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Velocipedomania

Author : Corry Cropper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684484359
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Velocipedomania written by Corry Cropper and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the popular culture it inspired. It explores how the device was hailed as a symbol of France’s cutting-edge technological advancements, yet also marketed as an invention with a noble pedigree, born from the nation’s cultural and literary heritage. Giving readers a window into the material culture and enthusiasms of Second Empire France, it provides the first English translations of 1869’s Manual of the Velocipede, 1868’s Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede, and the 1869 operetta Dagobert and his Velocipede. It also reprints scores of rare images from newspapers and advertisements, analyzing how these magnificent machines captured the era’s visual imagination. By looking at how it influenced French attitudes towards politics, national identity, technology, fashion, fitness, and gender roles, this book shows how the short-lived craze of velocipedomania had a big impact.

Cycling and Cinema

Author : Bruce Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1906897999
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Cycling and Cinema written by Bruce Bennett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films. Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. In this new book from Goldsmiths Press, Bruce Bennett examines a wide variety of films from around the world, ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films, to consider the complex, shifting cultural significance of the bicycle. The bicycle is an everyday technology, but in examining the ways in which bicycles are used in films, Bennett reveals the rich social and cultural importance of this apparently unremarkable machine. The cinematic bicycles discussed in this book have various functions. They are the source of absurd comedy in silent films, and the vehicles that allow their owners to work in sports films and social realist cinema. They are a means of independence and escape for children in melodramas and kids' films, and the tools that offer political agency and freedom to women, as depicted in films from around the world. In recounting the cinematic history of the bicycle, Bennett reminds us that this machine is not just a practical means of transport or a child's toy, but the vehicle for a wide range of meanings concerning individual identity, social class, nationhood and belonging, family, gender, and sexuality and pleasure. As this book shows, two hundred years on from its invention, the bicycle is a revolutionary technology that retains the power to transform the world.

The Girl of the period miscellany

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Girl of the period miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bitch

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bitch written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Velocipede, Its Past, Its Present & Its Future

Author : J. F. B.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Velocipede, Its Past, Its Present & Its Future written by J. F. B. and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bicycle — Towards a Global History

Author : P. Smethurst
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137499516
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Bicycle — Towards a Global History written by P. Smethurst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of the bicycle to trace not only the technical background to its invention, but also to contrast its social and cultural impact in different parts of the world, and assess its future as a continuing global phenomenon.

Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle

Author : Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle written by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Galaxy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Galaxy written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

SportsWorld

Author : Robert Lipsyte
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813593212
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book SportsWorld written by Robert Lipsyte and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tough and witty, SportsWorld is a well-known commentator’s overview of the most significant form of mass culture in America—sports. It’s a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for character to a complex of capitalism, a place where young people can find both self-fulfillment and cruel exploitation, where families can huddle in a sanctuary of entertainment and be force fed values and where cities and countries can be pillaged by greedy team owners and their paid-for politicians. But this book is not just a screed, it’s a guided visit with such heroes of sports as Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Joe Namath, who the author knew well, and with some he met in passing, like Richard Nixon, who seemed never to have gotten over missing the cut in college varsity football, a major mark of manhood. We see how SportsWorld sensibilities help elect our politicians, judge our children, fight our wars, and oppress our minorities. And now featuring a new introduction by the author,SportsWorld is a book that will provide the foundation for understanding today’s world of sports and the time of Trump. In the America of 2017—where the SuperBowl is worth billions, athletes are penalized or forced out of sports for political and anti-racist activism, and Title IX is constantly questioned and undermined—Robert Lipsyte’s 1975 critique remains startlingly and intensely relevant.

Dynamics and Optimal Control of Road Vehicles

Author : D. J. N. Limebeer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192559818
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics and Optimal Control of Road Vehicles written by D. J. N. Limebeer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamics and Optimal Control of Road Vehicles uniquely offers a unified treatment of tyre, car and motorcycle dynamics, and the application of nonlinear optimal control to vehicle-related problems within a single book. This is a comprehensive and accessible text that emphasises the theoretical aspects of vehicular modelling and control. The book focuses on two major elements. The first is classical mechanics and its use in building vehicle and tyre dynamics models. The second focus is nonlinear optimal control, which is used to solve a range of minimum-time and minimum-fuel, as well as track curvature reconstruction problems. As is known classically, all of this material is bound together by the calculus of variations and stationary principles. The treatment of this material is supplemented with a number of examples that were designed to highlight obscurities and subtleties in the theory.

Pour Le Sport

Author : Roxanna Nydia Curto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 180085689X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Pour Le Sport written by Roxanna Nydia Curto and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume gathers together studies examining various aspects of physical culture in literature written in French from Europe and around the Francophone world. We define physical culture as the systematic care for and development of the physique, and interpret it to include not only sport in the modern sense, but also all the athletic activities that preceded it or relate to it, such as bodily forms of exercise, leisure, and artistic creation. Our essays pursue diverse interpretive approaches and focus on texts from a wide variety of periods (medieval to the present) and genres (short stories, novels, essays, poetry) in order to consider the fundamental-yet highly neglected-place of physical activities in literature and culture from the French-speaking world. Some of the questions the essays explore include: Does the genre sports literature exist in French, and if so, what are its characteristics? How do governments or other political entities mobilize sports literature? What role do narratives about sports-especially the creation of teams-play in the construction of national, regional and/or local identities? How is physical culture used in literary works for pedagogical or ideological purposes? To what extent do sports performances provide a metaphorical and figurative discourse for discussing literature and culture?

The Complete History of Wheeled Transportation

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615307281
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Complete History of Wheeled Transportation written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the wheel itself has changed little over time, it has immeasurably altered the nature of transportation. This insightful volume examines the various wheeled conveyances that have been instrumental in agriculture and commercecarts and wagons, for instanceas well as those that have facilitated human travelcoaches, bicycles, cars, and buses, among others. Also explored is the evolution of roads, as they have expanded to accommodate various modes of wheeled transportation.

Iowa Alumni Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Iowa Alumni Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Challenging the Black Atlantic

Author : John T. Maddox IV
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684481880
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Challenging the Black Atlantic written by John T. Maddox IV and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–⁠led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-⁠Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The College Courant

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The College Courant written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Computers As Cognitive Tools

Author : Susanne P. Lajoie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136475524
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Computers As Cognitive Tools written by Susanne P. Lajoie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting and illustrating several important and interesting theoretical trends that have emerged in the continuing development of instructional technology, this book's organizational framework is based on the notion of two opposing camps. One evolves out of the intelligent tutoring movement, which employs artificial-intelligence technologies in the service of student modeling and precision diagnosis, and the other emerges from a constructivist/developmental perspective that promotes exploration and social interaction, but tends to reject the methods and goals of the student modelers. While the notion of opposing camps tends to create an artificial rift between groups of researchers, it represents a conceptual distinction that is inherently more interesting and informative than the relatively meaningless divide often drawn between "intelligent" and "unintelligent" instructional systems. An evident trend is that researchers in both "camps" view their computer learning environments as "cognitive tools" that can enhance learning, performance, and understanding. Cognitive tools are objects provided by the instructional environment that allow students to incorporate new auxiliary methods or symbols into their social problem solving which otherwise would be unavailable. A final section of the book represents researchers who are assimilating and accommodating the wisdom and creativity of their neighbors from both camps, perhaps forming the look of technology for the future. When the idea of model tracing in a computer-based environment is combined with appreciation for creative mind-extension cognitive tools and for how a community of learners can facilitate learning, a camp is created where AI technologists and social constructivist learning theorists can feel equally at home.

Town, City, and Nation

Author : Philip J. Waller
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780192891631
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Town, City, and Nation written by Philip J. Waller and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the outbreak of the First World War, England had become the world's first mass urban society. In just over sixty years the proportion of town-dwellers had risen from 50 to 80 percent, and during this period many of the most crucial developments in English urban society had taken place. This book provides a uniquely comprehensive analysis of those developments - conurbations, suburbs, satellite towns, garden cities, and seaside resorts. Waller assesses the importance of London, the provincial cities, and manufacturing centers. He also examines the continuing influence of the small country town and "rural" England on political, economic, and cultural growth. Scholarly and readable, this book is a general social history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England, seen from an urban perspective.