Machines In The Head

Author : Anna Kavan
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374154

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Machines in the Head by Anna Kavan Pdf

Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories. Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This new selection of Kavan’s stories gathers the best work from across the many decades of her career, including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from Asylum Piece (1940), moving evocations of wartime from I Am Lazarus (1945), fantastic and surrealist pieces from A Bright Green Field (1958), and stories of addiction from Julia and the Bazooka (1970). Kavan’s turn to science fiction in her final novel, Ice, is reflected in her late stories, while “Starting a Career,” about a mercenary dealer of state secrets, is published here for the first time. Kavan experimented throughout her writing career with results that are moving, funny, bizarre, poignant, often unsettling, always unique. Machines in the Head offers American readers the first full overview of the work of a fearless and dazzling literary explorer.

Author : Simon Head
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780465069743

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Mindless by Simon Head Pdf

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)—the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their disembodied expertise to transactions between humans, as in health care, education, customer relations, and human resources management. And yet there are industries with more human approaches, as Head illustrates with specific examples, whose lead we must follow and extend to the mainstream American economy. Mindless illustrates the shortcomings of CBS, providing an in-depth and disturbing look at how human dignity is slipping as we become cogs on a white collar assembly line.

Author : Ian McEwan
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735278202

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Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan Pdf

The new novel from the master storyteller is his best in years. Brilliantly McEwan, richly entertaining, a moving love story and a mystery--yet for all its gripping plotline one of the most morally layered novels written for our times, as it carries us into a provocatively real alternative history and the profound challenges of Artificial Intelligence. Set in 1980s London, the story revolves around Charlie: young and reckless, and in love with his upstairs neighbour, the enchanting Miranda whose hidden, murky past hangs between them. He has spent his inheritance on the acquisition of one of twenty-five highly developed new robotic humans--named Adam or Eve, each one beautiful, strong and clever--developed by Alan Turing after his success on the legendary WW2 Enigma codebreaking machine. As London is consumed by the huge protests over England and Argentina's Falklands War and Margaret Thatcher's jingoistic ambitions, Charlie courts Miranda, and his Adam finds himself, inevitably, central to their affair. Great novelist that he is, McEwan pulls us into the question of what it means to love, what makes us human in our fast-changing times, what might follow if a machine understands too well the human heart, and how precarious a construct is the world we live in and think we know.

Author : United States. Defense Logistics Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Boring machinery
ISBN : MINN:20000004237158

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Boring Machines, Broaching Machines, Gear Cutting and Finishing Machines by United States. Defense Logistics Agency Pdf

Author : United States. Defense Logistics Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Grinding machines
ISBN : MINN:20000003401722

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Grinding Machines by United States. Defense Logistics Agency Pdf

Author : D N Badodkar,T A Dwarakanath
Publisher : Springer
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811085970

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Machines, Mechanism and Robotics by D N Badodkar,T A Dwarakanath Pdf

This book offers a collection of original peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd International and 18th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (iNaCoMM), organized by Division of Remote Handling & Robotics, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India, from December 13th to 15th, 2017 (iNaCoMM 2017). It reports on various theoretical and practical features of machines, mechanisms and robotics; the contributions include carefully selected, novel ideas on and approaches to design, analysis, prototype development, assessment and surveys. Applications in machine and mechanism engineering, serial and parallel manipulators, power reactor engineering, autonomous vehicles, engineering in medicine, image-based data analytics, compliant mechanisms, and safety mechanisms are covered. Further papers provide in-depth analyses of data preparation, isolation and brain segmentation for focused visualization and robot-based neurosurgery, new approaches to parallel mechanism-based Master-Slave manipulators, solutions to forward kinematic problems, and surveys and optimizations based on historical and contemporary compliant mechanism-based design. The spectrum of contributions on theory and practice reveals central trends and newer branches of research in connection with these topics.

Author : Werner Kluge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540273592

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Abstract Computing Machines by Werner Kluge Pdf

The book emphasizes the design of full-fledged, fully normalizing lambda calculus machinery, as opposed to the just weakly normalizing machines.

Author : Jérôme Durand-Lose,Sergey Verlan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319924021

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Machines, Computations, and Universality by Jérôme Durand-Lose,Sergey Verlan Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Machines, Computations, and Universality, MCU 2018, held in Fontainebleau, France, in June 2018. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. MCU explores computation in the setting of various discrete models (Turing machines, register machines, cellular automata, tile assembly systems, rewriting systems, molecular computing models, neural models, concurrent systems, etc.) and analog and hybrid models (BSS machines, infinite time cellular automata, real machines, quantum computing, etc.).

Author : Malcolm Mellor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Boring machinery
ISBN : MINN:31951D03122261A

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Mechanics of Cutting and Boring: Dynamics and energetics of axial rotation machines by Malcolm Mellor Pdf

Author : Paul J. Nahin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387985719

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Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin Pdf

This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.

Author : United States International Trade Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Mechanical drawing
ISBN : IND:30000090469879

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Drafting Machines and Parts Thereof from Japan by United States International Trade Commission Pdf

Author : H.-O. Leilich,M. Missikoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642694196

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Database Machines by H.-O. Leilich,M. Missikoff Pdf

The International Workshop on Database Machines in Munich is the third of its kind, preceeded by the meetings in Florence (Sept. 81) and San Diego (Sept. 82). The workshop is aimed at providing an interchange of ideas and experience on computer systems designed to perform database operations more efficiently than general purpose computers with a software database management system. Many proposals have been published during the past 10 years, but now several systems have been built and practically implemented and some are even commercially available, so that confrontation with the real world is starting to occur. The kinds of question which arise during this phase of coming to maturity are those involved with evaluation and measurement. The emphasis of the workshop is therefore on performance evaluation and the respective modelling techniques and methodology. Data flow and other new topics (including algorithms) are also treated with respect to performance and efficiency. We are glad to be able to include some papers on existing commercial products - from both the designer and the user viewpoints. We hope to encourage critical comments in this field and have arranged a session with the title "Where Database Machines Are Going" - to be followed by a panel dis~ussion.

Author : R.K. Purohit
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789387913325

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Hydraulic Machines by R.K. Purohit Pdf

The material in the book has been presented in a very simple but effective language in order to enable students to master the subject matter throughly without coming across the hurdle of highly technical language. About 300 solved and unsolved examples have been incorporated. It contents 9 chapters. SI units have been consistently used throughout the book.

Author : United States. Defense Logistics Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Files and rasps
ISBN : MINN:30000010506511

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Metalworking Saws and Filing Machines by United States. Defense Logistics Agency Pdf

Author : G. Lacy Hillier
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781447491705

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Construction - Bicycles, Dicycles Or Otto Type Machines And Tricycles by G. Lacy Hillier Pdf

This early manual on bicycle construction is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A fascinating read for any cycling enthusiast or historian of the sport, it also contains much information that is still useful and practical to today's cyclist. Detailed instructions are accompanied by black and white illustrations. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.