Brian Collins

This book addresses the fundamentals and practical implementations of antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) In this book, the authors discuss the various aspects of GNSS antennas, including fundamentals of GNSS, design approaches for the GNSS terminal and satellite antennas, performance enhancement techniques and effects of user’s presence and surrounding environment on these antennas. In addition, the book will provide the reader with an insight into the most important aspects of the GNSS antenna technology and lay the foundations for future advancements. It also includes a number of real case studies describing the ways in which antenna design can be adapted to conform to the design constraints of practical user devices, and also the management of potential adverse interactions between the antenna and its platform. Key Features: Covers the fundamentals and practical implementations of antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)Describes technological advancements for GPS, Glonass, Galileo and CompassAims to address future issues such as multipath interference, in building operation, RF interference in mobileIncludes a number of real case studies to illustrate practical implementation of GNSS This book will be an invaluable guide for antenna designers, system engineers, researchers for GNSS systems and postgraduate students (antennas, satellite communication technology). R&D engineers in mobile handset manufacturers, spectrum engineers will also find this book of interest.

Looking for inspiration to launch that new project or career? Have a great idea but can't figure out how to move it forward? Drawing on Brian's years as a Walt Disney Imagineer, global innovation consultant, and college instructor, Creative Cross-Pollination encapsulates his unique process and idea-generating techniques for tackling life's challenges and achieving your biggest dreams. Sounds lofty? It's not. Anybody looking for fresh ideas, trying to get out of a rut, or wanting to innovate new products, services, or techniques can apply Creative Cross-Pollination to generate that spark. Whether facing a personal challenge, leading a team, or looking for inspiring new ways to enhance your creativity, Brian shares the secrets that allowed him to not only help create some of the world's most beloved attractions, but craft insanely creative solutions for clients . . . and himself. As you will learn in this lighthearted but impactful book, Creative Cross-Pollination works because it is a naturally-occurring skill, something that each one of us has, back from the times when our most distant ancestors were living in caves Whether you're a teacher, athlete, student, executive, or plumber, Brian explains how to recognize and tap into this capability by accessing your "mental filing cabinet." You'll learn how to take two seemingly unrelated things and combine them to get breakthrough results. You'll also get examples of how others, from all walks of life, have cross-pollinated ideas, and finally, four techniques that will get you buzzing along. Creative Cross-Pollination is fun, easy, and it works

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Parasurama ("Rama with the Axe"), an avatára of Vi??u with a much darker reputation. The Other Rama presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Parasurama ("Rama with the Axe"), an avatára of Vi??u best known for decapitating his own mother and annihilating twenty-one generations of the Katriya warrior caste in an extermination campaign frequently referred to as "genocide" by modern scholars. Compared to Rama and Ka, the other human forms of Vi??u, Parasurama has a much darker reputation, with few temples devoted to him and scant worshippers. He has also attracted far less scholarly attention. But dozens of important castes and clans across the subcontinent claim Parasurama as the originator of their bloodline, and his mother, Reuka, is worshipped in the form of a severed head throughout South India. Using the tools of comparative mythology and psychoanalysis, Brian Collins identifies three major motifs in the mythology of Parasurama: his hybrid status as a Brahmin warrior, his act of matricide, and his bloody one-man war to cleanse the earth of Katriyas. Collins considers a wide variety of representations of the myth, from its origins in the Mahabharata to contemporary debates online. He also examines Parasurama alongside the Wandering Jew of European legend and Psycho's matricidal serial killer Norman Bates. He examines why mythmakers once elevated this transgressive and antisocial figure to the level of an avatara and why he still holds such fascination for a world that continues to grapple with mass killings and violence against women.

Robert Eisler, the polymathic Jewish Austrian scholar and Holocaust survivor, faded into obscurity after his death in 1949. A contemporary and associate of Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and Gershom Scholem, Eisler spent his early years in fin-de-siècle Vienna and trained as an art historian and economist. In this book, the first in English devoted to Eisler’s life and thought, Brian Collins takes us through the development of Eisler’s ideas about the philosophy of values, comparative mythology, Christianity, psychoanalysis, monetary policy, and anthropology. Collins also explores the bizarre and sometimes tragic events that defined Eisler’s life, including his arrest for art theft in 1907, his controversial reconstruction of a physical description of Jesus, and the fifteen months he spent in Dachau and Buchenwald, the inspiration for his final book, Man into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy.

A systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Parasurama ("Rama with the Axe"), an avatára of Vi??u with a much darker reputation. The Other Rama presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Parasurama ("Rama with the Axe"), an avatára of Vi??u best known for decapitating his own mother and annihilating twenty-one generations of the Katriya warrior caste in an extermination campaign frequently referred to as "genocide" by modern scholars. Compared to Rama and Ka, the other human forms of Vi??u, Parasurama has a much darker reputation, with few temples devoted to him and scant worshippers. He has also attracted far less scholarly attention. But dozens of important castes and clans across the subcontinent claim Parasurama as the originator of their bloodline, and his mother, Reuka, is worshipped in the form of a severed head throughout South India. Using the tools of comparative mythology and psychoanalysis, Brian Collins identifies three major motifs in the mythology of Parasurama: his hybrid status as a Brahmin warrior, his act of matricide, and his bloody one-man war to cleanse the earth of Katriyas. Collins considers a wide variety of representations of the myth, from its origins in the Mahabharata to contemporary debates online. He also examines Parasurama alongside the Wandering Jew of European legend and Psycho's matricidal serial killer Norman Bates. He examines why mythmakers once elevated this transgressive and antisocial figure to the level of an avatara and why he still holds such fascination for a world that continues to grapple with mass killings and violence against women.