Obsolete

Author : Anna Jane Grossman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781613120309

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Obsolete by Anna Jane Grossman Pdf

A cultural catalog of everyday things rapidly turning into rarities—from landlines to laugh tracks. So many things have disappeared from our day-to-day world, or are on the verge of vanishing. Some we may already think of as ancient relics, like typewriters (and their accompanying bottles of correction fluid). Others seem like they were here just yesterday, like boom boxes and CDs. We may feel fond nostalgia for certain items of yore: encyclopedias, newspapers, lighthouses. Other items, like MSG, not so much. But as the pace of change keeps accelerating, it’s worth taking a moment to mark the passing of the objects of our lives, from passbooks and pay phones to secretaries and skate keys. And to reflect on certain endangered phenomena that may be worth trying to hold on to—like privacy, or cash. This thoughtful alphabetized compendium invites us to take a look at the many things, ideas, and behaviors that have gone the way of the subway token—and to reflect on what is ephemeral, and what is truly timeless.

Author : Caitlin Moran,Camille Paglia,Hanna Rosin,Maureen Dowd
Publisher : Random House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473503069

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Are Men Obsolete? by Caitlin Moran,Camille Paglia,Hanna Rosin,Maureen Dowd Pdf

‘Men are so last century. They seem to have stopped evolving. The Mad Men world is disappearing and the guys are struggling to figure out the altered parameters of manliness.’ Maureen Dowd ‘Do women get anything from men being obsolete? Do we win by triumphing in work, education, the economy, politics and business, while retaining homemaking and child rearing? If that happened then we will be doing everything! Are men obsolete? No! I won’t let you be you f*****s!’ Caitlin Moran Are Men Obsolete is an essential and entertaining read for anyone interested in what happens next in the great gender discussion. Maureen Dowd, Caitlin Moran, Camille Paglia and Hanna Roisin debate whether modern man is past his sell-by-date, and, if so, what does that mean for women?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026089339

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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara Penner,Adrian Forty,Olivia Horsfall Turner,Miranda Critchley
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781789144536

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Extinct by Barbara Penner,Adrian Forty,Olivia Horsfall Turner,Miranda Critchley Pdf

Blending architecture, design, and technology, a visual tour through futures past via the objects we have replaced, left behind, and forgotten. So-called extinct objects are those that were imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now unused—superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgotten. Extinct gathers together an exceptional range of artists, curators, architects, critics, and academics, including Hal Foster, Barry Bergdoll, Deyan Sudjic, Tacita Dean, Emily Orr, Richard Wentworth, and many more. In eighty-five essays, contributors nominate “extinct” objects and address them in a series of short, vivid, sometimes personal accounts, speaking not only of obsolete technologies, but of other ways of thinking, making, and interacting with the world. Extinct is filled with curious, half-remembered objects, each one evoking a future that never came to pass. It is also a visual treat, full of interest and delight.

Author : Jim Hull
Publisher : Jim Hull
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781434832931

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Are Humans Obsolete? by Jim Hull Pdf

Today machines can outplay us at chess, perform surgeries, manage airports, design buildings, act in films. Soon they'll compete with us in nearly every field. Will this cause mass layoffs and riots? Or will these robotic workers usher in a paradise of wealth and leisure for us all? "Are Humans Obsolete?" takes you on a witty, no-holds-barred tour of the next few decades, when machines will do everything we can, and do it better, yet we can gain the advantage! Part One takes a brisk march through this strange future, with insights on ways we can stay in control and not get left behind. Part Two offers a clear-eyed look at our high-tech culture of adolescence and how to outgrow it, shines a spotlight on the jumble of modern media and how we can make sense of all the shouting, and does color commentary on the turf war between science and religion -- with a surprising twist on who may win. Jim Hull is an author and lecturer with a degree in philosophy from UC Santa Cruz.

Author : James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HWSLPA

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A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps Pdf

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609801045

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Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.

Author : Joseph Esposito
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520372351

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The Obsolete Self by Joseph Esposito Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author : Kevin Vachna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977235263

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Obsolete by Kevin Vachna Pdf

Black Mirror meets Dead Poets Society, OBSOLETE is a thrilling adventure set in the not so distant future, where technology is invisibly engrained in every aspect of life, even finding a home inside of us. Crime, Disease, and Poverty are all but extinct. Democracy is decided in real-time with lightning-fast ease. Holographic projections are at everyone's fingertips, swallowing them in in a world of constant entertainment and communication. There's just one problem: the kids are all becoming hyperactive, disconnected screen-addicts. The America Learns Initiative, a federal program under the Department of Restructure, has a solution: The Success Spheres! Championing the mantra, "Do nothing and learn!" this state of the art technology promises to save the failing school system, its students, and teachers, once and for all. After an unauthorized history lesson, Professor T is reassigned to one of the worst performing schools around. There, unlikely allies and hidden threats lead T to revelations about a conspiracy with sinister roots. What T discovers could threaten to overturn the ALI's Success Sphere program and the very foundations of society, itself.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : LOC:00076638925

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Disposal of Obsolete Maritime Administration Vessels by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Pdf

Author : Benji Rabhan
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781614485087

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Failure Is Obsolete by Benji Rabhan Pdf

A data-driven way to make smarter decisions every day: “One of the smartest conversion guys I know” (Perry Marshall, author of The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords). Failure Is Obsolete reveals an easy-to-use formula for testing high-risk ideas in a low-risk environment, providing increased likelihood of success before you waste a lot of time and money moving in the wrong direction. Be more confident in your business decisions—from creating new products to hiring employees and launching new marketing campaigns—as well as personal decisions like dating or choosing a retirement home. This useful strategy evolves from the author’s years of experience in conversion rate optimization, helping companies improve their websites and marketing funnels so they make more money. In addition, Failure Is Obsolete reveals some of Benji Rabhan’s best conversion techniques that readers can use on their own websites.

Author : James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433069244469

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A Dictionary of Archaic & Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs & Ancient Customs, Form the Fourteenth Century by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps Pdf

Author : Philip Tsang
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421441375

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The Obsolete Empire by Philip Tsang Pdf

Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by The Modernist Studies Association The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an inventory of feelings not easily relinquished. In The Obsolete Empire, Philip Tsang brings together an unusual constellation of writers—Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V. S. Naipaul—to trace an aesthetics of frustrated attachment that emerged in the wake of imperial decline. Caught between an expansive Britishness and an exclusive Englishness, these writers explored what it meant to belong to an empire that did not belong to them. Thanks to their voracious reading of English fiction and poetry in their formative years, all of these writers experienced a richly textured world with which they deeply identified but from which they felt excluded. The literary England they imagined, frozen in time and out of place with the realities of imperial decline, in turn figures in their writings as a repository of unconsummated attachments, contradictory desires, and belated exchanges. Their works arrest the linear progression from colonial to postcolonial, from empire to nation, and from subject to citizen. Drawing on a rich body of scholarship on affect and temporality, Tsang demonstrates how the British empire endures as a structure of desire that outlived its political lifespan. By showing how literary reading sets in motion a tense interplay of intimacy and exclusion, Tsang investigates a unique mode of belonging arising from the predicament of being conscripted into a global empire but not desired as its proper citizen. Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions preoccupied writers across Britain's former empire and continue to resonate today.

Author : Chris Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475844771

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Beyond Obsolete by Chris Edwards Pdf

This book connects a new history and philosophy of science with the history of education.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251321003

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Environmental Management Tool Kit for Obsolete Pesticides - Volume 5 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Within the remit of reducing world hunger FAO has been extensively involved with pests and pesticides management. Based on the experience gained over the past 20 years FAO has developed a series of tools which allow a risk based approach to dealing with obsolete pesticide stocks considering the potential impact on both public health and the wider environment. This has led to the development and publication of the Environmental Management Tool Kit Series. The methodologies presented in these tools have been developed to provide a sound technical baseline for implementation of pesticide inventory, obsolete stock site prioritization and safeguarding projects in developing and developed countries in many regions across the globe. They have a solid foundation in international regulations from the US and Europe and so can be considered as complying with international best practice for worker and environmental safety. Despite the implementation of projects resulting in the removal of the above ground stocks, pesticide legacy problems persist that affect the ground beneath the sites and the groundwater passing through it. In many cases the grounds at these sites present a greater risk to human health and the wider environment than the original pesticide stockpiles which are often sent for environmentally sound disposal. To assess the particular risks posed by pesticide contaminated land, FAO has developed a fifth tool in the EMTK series, the EMTK 5. The conclusions drawn from using EMTK5 enable the development of a national contaminated land risk management plan and site level risk reduction strategies which