Engines Of Desire

Author : Livia Llewellyn
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590213247

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Engines of Desire by Livia Llewellyn Pdf

Death and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards.... The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn. In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes, "Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain." An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshipping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks to serve as wombs. A suburban housewife troubled by her present encounters the sixteen-year-old girl she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten stories promise to indulge a reader's sensibilities, fears, and desires. A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award in two categories: Best Novella and Best Collection!

Author : Jefferson Bryant
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613253069

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Swap LS Engines into Chevelles & GM A-Bodies: 1964-1972 by Jefferson Bryant Pdf

The GM LS engine has revolutionized the muscle car and the high-performance V-8 market. It has become a favorite engine to swap into classic cars because it offers a superior combination of horsepower, torque, and responsiveness in a compact package. As such, these modern pushrod V-8 engines are installed in vintage GM muscle cars with relative ease, and that includes Chevelles and other popular GM A-Body cars. In fact, General Motors manufactured about 500,000 Chevelles and A-Body cars between 1968 and 1970 alone. Jefferson Bryant, author of LS Swaps: How To Swap GM LS Engines into Almost Anything, has performed many LS swaps throughout his career, and has transplanted the LS into several A-Body cars. In this comprehensive guide, he provides detailed step-by-step instructions for installing an LS powerplant into a Chevelle, Buick GS, Oldsmobile Cutlass, and Pontiac GTO. To successfully install an LS engine, you need to select or fabricate motor mounts and adapter plates to mount the engine to the chassis. Also, you need to integrate the electronic engine controls and wiring harness to the A-Body car. If you run a fuel-injection system, a new tank or high-pressure fuel pump, fuel lines, and related equipment must be installed. Bryant covers all of these crucial steps and much more. He explains essential procedures, time saving techniques, and solutions to common problems. In addition, he performs a new LT swap into an A-Body car. Swapping an LS engine into an A-Body is made much easier with a comprehensive guidebook such as this, whether you plan on doing it yourself or decide to have a shop do it for you. A huge and thriving aftermarket provides a wide range of suspension, brake, steering, chassis, and other parts that produce functional improvements. Before you tackle your LS Swap project, arm yourself with this vital information to guide you through the process. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial}

Author : T.A. Pratt
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553904178

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Blood Engines by T.A. Pratt Pdf

Meet Marla Mason—smart, saucy, slightly wicked witch of the East Coast. . . . Sorcerer Marla Mason, small-time guardian of the city of Felport, has a big problem. A rival is preparing a powerful spell that could end Marla’s life—and, even worse, wreck her city. Marla’s only chance of survival is to boost her powers with the Cornerstone, a magical artifact hidden somewhere in San Francisco. But when she arrives there, Marla finds that the quest isn’t going to be quite as cut-and-dried as she expected . . . and that some of the people she needs to talk to are dead. It seems that San Francisco’s top sorcerers are having troubles of their own—a mysterious assailant has the city’s magical community in a panic, and the local talent is being (gruesomely) picked off one by one. With her partner-in-crime, Rondeau, Marla is soon racing against time through San Francisco’s alien streets, dodging poisonous frogs, murderous hummingbirds, cannibals, and a nasty vibe from the local witchery, who suspect that Marla herself may be behind the recent murders. And if Marla doesn’t figure out who is killing the city’s finest in time, she’ll be in danger of becoming a magical statistic herself. . . .

Author : Antonio Paolo Carlucci
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781838819309

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The Future of Internal Combustion Engines by Antonio Paolo Carlucci Pdf

Based on previsions, the reciprocating internal combustion engine will continue to be widely used in all sectors: transport, industry, and energy production. Therefore, its development, while complying with the limitations of pollutants as well as CO2 emission levels and maintaining or increasing performance, will certainly continue for the next few decades.In the last three decades, a significant effort has been made to reduce pollutant emission levels. More recently, attention has been given to CO2 emission levels too.It is widely recognized that one single technology will not completely solve the problem of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. Rather, the different technologies already available will have to be integrated, and new technologies developed, to obtain substantial CO2 abatement.

Author : Greg Banish
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : 9781932494426

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Engine Management by Greg Banish Pdf

Tuning engines can be a mysterious art, all engines need a precise balance of fuel, air, and timing in order to reach their true performance potential. Engine Management: Advanced Tuning takes engine-tuning techniques to the next level, explaining how the EFI system determines engine operation and how the calibrator can change the controlling parameters to optimize actual engine performance. It is the most advanced book on the market, a must-have for tuners and calibrators and a valuable resource for anyone who wants to make horsepower with a fuel-injected, electronically controlled engine.

Author : Warren Ellis
Publisher : Avatar Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1592910556

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Doktor Sleepless Volume 1: Engines of Desire Hardcover by Warren Ellis Pdf

When the promise of a bright technological future is corrupted by conspiratorial authorities, a mad scientist-turned-cultural icon named Doktor Sleepless leads a guerilla revolution. Where is the future we were promised? Doktor Sleepless, a renegade mad scientist recently back from the supposed dead, will not rest until he tears the city of Heavenside apart in search of that answer. Aided by a sultry and murderous assistant known only as Nurse, he's outraged that the widescale application of his science has not advanced society, but been abused and twisted. From his tower above, he broadcasts intrigue and revolution to a populace of beautiful Shrieky Girls, angry Grinders, and the conspiratorial authorities. Only Sing Watson, his old flame, truly suspects how dangerous things are about to get! The good Doktor has just the prescription for all of society's ills... whether you want it or not! Warren Ellis presents DOKTOR SLEEPLESS, the thematic successor to his critically acclaimed TRANSMETROPOLITAN.

Author : American Institute of the City of New York
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089272058

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Journal Devoted To...agriculture and Commerce by American Institute of the City of New York Pdf

Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743417358

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Weaveworld by Clive Barker Pdf

Susanna, granddaughter of the last caretaker, Calhoun Mooney, and Immacolata, an exiled witch intent on destroying her race, vie for a rug into which the world of Seerkind has been woven. Reissue.

Author : Joseph Potak
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780760376546

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GM LS-Series Engines by Joseph Potak Pdf

GM LS-Series Engines: The Complete Swap Guide, 2nd Edition is the updated, ultimate guide to installing General Motors' LS V-8 in your muscle car, hot rod, racer, or just about any project car.

Author : Christine Varnado
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452961637

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The Shapes of Fancy by Christine Varnado Pdf

Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is “queer,” as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of Fancy offers a powerful new method of accounting for ineffable and diffuse forms of desire, mining early modern drama and prose literature to describe new patterns of affective resonance. Starting with the question of how and why readers seek traces of desire in texts from bygone times and places, The Shapes of Fancy demonstrates a practice of critical attunement to the psychic and historical circulations of affect across time within texts, from texts to readers, and among readers. Closely reading for uncharted desires as they recur in early modern drama, witchcraft pamphlets, and early Atlantic voyage narratives and demonstrating how each is structured by qualities of secrecy, impossibility, and excess, Christine Varnado follows four “shapes of fancy”: the desire to be used to others’ ends; indiscriminate, bottomless appetite; paranoid self-fulfilling suspicion; and melancholic longings for impossible transformations and affinities. These affective dynamics go awry in atypical and perverse ways. In other words, argues Varnado, these modes of feeling are recognizable on the page or stage as “queer” because of how, and not by whom, they are expressed. This new theorization of desire expands the notion of queerness in literature, decoupling the literary trace of queerness from the binary logics of same-sex versus opposite-sex and normative versus deviant that have governed early modern sexuality studies. Providing a set of methods for analyzing affect and desire in texts from any period, The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading, making a case for readerly investment and identification as vital engines of meaning making and political insight.

Author : W. D. Hart
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0521342902

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The Engines of the Soul by W. D. Hart Pdf

This study is an unusual contribution to the philosophy of mind in that it argues for the sometimes unfashionable view of dualism: that mind and matter are distinct and separate entities as Descartes believed. The author takes as his point of departure the imaginative hypothesis of disembodiment, which establishes the possibility of the mind's being a quite non-material thing. There are clear casual correlations between what is physical and what is mental, and the most serious issue confronting dualism since Descartes has been how such an interaction is possible. Dr Hart sets out to answer this question by showing that the issue is as much about the nature of causation as it is about the natures of mind and matter.

Author : P. A. Lakshminarayanan,Nagaraj S. Nayak
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470828854

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Critical Component Wear in Heavy Duty Engines by P. A. Lakshminarayanan,Nagaraj S. Nayak Pdf

The critical parts of a heavy duty engine are theoretically designed for infinite life without mechanical fatigue failure. Yet the life of an engine is in reality determined by wear of the critical parts. Even if an engine is designed and built to have normal wear life, abnormal wear takes place either due to special working conditions or increased loading. Understanding abnormal and normal wear enables the engineer to control the external conditions leading to premature wear, or to design the critical parts that have longer wear life and hence lower costs. The literature on wear phenomenon related to engines is scattered in numerous periodicals and books. For the first time, Lakshminarayanan and Nayak bring the tribological aspects of different critical engine components together in one volume, covering key components like the liner, piston, rings, valve, valve train and bearings, with methods to identify and quantify wear. The first book to combine solutions to critical component wear in one volume Presents real world case studies with suitable mathematical models for earth movers, power generators, and sea going vessels Includes material from researchers at Schaeffer Manufacturing (USA), Tekniker (Spain), Fuchs (Germany), BAM (Germany), Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd (India) and Tarabusi (Spain) Wear simulations and calculations included in the appendices Instructor presentations slides with book figures available from the companion site Critical Component Wear in Heavy Duty Engines is aimed at postgraduates in automotive engineering, engine design, tribology, combustion and practitioners involved in engine R&D for applications such as commercial vehicles, cars, stationary engines (for generators, pumps, etc.), boats and ships. This book is also a key reference for senior undergraduates looking to move onto advanced study in the above topics, consultants and product mangers in industry, as well as engineers involved in design of furnaces, gas turbines, and rocket combustion. Companion website for the book: www.wiley.com/go/lakshmi

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aircraft industry
ISBN : SRLF:A0000127852

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Aircraft Engines Production Costs and Profits by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee for Special Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : MINN:31951D021564707

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Aircraft Engines Production Costs and Profits by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee for Special Investigations Pdf

Subcommittee Proceedings No. 7.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045137929

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Aircraft Engines Production Costs and Profits, Hearings Before the Subcommittee for Special Investigations of ... , 85-1 Under the Authority of H. Res. 67, Hearings Held July 18, 19, 20, and August 14, 1957 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf