Prologue: Tracy's dad -- Missouri boys -- The last transition -- New kinds of people -- The freedom to make mistakes -- The tale of the fig tree and the wasp -- The phenomena surrounding computers -- The intergalactic network -- Living in ...
Published to tie in with a BBC2 series starting in September 1991, of which Jon Palfreman is the Executive Producer, this book explores the extraordinary rise of a new technology...
Leavitt Pope, grandson of the Colonel's adopted son, Harry, recalls visiting the “twin aunties” at their home on Newbury Street in Boston; they practiced medicine and drove around the city in their roadster into their eighties.23 ...
Styles in African headrests are usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single formal style model as ...
The Dream Machine: The Golden Age of American Automobiles, 1946-1965
This book has been in the making for fifteen years, starting with research on the traditional woodcarving of the Shona-and Venda-speaking peoples of Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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.
The GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINES: CLASSIC CARS OF THE 50'S AND 50'S
As one historian of the covert weapons program has written , “ This kind of planning was unique to Israel , as few nations have military contingency plans aimed at preventing apocalypse " ( Cohen , 1998 , p . 14 ) .
In its simplest incarnation, a joyride can be as innocent as taking the family car out for a spin--or much more, as seen in the artwork of iconic illustrator Quarnstrom's homage to hot rods, dragsters, and custom cars.