Download or read book Broken Machines written by Michael I. Leahey and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Machines is a gritty mystery in the tradition of Robert Parker and Elmore Leonard. James Joseph Donovan stares out his own window, watching as the rain soaks Manhattan and puts a damper on his thirty-ninth birthday. J.J. Donovan is a private consultant - an expert people turn to when they've run out of options. Before the day is out, Janet Fein, a social worker friend, will ask Donovan to help a little boy named Clifford Brice. Clifford's mother Ruby - a prostitute and a heroin addict - has been brutally murdered. The police have a suspect in custody, but Janet and Clifford don't think it's the right man. The police don't seem to care. Janet wants Donovan and his eccentric partner, Doctor Boris Koulomzin, to find out the truth. Neither man can abandon the bright young boy. As they are formulating a plan, there is a second murder... and an attempt on Clifford himself. Donovan finds himself going undercover at a dank manufacturing plant in Brooklyn, where the rats, the criminals, and the immigrant laborers all struggle to make ends meet. It is a place where the people, like the machines, are broken. In this place, there is little room for repair or redemption, but Donovan pushes on. In the process, he and Boris expose a fraud, catch a murderer, and manage to blow up the better part of a city block.
Download or read book Beneath Broken Machines written by PC Walker and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath Broken Machines is a cup of cold water to a dry, parched, and weary soul. In ministry, its easy to portray that I ONCE was lost...but now Ive got it all together. PC writes this book with humility and openness, which gives permission to confess that your machine is broken as well. - Travis Osborne, Pastor at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, CA As someone who has left the church, this book spoke to me. Im not talking about an awakening with pomp and circumstance, but something more simple, beautiful, and powerful. PC has always been a guiding force in my life, and this incredibly powerful book is no different. - Kyle Lacy, 3x Author and National Speaker We have a propensity to build machines out of our faith. We like to put in the right things in hopes it will churn out the right product. We become proud of the manufactured machines of faith we have built. The troubles with machines are they have no hearts and they break down. If your machine has broken down, you may have no idea what to do. Embark on a search for the heart that still beats for you. Embrace the wonder and awe of the ridiculous love of God that has always been for you. Encounter the heart of the gospel, which is the heart of Jesus beneath all of your pain, failure, and shame.
Download or read book Healing Broken Machines written by Gary Mallett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a heart ripping fictional story of how a young boy was sexually and physically abused by his parents, foster parents, probation officers and even his pastor. He then turned out to be a psychopathic killer and everyone wondered why. This is the story of how he ended up on death row and how Jesus reached down and changed his life in a way that enabled him to reach millions of people with the Gospel from within a maximum security prison.
Download or read book Broken Time Machines written by Daisy Patton and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Time Machines: Daisy Patton, designed by Joshua Gamma and edited by Yasmeen Siddiqui, is comprised of writings by award-winning Irish poet and novelist Elaine Feeney; celebrated American poet Sommer Browning; British scholar Salma Ahmad Caller; French feminist literary critic Adèle Cassigneul; American historian William Max Nelson; and American critic Kealey Boyd. Together these contributors have created a sensitively designed book that behaves as a way-finding device for interpreting the work of emerging artist Daisy Patton.
Download or read book Hands on Science Simple Machines written by Steven Souza and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproducible activities, correlated to the National Science Education Standards, that engage students' minds as they observe, examine & investigate the concepts of force, work, power, efficiency, mechanical advantage, and ramps, wedges, levers, pulleys & gears.
Download or read book Talking about Machines written by Julian E. Orr and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives. He characterizes their work as a continuous highly skilled improvisation within a triangular relationship of technician, customer, and machine. The work technicians do encompasses elements not contained in the official definition of the job yet vital to its success. Orr's analysis of the way repair people talk about their work reveals that talk is, in fact, a crucial dimension of their practice. Diagnosis happens through a narrative process, the creation of a coherent description of the troubled machine. The descriptions become the basis for technicians' discourse about their experience, and the circulation of stories among the technicians is the principal means by which they stay informed of the developing subtleties of machine behavior. Orr demonstrates that technical knowledge is a socially distributed resource stored and diffused primarily through an oral culture.Based on participant observation with copier repair technicians in the field and strengthened by Orr's own years as a technician, this book explodes numerous myths about technicians and suggests how technical work differs from other kinds of employment.
Download or read book Time Machines Repaired While U Wait written by K. A. Bedford and published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll be shocked and surprisedto learn what lies at the end of time!Relish the conundrums of time travelin this story of a man attempting to both solvea mystery and come to terms with his life."K. A. Bedford delivers by focusing less on the "wow" factor (and more) on the social-implications factor." — The Harrow"This is a gotta-read, with some thoughtful concepts to ponder." — Pam Allen, ConNotations------------------------------"Bedford is funny in a crazed, Rudy Rucker kind of way.While Rucker writes of gonzo theorists, Bedford writes of the gonzo mechanics who keep the machines running." — Fred Cleaver, Denver Post------------------------------Winner of the Australian Aurealis Award------------------------------If You enjoy Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but crave something more sci-fi, with fewer goofy antics, you'll appreciate Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait.------------------------------In the future, Aloysius "Spider" Webb will journey to the End of Time.For now, he must be content with repairing broken time machines, rebuilding his life and avoiding the lunatic antics of his boss, Dickhead McMahon.Spider's life is status quo until he discovers inside a broken second-hand time machine, the corpse of a brutally murdered woman from the future. The Department of Time and Space steps in to manage the situation — leaving Spider asking a lot of questions that only lead to more questions; unsettling evidence, brewing trouble, and the knowledge that Spider himself might be involved in an epic battle for control of time itself.Will his knowing the future be a curse or a blessing? and will Spider Webb really find out how things turn out before they happen? With his new found knowledge, who can Spider trust?One thing is certain: it will all happen before the End of Time!------------------------------About the Author:K. A. Bedford lives in Perth, Western Australia. All of his novels have been shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel, and he has twice won, including for TIME MACHINES REPAIRED WHILE-U-WAIT, which was also shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award.Bedford attended Curtin and Murdoch Universities, where he studied Writing, Theatre, and Philosophy.------------------------------Other books by K. A. Bedford: - Orbital Burn - Eclipse - Hydrogen Steel - Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (A Spider Webb Novel) - Paradox Resolution (A Spider Webb Novel)------------------------------Praise:"The local Western Australia ambiance provides a unique perspective that is quite consistent with the gonzo aspects of the story. Bedford has created a science-fiction novel that is sure to please most SF fans." — D. Douglas Fratz, Sci-Fi"The premise is not only is time travel common place, it's treated like any other vacation spot. The equipment is cheap enough that one can often find good deals on time machines on Ebay. But the book doesn't rest on one plot device but manages to pull off suspense mystery and intrigue. I am liking it despite myself!" — Paul, Reader
Download or read book Novel Machines written by Joseph Drury and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Machines explores the ideas of technological modernity and the machinery of narrative fiction in the eighteenth-century British novel.
Download or read book Mining Machines and Earth Moving Equipment written by Marek Sokolski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents central problems in the design, research and maintenance of large-size mining machines for open pits, mobile earth-moving machinery, hydraulic hammers for mining and civil engineering, and screening processes for bulk materials. It brings together the insights of numerous respected academics to offer a thorough and multifaceted overview of the topic. The first few chapters of the book deal with specific problems that frequently occur in machinery for open-pit mining. They focus on the resilience of large-size mining machines, degradation of steels used for supporting structures, and modelling of large-size rotary joints, as well as the noise hazards in connection with degradation processes. The book then moves on to discuss problems arising in earth-moving machinery, such as new approaches to the assessment of operation and maintenance, dynamic loads in front-end loader booms, and synchronic transfer of power from the engine to the driven wheels. The book concludes by discussing hydraulic hammers for mining and civil engineering, and screening processes for bulk materials that combine a vibroscreen with additional feed elements. The book is primarily intended for undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering courses, but will also be of interest to researchers and mechanical engineers.
Download or read book The Broken Universe written by Paul Melko and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling adventure that spans alternate universes, filled with multiple doppelgängers, transdimensional corporate takeovers, and a struggle for survival across the multiverse
Download or read book Machinery written by Lester Gray French and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic written by White Eric White and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardesExplores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalistsExplores writers' and artists' inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in cultureDraws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Brown's 'reading machine' - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of readingReading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. Drawing on a wealth of archival discoveries, it argues that modernist avant-gardes used technology not only as a means of analysing culture, but as a way of feeding back into it. As well as uncovering a new invention by Mina Loy, the untold story of Bob Brown's 'reading machine' and the radical technicities of African American experimentalists including Gwendolyn Bennett and Ralph Ellison, the book places avant-gardes at the centre of innovation across a variety of fields. From dazzle camouflage to microfilm, and from rail networks to broadcast systems, White explores how vanguardists harnessed socio-technics to provoke social change.
Download or read book Machines written by Jason M. Green and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the later half of the twenty-first century, Jobe Corithese is hired to track down some missing people who are believed to have been kidnapped. He accepts this job after gaining information about the person who hired him, but the fact that he is being hunted by nearly every law enforcement agency on Earth will complicate his assignment considerably. So he decides to track down the only person he believes he can trust to help him complete the assignment, but the only problem is that this person, Sid Tyko, blames Jobe for his nearly dying during their first meeting. However, he does agree to help Jobe, but only because he is offered a large sum of money for his services. Then with Sid in tow, Jobe goes to join his assistant, who happens to be an android who prefers to be called Gus, who has been heavily modified by all of his previous owners to the point where he has developed a rather unique personality to go with his impressive set of skills. The three of them then leave Earth behind and begin their search for the missing people on a space station called The Rim that orbits Earth?s moon. Their search takes them to various places on The Rim, and then to the moon itself, where they find the people they were looking for, but also begin to uncover secrets that they are not meant to know. They soon learn that their assignment will be anything but easy, as they are pitted against criminals, soldiers, and people employed by various law-enforcement agencies, while trying to unravel a larger conspiracy that they have suddenly learned they are a part of.
Download or read book The Aeroplane written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book War Machines written by Adam J. Whitlatch and published by Latchkey Press. This book was released on 2023-07-16 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TEMUJIN LIVES! The entire world is abuzz with news and speculation about Earth’s newest heroes, the Terran Defense Corps, after they saved a rural Midwest high school from an apparent terrorist attack. But who are they? Where do they come from? What are their true intentions? There’s only one question on the TDC’s minds, however, and that is… where is the mastermind of the attack? Where is Temujin? Humbled by his recent defeat but not broken, Temujin labors in secret to rebuild his forces so that he may strike back against his enemies and deal the finishing blow. Desperate to regain the upper hand, the Horde abducts a brilliant young woman who holds the key to unlocking the full deadly potential of Temujin’s war machines.
