Long Road To Obsolescence

Author : Frank L. Arnold
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465325921

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Long Road to Obsolescence by Frank L. Arnold Pdf

In the nineteenth century American Presbyterians were among the many Western denominations that sent missionaries to countries around the world. They established foreign Missions as bases in those lands with the intention of starting indigenous churches there. Although the Mission structures were designed to function like scaffolding during the construction of a building, to be removed when the building is complete, the Presbyterian Mission structure in Brazil remained in place for 126 years, long after the Brazilian Presbyterian Church it founded became independent and self-supporting. It was the last of the Presbyterian Missions in the world to be dissolved. The story told here documents the contributions made by North American Presbyterians in Brazil and tackles the missiological question of just why it remained in place so long, and whether it should have.

Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780674043756

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Made to Break by Giles Slade Pdf

Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674022033

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Made to Break by Giles Slade Pdf

Listen to a short interview with Giles SladeHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane If you've replaced a computer lately--or a cell phone, a camera, a television--chances are, the old one still worked. And chances are even greater that the latest model won't last as long as the one it replaced. Welcome to the world of planned obsolescence--a business model, a way of life, and a uniquely American invention that this eye-opening book explores from its beginnings to its perilous implications for the very near future. Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. America invented everything that is now disposable, Giles Slade tells us, and he explains how disposability was in fact a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. His book shows us the ideas behind obsolescence at work in such American milestones as the inventions of branding, packaging, and advertising; the contest for market dominance between GM and Ford; the struggle for a national communications network, the development of electronic technologies--and with it the avalanche of electronic consumer waste that will overwhelm America's landfills and poison its water within the coming decade. History reserves a privileged place for those societies that built things to last--forever, if possible. What place will it hold for a society addicted to consumption--a whole culture made to break? This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

Author : Bruce Wands
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471390577

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Digital Creativity by Bruce Wands Pdf

This work equips readers with a solid conceptual and critical foundation for digital creativity, presenting both technical explanations and creative techniques.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Interstate Highway System
ISBN : UFL:31262090538538

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National Highway Program by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works Pdf

Considers legislation to establish a Federal Highway Corporation to finance the construction of the interstate highway system. Includes examination of fiscal, engineering, safety, and right-of-way problems related to highway construction and examines impact of the interstate system on Federal-state relations, urban developments, and other modes of transportation.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1810 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Public works
ISBN : UOM:39015081268743

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Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives ... by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works Pdf

Author : Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520963535

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Latin American Cinema by Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez Pdf

This book charts a comparative history of Latin America’s national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Schroeder Rodríguez weaves close readings of approximately fifty paradigmatic films into a lucid narrative history that is rigorous in its scholarship and framed by a compelling theorization of the multiple discourses of modernity. The result is an essential guide that promises to transform our understanding of the region’s cultural history in the last hundred years by highlighting how key players such as the church and the state have affected cinema’s unique ability to help shape public discourse and construct modern identities in a region marked by ongoing struggles for social justice and liberation.

Author : City of London College of Economics
Publisher : City of London College of Economics
Page : 7766 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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MBA in Finance - City of London College of Economics - 10 months - 100% online / self-paced by City of London College of Economics Pdf

Overview You will be taught all skills and knowledge you need to become a finance manager respectfully investment analyst/portfolio manager. Content - Financial Management - Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management - Management Accounting - Islamic Banking and Finance - Investment Risk Management - Investment Banking and Opportunities in China - International Finance and Accounting - Institutional Banking for Emerging Markets - Corporate Finance - Banking Duration 10 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when you feel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assignment questions. Study material The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.

Author : City of London College of Economics
Publisher : City of London College of Economics
Page : 7766 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Executive MBA (EMBA) - City of London College of Economics - 10 months - 100% online / self-paced by City of London College of Economics Pdf

Overview An EMBA (or Master of Business Administration in General Management) is a degree that will prepare you for management positions. Content - Strategy - Organisational Behaviour - Operations Management - Negotiations - Marketing - Leadership - Financial Accounting - Economics - Decision Models - Data Analysis - Corporate Finance Duration 10 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when youfeel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assign- ment questions. Study material The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Highway research
ISBN : UOM:39015024375506

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Public Roads by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433060473869

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Manufacturing Jeweler by Anonim Pdf

Author : B. Tischleder,S. Wasserman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137463647

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Cultures of Obsolescence by B. Tischleder,S. Wasserman Pdf

Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Geriatrics
ISBN : MINN:31951D01047525O

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Aging by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Ehrenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199706115

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Becoming Good Ancestors by David Ehrenfeld Pdf

A brilliant writer and gifted "big picture" thinker, David Ehrenfeld is one of America's leading conservation biologists. Becoming Good Ancestors unites in a single, up-to-date framework pieces written over two decades, spanning politics, ecology, and culture, and illuminating the forces in modern society that thwart our efforts to solve today's hard questions about society and the environment. The book focuses on our present-day retreat from reality, our alienation from nature, our unthinking acceptance of new technology and rejection of the old, the loss of our ability to discriminate between events we can control and those we cannot, the denial of non-economic values, and the decline of local communities. If we are aware of what we are losing and why we are losing it, the author notes, all of these patterns are reversible. Through down-to-earth examples, ranging from a family canoe trip in the wilderness to the novels of Jane Austen to Chinese turtle and tiger farms, Ehrenfeld shows how we can use what we learn to move ourselves and our society towards a more stable, less frantic, and far more satisfying life, a life in which we are no longer compelled to damage ourselves and our environment, in which our children have a future, and in which fewer species are endangered and more rivers run clean. In the final chapter, he offers a dramatic view of the possibilities inherent in a fusion of the best elements of conservatism and liberalism. Our society has an inherent sense of what is right, says Ehrenfeld, and the creativity and persistence to make good things happen. It is now time to apply our intelligence, guided by our moral judgment, to the very large problems we all face. This book is an important first step.

Author : Sara J. Wilkinson,Hilde Remøy,Craig Langston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118477106

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Sustainable Building Adaptation by Sara J. Wilkinson,Hilde Remøy,Craig Langston Pdf

How to adapt existing building stock is a problem being addressed by local and state governments worldwide. In most developed countries we now spend more on building adaptation than on new construction and there is an urgent need for greater knowledge and awareness of what happens to commercial buildings over time. Sustainable Building Adaptation: innovations in decision-making is a significant contribution to understanding best practice in sustainable adaptations to existing commercial buildings by offering new knowledge-based theoretical and practical insights. Models used are grounded in results of case studies conducted within three collaborative construction project team settings in Australia and the Netherlands, and exemplars are drawn from the Americas, Asia, Japan, Korea and Europe to demonstrate the application of the knowledge more broadly. Results clearly demonstrate that the new models can assist with informed decision-making in adaptation that challenges some of the prevailing solutions based on empirical approaches and which do not accommodate the sustainability dimension. The emphasis is on demonstrating how the new knowledge can be applied by practitioners to deliver professionally relevant outcomes. The book offers guidance towards a balanced approach that incorporates sustainable and optimal approaches for effective management of sustainable adaptation of existing commercial buildings.