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Historic Mansfield
A Bicentennial History will tell the story of our city as we mark our 200th year. The book will contrast the old and the new and relate the great transition from heavy manufacturing to a service economy, including retailing, education and healthcare.
Highways of the Mind
Stories of the open road have a powerful sway over our imagination, particularly in America, where the vast web of interstate highways transformed the national identity as well as the national landscape. Sometimes seen as the harbinger of a golden future, other times as the conduit of a dehumanized dystopia, the highway reflects some of our most potent fantasies as well as our deepest anxieties about modernity, ecology, commerce, and individuality. In a work rich in embedded multimedia, Helen J. Burgess and Jeanne Hamming look at cultural and media representations of the highway in planning documents, industrial films, corporate ephemera, and science fiction narratives to explore how these stories of the road have reconfigured how we think about ourselves and our world. Highways of the Mind, available only on the Apple iBookstore site in iBook format, shows how the stories we tell about the highway—whether in the service of national pride, corporate advertising, urban planning, or apocalyptic warnings—determine how we imagine, or fail to imagine, the possibilities for human action in built environments.
The Best Interface Is No Interface
Our love affair with the digital interface is out of control. We’ve embraced it in the boardroom, the bedroom, and the bathroom. Screens have taken over our lives. Most people spend over eight hours a day staring at a screen, and some “technological innovators” are hoping to grab even more of your eyeball time. You have screens in your pocket, in your car, on your appliances, and maybe even on your face. Average smartphone users check their phones 150 times a day, responding to the addictive buzz of Facebook or emails or Twitter. Are you sick? There’s an app for that! Need to pray? There’s an app for that! Dead? Well, there’s an app for that, too! And most apps are intentionally ...
Robots of Westinghouse, 1924-today
The Robots of Westinghouse 1924 - Today is a comprehensive history of all of the robots or mechanical men that Westinghouse built from 1924 through the 1950's. For the first time a true and accurate history has been compiled to show the genius behind the automation of the first true robots built in America. The book contains many rare photographs and information that has never been in print, along with anecdotes from the original engineers and designers. The best known and most famous of the Westinghouse Robots is "Elektro" built for the New York World's Fair of 1939 & 1940. "Elektro" was not the first nor the last robot that was made and this book will give insights into a lost piece of Americana. These robots were made in a time of wonderment where everything was possible and technology would solve the all the world’s problems. A book that lends itself to all ages and interests. If your interests lean towards World's Fair history, robots, early technology, electronics and Americana this book will fill an important piece history that has been missing for years.
Ocean Dream
Schüsse in der Dunkelheit, düstere Gestalten, ein Angriff. Ohne darüber nachzudenken, zieht Simon die Pistole aus seinem Gürtel und spannt den Hahn. Ein in einen langen Umhang gehüllter Angreifer stürzt sich auf den neben Simon knienden Muir, der ausgerechnet jetzt sein Gewehr nachlädt.
Highland Love Affairs: The nights we shared
Manchmal verlieren auch Giganten eine Schlacht. Niall Quinn wirft so schnell nichts aus der Bahn. Als ehemaliger Rugby-Profi hat er so manchen Kampf auf dem Spielfeld ausgefochten und weder Verletzungen noch Frauen, die sich ihm an den Hals warfen, konnten ihn zu Fall bringen. Seine neue Aufgabe, die Reisebloggerin Danielle für das Familienhotel zu begeistern, könnte ihn jedoch an seine Grenzen führen. Dass Danielle eigentlich Ava heißt, darf niemand im The Finnegan erfahren. Überhaupt war es eine Schwachsinnsidee ihrer Zwillingsschwester, sie an ihrer Stelle nach Schottland zu schicken, um über das Hotel zu berichten. Alles könnte so einfach sein, wenn da nicht dieser störrische Schotte wäre, der es Ava beinahe unmöglich macht, ihre Fassade aufrechtzuerhalten. Was passiert, wenn plötzlich Gefühle entstehen und Mauern fallen? Können Lügen am Ende alles zerstören?
Robots in American Popular Culture
They are invincible warriors of steel, silky-skinned enticers, stealers of jobs and lovable goofball sidekicks. Legions of robots and androids star in the dream factories of Hollywood and leer on pulp magazine covers, instantly recognizable icons of American popular culture. For two centuries, we have been told tales of encounters with creatures stronger, faster and smarter than ourselves, making us wonder who would win in a battle between machine and human. This book examines society's introduction to robots and androids such as Robby and Rosie, Elektro and Sparko, Data, WALL-E, C-3PO and the Terminator, particularly before and after World War II when the power of technology exploded. Learn how robots evolved with the times and then eventually caught up with and surpassed them.
Serendipity
Serendipity ist die Gabe, zufällig glückliche und unerwartete Entdeckungen zu machen. Auch im zweiten Teil seines dreimonatigen Abenteuers entlang der US-Westküste kann sich Backpacker Dennis Knickel nicht über fehlendes Glück oder Langeweile beschweren: Nachdem er sich schweren Herzens von Cari verabschieden musste, taucht Brian plötzlich in San Francisco auf. Sein schräger Freund aus Portland lädt ihn zu einem Road Trip zum Yosemite National Park ein, wo Dennis erneut den Hauch des Todes zu spüren bekommt. Auch Ford ist wieder mit von der Partie. Der sympathisch verrückte Schauspieler ist mittel- und obdachlos in Hollywood gestrandet und bittet Dennis um Unterstützung. Der 29-j...
Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II
The first comprehensive technical history of air, land, sea, and underwater unmanned systems, by a distinguished U.S. Navy roboticist. Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, offering the first comprehensive historical and technical accounting of unmanned air, land, sea, and underwater systems. Focusing on examples introduced during the two world wars, H. R. Everett meticulously...
The American Robot
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, ...
