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Book Machines of Youth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary S. Cross
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2018-05-04
  • ISBN : 022634178X
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Machines of Youth written by Gary S. Cross and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For American teenagers, getting a driver’s license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver’s license in hand, teens are on the road to buying and driving(and maybe even crashing) their first car, a machine which is home to many a teenage ritual—being picked up for a first date, “parking” at a scenic overlook, or blasting the radio with a gaggle of friends in tow. So important is this car ride into adulthood that automobile culture has become a stand-in, a shortcut to what millions of Americans remember about their coming of age. Machines of Youth traces the rise, and more recently the fall, of car culture among American teens. In this book, Gary S. Cross details how an automobile obsession drove teen peer culture from the 1920s to the 1980s, seducing budding adults with privacy, freedom, mobility, and spontaneity. Cross shows how the automobile redefined relationships between parents and teenage children, becoming a rite of passage, producing new courtship rituals, and fueling the growth of numerous car subcultures. Yet for teenagers today the lure of the automobile as a transition to adulthood is in decline.Tinkerers are now sidelined by the advent of digital engine technology and premolded body construction, while the attention of teenagers has been captured by iPhones, video games, and other digital technology. And adults have become less tolerant of teens on the road, restricting both cruising and access to drivers’ licenses. Cars are certainly not going out of style, Cross acknowledges, but how upcoming generations use them may be changing. He finds that while vibrant enthusiasm for them lives on, cars may no longer be at the center of how American youth define themselves. But, for generations of Americans, the modern teen experience was inextricably linked to this particularly American icon.

Book Animals  Machines  and AI

Download or read book Animals Machines and AI written by Erika Quinn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentient animals, machines, and robots abound in German literature and culture, but there has been surprisingly limited scholarship on non-human life forms in German studies. This volume extends interdisciplinary research in emotion studies to examine non-humans and the affective relationships between humans and non-humans in modern German cultural history. In recent years, fascination with emotions, developments in robotics, and the burgeoning of animal studies in and beyond the academy have given rise to questions about the nature of humanity. Using sources from the life sciences, literature, visual art, poetry, philosophy, and photography, this collection interrogates not animal or machine emotions per se, but rather uses animals and machines as lenses through which to investigate human emotions and the affective entanglements between humans and non-humans. The COVID-19 pandemic made us more keenly aware of the importance of both animals and new technologies in our daily lives, and this volume ultimately sheds light on the centrality of non-humans in the human emotional world and the possibilities that relationships with non-humans offer for enriching that world.

Book Termination of Civilian Conservation Corps and National Youth Administration

Download or read book Termination of Civilian Conservation Corps and National Youth Administration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Youth s Companion

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 744 pages

Download or read book Youth s Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War Machines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Danny Hoffman
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2011-09-16
  • ISBN : 0822350777
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The War Machines written by Danny Hoffman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic research among militias in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor on battlefields and in dangerous unregulated industries.

Book Illustrated Handbook of Machinery

Download or read book Illustrated Handbook of Machinery written by Charles James Appleby and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Youth s Companion

Download or read book The Youth s Companion written by Nathaniel Willis and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.

Book The youth s business guide  by Experientia

Download or read book The youth s business guide by Experientia written by John Southward and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Tobacco Policy and Youth Smoking Reduction Act

Download or read book National Tobacco Policy and Youth Smoking Reduction Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Code of Federal Regulations

Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Book Parliamentary Debates

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  • Author : Victoria. Parliament
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1102 pages

Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Victoria. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hard At Work In Factories And Mines

Download or read book Hard At Work In Factories And Mines written by Carolyn Tuttle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children have worked for centuries and continue to work. The history of the economic development of Europe and North America includes numerous instances of child labor. Manufacturers in England, France, Belgium, Germany, and Prussia as well as the United States used child labor during the initial stages of industrialization. In addition, child labor prevails currently in many industries in the Third World. This book examines the explanations for child labor in an economic context. A model of the labor market for children is constructed using the new economics of the family framework to derive the supply of child labor and the traditional labor theory of marginal productivity to derive the demand for child labor. The model is placed into a historical context and is used to test the existing supply-and-demand-induced explanations for an increase in child labor during the British Industrial Revolution. Evidence on the extent of childrens employment, their specific tasks and trends in their wages from the textile industry and mining industry is used to support the argument that it was technological innovation which created a demand for child labor. Certain mechanical inventions and process innovations increased the demand for child labor in three ways: increasing number of assistants needed; increasing the substitutability between children and adults, and creating work situations that only children could fill. Specific innovations in the production of textiles and in the extraction of coal, copper and tin are highlighted to show how they favored the use of child workers over adult workers. The book concludes with a look at the current situations in developing countries where child labor is prevalent. Considerable insight is gained on the role of child labor in economic development when this historical model is applied to the contemporary situation.

Book Final Report of the National Youth Administration  Fiscal Years 1936 1943

Download or read book Final Report of the National Youth Administration Fiscal Years 1936 1943 written by United States. War Manpower Commission and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When Machines Take Over

Download or read book When Machines Take Over written by Philip K. Dick and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second Variety – A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. The war continues, however, among the scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have developed "claws", which are autonomous self-replicating robots to fight on their side... The Last of the Masters – An old and ageing robot is a benevolent dictator of the last remnants of humanity, but the Anarchists want him gone. Will the machines and humans never understand each other? The Defenders – The USA and Soviet Union are engaged in a long nuclear war, but can the robots defend the humanity or be the end of it? Sales Pitch – An unwanted sales-pitching robot is the sole company of his master on a long flight... James P. Crow – Robots have totally moved the society away from war and anarchism but the humans begrudge being inferior to them. It now remains up to James P. Crow to remove the robots from the earth and "de-integrate" the society...

Book The Rule of the Machines  5 Sci Fi Titles in One Edition

Download or read book The Rule of the Machines 5 Sci Fi Titles in One Edition written by Philip K. Dick and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Second Variety – A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. The war continues, however, among the scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have developed "claws", which are autonomous self-replicating robots to fight on their side... The Last of the Masters – An old and ageing robot is a benevolent dictator of the last remnants of humanity, but the Anarchists want him gone. Will the machines and humans never understand each other? The Defenders – The USA and Soviet Union are engaged in a long nuclear war, but can the robots defend the humanity or be the end of it? Sales Pitch – An unwanted sales-pitching robot is the sole company of his master on a long flight... James P. Crow – Robots have totally moved the society away from war and anarchism but the humans begrudge being inferior to them. It now remains up to James P. Crow to remove the robots from the earth and "de-integrate" the society...

Book Elite Youth Cycling

Download or read book Elite Youth Cycling written by Alfred Nimmerichter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite Youth Cycling showcases the latest cutting-edge research in youth cycling performance. Covering both endurance and sprint cycling events, the book explores the effect of cycling on the maturation of the body from childhood to adolescence, suggests long-term training and nutritional strategies for young athletes, and discusses issues such as injury prevention, long-term athlete health, and body image in endurance cyclists. Divided into sections on growth and maturation, training and testing, sports medicine and nutrition, and coaching and psychology, the book includes chapters on: Muscle, bone and cardiopulmonary development of young cyclists Performance assessment in the laboratory and on the track Longitudinal training strategies and concurrent strength training Overuse injuries and injury prevention Nutrition and ergogenic aids Personal and psychosocial development Including directions for future research in each section, Elite Youth Cycling is an authoritative and comprehensive anthology of the latest research in youth cycling. It is vital reading for any physiologist, psychologist, strength and conditioning coach or sport therapist working with young cyclists, and any academic researching youth sport and the development of young athletes.