Draw the lightning down [[electronic resource] ] : Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment / / Michael Brian Schiffer, with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and Carrie L. Bell |
Autore | Schiffer Michael B (Michael Brian), <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina | 621.3/0973/09033 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HollenbackKacy L
BellCarrie L |
Soggetto topico |
Electrical engineering - History - 18th century
Electricity - History - 18th century Enlightenment |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
age of enlightenment benjamin franklin electrical devices electrical experiments electrical science electrical technology electricity historical international community inventions inventors lightning rods lights medical instruments modern developments modern world motors musical instruments nonfiction physicists revolutionary experiments science and culture scientific developments technological advancements |
ISBN |
1-59734-584-9
0-520-93985-9 9786612358531 1-282-35853-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. The Franklin Phenomenon -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. A Coming of Age -- 4. Going Public -- 5. Power to the People -- 6. Life and Death -- 7. First, Do No Harm -- 8. An Electrical World -- 9. Property Protectors -- 10. A New Alchemy -- 11. Visionary Inventors -- 12. Technology Transfer: A Behavioral Framework -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786712703321 |
Schiffer Michael B (Michael Brian), <1947->
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Draw the lightning down [[electronic resource] ] : Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment / / Michael Brian Schiffer, with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and Carrie L. Bell |
Autore | Schiffer Michael B (Michael Brian), <1947-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
Disciplina | 621.3/0973/09033 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HollenbackKacy L
BellCarrie L |
Soggetto topico |
Electrical engineering - History - 18th century
Electricity - History - 18th century Enlightenment |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
age of enlightenment benjamin franklin electrical devices electrical experiments electrical science electrical technology electricity historical international community inventions inventors lightning rods lights medical instruments modern developments modern world motors musical instruments nonfiction physicists revolutionary experiments science and culture scientific developments technological advancements |
ISBN |
1-59734-584-9
0-520-93985-9 9786612358531 1-282-35853-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1. The Franklin Phenomenon -- 2. In the Beginning -- 3. A Coming of Age -- 4. Going Public -- 5. Power to the People -- 6. Life and Death -- 7. First, Do No Harm -- 8. An Electrical World -- 9. Property Protectors -- 10. A New Alchemy -- 11. Visionary Inventors -- 12. Technology Transfer: A Behavioral Framework -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818650803321 |
Schiffer Michael B (Michael Brian), <1947->
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Earth sound earth signal [[electronic resource] ] : energies and earth magnitude in the arts / / Douglas Kahn |
Autore | Kahn Douglas <1951-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 700.1/08 |
Soggetto topico |
Sound in art
Radio noise |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
19th century aelectrosonic sounds aeolian sphere music aesthetics artists arts brainwaves early sound technologies earth magnitude energies global perspective global transmissions henry david thoreau humanities media studies modern communications modern world music history musicians natural radio nonfiction outer space science historians science history scientists sound energy telegraph lines telephone thomas watson |
ISBN |
0-520-25780-4
0-520-95683-4 |
Classificazione | LH 65020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779837903321 |
Kahn Douglas <1951->
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Earth sound earth signal [[electronic resource] ] : energies and earth magnitude in the arts / / Douglas Kahn |
Autore | Kahn Douglas <1951-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 700.1/08 |
Soggetto topico |
Sound in art
Radio noise |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
19th century aelectrosonic sounds aeolian sphere music aesthetics artists arts brainwaves early sound technologies earth magnitude energies global perspective global transmissions henry david thoreau humanities media studies modern communications modern world music history musicians natural radio nonfiction outer space science historians science history scientists sound energy telegraph lines telephone thomas watson |
ISBN |
0-520-25780-4
0-520-95683-4 |
Classificazione | LH 65020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thomas Watson : natural radio, natural theology -- Microphonic imagination -- The aeolian and Henry David Thoreau's sphere music -- The aelectrosonic and energetic environments -- Inductive radio and whistling currents -- Alvin Lucier : brainwaves -- Edmond Dewan and cybernetic hi-fi -- Alvin Lucier : whistlers -- From brainwaves to outer space : John Cage and Karl Jansky -- For more new signals -- Sound of the underground : earthquakes, nuclear weaponry, and music -- Long sounds and transperception -- Pauline Oliveros : sonosphere -- Thomas Ashcraft : electroreceptor -- Black sun, black rain -- Star-studded cinema -- Robert Barry : conceptualism and energy -- Collaborating objects radiating environments -- Joyce Hinterding : drawing energy -- Earth-in-circuit. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820539903321 |
Kahn Douglas <1951->
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The elusive embryo : how women and men approach new reproductive technologies / / Gay Becker |
Autore | Becker Gaylene |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 320 pages) |
Disciplina | 616.6/9206 |
Soggetto topico |
Human reproductive technology
Infertility - Patients |
Soggetto non controllato |
biological parents
biology birth parents childbirth conception consumer culture consumerism cultural embryo emotional feminism fertility issues fertility finance gender global in vitro fertilization industry international medical mental health modern life modern world money problems natural birth parenting pregnancy reproduction reproductive rights reproductive technology sexuality social studies technology womens issues |
ISBN |
1-59734-589-X
1-282-35509-0 9786612355097 0-520-92524-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Personal Experience to Research -- 1. Consuming Technologies -- 2. Confronting Notions of Normalcy -- 3. The Embattled Body -- 4. Genes and Generations -- 5. Experiencing Risks -- 6. Taking Action -- 7. Selling Hope -- 8. Decisions about Donors -- 9. Embodied Technology -- 10. Shifting Gears -- 11. Redefining Normalcy -- 12. Women Rethinking Parenthood -- 13. Rewriting the Family -- 14. Performing Gender -- Appendix: About the Research -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777354703321 |
Becker Gaylene
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The elusive embryo : how women and men approach new reproductive technologies / / Gay Becker |
Autore | Becker Gaylene |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 320 pages) |
Disciplina | 616.6/9206 |
Soggetto topico |
Human reproductive technology
Infertility - Patients |
Soggetto non controllato |
biological parents
biology birth parents childbirth conception consumer culture consumerism cultural embryo emotional feminism fertility issues fertility finance gender global in vitro fertilization industry international medical mental health modern life modern world money problems natural birth parenting pregnancy reproduction reproductive rights reproductive technology sexuality social studies technology womens issues |
ISBN |
1-59734-589-X
1-282-35509-0 9786612355097 0-520-92524-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Personal Experience to Research -- 1. Consuming Technologies -- 2. Confronting Notions of Normalcy -- 3. The Embattled Body -- 4. Genes and Generations -- 5. Experiencing Risks -- 6. Taking Action -- 7. Selling Hope -- 8. Decisions about Donors -- 9. Embodied Technology -- 10. Shifting Gears -- 11. Redefining Normalcy -- 12. Women Rethinking Parenthood -- 13. Rewriting the Family -- 14. Performing Gender -- Appendix: About the Research -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825484203321 |
Becker Gaylene
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Erotic grotesque nonsense [[electronic resource] ] : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / / Miriam Silverberg |
Autore | Silverberg Miriam Rom <1951-2008.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (423 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0952/09041 |
Collana | Asia Pacific modern |
Soggetto topico | Popular culture - Japan - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1920s
1930s academic colonialism consumerism cultural studies culture daily life erotic ethnography fashion food government grotesque homeless housing ideology japan japanese history japanese mass culture modern world movies pearl harbor photography political politics pop culture popular entertainment postwar rural scholarly social studies television urban wartime world war 2. wwii |
ISBN |
1-282-35596-1
9786612355967 0-520-92462-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778491403321 |
Silverberg Miriam Rom <1951-2008.>
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Erotic grotesque nonsense [[electronic resource] ] : the mass culture of Japanese modern times / / Miriam Silverberg |
Autore | Silverberg Miriam Rom <1951-2008.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (423 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0952/09041 |
Collana | Asia Pacific modern |
Soggetto topico | Popular culture - Japan - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1920s
1930s academic colonialism consumerism cultural studies culture daily life erotic ethnography fashion food government grotesque homeless housing ideology japan japanese history japanese mass culture modern world movies pearl harbor photography political politics pop culture popular entertainment postwar rural scholarly social studies television urban wartime world war 2. wwii |
ISBN |
1-282-35596-1
9786612355967 0-520-92462-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Japanese modern sites -- The modern girl as militant (movement on the streets) -- The café waitress sang the blues -- Friends of the movies (from Ero to empire) -- The household becomes modern life -- Asakusa--honky-tonk tempo -- Asakusa eroticism -- Down-and-out grotesquerie -- Modern nonsense. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820531103321 |
Silverberg Miriam Rom <1951-2008.>
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The Fifth Beginning : What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future / / Robert L. Kelly |
Autore | Kelly Robert L. <1957-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (149 pages) : map |
Disciplina | 909 |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization
Culture Social history |
Soggetto non controllato |
activist
agriculture ancient world archaeologist archaeology arms race capitalism citizenship communication cultural history culture evidence fifth beginning global globalization government history of culture history human development human history international life changing long term modern world nation states politics potential society technology wartime |
ISBN |
9780520966369
0520966368 9780520293120 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The End of the World as We Know It -- 2. How Archaeologists Think -- 3. Sticks and Stones: The Beginning of Technology -- 4. Beads and Stories: The Beginning of Culture -- 5. Bread and Beer: The Beginning of Agriculture -- 6. Kings and Chains: The Beginning of the State -- 7. Nothing Lasts Forever: The Fifth Beginning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798729703321 |
Kelly Robert L. <1957->
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The Fifth Beginning : What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future / / Robert L. Kelly |
Autore | Kelly Robert L. <1957-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (149 pages) : map |
Disciplina | 909 |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization
Culture Social history |
Soggetto non controllato |
activist
agriculture ancient world archaeologist archaeology arms race capitalism citizenship communication cultural history culture evidence fifth beginning global globalization government history of culture history human development human history international life changing long term modern world nation states politics potential society technology wartime |
ISBN |
9780520966369
0520966368 9780520293120 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The End of the World as We Know It -- 2. How Archaeologists Think -- 3. Sticks and Stones: The Beginning of Technology -- 4. Beads and Stories: The Beginning of Culture -- 5. Bread and Beer: The Beginning of Agriculture -- 6. Kings and Chains: The Beginning of the State -- 7. Nothing Lasts Forever: The Fifth Beginning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827336403321 |
Kelly Robert L. <1957->
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