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(*PDF)-> Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 - BY Orit Halpern in PDF, EPub online.

 Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945

by Orit Halpern

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Synopsis : Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She

 Details : Author : Orit Halpern Pages : 352 pages Publisher : Duke University Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0822357445 ISBN-13 : 9780822357445Reading Download Pdf Epub

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[*EPUB]-> The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction - BY Robert C. Allen in PDF, EPub online.

 The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

by Robert C. Allen

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Synopsis : The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the construction of the first railways, a great network of arteries feeding the factories. Cities grew as people shifted from agriculture to industry and commerce. Hand in hand with the growth of cities came rising levels of pollution and disease. Many people lost their jobs to the new machinery, whilst working conditions in the factories were grim and pay was low. As the middle classes prospered, social unrest ran through the working classes, and the exploitation of workers led to the growth of trade unions and protest movements.In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen analyzes the key features of

 Details : Author : Robert C. Allen Pages : 144 pages Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA Language : ISBN-10 : 0198706782 ISBN-13 : 9780198706786Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*EPUB)-> War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction - BY Alex Roland in PDF, EPub online.

 War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction

by Alex Roland

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Synopsis : The war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, describing the inventions that changed the direction of warfare throughout history: from fortified walls, the chariot, battleships, and the gunpowder revolution to bombers, rockets, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and nuclear weapons.In the twenty-first century, new technologies continue to push warfare in unexpected directions, while warfare stimulates stunning new technological advances. Yet even now, the newest and best technology cannot guarantee victory. Brimming with dramatic narratives of battles and deep insights into military psychology, this book shows that although military technologies keep changing at great speed, the principles and patterns behind them abide.

 Details : Author : Alex Roland Pages : 152 pages Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA Language : ISBN-10 : 0190605383 ISBN-13 : 9780190605384Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(^EPUB/PDF)-> War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II - BY Peter Padfield in PDF, EPub online.

 War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II

by Peter Padfield

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Synopsis : A leading naval and military historian presents the first book to cover the major submarine campaigns in all the WWII theaters. Vividly recreates the experience of submarine and anti-submarine warfare from the decision makers in the war offices to the men in the boats. Describes the disappointing performance of the giant Japanese submarines in the Pacific and the narrow margin by which Britain escaped defeat by German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. Reveals new information about the capture of the Enigma cipher machine, harrowing accounts of defenseless warriors shot in the water and much more. Contains 16 pages of photographs, many published for the first time.

 Details : Author : Peter Padfield Pages : 560 pages Publisher : Wiley Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0471249459 ISBN-13 : 9780471249450Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*PDF/KINDLE)-> Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object - BY Matthew C. Hunter in PDF, EPub online.

 Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object

by Matthew C. Hunter

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Synopsis : Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century?and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain?s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds?s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the

 Details : Author : Matthew C. Hunter Pages : 304 pages Publisher : University of Chicago Press Language : ISBN-10 : 022639025X ISBN-13 : 9780226390253Reading Download Pdf Epub

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[*EPUB]-> Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate - BY Ginger Strand in PDF, EPub online.

 Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate

by Ginger Strand

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Synopsis : Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet?s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them?the highway killer. He went by many names: the ?Hitcher,? the ?Freeway Killer,? the ?Killer on the Road,? the ?I-5 Strangler,? and the ?Beltway Sniper.? Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation?s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America?s highways and its highway killers. There?s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on ?ghetto kids? in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the

 Details : Author : Ginger Strand Pages : 264 pages Publisher : University of Texas Press Language : ISBN-10 : 0292757522 ISBN-13 : 9780292757523Reading Download Pdf Epub

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[*EPUB]-> Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama - BY Neil Verma in PDF, EPub online.

 Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama

by Neil Verma

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Synopsis : For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a ?theater of the mind.??This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War.In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination.With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in

 Details : Author : Neil Verma Pages : 296 pages Publisher : University of Chicago Press Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0226853519 ISBN-13 : 9780226853512Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(^KINDLE)-> The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War - BY Steve Levine in PDF, EPub online.

 The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War

by Steve Levine

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Synopsis : A Soul of a New Machine?for our time?a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology ? A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult the winner into a new era of economic and political mastery. Can the United States win? ? Steve LeVine was granted unprecedented access to a secure federal laboratory outside Chicago, where a group of geniuses is trying to solve this next monumental task of physics and engineering. But these scientists?almost all foreign born?are not alone. With so much at stake, researchers in Japan, South Korea, and China are in the same pursuit. The drama intensifies when a Silicon Valley start-up licenses the federal laboratory?s signature invention with the aim of a blockbuster sale to the world?s biggest carmakers. The Powerhouse?is a real-time, two-year account of big invention, big commercialization, and

 Details : Author : Steve Levine Pages : 320 pages Publisher : Penguin Books Language : ISBN-10 : 0143128329 ISBN-13 : 9780143128328Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*PDF)-> Project Gemini - BY Eugen Reichl in PDF, EPub online.

 Project Gemini

by Eugen Reichl

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Synopsis : In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning point in the space race with the USSR; from then on the Americans took the lead. Flights lasting two weeks, into the Van Allen Belt, the first extravehicular activities, rendezvous maneuvers and docking with other spacecraft--all of this was achieved by Gemini, paving the way for the more demanding moon landing program. It was not all success, however. Like almost every significant undertaking, Project Gemini also had its dramas and tragedies. All Project Gemini missions are discussed, including details on all craft and the astronauts involved. Superb color, archival images, cutaways and plans are also included.

 Details : Author : Eugen Reichl Pages : 144 pages Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Language : ISBN-10 : 0764350706 ISBN-13 : 9780764350702Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*EPUB)-> Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor - BY Randy Leffingwell in PDF, EPub online.

 Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor

by Randy Leffingwell

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Synopsis : A nostalgic tour of America's agricultural heritage featuring John Deere, International Farmall, Case, Ford, Allis-Chalmers, Caterpillar, Minneapolis-Moline and more.

 Details : Author : Randy Leffingwell Pages : 192 pages Publisher : Crestline Books Language : ISBN-10 : 0760302464 ISBN-13 : 9780760302460Reading Download Pdf Epub

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[*EPUB]-> Basic Optics and Optical Instruments: Revised Edition - BY Naval Education and Training Program Development Center in PDF, EPub online.

 Basic Optics and Optical Instruments: Revised Edition

by Naval Education and Training Program Development Center

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Synopsis : Designed as a training manual for Navy personnel (Opticalman 3 & 2), this book provides thorough coverage of the basic theory of optics and its applications. Newly revised and updated, it presents the subject matter with extraordinary clarity, stressing theory and application equally. It will serve admirably to supplement a course in which only one of these factors is emphasized.The book begins with an introduction to the Opticalman rating. It then goes on to discuss the characteristics of light, with special emphasis on wavelengths, reflection, and refraction. Two chapters contain a detailed discussion of the formation of images by mirrors, lenses, and prisms; these explain how images are formed by thin and thick lenses, how to use the lens formula, and how to determine the location of an image formed by an optical instrument. The mechanical construction, maintenance procedures, and machining operations of basic optical instruments are explained in detail, supplemented by

 Details : Author : Naval Education and Training Program Development Center Pages : 352 pages Publisher : Dover Publications Language : ISBN-10 : 0486222918 ISBN-13 : 9780486222912Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(^EPUB/PDF)-> Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Vol 2 - BY Denis Diderot in PDF, EPub online.

 Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Vol 2

by Denis Diderot

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Synopsis : Artists, illustrators, collectors, and historians of industry, art, and invention will all welcome this superb republication of copperplates engraved to illustrate Diderot's great eighteenth-century Encyclop?die. The first work of its kind, the Encyclop?die was the crowning venture of the Enlightenment. In this two-volume set, available for the first time in a paperbound edition, Dover has painstakingly reprinted 485 of the finest plates ? considered among the greatest achievements of eighteenth-century graphic art ? most in full size.Diderot committed his encyclopedia to publicizing trade secrets in the hope it would lead to more rational industrial processes. The plates offer, therefore, a unique and invaluable record of manufacturing and the trades just prior to the Industrial Revolution. Each of the major trades is illustrated in sequences detailing machinery and processes from raw material to finished product. In fact, most plates are so clear and accurate that an engineer could

 Details : Author : Denis Diderot Pages : 507 pages Publisher : Dover Publications Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0486274292 ISBN-13 : 9780486274294Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(^EPUB/PDF)-> Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later - BY Norman J. Medoff in PDF, EPub online.

 Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later

by Norman J. Medoff

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Synopsis : Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later provides a synopsis of the beginnings of electronic media in broadcasting and the subsequent advancements into digital media. The Then, Now, and Later approach focuses on how past innovations laid the groundwork for changing trends in technology, providing the opportunity and demand for evolution in both broadcasting and digital media. An updated companion website provides links to additional resources, chapter summaries, study guides and practice quizzes, instructor materials, and more. This new edition features two new chapters: one on social media, and one on choosing your entertainment and information experience.The then/now/later thematic structure of the book helps instructors draw parallels (and contracts) between media history and current events, which helps get students more engaged with the material. The book is known for its clear, concise, readable, and engaging writing style, which students and instructors alike appreciate. The

 Details : Author : Norman J. Medoff Pages : 330 pages Publisher : Routledge Language : ISBN-10 : 1138903205 ISBN-13 : 9781138903203Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*EPUB/PDF)-> Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age - BY Derek Cheung in PDF, EPub online.

 Conquering the Electron: The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age

by Derek Cheung

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Synopsis : Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long journey to our modern-day technologies. Exploring the combination of genius, infighting, and luck that powered the creation of today's electronic age, Conquering the Electron debunks the hero worship so often plaguing the stories of great advances. Want to know how AT&T's Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology--and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work--and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.

 Details : Author : Derek Cheung Pages : 342 pages Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Language : ISBN-10 : 144223153X ISBN-13 : 9781442231535Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*EPUB/PDF)-> Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy - BY Dennis P. Kehoe in PDF, EPub online.

 Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy

by Dennis P. Kehoe

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Synopsis : The economy of the Roman Empire was dominated by the business of agriculture. It employed the vast majority of the Empire's labor force and provided the wealth on which the upper classes depended for their social privileges. Consequently, the way in which upper-class Romans maintained and profited from their agricultural investments played a crucial role in shaping the basic relationships characterizing the Roman economy. In Investment, Profit, and Tenancy Dennis P. Kehoe defines the economic mentality of upper-class Romans by analyzing the assumptions that Roman jurists in the Digest of Justinian made about investment and profit in agriculture as they addressed legal issues involving private property. In particular the author analyzes the duties of guardians in managing the property of their wards, and the bequeathing of agricultural property. He bases his analysis on Roman legal sources, which offer a comprehensive picture of the economic interests of upper-class Romans. Farm

 Details : Author : Dennis P. Kehoe Pages : 288 pages Publisher : University of Michigan Press Language : ISBN-10 : 0472108026 ISBN-13 : 9780472108022Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*EPUB)-> Aircraft of the Chaco War, 1928-1935 - BY Dan Hagedorn in PDF, EPub online.

 Aircraft of the Chaco War, 1928-1935

by Dan Hagedorn

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Synopsis : More than 150 never before published illustrations, complimented by an exhaustively researched text, document the little-known air war between Bolivia and Paraguay during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Full details of such aircraft as Fiat C.R. 20s, Curtiss Hawk IIs, Curtiss Ospreys, Potez 25s and all other types employed by both combatants, including acquisition, operations, and markings make this a must for historians, modelers, and anyone interested in golden-age aviation.

 Details : Author : Dan Hagedorn Pages : 144 pages Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Language : ISBN-10 : 0764301462 ISBN-13 : 9780764301469Reading Download Pdf Epub

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(*EPUB/PDF)-> World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions - BY Robert W. Rydell in PDF, EPub online.

 World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions

by Robert W. Rydell

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Synopsis : In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history?begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair?this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few?particularly artists, architects, and scientists?were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America?a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and

 Details : Author : Robert W. Rydell Pages : 280 pages Publisher : University of Chicago Press Language : ISBN-10 : 0226732371 ISBN-13 : 9780226732374Reading Download Pdf Epub