Seven-hour black-&-white epic following life in a small, dilapidated post-Communist Hungarian village where nothing ever happens & nobody wants to be. Adapted from a novel by Laszlo Karsznahorkai, the saga is presented through chapters looking at life from the viewpoint of each of the different villagers, all of whom want to leave as soon as they revieve a much-anticipated cash payment they are expecting. The film won the Caligari Film Prize as well as receiving the Ecumenical Jury Prize Special Mention at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival. ...

The quintessential American artist Louis Armstrong was born in 1901 in New Orleans & died in 1971 in New York City, where he had lived for many years in a modest house in Queens. The house is now a museum in his honour. This work tells the story of Armstrong's life through his writings, scrapbooks & artworks. ...

This cutting edge book analyzes the effect of aerosols on the Earth's climate & introduces for the first time satellite aerosol remote sensing over l&. The book is written by specialists working at the forefront of research in this important area. ...

* A new & updated edition of the highly successful comprehensive reference to satellite communications. *

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This is the first book to deal with the systematic integration of airphotos & satellite images in geological terrain evaluation. There is an explanation of the combined method of visual, qualitative analysis & interpretation of photo & image data sets. ...

Adopts a perspective on positioning & navigation systems which rely on Earth orbiting satellites for their successful operation. This book discusses these systems, emphasizing political, commercial, legal & technical issues. It also examines the opportunities & the problems of having three similar systems in operation simultaneously. ...