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Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your Mother
The Second World War is over, and London is getting back on its feet. But the rationing is not over, and for ten-year-old Billy Brown this means business. It's the perfect time for a mischievous boy with ambition and imagination... Left to his own devices with both his parents at work, Billy scours the bombsites and the markets, finds a Saturday job at a scrap metal yard, and sells everything from bricks to horse muck. Billy paints a heart-warming and nostalgic picture of Britain emerging from the ruins of war.
A Sense of Things
In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the history of a culture of consumption. It is the story of Americans using things to think about themselves. Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of thin...
Other Things
From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.
Radio Boys Cronies; Or, Bill Brown's Radio
In 'Radio Boys Cronies; Or, Bill Brown's Radio,' editors Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron present an engaging anthology that captures the spirit and imagination fueled by the early days of radio technology. This collection uniquely blends the burgeoning enthusiasm for science and communication with captivating storytelling, offering readers a broad spectrum of narratives that range from adventure and camaraderie to reflections on societal change. The anthology is significant for its historical context, highlighting the transformative impact of radio on society and individual lives, and features standout pieces that cleverly integrate technical innovation with human emotion and ambition. This en...
The Material Unconscious
Within the ephemera of the everyday--old photographs, circus posters, iron toys--lies a challenge to America's dominant cultural memory. What this memory has left behind, Bill Brown recovers in the "material unconscious" of Stephen Crane's work, the textual residues of daily sensations that add up to a new history of the American 1890s. As revealed in Crane's disavowing appropriation of an emerging mass culture--from football games and freak shows to roller coasters and early cinema--the decade reappears as an underexposed moment in the genealogy of modernism and modernity. Brown's story begins on the Jersey Shore, in Asbury Park, where Crane became a writer in the shadow of his father, a gr...
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Radio Boys Cronies Or Bill Brown's Radio
"Radio Boys Cronies," which become written with the aid of S. F. Aaron and Wayne Whipple collectively, is an outstanding literary journey that continues readers interested with its blend of journey, friendship, and technical marvel. The story is ready a set of buddies referred to as the "Radio Boys" who go on exciting adventures in the world of early radio. Each writer, S. F. Aaron and Wayne Whipple, is a master storyteller, and that they give the story their own unique appeal and a willpower to standard assessment. The story now not best continues humans entertained, but it additionally brings people together, spreads records, and creates a feel of shared entertainment. The writers are very...
My Southern Home
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Not Bored! Anthology 1983-2010
Massive anthology of essays and illustrations published in NOT BORED! between 1983 and 2010.
The Private Journals of William C. Brown
Join Bill Brown, one of the twentieth century's premier engineers, in this astonishing and intimate autobiography as he invents, demonstrates and pioneers practical Microwave Power Transmission(MPT). Bill's rectenna provides Space Solar Power's key enabling technology, to continuously, gently and wirelessly beam terawatts of our sun's immense power from GEO to our groaning electric power grids. SSP can provide unlimited clean reliable energy to Earth, now 85% provided by fossil fuels. On this 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, volume one's cover celebrates another of Bill's 50+ landmark patents, his Amplitron, which provided television coverage from the Moon to the world of all the Apollo missions. Share Bill's family, career and technical ups and downs with this gentle, soft-spoken man, tremendously respected by his peers, with a powerful vision and deep insight into what could be and the technical capability, courageous risk taking, and personal discipline to realize that goal.
