Download or read book Marvelous Machines written by Jane Wilsher and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use the Magic Lens to reveal the inner workings of the machines all around us

Download or read book MacHines and Magic written by Craig Musselman and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit www.MachinesAndMagic.com for discount coupon CODES! Machines and Magic Vol. 1 Is a compilation of exciting new Fantasy and Sci Fi images by a stellar array of 91 International artists hailing from all 6 continents. The book is 156 pages of stunning full colour works, judged by an international panel of 5 award winning artists working in the genre. The book features both digital and traditional media by master artists working in all categories and techniques. This book measures a full 8.5x11 inches with a perfect bound style, thick, softback glossy cover and with an interior filled with over 250 stunning full colour images as well as several additional sketches and concept drawings to pique your interest. Makes a great gift for those "hard to buy for" teens or men and women in your life! If you love and have been inspired by the annual compilations of Sci Fi and Fantasy art by Spectrum and Expose you will love this book! I have unleashed the personal visions of dozens of new artists, many in print for the first time along with seasoned veterans working as designers and artists for movies and games. The index lists the websites of all of the artists so you can explore their work in more detail, and contact them on how to buy their work and commission your own from their studios. The artists would all love to hear from you if you have seen their work so feel free to leave comments on the site and bookseller venues. Visit www.MachinesAndMagic.com for a gallery of more of their work, find out how to be in this book next time or other books I have planned and links to the best prices on where to buy the book and ask about special rates for large orders! If you are an artist, CraigMusselman.com has a series of books in different genres coming soon. visit my portal to see other book types of interest that may be recruiting people just like YOU! I always love to hear from new artists and as a graphic designer am available for making books, websites and other art projects.

Download or read book Bread Machine Magic written by Linda Rehberg and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long-Awaited Revised Edition of the Classic Bread Machine Book This well-researched, top-selling bread machine cookbook is now revised to include two-pound loaves, bringing it up-to-date for today's machines. Bread machine bakers will be delighted with this collection of more than 130 delicious, original recipes. Enjoy fresh-baked breads at home using carefully tested recipes that include: - San Francisco Sourdough French Bread - Black Forest Pumpernickel - Zucchini-Carrot Bread - Russian Black Bread - Banana Oatmeal Bread - Coconut Pecan Rolls - Caramel Sticky Buns - Portuguese Sweet Bread - And much more! These wholesome, preservative-free recipes are accompanied with tips for baking the perfect loaf. Whether you're a newcomer to bread machine baking or a longtime enthusiast, this book will help you fill your kitchen with the delectable aroma of one freshly baked loaf after another.

Download or read book The Monster in the Machine written by Zakiya Hanafi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monster in the Machine tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates scenes of Italian life and culture from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries to show how monsters were conceptualized at this particular locale and historical juncture—a period when the sacred was being supplanted by a secular, decidedly nonmagical way of looking at the world. Noting that the word “monster” is derived from the Latin for “omen” or “warning,” Hanafi explores the monster’s early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Although monsters have always been considered “whatever we are not,” they gradually were tranformed into mechanical devices when new discoveries in science and medicine revealed the mechanical nature of the human body. In analyzing the historical literature of monstrosity, magic, and museum collections, Hanafi uses contemporary theory and the philosophy of technology to illuminate the timeless significance of the monster theme. She elaborates the association between women and the monstrous in medical literature and sheds new light on the work of Vico—particularly his notion of the conatus—by relating it to Vico’s own health. By explicating obscure and fascinating texts from such disciplines as medicine and poetics, she invites the reader to the piazzas and pulpits of seventeenth-century Naples, where poets, courtiers, and Jesuit preachers used grotesque figures of speech to captivate audiences with their monstrous wit. Drawing from a variety of texts from medicine, moral philosophy, and poetics, Hanafi’s guided tour through this baroque museum of ideas will interest readers in comparative literature, Italian literature, history of ideas, history of science, art history, poetics, women’s studies, and philosophy.

Download or read book Tom s Magnificent Machines written by Linda Sarah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical, captivating picture book about the power of love between a son and his father Tom and his dad are good at making things. Their inventions start out simple, but they quickly become bigger, faster, crazier - and they almost always involve wheels. But then Dad loses his job, and everything changes. Sadness clouds the house like a winter sky. That is, until Tom comes up with a brilliant plan that takes their amazing vehicle inventions and creates something astounding - something the world has never seen before . . . An emotionally charged and highly imaginative book that explores themes of love and support between children and their parents but is also great fun, with incredible inventions, crazy contraptions and a wonderfully inspiring pioneering spirit at its heart.

Download or read book Medieval Robots written by E. R. Truitt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.

Download or read book Cars and How They Work written by Ian Ward and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technologies of Magic written by John Potts and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technologies of Magic charts curious territory - a place occupied by both machines and magic. This collection of essays investigates the co-existence of very old forms of thought - belief in ghosts, magic, spirits - and contemporary culture. Refracted through highly technologised societies, magic manifests itself in surprising ways and through a diverse range of practices. Apprehension of the magical - in the world of machines - can give rise to a feeling of uncanny unease. These essays show that ultimately this produces another way of thinking about technology in contemporary culture.

Download or read book EXCLUSIVE ONLY Magic Magnifying Glass Moving Machines written by Honor Head and published by Silver Dolphin Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move the magic magnifying glass and reveal the inner workings the International Space Station, bullet trains, and more! Explore inside moving machines! Move the magic magnifying glass and reveal the inner workings of some of the most amazing moving machines. From the International Space Station to bullet trains, it’s time for a technological adventure!

Download or read book Sublime Dreams of Living Machines written by Minsoo Kang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of European civilization to the twentieth century, the automaton—better known today as the robot—has captured the Western imagination and provided a vital lens into the nature of humanity. Historian Minsoo Kang argues that to properly understand the human-as-machine and the human-as-fundamentally-different-from-machine, we must trace the origins of these ideas and examine how they were transformed by intellectual, cultural, and artistic appearances of the automaton throughout the history of the West. Kang tracks the first appearance of the automaton in ancient myths through the medieval and Renaissance periods, marks the proliferation of the automaton as a central intellectual concept in the Scientific Revolution and the subsequent backlash during the Enlightenment, and details appearances in Romantic literature and the introduction of the living machine in the Industrial Age. He concludes with a reflection on the destructive confrontation between humanity and machinery in the modern era and the reverberations of the humanity-machinery theme today. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines is an ambitious historical exploration and, at heart, an attempt to fully elucidate the rich and varied ways we have utilized our most uncanny creations to explore essential questions about ourselves.

Download or read book Sewing Machine Magic written by Steffani Lincecum and published by Creative Publishing International. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sewing Machine Magic offers "sewing machine whisperer" tips and techniques for using the right presser feet and other accessories to boost accuracy, efficiency, and creativity; with ten easy projects.

Download or read book Moved by Machines written by Mark Coeckelbergh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the rapid development of new technologies such as smart devices, robots, and artificial intelligence and their impact on the lives of people and on society, it is important and urgent to construct conceptual frameworks that help us to understand and evaluate them. Benefiting from tendencies towards a performative turn in the humanities and social sciences, drawing on thinking about the performing arts, and responding to gaps in contemporary artefact-oriented philosophy of technology, this book moves thinking about technology forward by using performance as a metaphor to understand and evaluate what we do with technology and what technology does with us. Focusing on the themes of knowledge/experience, agency, and power, and discussing some pertinent ethical issues such as deception, the narrative of the book moves through a number of performance practices: dance, theatre, music, stage magic, and (perhaps surprisingly) philosophy. These are used as sources for metaphors to think about technology—in particular contemporary devices and machines—and as interfaces to bring in various theories that are not usually employed in philosophy of technology. The result is a sequence of gestures and movements towards a performance-oriented conceptual framework for a thinking about technology which, liberated from the static, vision-centred, and dualistic metaphors offered by traditional philosophy, can do more justice to the phenomenology of our daily embodied, social, kinetic, temporal, and narrative performances with technology, our technoperformances. This book will appeal to scholars of philosophy of technology and performance studies who are interested in reconceptualizing the roles and impact of modern technology.

Download or read book TechGnosis written by Erik Davis and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TechGnosis is a cult classic of media studies that straddles the line between academic discourse and popular culture; it appeals to both those secular and spiritual, to fans of cyberpunk and hacker literature and culture as much as new-thought adherents and spiritual seekers How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword—Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare and fantasy.

Download or read book Horten s Miraculous Mechanisms written by Lissa Evans and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery … and danger. As if being small for his age and also having S. Horten as his name isnt bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends.But on his very first day in his new home, Stuarts swept up in an extraordinary adventure: the quest to find his great-uncle Tony--a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth--and Tonys marvelous, long-lost workshop. Along the way, Stuart reluctantly accepts help from the annoying triplets next door… and encounters trouble from another magician whos also desperate to get hold of Tonys treasures. A quirky, smart, charming page-turner, Hortens Miraculous Mechanisms will enchant young readers--as well as teachers, librarians, and parents. Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal (2012) and the Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize (2011)

Download or read book Colin Seeley written by James Robinson and published by Banovallum. This book was released on 2020-06-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some people who've done little. There are some people who've done a lot. There are others who've done more than that. Then there was Colin Seeley. He'd done more than pretty much everyone. Colin passed away just after his 84th birthday. He packed so much into his life, which began on January 2, 1936, when he was born in Kent, the only child of Percy and Hilda. By 20 Colin was running his own business, soon after he was racing, and just two years into his career, was a podium finisher at the IoM TT. Aged 30, he was a motorcycle manufacturer, then going on to all manner of other disciplines, including running car racing Formula One teams. Post that, he was a successful ace team manager and mentor to young riders, before going on to work for auctioneers Bonhams becoming one of the company's foremost and most trusted consultants. During recent years, Colin had been a popular figure at classic events far and wide, often demonstrating period machines, eyes twinkling and lips smiling, enduringly positive, endearingly modest, and always full of enthusiasm. He pretty much did it all.

Download or read book Mage Against the Machine written by Shaun Barger and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Potter meets The Terminator in this action-packed adventure about a young man who discovers that everything he believed about his world is a lie. The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from the world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized magical technology. Safe within domes that protect them from the nuclear wasteland on the other side, the mages have spent the last century putting their lives back together. Nikolai is obsessed with artifacts from twentieth-century human life: mage-crafted replica Chuck Taylors on his feet, Schwarzenegger posters on his walls, Beatlemania still alive and well in his head. But he’s also tasked with a higher calling—to maintain the Veils that protect mage-kind from the hazards of the wastes beyond. As a cadet in the Mage King’s army, Nik has finally found what he always wanted—a purpose. But when confronted by one of his former instructors gone rogue, Nik tumbles into a dark secret. The humans weren’t nuked into oblivion—they’re still alive. Not only that, outside the domes a war rages between the last enclaves of free humans and vast machine intelligences. Outside the dome, unprepared and on the run, Nik finds Jem. Jem is a Runner for the Human Resistance. A ballerina-turned-soldier by the circumstances of war, Jem is more than just a human—her cybernetic enhancement mods make her faster, smarter, and are the only things that give her a fighting chance against the artificial beings bent on humanity’s eradication. Now Nik faces an impossible decision: side with the mages and let humanity die out? Or stand with Jem and the humans—and risk endangering everything he knows and loves?

Download or read book The Magic Sewing Machine written by Alex Askaroff and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow Albert and his magic sewing machine on the best day of the year as he and his beloved dog Sylko prepare for the Grand Ball. With Ragtail, Squealer, and Stinker, the three shop mice, creating havoc, it will be a day that few will ever forget." -- page 4 of cover.