Mad For Speed

Author : Elsa A. Nystrom
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476602714

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Mad for Speed by Elsa A. Nystrom Pdf

This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman for women drivers and good roads. Beginning with her family history and marriage to Andrew Cuneo, it traces her life in New York society, the birth of her children, and Joan's growing interest in automobile touring and racing and partnership with Louis Disbrow, her racing mechanic. The book covers Joan's experiences in three Glidden Tours, including her notes on the 1907 tour, her first races, and her rivals. It also looks at the growth and change of automobile culture and the battles for control of racing among the American Automobile Association, the Automobile Club of America, and the American Automobile Manufacturers Association--which ended in banishing women racers shortly after Joan's greatest racing victories at New Orleans (in 1909). The book then follows Joan's attempts to continue racing, the end of her marriage, her move to the Upper Peninsula, and her remarriage and death. The book also includes a chapter on her female rivals in racing and touring.

Author : Ian Flynn,SEGA
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781506719283

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Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-speed-ia by Ian Flynn,SEGA Pdf

Celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 30th anniversary with a full-color hardcover historical retrospective that explores nearly every one of the blue speedster's video game appearances! Dive deep into the extensive lore and exhaustive detail of each game in Sonic's ever-expanding universe--from the beloved SEGA Genesis to the most bleeding-edge video game consoles. This tome leaves no stone unturned, showcasing in-depth looks at the characters, settings, and stories from each exciting installment! Dark Horse Books and SEGA present the Sonic the Hedgehog Encyclo-Speed-ia--a must-have volume for any fan of Sonic, young or old!

Author : La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012429

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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by La Marr Jurelle Bruce Pdf

“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as “rage,” and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he explores the mad in the literature of Amiri Baraka, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange; in the jazz repertoires of Buddy Bolden, Sun Ra, and Charles Mingus; in the comedic performances of Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle; in the protest music of Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Kendrick Lamar, and beyond. These artists activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition. Joining this tradition, Bruce mobilizes a set of interpretive practices, affective dispositions, political principles, and existential orientations that he calls “mad methodology.” Ultimately, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind is both a study and an act of critical, ethical, radical madness.

Author : Donald MacKenzie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217796

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Trading at the Speed of Light by Donald MacKenzie Pdf

A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial markets In today’s financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the US financial system, a new approach to trading—automated high-frequency trading or HFT—began and then spread throughout the world. HFT has brought new efficiency to global trading, but has also created an unrelenting race for speed, leading to a systematic, subterranean battle among HFT algorithms. In HFT, time is measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), and in a nanosecond the fastest possible signal—light in a vacuum—can travel only thirty centimeters, or roughly a foot. That makes HFT exquisitely sensitive to the length and transmission capacity of the cables connecting computer servers to the exchanges’ systems and to the location of the microwave towers that carry signals between computer datacenters. Drawing from more than 300 interviews with high-frequency traders, the people who supply them with technological and communication capabilities, exchange staff, regulators, and many others, MacKenzie reveals the extraordinary efforts expended to speed up every aspect of trading. He looks at how in some markets big banks have fought off the challenge from HFT firms, and how exchanges sometimes engineer technical systems to favor certain types of algorithms over others. Focusing on the material, political, and economic characteristics of high-frequency trading, Trading at the Speed of Light offers a unique glimpse into its influence on global finance and where it could lead us in the future.

Author : Thomas Middleton,Alexander Dyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300151186

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The Works of Thomas Middleton, Now First Collected by Thomas Middleton,Alexander Dyce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556040924185

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US Highway 18/151, CTH PD to USH 12, US Highway 12/14, USH 14 to Todd Drive, Dane County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Vachss
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375424410

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Mask Market by Andrew Vachss Pdf

Burke, the relentless urban mercenary, returns in this riveting new thriller by bestselling author Andrew Vachss. Two decades ago, Burke "recovered" a teenage runaway from a pimp. Now she's on the run, again. After seeing the man who hired him to find her gunned down by a professional hunter-killer team, Burke realizes he could be next. The master urban survivalist knows he has to finish the job to learn the truth, only now he's looking for a predator, not a victim. The search will force Burke to walk down the one dark alley that has always terrified him -- his past.

Author : Michael Davidson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682134535

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The Mad Thing by Michael Davidson Pdf

ᅠThe Mad Thing characterizes that most uncommon of all slayers, the female serial killer. A self-appointed vigilante roams the streets of Los Angeles at night, hunting, killing and mutilating men who have but one tortured behavior in common. Jon Sadler, a profiling for long-time friend, Larry Radino of the Los Angeles Police Department, discovers a common denominator between the victims buried deep within the voluminous files of LA s largest bureaucracy, the Los Angeles Department of Children s Services. In a bizarre turn of events, Jon discovers the identity of the killer, but is compelled to withhold the identification. ᅠ

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : UOM:39015068404683

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The Autocar by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Author John Locke
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Human-alien encounters
ISBN : 9780646510705

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One Thousand Times the Speed of Light by John Locke Pdf

Author : Roger Keen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780557136544

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The Mad Artist by Roger Keen Pdf

In the 1970s Roger Keen was a young art student, heavily under the influence of surrealism, the Beat movement and the wisdom of the East. Into the mix came LSD, cannabis, magic mushrooms and other drugs, which were seen as enablers in the pursuit of creativity and higher knowledge, fuelling a 'Quest for the Ultimate' that pushed out the boundaries of experience to extremes. This memoir examines those 'psychonautic adventures' in fascinating detail, and along the way also tells a more familiar story of youthful excess and exuberance, all set against a colourful background of hippy student life in the West Country, the South of England and London. In the tradition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Mad Artist not only explores a fascination with drugs, but also the awesome and sometimes frightening inner metaphysical landscapes through which the user journeys.

Author : J. Lee Barrett
Publisher : Hardscrabble Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015029115782

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Speed Boat Kings by J. Lee Barrett Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1768
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068586229

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The Works of Shakespear by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858046223800

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Pearson's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : John M. Bamford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590051436

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Elias Power, of Ease-in-Zion by John M. Bamford Pdf