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Auto Mania

Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300110383
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Auto Mania written by Tom McCarthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle--from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. From the provocative public antics of young millionaires who owned the first cars early in the twentieth century to the SUV craze of the 1990s, Auto Mania explores developments that touched the environment. Along the way McCarthy examines how Henry Ford’s fetish for waste reduction tempered the environmental impacts of Model T mass production; how Elvis Presley’s widely shared postwar desire for Cadillacs made matters worse; how the 1970s energy crisis hurt small cars; and why baby boomers ignored worries about global warming. McCarthy shows that problems were recognized early. The difficulty was addressing them, a matter less of doing scientific research and educating the public than implementing solutions through America’s market economy and democratic government. Consumer and producer interests have rarely aligned in helpful ways, and automakers and consumers have made powerful opponents of regulation. The result has been a mixed record of environmental reform with troubling prospects for the future.

Automania

Author : Juliet Kinchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633451278
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Automania written by Juliet Kinchin and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automaniaexplores the ways in which motor vehicles reshaped how people lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves over the course of the 20th century, and the continuing positive and negative imprint on the design and organization of today's built environment. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, the catalogue showcases ten cars in MoMA's collection: a Jeep (designed 1952), a Citroën DS23 (1973), a Volkswagen Beetle (designed 1938), a Fiat Cinquecento City Car (launched 1957), a Pininfarina Cisitalia 202 GT Car (designed 1946), a Formula 1 Racing Car, (1990), a Porsche 911 coupé (1965), an Airstream Bambi Traveler (1960), E-type Roadster (1966), and a Smart Car (1998). Presented alongside the vehicles are car parts, architectural models, films, photographs, posters, paintings, and sculptures, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 1898 print L'Automobiliste, Lily Reich's 1930s designs for a tubular-steel car seat, photographs of American car factories (c. 1930-32) by Margaret Bourke-White, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times (1963) by Andy Warhol, and Jorge Rigamonti's 1966-70 photocollage illustrating a dystopic view of environmental destruction in Venezuela.Organized into six thematic chapters, Automania includes an introductory essay by curator Juliet Kinchin and examines the car as a modern industrial product, transportation innovator, and style icon, as well as the generator of fatalities, traffic-choked environments, and ecological disaster in the oil age. "Cars have reimagined mobility, connecting us across great distances at ever greater speed, but this increased freedom and economic empowerment have come at the expense of tremendous human suffering and environmental damage," says Kinchin.

Automania

Author : Julian Pettifer
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automania written by Julian Pettifer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1984 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Muscle Cars

Author : Katharine Bailey
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778730101
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Muscle Cars written by Katharine Bailey and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the world of muscle cars.

Classic Cars, 1931-1980

Author : Norm Mort
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778730125
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Classic Cars, 1931-1980 written by Norm Mort and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces earlier built automobiles, who built them, and how we view them today.

Auto-mania!

Author : David Kimber
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836837810
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Auto-mania! written by David Kimber and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit the road with some of the world's fastest cars in Auto-Mania. Learn about the incredible McLaren F[subscript 1] and the superfast Porsche 911 GT[subscript 2]. Find out the best way to back up a Lamborghini Murcielago and how the Pagani Zonda got its name. Featuring thirteen of the world's hottest automobiles, this book is a must for all young car lovers! Book jacket.

The Orbiter

Author : Patrick Cristobal
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615667962
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Orbiter written by Patrick Cristobal and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4000 A.D. Far off in an unknown galaxy, Pierre Zeyfur is ready to prove himself. Having just obtained his SENTINELS license, he's anxious to sign up for important missions that will help him achieve his ultimate dream: to become the highest ranking SENTINELS. The problem is, he is merely a cassleon, the bottom rung in the ranking system, and there are no missions available to help him move up. So when a fateful encounter with Eva Lyn, the best SENTINELS in the world, offers him the opportunity to be mentored, he agrees wholeheartedly, disregarding any doubts or warnings about the danger ahead. Little does he know the adventures that await him as he impulsively agrees to this partnership. Eva Lyn becomes his teacher, showing him his own strength and abilities, but it soon becomes clear that beneath her pretty face and distinguished title, there's a dark secret she's working hard to keep hidden. Join Pierre as he embarks on the battle of a lifetime. Will he uncover the truth about Eva Lyn? Will he learn to wield The Orbiter, a weapon of unique abilities, and save the galaxy from peril? And does he have the strength to risk all in his quest to find his true destiny?

The Momentaer

Author : Patrick Cristobal
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1621475077
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Momentaer written by Patrick Cristobal and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire's journey of a lifetime takes her far and wide, and she slowly puts together a few clues in how to get the watch off. She also learns she has only three months to do it. The real trouble is that some of what she needs doesn't even exist in present time, so she must master the dangerous time-travelling art given by the watch. With the help of friends new and old, Claire comes closer and closer to saving herself, but the clock is always ticking faster. When she finally faces the creator of The Momentaer, will she have learned enough to free herself?

Cry Baby Mystic

Author : Daniel Tiffany
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1643172034
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Cry Baby Mystic written by Daniel Tiffany and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobbing alongside Margery Kempe—an illiterate medieval mystic who dictated the first autobiography in English—the ragged voice of Cry Baby Mystic finds itself drawn into strange predicaments that are not its own and ferried into abandoned spaces by the gearing of stardom and shame. The revolving sentences overheard by the reader--a muffled chorus of Brechtian aftershocks--survive only as traces of sorrow now craved by all who have known it: sound gossiping the unsound, the excess of the pilgrim. A person climbs out and never comes home.

Cursed Bunny

Author : Bora Chung
Publisher : Honford Star
ISBN 13 : 1916277187
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Cursed Bunny written by Bora Chung and published by Honford Star. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur’s translation skilfully captures the way Chung’s prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous. Winner of a PEN/Heim Grant.

A Boy in the City

Author : S. Yarberry
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1646051793
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Boy in the City written by S. Yarberry and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this debut collection of poetry, the obscure and mundane collide, a fricassee of movement, the cosmopolitan, and intimacy. A Boy in the City uses poems as pillars to interrupt and excavate an interiority that unfolds and interrogates grim thoughts and intimacy. Yarberry weaves a sexy, glitzy journey through their city, where the speaker can “pose” and “compose” in a “trans way, of course.” Clever in its playful allusions to Greek myths, William Blake, and other literary figures, A Boy in the City is a distinct work of joy and liberation that reckons with the language of gender and desire.

Blue Light of the Screen

Author : Claire Cronin
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913462064
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Blue Light of the Screen written by Claire Cronin and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Light of the Screen is a memoir about the author's obsession with horror and the supernatural. Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid -- about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts. As Cronin writes, she positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed archives. In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the supernatural. Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory, Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of horror itself.

Farang

Author : Iain Corness
Publisher : Maverick House
ISBN 13 : 1905379773
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Farang written by Iain Corness and published by Maverick House . This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Iain Corness fell in love with Thailand on a holiday in 1975, and finally managed to move there permanently in 1997. As a settled farang, or foreigner, he enjoys a unique perspective on Thai life and all its eccentricities; looking in from the outside while also getting to see the things most foreigners don’t. His stories and anecdotes are full of the joys of life, and celebrate this exotic and exciting land in all its glory with painfully funny observations. From a date with a fortune teller to tales of a reincarnated squid, Corness revels in the chaos and charm of ‘the only country where you can be run over by a shop.’ This is a book to be enjoyed by tourists and Thais alike.

Robot Ethics 2.0

Author : Patrick Lin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190652977
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Robot Ethics 2.0 written by Patrick Lin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the robotics industry and broader society, we need to not only press ahead on a wide range of issues, but also identify new ones emerging as quickly as the field is evolving. For instance, where military robots had received much attention in the past (and are still controversial today), this volume looks toward autonomous cars here as an important case study that cuts across diverse issues, from liability to psychology to trust and more. And because robotics feeds into and is fed by AI, the Internet of Things, and other cognate fields, robot ethics must also reach into those domains, too. Expanding these discussions also means listening to new voices; robot ethics is no longer the concern of a handful of scholars. Experts from different academic disciplines and geographical areas are now playing vital roles in shaping ethical, legal, and policy discussions worldwide. So, for a more complete study, the editors of this volume look beyond the usual suspects for the latest thinking. Many of the views as represented in this cutting-edge volume are provocative--but also what we need to push forward in unfamiliar territory.

The Self-Field

Author : Chris Abel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429683669
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Self-Field written by Chris Abel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this incisive study of the biological and cultural origins of the human self, the author challenges readers to re-think ideas about the self and consciousness as being exclusive to humans. In their place, he expounds a metatheoretical approach to the self as a purposeful system of extended cognition common to animal life: the invisible medium maintaining mind, body and environment as an integrated ‘field of being’. Supported by recent research in evolutionary and developmental studies together with related discoveries in animal behaviour and the neurosciences, the author examines the factors that have shaped the evolution of the animal self across widely different species and times, through to the modern, technologically enmeshed human self; the differences between which, he contends, are relations of degree rather than absolute differences. We are, he concludes, instinctive and ‘fuzzy individuals’ clinging to fragile identities in an artificial and volatile world of humanity’s own making, but which we now struggle to control. This book, which restores the self to its fundamental place in identity formation, will be of great interest for students and academics in the fields of social, developmental and environmental psychology, together with readers from other disciplines in the humanities, especially philosophy, cultural theory and architecture.

Fifty Years Among the New Words

Author : John Algeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521449717
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years Among the New Words written by John Algeo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1992, is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.

Halas and Batchelor Cartoons

Author : Vivien Halas
Publisher : No Exit Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904915171
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Halas and Batchelor Cartoons written by Vivien Halas and published by No Exit Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book is a part-history, part-tribute, part-critical analysis of the Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Studio, Britain's leading and most influential animation company for over 50 years between 1940-1995. It draws on the archives of the Halas & Batchelor Collection and looks at the key works of the studio, including Animal Farm, Britain's first full-length animated feature; The Tales of Hoffnung, with the legendary Peter Sellers; the cult classics Autobahn, featuring the music of Kraftwerk, and Butterfly Ball, with the works of the Beatles illustrator.