The Engines Of Our Ingenuity
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Author |
: John H. Lienhard |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2003-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199882885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199882886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inventing Modern by : John H. Lienhard
Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood--the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.
Author |
: John H. Lienhard |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2003-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195167317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195167313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Engines of Our Ingenuity by : John H. Lienhard
This book explores the nature of creativity in engineering and technology, and how it relates to creativity in art or science. Lienhard has for ten years done a twice-weekly radio show, carried on about 35 NPR stations, consisting of 3-minute essays on technology. He uses the substance of selected segments of his radio program to create a continuous narrative presenting his insights on technological creativity. This book has the same title as his radio program, to further draw the attention of his one million listeners.
Author |
: Arthur W. Frank |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2013-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226067360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022606736X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wounded Storyteller by : Arthur W. Frank
Updated second edition: “A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions.” —Sociology of Heath and Illness Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. A collective portrait of a so-called “remission society” of those who suffer from illness or disability, as well as a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank’s book has reached a large and diverse readership including the ill, medical professionals, and scholars of literary theory. Drawing on the work of such authors as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as from people he met during the years he spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a stirring collection of illness stories, ranging from the well-known—Gilda Radner’s battle with ovarian cancer—to the private testimonials of people with cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome, and disabilities. Their stories are more than accounts of personal suffering: They abound with moral choices and point to a social ethic. In this new edition Frank adds a preface describing the personal and cultural times when the first edition was written. His new afterword extends the book’s argument significantly, discussing storytelling and experience, other modes of illness narration, and a version of hope that is both realistic and aspirational. Reflecting on his own life during the creation of the first edition and the conclusions of the book itself, he reminds us of the power of storytelling as way to understand our own suffering. “Arthur W. Frank’s second edition of The Wounded Storyteller provides instructions for use of this now-classic text in the study of illness narratives.” —Rita Charon, author of Narrative Medicine “Frank sees the value of illness narratives not so much in solving clinical conundrums as in addressing the question of how to live a good life.” —Christianity Today
Author |
: Michael S. Schneider |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 523 |
Release |
: 2014-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062043160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062043161 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe by : Michael S. Schneider
Discover how mathematical sequences abound in our natural world in this definitive exploration of the geography of the cosmos You need not be a philosopher or a botanist, and certainly not a mathematician, to enjoy the bounty of the world around us. But is there some sort of order, a pattern, to the things that we see in the sky, on the ground, at the beach? In A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, Michael Schneider, an education writer and computer consultant, combines science, philosophy, art, and common sense to reaffirm what the ancients observed: that a consistent language of geometric design underpins every level of the universe, from atoms to galaxies, cucumbers to cathedrals. Schneider also discusses numerical and geometric symbolism through the ages, and concepts such as periodic renewal and resonance. This book is an education in the world and everything we can't see within it. Contains numerous b&w photos and illustrations.
Author |
: John H. Lienhard |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195341201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195341201 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Invention Begins by : John H. Lienhard
In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined genius to airplanes, trains, and automobiles, revealing how a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Can we speak of speed as an invention? To do so, he concludes, is certainly no greater a stretch than to call the car an "invention."
Author |
: Ben Kissel |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781328566317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1328566315 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Book on the Left by : Ben Kissel
An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history's most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the Left
Author |
: Francesco Colonna |
Publisher |
: Blurb |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2019-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0464987873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780464987871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by : Francesco Colonna
Francesco Colonna's weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale, "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", together with all of its 174 original woodcut illustrations, has been called the first "stream of consciousness" novel and was one of the most important documents of Renaissance imagination and fantasy. The author -- presumed to be a friar of dubious reputation -- was obsessed by architecture, landscape and costume (it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed) and its woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas.
Author |
: Archibald Williams |
Publisher |
: DigiCat |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2022-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547348115 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis How it Works by : Archibald Williams
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How it Works" (Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use) by Archibald Williams. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author |
: Gaston Tissandier |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2023-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783382198831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3382198835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wonders of Water by : Gaston Tissandier
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author |
: Joe Levit |
Publisher |
: Lerner Publications (Tm) |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541503267 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541503260 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Let's Explore Technology by : Joe Levit
STEM subjects are an important part of our everyday lives as well as early-childhood education! This introductory look at technology is perfect for beginning readers. Vibrant photographs, visual aids, and carefully leveled text introduce young learners to the foundations of technology.