Download or read book Ben Franklin and the Prius written by Stanford Beebe and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More so than any of the founding fathers, Ben Franklin personified a free and independent spirit. Working class and considered unfit for public office in the old world, Franklin championed the common man, making labor honorable and worthy of fully participating in government. One wonders what Franklin would think if he could see America now. In this novel, Bently Spanworth, while duplicating Franklin's experiment with lightning accidentally transports Franklin into the twenty first century. Franklin's reactions to our world are both amusing and troubling. His recommendations for putting the Republic back on course would greatly reduce the power of political parties, limit their control of the purse, and substantially increase the number of women in congress. While here Franklin is smitten by a shiny black Prius Hybrid, and he and Bently set out in the Prius to assess the outcome of the 1776 revolution; visiting with common folks to determine whether, 'all are created equal, ' and, 'the pursuit of happiness, ' have any meaning in the twenty first century.
Download or read book The Writings of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War Christmases written by Stanford Beebe and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the times and the people who lived during World War II. About life in small town mid-America: the schoolhouse, the grocery stores, the barber shop, the taverns, and the characters. Particularly, it is about the people and what life was like during the war. Like the soldiers who fought in WWII, the people who grew up then are also slipping away, and these are their stories. Those times may well mark the zenith of American greatness, not only politically and economically, but also spiritually. We had both religious and patriotic spirituality, a nation populated with churches, a nation that had sent its young men around the world twice in the twentieth century, in the name of freedom for others. It was a nation of goodness, of strong families, a time we are not likely to ever see again. This book is about that time, stories that should be told, stories our children and grandchildren need to hear.
Download or read book The Library of Benjamin Franklin written by Edwin Wolf and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.
Download or read book The DARPA Urban Challenge written by Martin Buehler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major transformation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about by the maturity of the field and the advances in its related technologies. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and dependably co-habitat with humans in homes, workplaces, and communities, providing support in services, entertainment, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and assistance. Beyond its impact on physical robots, the body of knowledge robotics has produced is revealing a much wider range of applications reaching across diverse research areas and scientific disciplines, such as: biomechanics, haptics, neurosciences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others. In return, the challenges of the new emerging areas are proving an abundant source of stimulation and insights for the field of robotics. It is indeed at the intersection of disciplines that the most striking advances happen. The goal of the series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field.
Download or read book Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles written by Hong Cheng and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text/reference presents state-of-the-art research on intelligent vehicles, covering not only topics of object/obstacle detection and recognition, but also aspects of vehicle motion control. With an emphasis on both high-level concepts, and practical detail, the text links theory, algorithms, and issues of hardware and software implementation in intelligent vehicle research. Topics and features: presents a thorough introduction to the development and latest progress in intelligent vehicle research, and proposes a basic framework; provides detection and tracking algorithms for structured and unstructured roads, as well as on-road vehicle detection and tracking algorithms using boosted Gabor features; discusses an approach for multiple sensor-based multiple-object tracking, in addition to an integrated DGPS/IMU positioning approach; examines a vehicle navigation approach using global views; introduces algorithms for lateral and longitudinal vehicle motion control.
Download or read book Whom the Gods Would Destroy written by Richard Powell and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book STEM for All Ages written by Seán G.Dwyer and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brothers who invented the first successful aircraft were not Orville and Wilbur. They were preceded by the Montgolfier brothers 120 years earlier in a type of aircraft still in wide use today. 150 years before them, the Celebi brothers made the first survivable rocket and intercontinental flights. With the goal of providing an interesting learning experience, the book's focus is not just on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math). Also included is analysis of Cause & Effect and a lot of surprising history. So it is not just about HOW things work, it is also about WHY they happened that way, and the consequences. Roughly every 500 years new technology completely disrupts society, changing borders, laws, and the way people live and work. It happened again with the emergence of the Digital Age. Because aviation involves many fields of science, it is a particularly interesting way to show how STEM is a continuum of mutually supporting elements. Applications of chemistry, physics, astronomy, navigation, programming, and paradigm paralysis are presented in a hands-on understandable way.
Download or read book Report s of the Commissioners Appointed to Revise the Statute Laws of this State written by New York (State). Commissioners Appointed to Revise the Statute Laws of the State of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketches of Eminent American Statesmen with Speeches Addresses and Letters written by Benjamin Franklin Perry and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Public Men written by Benjamin Franklin Perry and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Public Men with Speeches and Addresses 2d Series written by Benjamin Franklin Perry and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trial of Rev Mr Avery written by Ephraim K. Avery and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weber and Toennies written by Joseph B. Maier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of selected essays by Werner J. Cahnman brings together out of scattered dispersion his writings about Max Weber, Ferdinand Toennies, and historical sociology. The great theoretical range and depth of his intellect and mastery of sociological thinking is apparent as he discusses the impact of romanticism on modern thought, and how Weber and Toennies both analyzed and reacted to modernity. Cahnman places Weber (1864-1920), the dominant figure in twentieth-century sociology, in the midst of the methodological controversies so characteristic of contemporary social science, and he fully discusses the overarching importance of Weberian ideal-type theory. Although less well-known than Weber, Toennies (1855-1936) was also a sociologist of the first rank. He is best remembered for his enormously influential twin concepts, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, which contributed to our understanding of the historical and sociological basis for the change from premodern to modern societies. The essays in this volume establish Toennies' intellectual connections to Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Herbert Spencer, and clarify his influence upon American sociology. Cahnman stood against strict separations between history and sociology, and his essays are all informed by a wonderful admixture of the theoretical and the concrete. They demonstrate how a genuine historical sociology, not unlike that of Weber and Toennies, can find and explain linkages between seemingly disparate events spanning time and place. This volume will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and intellectual historians.
Download or read book Memorial of Benjamin Franklin Fackenthall written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Albion s Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Download or read book On the Money Journal written by C. Stephen Guyer and published by Parsifal Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Money-now in its fifth year of syndication-is the financial column C-level executives just can't wait to get their hands on. Published monthly by American Cities Business Journals, On the Money is a refreshingly candid (and sometimes humorous) look at the stuff that makes the world go 'round. Now, for the first time, a compilation of C. Stephen Guyer's favorite columns is available in On the Money Journal: Guyer's guide for how you can acquire, borrow, protect, move, watch, play with, go to jail for, and have fun with, our most popular commodity-Money!
