...

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“Live Your American Dream”: Celebrating 200 New U.S. Citizens

Sunday, September 17 marked the 228th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a day commonly honored as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day—acknowledging the role not only of our founding document but also of the citizens who live by it. How special, then, that one day after this noteworthy anniversary, we welcomed more than...

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“Pilgrims Going to Church”: Thanksgiving and the Pilgrim in Public Memory

Thanksgiving in the modern-day American consciousness often evokes images of turkeys, balloons, pumpkin pies, and, of course, the inevitable reference to the Pilgrims. More than any other Thanksgiving icon, the Pilgrim emerged as the exemplary American success story: religious refugees banned from openly practicing their brand of Protestantism and desperate to retain their English identity....

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Program Recap: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

On Tuesday, November 14, the New-York Historical Society hosted a discussion, “A Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition.” This Frederick Douglass Council event featured Manisha Sinha as the guest speaker and Eric Foner as the moderator. Manisha Sinha, a James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, is...

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Program Recap: Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

On December 6, 2017, the New-York Historical Society hosted a lecture featuring distinguished historian Stephen Kotkin. Stephen Kotkin, author of the book Stalin: Waiting For Hitler, 1929-1941, explored Joseph Stalin’s forced industrialization of the Soviet Union and assessed his relationship with Hitler’s Nazi Germany during World War II.  When Kotkin took the stage, he opened...

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Listening to Black Women’s Voices

What do diversity and inclusivity mean in a museum-based digital interactive installation? This question was central to the design of our Women’s Voices exhibit, a wall of touchscreens that allow visitors to explore individuals, groups, and events spanning New York State and City women’s history. Our goal was to balance the appeal of biographies while...

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Scenes from the First Earth Day: Photos from the 1970 Rallies in New York City

Every year on April 22, people around the world pause to rally for the planet. Earth Day has become a global event, part demonstration, part celebration, as concerned citizens lend their support to a natural world that’s increasingly in peril. That sense of urgency was there from the very beginning: April 22, 1970, marked the...

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The Palisades in Peril: Meet the Forgotten Women Who Fought to Save the Great Cliffs of the Hudson River

The champion racing yacht Marietta set sail from Pier A in lower Manhattan on the chilly late morning of September 22, 1897. Mrs. Edith Gifford was aboard along with fellow members of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs (NJSFWC) and their male allies from the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (ASHPS). This...

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The trials of spring / Fork Films presents ; producer, Beth Levison ; director, Gini Reticker ; a co-production of ZAG Line Pictures, LLC and Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; in association with Fork Films, Artemis Rising Foundation and Center For

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Kedi / a Termite Films production, in association with PK Film ; directed by Ceyda Torun ; produced by Ceyda Torun, Charlie Wuppermann

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Frame by frame / a film by Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli ; a Red Reel & Rake Films production ; in association with CoPilot Pictures, Exposure Labs & Rampante ; a Time Inc. presentation ; directed by Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli ; producer

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Pulsar astrophysics: the next fifty years: proceedings of the 337th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held at Jodrell Bank Observatory, United Kingdom, September 4-8, 2017 / edited by Patrick Weltevrede, Benetge B.P. Perera, Lina Levin Pr

Hayden Library - QB843.P8 I58 2018




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4th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications: Delft, The Netherlands, October 16 -18, 2017 / editors, H. Paul Urbach and Qifeng Yu

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From habitability to life on Mars / edited by Nathalie A. Cabrol, Edmond A. Grin

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Simulating large-scale structure for models of cosmic acceleration / Baojiu Li

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Hubble Deep Field and the distant universe / Robert Williams

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Space weather of the heliosphere: processes and forecasts: proceedings of the 335th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, July 17-21, 2017 / edited by Claire Foullon, Olga E. Malandraki

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Russia's posture in space: prospects for Europe / Marco Aliberti, Ksenia Lisitsyna

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Principles of gravitational lensing: light deflection as a probe of astrophysics and cosmology / Arthur B. Congdon, Charles R. Keeton

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Saturation of the f-mode instability in neutron stars / Pantelis Pnigouras

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Chronicling the golden age of astronomy: a history of visual observing from Harriot to Moore / Neil English

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Solar planetary systems: stardust to terrestrial and extraterrestrial planetary sciences / Asit B. Bhattacharya, Jeffrey M. Lichtman

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One of ten billion earths: how we learn about our planet's past and future from distant exoplanets / Karel Schrijver

Hayden Library - QB820.S287 2018




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Modeling and analysis of eclipsing binary stars: the theory and design principles of PHOEBE / Andrej Prša

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Extensions of f(R) gravity: curvature-matter couplings and hybrid metric-Palatini gravity / Tiberiu Harko (University College London), Francisco S.N. Lobo (Universidade de Lisboa)

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Stellar Populations and the Distance Scale: a conference in honor of Jeremy Mould: proceedings of a conference held at Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, Beijing, China, 11-15 September 2017 / edited by Joseph B. Jensen,

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Five photons: Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time / James Geach

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Hawking radiation: from astrophysical black holes to analogous systems in lab / Francesco D. Belgiorno (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Sergio L. Cacciatori (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy), Daniele Faccio (Heriot-Watt University, UK)

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Einstein's monsters: the life and times of black holes / Chris Impey

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Exotic nuclei and nuclear/particle astrophysics (VII): physics with small accelerators: proceedings of Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2016 (CSSP18): conference date, 1-14 July 2018: location, Sinaia, Romania / editors, Livius Trache and Alexandra Spi

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Exoplanets: hidden worlds and the quest for extraterrestrial life / Donald Goldsmith

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Critical Space Infrastructures: Risk, Resilience and Complexity / Alexandru Georgescu [and 3 others]

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Acquisition strategies for future space-based optics: unclassified summary / Committee on Acquisition Strategies for Future Space-Based Optics, Intelligence Community Studies Board ; Air Force Studies Board ; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Strategic investments in instrumentation and facilities for extraterrestrial sample curation and analysis / Committee on Extraterrestrial Sample Analysis Facilities, Space Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Perihelia reduction and Global Kolmogorov tori in the planetary problem / Gabriella Pinzari

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Hypersonic meteoroid entry physics / Gianpiero Colonna, Mario Capitelli and Annarita Laricchiuta

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From Cave Man to Cave Martian: Living in Caves on the Earth, Moon and Mars / Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried

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Saturn in the 21st century / edited by Kevin H. Baines (University of Wisconsin, Madison), F. Michael Flasar (NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center), Norbert Krupp (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne), Tom Stallard (University of Leicest

Hayden Library - QB671.S2445 2018




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Multiscale and multiresolution approaches in turbulence: LES, DES and hybrid RANS/LES methods: applications and guidelines / Pierre Sagaut, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-- Paris 6, France, Sébastien Deck, ONERA, France, Marc Terracol, ONERA,

Barker Library - TA357.5.T87 S24 2013




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Vibration, structural engineering and measurement II: selected, peer-reviewed papers from the 2012 international conference on vibration, structural engineering and measurement (ICVSEM 2012), October 19-21, 2012, Shanghai, China / edited by Chunliang Zhan

Barker Library - TA355.V58 2012




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Applied mechanics and civil engineering II: selected, peer reviewed papers from the Second SREE Workshop on Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering (AMCE 2012), September 15-16, 2012, Hong Kong / edited by Liquan Xie

Barker Library - TA349.A66 2012