Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Walkman
Download Walkman full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Walkman ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Download or read book Walkman written by Michael Robbins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection from an audacious, humorous poet celebrated for his "sky-blue originality of utterance" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) Michael Robbins's first two books of poetry were raucous protests lodged from the frontage roads and big-box stores of off-ramp America. With Walkman, he turns a corner. These new poems confront self-pity and nostalgia in witty-miserable defiance of our political and ecological moment. It's the end of the world, and Robbins has listened to all the tapes in his backpack. So he's making music from whatever junk he finds lying around.
Book Synopsis Doing Cultural Studies by : Paul du Gay
Download or read book Doing Cultural Studies written by Paul du Gay and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years `culture' has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this `turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, the book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such a crucial part in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Personal Stereo by : Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Download or read book Personal Stereo written by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow investigates the Walkman’s influence on public space, our relationship to electronic personal devices, and the fears and exhilaration induced by new technologies (as well as the nostalgia attached to old ones).
Download or read book Consumerism written by Steven Miles and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular′ music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a critical perspective to bear upon the subject, thus providing a reliable and stimulating guide to a complex and many-sided field.
Book Synopsis Chronology of Twentieth-Century History: Business and Commerce by : Frank N. Magill
Download or read book Chronology of Twentieth-Century History: Business and Commerce written by Frank N. Magill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Volume II provides the hard facts and the history behind the headlines; significant 20th-century events in the evolution of all aspects of business and commerce are described in chronologically-arranged articles. The text of each article is divided into two sections: Summary of the Event describes the event itself and the circumstances leading up to it, and Impact of the Event analyzes the influence of the event on the evolution of business practice or on a major industry in both the short and long terms. Each article concludes with a fully annotated Bibliography.
Book Synopsis Sony: The Company and Its Founders by : Robert Grayson
Download or read book Sony: The Company and Its Founders written by Robert Grayson and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the remarkable lives of Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita and their work building electronics and entertainment company Sony. Readers will learn about each founder's background and education, as well as his early career. Also covered is a look at how Sony operates, issues the company faces, its successes, and its impact on society. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Engineering Materials by : C. J. McMahon
Download or read book Introduction to Engineering Materials written by C. J. McMahon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to materials science and engineering, the subject matter of which is taught not only in departments bearing that name, but also in departments of ceramics, polymer science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, physics, chemistry, and others. The field is so broad that it cannot possibly be represented fully in a one-semester introductory course, especially one which uses the kind of giant case-study method used here. The advantage of a case study is that it immediately immerses the student in a context which helps one to assimilate new information in an existing conceptual framework. Thus, the student can see the "big picture" from the outset and be able to understand how the subject fits together and is used. A disadvantage is that the various parts of the subject cannot all receive the amount of attention which practitioners of all those parts would feel they deserve. The student, therefore, should be aware that the fact that metallic materials have here recieved more space than polymeric, ceramic, or semiconducting materials, results, not from the relative importance of the latter three, but only from their present usage in the cases considered here."
Book Synopsis Current Scientific and Industrial Reality by : Carsten Gundlach
Download or read book Current Scientific and Industrial Reality written by Carsten Gundlach and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Doing Cultural Studies by : Paul du Gay
Download or read book Doing Cultural Studies written by Paul du Gay and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arguably the most famous book in its field... In theoretical terms, the legacy of Doing Cultural Studies confirms that this classic read is not just about the Walkman itself, but represents a series of clear observations about the symbolic meanings of culture." - LSE Review of Books Why think about the Walkman in the 21st century? Can the Walkman help us understand today’s media and cultural practices? Through the notion of the 'circuit of culture', this book teaches students to critically examine what culture means, and how and why it is enmeshed with the media texts and objects in their lives. Students will: Unpack the key concepts of contemporary culture, such as mobility, materiality, consumption and identity Learn to think about some of the cultural conundrums of the present and their relation to the past, such as branding culture Look with fresh eyes at today's media world and the cultural practices it gives rise to Gain practical experience with the historical comparative method Practice their critical skills with up-to-date exercises and activities This book takes students on a journey between past and present, giving them the skills do to cultural analysis along the way. It remains the perfect 'how to' for students in media studies, cultural studies, design and sociology.
Book Synopsis Audio Culture, Revised Edition by : Christoph Cox
Download or read book Audio Culture, Revised Edition written by Christoph Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Continuum; September 2004; paperback original) maps the aural and discursive terrain of vanguard music today. Rather than offering a history of contemporary music, Audio Culture traces the genealogy of current musical practices and theoretical concerns, drawing lines of connection between recent musical production and earlier moments of sonic experimentation. It aims to foreground the various rewirings of musical composition and performance that have taken place in the past few decades and to provide a critical and theoretical language for this new audio culture. This new and expanded edition of the Audio Culture contains twenty-five additional essays, including four newly-commissioned pieces. Taken as a whole, the book explores the interconnections among such forms as minimalism, indeterminacy, musique concrète, free improvisation, experimental music, avant-rock, dub reggae, ambient music, hip hop, and techno via writings by philosophers, cultural theorists, and composers. Instead of focusing on some "crossover" between "high art" and "popular culture," Audio Culture takes all these musics as experimental practices on par with, and linked to, one another. While cultural studies has tended to look at music (primarily popular music) from a sociological perspective, the concern here is philosophical, musical, and historical. Audio Culture includes writing by some of the most important musical thinkers of the past half-century, among them John Cage, Brian Eno, Ornette Coleman, Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Glenn Gould, Umberto Eco, Jacques Attali, Simon Reynolds, Eliane Radigue, David Toop, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others. Each essay has its own short introduction, helping the reader to place the essay within musical, historical, and conceptual contexts, and the volume concludes with a glossary, a timeline, and an extensive discography.
Download or read book The One Show, Volume XXVIII written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Are You? written by Alex Custodio and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Boy Advance platform as computational system and cultural artifact, from its 2001 release through hacks, mods, emulations, homebrew afterlives. In 2002, Nintendo of America launched an international marketing campaign for the Game Boy Advance that revolved around the slogan “Who Are You?”—asking potential buyers which Nintendo character, game, or even device they identified with and attempting to sell a new product by exploiting players' nostalgic connections to earlier ones. Today, nearly two decades after its release, and despite the development of newer and more powerful systems, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance lives on, through a community that continues to hack, modify, emulate, make, break, remake, redesign, trade, use, love, and play with the platform. In this book Alex Custodio traces the network of hardware and software afterlives of the Game Boy Advance platform. Each chapter considers a component of this network—hardware, software, peripheral, or practice—that illuminates the platform's unique features as a computational system and a cultural artifact. Examining the evolution of the design and architecture of Nintendo's handhelds and home consoles, and the constraints imposed on developers and players, for example, Custodio finds that Nintendo essentially embeds nostalgia into its hardware. She explores Nintendo's expansion of the platform through interoperability; physical and affective engagement with the Game Boy Advance; portability, private space, and social interaction; the platformization of nostalgia; fan-generated content including homebrew, hacking, and hardware modding; and e-waste—the final afterlife of consumer electronics. Although the Game Boy Advance is neither the most powerful nor the most popular of Nintendo's handhelds, Custodio argues, it is the platform that most fundamentally embodies Nintendo's reliance on the aesthetics and materiality of nostalgia.
Book Synopsis Technology and Social Theory by : Steve Matthewman
Download or read book Technology and Social Theory written by Steve Matthewman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the everyday and unnoticed to the newsworthy and cutting edge, technology is undoubtedly a fundamental element of our daily lives. While saving us time and effort, it can also shape our environment, mediate our relationships, and simultaneously solve problems and create new ones. In studying technology we gain an insight into how society is constructed, maintained and transformed. Unravelling and explaining the complex connections between technology and the social contexts in which it is used, Technology and Social Theory guides the reader through 150 years of thinking in this ever evolving field. The chapters critically evaluate a broad range of theorists, from Marx to Foucault, Orwell to Elias, alongside empirical examples which show theory in action. The significance of technology is assessed within both public spheres and intimate spaces, shedding light on its integral role in society. Showing how theory maps the way for further research, and in turn how new advances in research can inform theory, this book is invaluable reading for students and researchers in Sociology, Social theory, Science and Technology Studies and the Media.
Download or read book Words and Rules written by Steven Pinker and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you are not already a Steven Pinker addict, this book will make you one." --Jared Diamond In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively simple phenomenon--regular and irregular verbs--and examining it from every angle. With humor and verve, he covers an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities, from the history of languages to how to simulate languages on computers to major ideas in the history of Western philosophy. Through it all, Pinker presents a single, powerful idea: that language comprises a mental dictionary of memorized words and a mental grammar of creative rules. The idea extends beyond language and offers insight into the very nature of the human mind. This is a sparkling, eye-opening, and utterly original book by one of the world's leading cognitive scientists.
Download or read book A Lateral View written by Donald Richie and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the Japanese through the window of their contemporary culture.
Book Synopsis Cognitive-behavioural Therapy with Delusions and Hallucinations by : Hazel E. Nelson
Download or read book Cognitive-behavioural Therapy with Delusions and Hallucinations written by Hazel E. Nelson and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a highly accessible style, this book gives detailed practical guidance, providing the reader with a range of strategies and techniques, set within a clear, structured framework.
Download or read book Retro-electro written by Pepe Tozzo and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest trend on E-Bay and at flea markets is the buying and selling of old technology―transistor radios, video games, the Betamax video recording system. While made of plastic, wires, and metal that earlier seemed to have little of the romance of the “antique,” this trend proves that these objects from the sixties, seventies, and eighties have acquired status as collectibles. Addictively browsable, this is the essential guide to what technology from the last half of the 20th century is collectible. This is the only book to survey the trend, catalogue and depict the full range of objects, and gauge the correct price levels. Even those who have not built a collection will be fascinated by the spirited product histories of the original Atari console, the Walkman, and the Betamax (which proves that every age has its Edsel―the product technically superior but destined to fail in the marketplace). Collectible Technology mourns all the gadgets from adolescence ever thrown away. It will start you wondering how much the brand new Ipod will be worth in a few decades… The book includes an impressive guide to where to buy these collectibles and which websites to use.
