1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996465448403316

Autore

Bruderer Herbert E.

Titolo

Milestones in analog and digital computing / / Herbert Bruderer ; translated from the German by John McMinn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-40974-0

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXX, 2053 p. 639 illus., 566 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

004.09

Soggetti

Computers - History

Computer science - History

Computer industry - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Volume 1: 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Principles -- 3. The Coming of Age of Arithmetic -- 4. Classification of Calculating Aids and Related Instruments -- 5. Chronology  -- 6. Pioneers in Calculating and Computing Technology -- 7. Conferences and Institutes -- 8. Global Overview of Early Digital Computers -- 9. Museums and Collections -- 10. The Antikythera Mechanism -- 11. Schwilgués Calculating Machines -- 12. The Thomas Arithmometer -- 13. The Curta -- 14. Slide Rules -- 15. Historical Automatons and Robots -- 16. Mechanical Calculating Aids -- 17. Technological, Economic, Social and Cultural History -- 18. Preserving the Technical Heritage -- 19. Operating Instructions -- Index of Persons, Places and Subjects -- Volume 2: 1. Who Was the Inventor of the Computer? -- 2. Computer Development in Germany -- 3. Computer Development in the United Kingdom -- 4. Computer Development in Switzerland -- 5. Documents Relevant to the Z4 and Ermeth -- 6. The Global Evolution of Computer Technology -- 7. Glossary of the History of Technology: German-English -- 8. Glossary of the History of Technology: English-German -- Bibliography for the History of Science and Technology -- Index of Persons, Places and Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color



throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996588060203316

Titolo

Ladies in Arms : Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture / / ed. by Teresa Hiergeist, Stefanie Schäfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2024]

©2024

ISBN

3-8394-6955-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Gender Studies

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Multimedia

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ladies in Arms. An Introduction -- Section I: History Reloaded? Reinventing Military and Paramilitary Shooters -- The Difference between a Shooting and an Armed Woman -- Re-Arming an American Heroine -- Armed Resistance and Femininity -- The Limits of Empowerment -- Section II: Violent Societies: Civic Gun



Cultures, Gender, and Politics -- ›Don't Retreat, Reload‹ -- Revenge is »Beautiful« -- »My Palm and My Trigger Finger Itch, Bitch« -- Section III: Firearm Fictions: Media, Genre, and the Making of the Armed Heroine -- »On Thursdays We Shoot« -- Cowgirling in Thuringia -- Violence and the Good Women of Bollywood -- Ladies and Arms -- Not Citizen-Soldiers but Vigilantes -- Section IV: Shooting to Kill (Patriarchy): Feminist Gunwomen -- What is a Painter without a Gun? -- Unpopular Feminism -- Armed Women as Fascinosum Tremendum -- Warrior of the Light -- Authors

Sommario/riassunto

In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributions to this volume ask this question from different vantage points in cultural and literary studies, film and visual culture studies, history, and art history. They examine military and civic gun cultures, the rediscovery of historical armed women and revolutionaries, cultural phenomena such as gangsta rap, narcocultura and US politics, Bollywood and French cinema, and distinct genres such as the graphic novel, the romance novel, or the German police procedural Tatort.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00273585

Autore

ARENDT, Erich

Titolo

Art and architecture on the Mediterranean islands / Erich Arendt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leipzig, : Edition Leipzig, 1966

Descrizione fisica

37 p., 211 p. di tav. ; 27 cm

Classificazione

VOC IX A

Soggetti

Architettura - Mediterraneo (Regione) - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia