Separated into modules, this text teaches control system design using H-infinity techniques. The authors begin by teaching how to formulate control system design problems as mathematical optimization problems & then discuss the theory & numerics for these optimization problems. ...

More than a "school" of philosophy with a defined set of beliefs & convictions, classical Cynicism represents an unconventional "sect" of philosophers. This is an account of classical Cynicism from its beginnings in the Socratic circle to its extinction in late Roman times. ...

Dance in India has been deemed sacred because of its innate capacity to visualise & actualise the deepest philosophical concepts through gestures, movements & the art of suggestion. This book urges the reader to take a plunge in the ocean of ambrosial knowledge, which is called 'natya vidya'. ...

All 13 episodes from the second series of the classical music travelogue presented by actor Simon Callow. Episodes are: ' London & Halle: George Fredric Handel', ' London & Dublin: George Fredric Handel', ' Malvern, Worcester & Aldeburgh: Sir Edward Elgar & Benjamin Britten', ' Paris: Claude Debussy & Maurice Ravel', ' Moscow & Switzerland: Sergei Rachmaninov', ' Munich & Garmisch: Richard Strauss & Richard Wagner', ' Budapest: Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok & Zoltan Kodaly', ' Rome & Naples: Rossini & Respighi', ' Warsaw & Krakow: Frederic Chopin', ' London, Thaxted & Cheltenham: Gustav Holst & Vaughan Williams', ' Paris & Versailles: Georges Bizet & Saint-Saens', ' Madrid: Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz & Stevan Mokranjac' & ' Moscow: Dimitri Shostakovich & Sergie Prokofiev'. ...

Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time. This book talks about the educational model based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. It uses the works of Old Masters & realist artists to demonstrate & teach the principles of realist drawing & painting. ...