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Download or read book Ajeeb, the chess player written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dustin A. Abnet
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022669271X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The American Robot written by Dustin A. Abnet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-playing automaton, or simply the smartphone in our pocket, robots have long been a symbol of the fraught and fearful relationship between ourselves and our creations. Though we tend to think of them as products of twentieth-century technology—the word “robot” itself dates to only 1921—as a concept, they have colored US society and culture for far longer, as Dustin A. Abnet shows to dazzling effect in The American Robot. In tracing the history of the idea of robots in US culture, Abnet draws on intellectual history, religion, literature, film, and television. He explores how robots and their many kin have not only conceptually connected but literally embodied some of the most critical questions in modern culture. He also investigates how the discourse around robots has reinforced social and economic inequalities, as well as fantasies of mass domination—chilling thoughts that the recent increase in job automation has done little to quell. The American Robot argues that the deep history of robots has abetted both the literal replacement of humans by machines and the figurative transformation of humans into machines, connecting advances in technology and capitalism to individual and societal change. Look beneath the fears that fracture our society, Abnet tells us, and you’re likely to find a robot lurking there.
Author : Larry LaTourette
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476691185
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Gus Hornsby's Gamble written by Larry LaTourette and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1870s, Gus Hornsby spread the game of American football around the world like an evangelist and helped establish it in the U.S. heartland. Hornsby seemed destined for greatness as a journalist, inventor, explorer and entrepreneur. His arrogance, greed and an intractable gambling addiction, however, drove him to criminality and cast him into obscurity. But this public ruin led to his greatest accomplishment in prison: personal redemption. Surprisingly, Hornsby's meteoric rise and fall intersected with towering influencers of the time, including the women and men who would pioneer the "first-wave" feminist movement in the United States. This book explores their unexpected connections and interweaves their stories--along with details of the first American football game in the Midwest--to reveal elements of a pivotal moment in American history, both in feminism and sports. More than a biography of a person, it is a story about America--brash, imaginative and seemingly limitless in resources and creativity, but overly self-assured and wildly reckless.
Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476618852
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Samuel Lipschutz written by Stephen Davies and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Lipschutz was born in Hungary in 1863 and emigrated to New York in 1880. He joined the Manhattan and New York chess clubs, and soon became champion of the latter, representing it at the British Chess Association Congress in London in 1886. Naturalized in 1888, he was the highest-placed American in the Sixth American Chess Congress the following year. In 1892 he defeated Jackson Showalter to become American champion. Suffering from tuberculosis in 1895, he lost a championship match to Showalter. Searching for a cure, he went to Germany in 1904 and died there late the following year. This book gives an account of Lipschutz's chess career, life and milieu and addresses questions surrounding his first name, his periods away from New York and misconceptions concerning the American championship. There are 249 games included.
Author : Harriett Reynolds Krauth Spaeth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Life of Adolph Spaeth, D.D., LL.D. ... written by Harriett Reynolds Krauth Spaeth and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life of Adolph Spaeth, D.D., Ll.D. ... Told in His Own Reminiscences, His Letters and the Recollections of His Family and Friends by Harriett Reynolds Krauth Spaeth, first published in 1916, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Walter Hugh McDougall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book This is the Life! written by Walter Hugh McDougall and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Chess Player's Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The American Mercury written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The American Mercury written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Dunninger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Popular Magic written by Joseph Dunninger and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601437
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Eminent Victorian Chess Players written by Tim Harding and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays British chess life in the nineteenth century through biographical studies of ten players who shaped the modern game. From Captain Evans, inventor of the famous gambit, to Isidor Gunsberg, England's first challenger for the world championship, personal narratives are blended with game annotations to reassess players' achievements and character. The author has combined deep reading in primary sources with genealogical research to reveal new facts and correct previous misunderstandings. Major chapters on Howard Staunton and William Steinitz, in particular, highlight the tensions between Englishmen and immigrants, amateurs and professionals. The contrasting long careers of Henry Bird and Joseph Blackburne provide a thread of continuity. The lives of several other important figures in Victorian chess are also presented. More than 160 games (with diagrams), several annotated in detail, and 50 photographs and line drawings are included. Appendices provide career records for all ten; there are extensive notes, a bibliography and indexes.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Higham
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662193
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Wax Museum Movies written by George Higham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning over a century of cinema and comprised of 127 films, this book analyzes the cinematic incarnations of the "uncanniest place on earth"--wax museums. Nothing is as it seems at a wax museum. It is a place of wonder, horror and mystery. Will the figures come to life at night, or are they very much dead with corpses hidden beneath their waxen shells? Is the genius hand that molded them secretly scarred by a terrible tragedy, longing for revenge? Or is it a sinner's sanctum, harboring criminals with countless places to hide in plain sight? This chronological analysis includes essential behind the scenes information in addition to authoritative research comparing the creation of "real" wax figures to the "reel" ones seen onscreen. Publicly accessible or hidden away in a maniac's lair, wax museums have provided the perfect settings for films of all genres to thrillingly play out on the big screen since the dawn of cinema.
Author : Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674986X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Automatic Religion written by Paul Christopher Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzy Anger
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ISBN 13 : 1009118560
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Victorian Automata written by Suzy Anger and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata - both human and mechanical - in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and mental human automatism became essential to both scientific and popular understandings of thought and action. Bringing together essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume explores what it means to be human in a scientific and industrial age. It also considers how Victorian inquiry and practices continue to shape current thought on race, creativity, mind, and agency. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Hartwig Cassell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book American Chess Bulletin written by Hartwig Cassell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
