Download or read book Machine Mania written by Robynne Eagan and published by Teaching and Learning Company. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little science, a little arts and crafts, a little math, a lot creative and a whole lot of fun! This packet is full of activities and ideas that give free reign to students' curiosity and stretch their creativity. There are opportunities to investigate, create and discover in all areas of the curriculum. Clear step-by-step instructions make the activities easy and fun for students, while the aims and objectives, extension activities and assessment tools make it a helpful resource for teachers.
Download or read book Slot Machine Mania written by Dwight E. Crevelt and published by Gollehon Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newly revised edition of this book covers everything players need to know about slots, from how to judge percentages and select favorable machines to common misconceptions, cheating methods, and regulations. (Gollehon Press)
Download or read book Addiction by Design written by Natasha Dow Schüll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible--even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schüll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. At stake in Schüll's account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion.
Download or read book The Microcosm written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stuntmania Blaze and the Monster Machines written by Mary Tillworth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darington builds the ultimate stunt track, and Blaze can’t wait to see the show! But Crusher will do almost anything to take Darington’s place and become a star! Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 will love this exciting storybook featuring their favorite friends from Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines. Plus kids will love the eye-catching lenticular cover that makes it appear as though Blaze and Darington are flying through the air directly toward the reader!
Download or read book Kid Concoctions Creations Contraptions written by Robynne Eagan and published by Lorenz Educational Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating, do-it-yourself, inventive resource packed with cross-curriculum science and design and technology projects that children can put together themselves and which really work. Uses child's natural curiosity to develop creative problem-solving skills.
Download or read book Sporting Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the annual Racing and steeple-chase calendar (Title: 1792-1845, Racing calendar; 1846-66, Turf register)
Download or read book The Absolute Beginner s Guide to Gambling written by Robert J. Hutchinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only book to give the first-time gambler a complete overview of all the popular games, outlining the basic object of play, rules, and strategies for each. Now anyone can play such games as poker, bridge, slot machines, roulette, craps and blackjack. It's the newcomer's best bet for beating the odds and becoming a winner.
Download or read book Story Machines How Computers Have Become Creative Writers written by Mike Sharples and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices. What will be the impact on society of AI programs that generate original stories to entertain and persuade? What can we learn about human creativity from probing how they work? In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three themes: language generators that compose coherent text, storyworlds with believable characters, and AI models of human storytellers. Providing examples of story machines through the ages, it covers the history, recent developments, and future implications of automated story generation. Anyone with an interest in story writing will gain a new perspective on what it means to be a creative writer, what parts of creativity can be mechanized, and what is essentially human. Story Machines is for those who have ever wondered what makes a good story, why stories are important to us, and what the future holds for storytelling.
Download or read book Minding the Machine written by Stephen P. Rice and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners—and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed—and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
Download or read book The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure written by P. Bramham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship.
Download or read book Velocipedomania written by Corry Cropper and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms. Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the popular culture it inspired. It explores how the device was hailed as a symbol of France’s cutting-edge technological advancements, yet also marketed as an invention with a noble pedigree, born from the nation’s cultural and literary heritage. Giving readers a window into the material culture and enthusiasms of Second Empire France, it provides the first English translations of 1869’s Manual of the Velocipede, 1868’s Note on Monsieur Michaux’s Velocipede, and the 1869 operetta Dagobert and his Velocipede. It also reprints scores of rare images from newspapers and advertisements, analyzing how these magnificent machines captured the era’s visual imagination. By looking at how it influenced French attitudes towards politics, national identity, technology, fashion, fitness, and gender roles, this book shows how the short-lived craze of velocipedomania had a big impact.
Download or read book Elements of Literature Grade 6 written by Holt Rinehart & Winston and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collections of literary works and accompanying lessons covering conflict, autobiography, poetry, main ideas, short story, drama, subjective and objective writing, and mythology and folk tales.
Download or read book The Technologists with bonus short story The Professor s Assassin written by Matthew Pearl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . There are cliffhanger endings and fortuitous escapes. . . . There are even a couple of very sweet romances.”—The Globe and Mail NATIONAL BESTSELLER Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between past and present, tradition and technology. The daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on a mission to harness science for the benefit of all. But when an unnatural disaster strikes the ships in Boston Harbor, and an equally inexplicable catastrophe devastates the heart of the city, an antiscience backlash casts a pall over MIT and threatens its very survival. So the best and brightest from the Institute’s first graduating class secretly join forces to save innocent lives and track down the truth. Armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training, gifted war veteran Marcus Mansfield, blueblood Robert Richards, genius Edwin Hoyt, and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow will match wits with a master criminal bent on the utter destruction of the city. Don’t miss Matthew Pearl’s short story “The Professor’s Assassin,” featuring characters from The Technologists, in the back of the book. Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.
Download or read book The Iron Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 2098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesse James The Man and his Machines written by Mike Seate and published by . This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, with his collection of skulls, pet sharks, pit bulls and tattoos, Jesse James is the consummate motorcycle outlaw. Some of this comes naturally - after all, his great-great-grandfather was the famous outlaw's cousin. But this image is only a small part of Jesse James' persona. There's also his passion as an artisan and his success at custom building bikes (chronicled in Discover Channels video productions Motorcycle Mania and Motorcycle Mania 2). Now Jesse puts his talents to good use as the master builder in the popular new Discovery Channel series Monster Garage.
Download or read book Breakfast Served Any Time All Day written by Donald Hall and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume
