Keyhole Factory

Author : William Gillespie
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593764463

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Keyhole Factory by William Gillespie Pdf

Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. Beginning with a biting satire of an academic poetry conference, the novel moves on to encompass the stories of a poet-astronaut, a microbiologist contemplating an exit strategy from her high-level job designing biological weapons, a sports-car-driving killer who stages the aesthetic murders of utopian commune-dwellers, and a lone pirate radio disc jockey who may be the last person left alive broadcasting her story to nobody. Allowing form and content to shape each other, William Gillespie pries open the confusion in a moment of total crisis through a narrative web-work technique derived from deranged fiction pioneer Harry Stephen Keeler. Part imaginative free-for-all and part deeply felt examination of isolation and survival, the individual lives in Keyhole Factory shine through the chaos in all their beauty and tragedy. With his signature wit and originality, Gillespie spins a glittering fever-dream that questions our assumptions about the way we interpret events and our relation to the planet, without ever losing sight of the underlying experience of what it feels like to be a human being in the world we live in today.

Author : William Gillespie
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593764951

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Keyhole Factory by William Gillespie Pdf

Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. Beginning with a biting satire of an academic poetry conference, the novel moves on to encompass the stories of a poet-astronaut, a microbiologist contemplating an exit strategy from her high-level job designing biological weapons, a sports-car-driving killer who stages the aesthetic murders of utopian commune-dwellers, and a lone pirate radio disc jockey who may be the last person left alive broadcasting her story to nobody. Allowing form and content to shape each other, William Gillespie pries open the confusion in a moment of total crisis through a narrative web-work technique derived from deranged fiction pioneer Harry Stephen Keeler. Part imaginative free-for-all and part deeply felt examination of isolation and survival, the individual lives in Keyhole Factory shine through the chaos in all their beauty and tragedy. With his signature wit and originality, Gillespie spins a glittering fever-dream that questions our assumptions about the way we interpret events and our relation to the planet, without ever losing sight of the underlying experience of what it feels like to be a human being in the world we live in today.

Author : Michael Stewart Foley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781623562441

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Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Michael Stewart Foley Pdf

In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools gave way to the madness of the Jonestown massacre and the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk at the hands of their former colleague, Dan White. In the year that followed this season of insanity, it made sense that a band called Dead Kennedys played Mabuhay Gardens in North Beach, referring to Governor Jerry Brown as a "zen fascist," calling for landlords to be lynched and yuppie gentrifiers to be sent to Cambodia to work for "a bowl of rice a day," critiquing government welfare and defense policies, and, at a time when each week seemed to bring news of a new serial killer or child abduction, commenting on dead and dying children. But it made sense only (or primarily) to those who were there, to those who experienced the heyday of "the Mab." Most histories of the 1970s and 1980s ignore youth politics and subcultures. Drawing on Bay Area zines as well as new interviews with the band and many key figures from the early San Francisco punk scene, Michael Stewart Foley corrects that failing by treating Dead Kennedys' first record, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, as a critical historical document, one that not only qualified as political expression but, whether experienced on vinyl or from the stage of "the Mab," stimulated emotions and ideals that were, if you can believe it, utopian.

Author : Ron Hale-Evans,Marty Hale-Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781118166437

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Mindhacker by Ron Hale-Evans,Marty Hale-Evans Pdf

Compelling tips and tricks to improve your mental skills Don't you wish you were just a little smarter? Ron and Marty Hale-Evans can help with a vast array of witty, practical techniques that tune your brain to peak performance. Founded in current research, Mindhacker features 60 tips, tricks, and games to develop your mental potential. This accessible compilation helps improve memory, accelerate learning, manage time, spark creativity, hone math and logic skills, communicate better, think more clearly, and keep your mind strong and flexible.

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101653678

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Pdf

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141378558

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Colour Edition) by Roald Dahl Pdf

Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in glorious full colour. Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. And do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero. The other children in this book are nasty little beasts, called: Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet Beauregarde - a repulsive little gum-chewer; Mike Teavee - a boy who only watches television. Clutching their Golden Tickets, they arrive at Wonka's chocolate factory. But what mysterious secrets will they discover? Our tour is about to begin. Please don't wander off. Mr Wonka wouldn't like to lose any of you at this stage of the proceedings . . . Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! inspired by the revolting Twits.

Author : Bec McMaster
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402291920

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Forged by Desire by Bec McMaster Pdf

A fear she can't escape and a desire that can't be tempered... Ten years ago, Perry fled her thrall contract to find sanctuary among the Nighthawks. In that time, she's become a respected woman of the Guard, and she's wanted Garrett Reed for as long as she can remember. But when a new case takes a chillingly familiar turn, Perry finds herself once again in the path of a madman...only this time, there's nowhere left to run. Out of their depth and racing against time, Perry and Garrett must learn to trust the desire sparking between them...or risk losing themselves forever to the darkness stalking London's streets. London Steampunk series: Kiss of Steel Heart of Iron My Lady Quicksilver Forged by Desire Of Silk and Steam "Edgy, dark, and shot through with a grim, gritty intensity, McMaster's latest title adds to her mesmerizing steampunk series with another gripping, inventive stunner."—Booklist, starred review for Heart of Iron

Author : Simon Roberts
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0702172723

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Sustainable Manufacturing? by Simon Roberts Pdf

Intended for academics and students in the fields of economic development, sociology and economic geography both in South Africa and internationally. This work is also useful for the Development Studies, Development Economics, African Studies and Geography departments in universities in Europe and North America.

Author : Anna Lvovsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226769783

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Vice Patrol by Anna Lvovsky Pdf

"Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life chronicles how local police and criminal justice systems intruded on gay individuals, criminalizing, profiling, surveilling, and prosecuting them from the 1930's through the 1960's. Anna Lvovsky details the progression of enforcement strategies through the targeting of gay-friendly bars by liquor boards, enticement of sexual overtures by plainclothes police decoys, and surveilling of public bathrooms via peepholes and two-way mirrors to catch someone "in the act." Lvovsky shows how the use of tactics indistinguishable from entrapment to criminalize homosexual men in public and private spaces produced charges brought forward and disputed by attorneys and evidence that had to stand before judges, who at times intervened against punitive policies. In Vice Patrol the author demonstrates how developments in the psychological, medical, and sociological handling of homosexuality filtered into police stations, courthouses, and the wider culture"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Meyer Distributing
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Meyer Distributing 2008 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Syed Quadir Moinuddin,Shaik Himam Saheb,Ashok Kumar Dewangan,Murali Mohan Cheepu,S. Balamurugan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781394172412

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Automation in the Welding Industry by Syed Quadir Moinuddin,Shaik Himam Saheb,Ashok Kumar Dewangan,Murali Mohan Cheepu,S. Balamurugan Pdf

AUTOMATION IN THE WELDING INDUSTRY This volume serves as a multidimensional perspective of welding practices in Industry 5.0 from the perspective of automation, digitization, digital twins, cobots, virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and IoT ranging from rudiments to advanced applications. This book introduces the concept of Industry 5.0 in welding technologies, where the human brain collaborates with robots to achieve rapid productivity and economic efficiency. It presents the latest information on adapting and integrating Industry 5.0 in welding industries through critical constituents such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), digital twin, augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR), and collaborative robots (Cobots), towards intelligent welding systems. The chapter authors have comprehensively addressed the issues related to welding industries such as a shortage of welders, challenges in critical applications, creating defect-free and quality products through real-time monitoring, feedback systems, and in situ adjustments, etc. The utilization of cobots in welding technology is addressed in real-world problems to move towards a green welding environment (i.e., minimal fumes with less shielding gas) and thereby, less energy consumption. Two or more welding processes are combined to form a hybrid process where the compatibility of existing materials and novel materials can be used in 3D, 4D, and 5D printing of complex geometries. Audience Engineering research scholars, industry welding, and additive manufacturing groups. A diverse group of industries will be interested in this book, such as medical, automotive, construction, pipeline, shipping, aerospace, etc.

Author : Domenico De Martinis,Rosella Franconi,Eugenio Benvenuto,Edward P. Rybicki,Kazuhito Fujiyama
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889450510

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Engineering the Plant Factory for the Production of Biologics and Small-Molecule Medicines by Domenico De Martinis,Rosella Franconi,Eugenio Benvenuto,Edward P. Rybicki,Kazuhito Fujiyama Pdf

Plant gene transfer achieved in the early ‘80s paved the way for the exploitation of the potential of gene engineering to add novel agronomic traits and/or to design plants as factories for high added value molecules. For this latter area of research, the term "Molecular Farming" was coined in reference to agricultural applications in that major crops like maize and tobacco were originally used basically for pharma applications. The concept of the “green biofactory” implies different advantages over the typical cell factories based on animal cell or microbial cultures already when considering the investment and managing costs of fermenters. Although yield, stability, and quality of the molecules may vary among different heterologous systems and plants are competitive on a case-to-case basis, still the “plant factory” attracts scientists and technologists for the challenging features of low production cost, product safety and easy scale up. Once engineered, a plant is among the cheapest and easiest eukaryotic system to be bred with simple know-how, using nutrients, water and light. Molecules that are currently being produced in plants vary from industrial and pharmaceutical proteins, including medical diagnostics proteins and vaccine antigens, to nutritional supplements such as vitamins, carbohydrates and biopolymers. Convergence among disciplines as distant as plant physiology and pharmacology and, more recently, as omic sciences, bioinformatics and nanotechnology, increases the options of research on the plant cell factory. “Farming for Pharming” biologics and small-molecule medicines is a challenging area of plant biotechnology that may break the limits of current standard production technologies. The recent success on Ebola fighting with plant-made antibodies put a spotlight on the enormous potential of next generation herbal medicines made especially in the name of the guiding principle of reduction of costs, hence reduction of disparities of health rights and as a tool to guarantee adequate health protection in developing countries.

Author : J. T. Black,Ronald A. Kohser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119723295

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DeGarmo's Materials and Processes in Manufacturing by J. T. Black,Ronald A. Kohser Pdf

Guiding engineering and technology students for over five decades, DeGarmo's Materials and Processes in Manufacturing provides a comprehensive introduction to manufacturing materials, systems, and processes. Coverage of materials focuses on properties and behavior, favoring a practical approach over complex mathematics; analytical equations and mathematical models are only presented when they strengthen comprehension and provide clarity. Material production processes are examined in the context of practical application to promote efficient understanding of basic principles, and broad coverage of manufacturing processes illustrates the mechanisms of each while exploring their respective advantages and limitations. Aiming for both accessibility and completeness, this text offers introductory students a comprehensive guide to material behavior and selection, measurement and inspection, machining, fabrication, molding, fastening, and other important processes using plastics, ceramics, composites, and ferrous and nonferrous metals and alloys. This extensive overview of the field gives students a solid foundation for advanced study in any area of engineering, manufacturing, and technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1802 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Factories
ISBN : UOM:39015021726768

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Mill and Factory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry C. Mercer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780486320212

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Ancient Carpenters' Tools by Henry C. Mercer Pdf

Over 250 illustrations depict tools identical to ancient devices once used by Greeks, Egyptians, and Chinese, including axes, saws, clamps, chisels, mallets, and much more. Invaluable sourcebook.