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A comic masterpiece of medieval French literature, "Aucassin and Nicolette" is categorized by its anonymous author as a chantefable, or song-story, and is the only known work of this kind. This edition includes the thirteenth-century French text and a modern English translation on facing pages. An introduction outlines the text s background, genre, literary relations, historical contexts, major themes, and relevance to a contemporary audience. Its alternating sections of verse and prose recount a story of love between the aristocratic but distinctly unheroic young lord Aucassin and his...

Practical Field Robotics: A Systems Approach is an introductory book in the area of field robotics. It approaches the subject with a systems design methodology, showing the reader every important decision made in the process of planning, designing, making and testing a field robot.

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- Takes a practical approach to field robotics, presenting the design and implementation of a robot from start to end
- Provides multiple robot examples including those used in in nuclear service, underground coal mining and mowing
- Bridges the gap between...

Matthew and his family have recently moved from the big city to a small quiet town in upstate New York. Little did they know of the town's three hundred year history for being haunted by Witches and Ghosts! Matthew will soon see for himself that there is more to Halloween in this strange little town than he had ever expected!

Medieval drama based on the Bible commonly directs its audiences toward a Christian interpretation, but equally interesting, and less frequently investigated by scholars, are the plays' modes of resistance to Christian authority. Through a reading informed by the recent temporal turn in queer theory, Robert S. Sturges revitalizes discussions of medieval drama by focusing on how these plays depict the dissemination of power throughout medieval culture. As Sturges shows, power and ultimately resistance were typically enacted through the human body, objects, gender, politics, economics, law, and...