2013, ISBN: 9789780679606

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Surrey, England: Ian Allan Ltd, 2007. 68 pages b/w cartoons - Taking an irreverent look at railway history, "4ft 81/2 and All That : A Sort of Railway History" is a humorous por… Mehr…

Surrey, England: Ian Allan Ltd, 2007. 68 pages b/w cartoons - Taking an irreverent look at railway history, "4ft 81/2 and All That : A Sort of Railway History" is a humorous portrayal of the origins of Britain's railway network culminating in an A-Z glossary, which includes such entries as 'N - Numbering. Oh, now for it. This superfluous practice was invented by a certain Mr Allan who was a numismological wizard - and a great benefactor.' Illustrated throughout with line drawings and cartoons, "4ft 81/2 and All That : A Sort of Railway History" is an antidote to all those highly detailed histories that identify, sleeper by sleeper, the intricacies of operation of some obscure industrial line in the Outer Hebrides. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good., Ian Allan Ltd, 2007, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. DJ has sticker residue at bottom of spine and front. Some library markings.. x, 262 p. Meganet Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. So Paulo, Brazil's largest city, has more mobile phones than does Paris. The largest phone system in Kampuchea is cellular. In the next twenty years, within one generation, everyone on earth will be able to place a phone call to anyone else anywhere. This Meganet is a patchwork of networks, big and small, local and global, primitive and high-tech, that fit together because they share compatible technologies. Wilson Dizards Meganet is a report on the progress and setbacks in expanding Meganet resources to everyone on earth. He examines not only the advantages, from toll-free numbers and credit cards, but the downsides, from the potential invasions of privacy to the question of who will and who should control Meganet. Dizard describes the likely players: from the oil and utility companies who own desirable rights-of-way to Silicon Valley to emerging innovators in Chile and Germany. }So Paulo, Brazils largest city, has more mobile phones than does Paris. The largest phone system in Kampuchea is cellular. In the next twenty years, within one generation, everyone on earth will be able to place a phone call to anyone else anywhere. This Meganet is a patchwork of networks, big and small, local and global, primitive and high-tech, that fit together because they share compatible technologies. Most of Meganet is hidden in underground cables or in microwave circuits that move through the atmosphere with the speed of light. Meganet involves linemen stringing wire through South American jungles and Motorola executives investing USD4 billion in Iridium stock to link millions of mobile phones. Why is Meganet emerging now? Two of our largest industries, electronics and communications, are changing quickly, often in an escalating tango of investment, technological breakthroughs, and distribution. The barriers to an advanced, digitized Meganet are economic and political. Over fifty governments are dismantling their communications monopolies by converting them wholly or partly into private enterprises. This new, competitive, and private-sector-oriented milieu has become the most important factor favoring the completion of the advanced, global Meganet early in the twenty-first century. Wilson Dizards Meganet is a report on the progress and setbacks in expanding Meganet resources to everyone on earth. He examines not only the advantages, such as toll-free numbers and credit cards, but also such downsides as the potential invasions of privacy and the question of who will and who should control Meganet. Dizard describes the likely players: from the oil and utility companies who own desirable rights-of-way to Silicon Valley to emerging innovators in Chile and Germany. } Within one generation, everyone on earth will be able to place a phone call to anyone else any where. While two billion of us currently have access to phones, the other four billion of us will have phone access within the next twenty years. Throughout the world, phone access will mean computer access. Meganet is the technology that will help us get to this seemingly impossible goal. Meganet is shorthand for a patchwork of networks, big and small, local and global, primitive and high-tech, that fit together because they share compatible technologies. Most of Meganet is hidden in underground cables or in microwave circuits that move through the atmosphere with the speed of light. Meganets scope and size can be illustrated by one of its current construction projects, FLAG, a submarine cable stretching 16, 400 miles from England to Japan. FLAGs working parts are four glass fiber wires as thin as a human hair together capable of carrying 600, 000 phone conversations simultaneously. When complete, FLAG will quintuple international telecommunications capacity between Asia and Europe. Why is Meganet emerging now? Two of our largest industries, electronics and communications, are changing quickly, often in an escalating tango of investment, technological breakthroughs, and distribution., Westview Press, 1997, Surrey England: Ian Allan, 2008. 80 pages, profusely illustrated with colour photographs. Edinburgh is a city of two halves: the mediaeval city with its twisting lanes dominated by the castle and St Giles and the New Town, constructed predominantly in the 18th century, with its grandiose terraces and wide streets. As well as being Scotland’s capital, also called 'the Athens of the north', Edinburgh is a major commercial and industrial city with large suburbs and a port area on the south side of the Forth estuary. In order to function as a city, Edinburgh needed an efficient public transport network and, with a network of suburban railways, now largely closed, and trams and buses courtesy of the Corporation, the city was able to operate effectively. Bygone Edinburgh is a follow-up to Gavin Booth’s Streets of Edinburgh, recording Edinburgh in the period between 1945 and 1980, and like the earlier book, shows the ever changing streetscape of the city. Many of the 85 colour illustrations are previously unpublished and include some aspect of public transport, such as the trams (but only unti 1956, when the final trams were withdrawn) and buses, with other photographs showing a wider variety of subject, including railway and street scenes. . First Edition. Laminated Pictorial Board. New/No Jacket., Ian Allan, 2008, , 2010, 2nd Edition. softcover. New. States and Provinces covered in this volume are: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Rhode Island and Vermont. Includes the Conrail split by CSX and Norfolk Southern. 12 pages larger than the 1st edition. Includes detail maps of the following locations: Connecticut: Danbury, Hartford, Middletown, New Haven, New London and Waterbury Massachusetts: Boston, East Deerfield, Fitchburg, Lawrence, Lowell, Palmer, Springfield and Worcester Maine: Bangor, Caribou, Lewiston, Oakfield, Portland, Presque Isle and Waterville New Hampshire: Berlin, Portsmouth and Whitefield New Brunswick: Edmundston, Moncton and St. John Nova Scotia: Halifax and Sydney 79 maps total This atlas is designed to provide a single source of reference to the North American rail network, past and present in greater detail than has readily available until now. Each sheet is drawn to a constant scale of 8 miles to 1 inch for easy distance comparisons with 2 miles to 1 inch enlargements of complex areas. All extant rail lines are shown together with stations, junctions, yards, principal bridges and tunnels. Former lines, now abandoned, are also shown. Ownership, current and past, and trackage rights are shown. An index of stations is included. Steam Powered Video, softcover, 88 pages, 8.25 x 11.75 x .25 in., printed on heavy enameled paper., , 2010, 2nd Edition, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2013. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population. Assa Doron is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University. Robin Jeffrey is Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asia Studies and Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. "The conversation about [the cellphone's] social effects usually takes the form of lamenting obnoxious people who text over dinner or hold one-way conversations on the elevator and expressing angst about 'kids these days' and their addiction to their mobile devices. Fortunately, we now have Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey's The Great Indian Phone Book, which offers a comprehensive look at what cell phones have meant for India. Their story covers everything from family relations and gender barriers to terrorism and the relations of citizens to the state. Out of what could have been a dry study packed with statistics the authors have managed to write a superb bookÑinformative, insightful, wittyÑthat is essential reading for anyone interested in India, or technological change, or good stories told with clarity and purpose."ÑIsaac Chotiner, The Wall Street Journal "SuperbÉ Reminds us how little we have explored the new landscape of opportunity, aspiration and, inevitably, disappointment that mobile phones have opened up in IndiaÉ [A] lively book."ÑPankaj Mishra, Bloomberg.com "The Great Indian Phone Book is actually two books in one. The first half is a whirlwind recap of how India was connected, told simply and with a wealth of numbers. The second is an ethnographic study that dives into the intricacies of Indian society without pretending to be comprehensiveÉ The strength of the book lies in its repeated emphasis on technology as something that 'does not eliminate political and social structures, though it may modify them.'"ÑThe Economist "The Great Indian Phone Book is admirably comprehensive, unexpectedly engaging, and underscored with an appreciation for the country Doron and Jeffrey have spent several decades of their professional lives studying as a historian and an anthropologist, respectively."ÑSwati Pandey, Los Angeles Review of Books "Over the past ten years the number of mobile phone subscribers in India has grown from a few hundred thousand to as many as 900 millionÑthree subscriptions for every four Indians of any age. It'sÉa phenomenon with deep and significant cultural effects. Doron and Jeffrey attempt to chart the pulse of these changes, looking at the history of long-distance communication in India and the ways person-to-person information has been controlled and consumed by both the lites and the masses."ÑNate Barksdale, Books & Culture "A timely and pioneering contribution to the green shoots of telecom literatureÉ The book has been written for the general reader who is curious to know about the mobile revolution but cannot make sense of the numbers, charts, graphs, jargons, legalese and sophistry surrounding much of the writing on the topicÉ By representing a wide range of individuals and communities which have been affected by the mobile revolution in India, by judging the impact against the bedrock of existing social, political and economic structures and by suggesting realistic but complicated answers, and yet, keeping the narrative jargon and statistics free, the authors have done a remarkable job."ÑSubhjayoti Ray, Economic and Political Weekly "This is an important book that can usefully be read by students, social scientists, and business managersÑindeed, by anyone interested in change and its effects on developing and complex societies."ÑDenis O'Brien, Finance & Development "The book makes for fascinating reading and probes the entire universe of the mobile phone in India, the upside and the downside."ÑDilip Bobb, Financial Express "A remarkable tour de force, reflecting thorough research, and impressive knowledge, judgment and enthusiasm."ÑBill Kirkman, Round Table "This terrific book on the mobile revolution in India provides not just sound scholarship but also an engaging read for a broader audience, a rare double feat."ÑMadanmohan Rao, Your Story "In this fine anthropological study, Doron and Jeffrey look at how the introduction and current widespread use of the cell phone has altered life in one of the world's largest countriesÉ This rich study reveals much about modern India and should be read by both students and scholars of technology and South Asia."ÑPublishers Weekly "Doron and Jeffrey's landmark study of how the humble mobile phone is changing the culture of Indian democracy in everyday life has no competitors. Their interdisciplinary analysis of popular aspirations and anxieties surrounding mobile telephones will invite and inspire comparative studies set in other emerging economies. A remarkable achievement."ÑDipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago "The Great Indian Phone Book is a wake-up call for anyone intrigued by today's network society. Engagingly written, intelligently researched, and enlivened with memorable anecdotes framed by deft exposition, it offers up a compelling and compellingly readable introduction to a subject of unquestioned significance: the remarkable emergence of the mobile telephone as an agent of change in the developing world."ÑRichard R. John, author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications "An engaging and informative analysis of the use of cell phones in India, a nation of over one billion people, where this small device has been a harbinger of big social and economic changesÑand an enabler of unbridled entrepreneurship."ÑTarun Khanna, author of Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their FuturesÑand Yours "A comprehensive chronicle of how mobile phones changed Indian life, and in the process, India's economy. Capitalists, ministers, boatmen, farmers, advertising geniuses, porn peddlers, political workers, and tireless salesmen populate this story. Doron and Jeffrey's sociological take on the mobile phone as a great leveller is rich and riveting."ÑSevanti Ninan, author of Headlines from the Heartland "A marvelous, briskly written book, combining a panoptical overview of the broader media landscape with gripping vignettes. Doron and Jeffrey write with insight and journalistic brio, making this book highly accessible to a very wide range of readers."ÑChristopher Pinney, University College London "This is a fascinating, smart, and erudite volume on how the Indian cell phone industry developed and what its extraordinary growth has meant for the country. It can serve as a kind of vade mecdum for many thousands of interested readers seeking to learn about the subject, whether as amateurs or as specialists entering a new domain."ÑArvind Rajagopal, New York University, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2013, Modern Library. New in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780679602873 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with barely detectable wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "One of the great comic novels in the English language, Tom Jones was an instant success when it was published in 1749: Ten thousand copies were sold in its first year. A foundling, Tom is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household until it is time for him to set out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in fiction to display legitimate sides of human virtue and vice. "Upon my word, I think Tom Jones is one of the most perfect plots ever planned," said Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Now, Tom Jones has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and BBC television. Max Beesley stars as Tom, with Samantha Morton (who appeared in A&E's Emma and Jane Eyre) as Sophia. The cast also includes Benjamin Whitrow, Brian Blessed, Frances De La Tour, and John Sessions. Tom Jones is directed by Metin Huseyin, produced by Suzan Harrison, with a screenplay by Simon Burke. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices."; 8.10 X 5.70 X 2 inches; 982 pages ., Modern Library, 1998<

2010, ISBN: 9789780679606

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Brooklyn, NY: Cabinet, 2010 Text: ENG. 112 p.; ill.; 20 x 25 cm; 450 g. Fine copy! Content: Columns Colors / Amber Mark Bradley Old magic Inventory / A Taxonomy of Bruises Dominic Pettma… Mehr…

Brooklyn, NY: Cabinet, 2010 Text: ENG. 112 p.; ill.; 20 x 25 cm; 450 g. Fine copy! Content: Columns Colors / Amber Mark Bradley Old magic Inventory / A Taxonomy of Bruises Dominic Pettman Flesh and blood Leftovers / Rock, Paper, Scissors Sebastian Cichocki What the Stasi left behind Legend / Man Hugs Doll Wayne Koestenbaum Heidegger, Adorno, Pee-Wee Herman & Co. Main God’s Number Margaret Wertheim Solving the mathematical puzzle of the Rubik’s Cube Lighter than Air: An Interview with Carol Mavor Brian Dillon and Carol Mavor The ambiguity of the Edwardian boy Artist Project / Wrong Place, Wrong Time Diana Cooper The Raw and the Cooked: An Interview with Catalin Avramescu Justin E. H. Smith and Catalin Avramescu Cannibalism and the moral order of society The Weather over Germany Declan Clarke Heinrich Böll’s literature of ruins The Disintegration of an Ideal George Prochnik Morton Prince, Sigmund Freud, and the extraordinary case of “Christine Beauchamp” Artist Project / Bountiful Tanya Marcuse Learning Learning Degree Zero D. Graham Burnett How a sea slug revolutionized cognitive science Free-for-All Christopher Turner A. S. Neill and Summerhill Artist Project / Ambidextrous Performance Lars Siltberg Learning at Your Fingertips David Serlin The Museum Extension Project and the pedagogy of the tactile Spirit Duplication Yara Flores Licking wisdom from the purple page Translation, Memory, and Mastery Daniel Dewispelare The Andrometer of Sir William Jones What Is There to Be Learned from Kitsch? Brigid Doherty Walter Benjamin and the “furnished man” Thrasonical Huffe Snuffe Jeff Dolven Learning to love a rhythm you can’t hear O Seminar! Emily Apter Witz and Blitz in the classroom And Postcard / School of Undressing Bookmark / Cabinet’s Personal Andrometer, Based on the (Terrifying) Schedule of Achievement Outlined by Sir William Jones. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine., Cabinet, 2010, Modern Library. New in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780679602873 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with barely detectable wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "One of the great comic novels in the English language, Tom Jones was an instant success when it was published in 1749: Ten thousand copies were sold in its first year. A foundling, Tom is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household until it is time for him to set out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in fiction to display legitimate sides of human virtue and vice. "Upon my word, I think Tom Jones is one of the most perfect plots ever planned," said Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Now, Tom Jones has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and BBC television. Max Beesley stars as Tom, with Samantha Morton (who appeared in A&E's Emma and Jane Eyre) as Sophia. The cast also includes Benjamin Whitrow, Brian Blessed, Frances De La Tour, and John Sessions. Tom Jones is directed by Metin Huseyin, produced by Suzan Harrison, with a screenplay by Simon Burke. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices."; 8.10 X 5.70 X 2 inches; 982 pages ., Modern Library, 1998<

1998, ISBN: 9789780679606

Modern Library. New in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780679602873 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has … Mehr…

Modern Library. New in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780679602873 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with barely detectable wear if any. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "One of the great comic novels in the English language, Tom Jones was an instant success when it was published in 1749: Ten thousand copies were sold in its first year. A foundling, Tom is discovered one evening by the benevolent Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget and brought up as a son in their household until it is time for him to set out in search of both his fortune and his true identity. Amorous, high-spirited, and filled with what Fielding called "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution, Tom Jones is one of the first characters in fiction to display legitimate sides of human virtue and vice. "Upon my word, I think Tom Jones is one of the most perfect plots ever planned," said Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Now, Tom Jones has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and BBC television. Max Beesley stars as Tom, with Samantha Morton (who appeared in A&E's Emma and Jane Eyre) as Sophia. The cast also includes Benjamin Whitrow, Brian Blessed, Frances De La Tour, and John Sessions. Tom Jones is directed by Metin Huseyin, produced by Suzan Harrison, with a screenplay by Simon Burke. The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices."; 8.10 X 5.70 X 2 inches; 982 pages ., Modern Library, 1998<

1994, ISBN: 9789780679606

1944. Wise, Herbert and Phylis Fraser. GREAT TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL. A Modern Library Giant. NY: The Modern Library, c1944. 1080pp., list of Modern Library Giants. 8vo. Gre… Mehr…

1944. Wise, Herbert and Phylis Fraser. GREAT TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL. A Modern Library Giant. NY: The Modern Library, c1944. 1080pp., list of Modern Library Giants. 8vo. Grey cloth stamped in gold and green. Previous owner's name/address upper edge of first page, Very Good+ hardcover with only minimal shelfwear, 1944, New York: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 9780679601289 . Previous owner's name on half title page. Gently read copy. No Priority shipping. International orders may require additional postage. ; Modern Library; 8.10 X 5.60 X 1.80 inches; 1056 pages ., Modern Library, 1994<

1992, ISBN: 9789780679606

New York: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 9780679600244 . Several very faint smudges on bottom edge of book. ; No Priority Shipping; Modern Library; … Mehr…

New York: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 9780679600244 . Several very faint smudges on bottom edge of book. ; No Priority Shipping; Modern Library; 1.49 x 8.31 x 5.94 Inches; 912 pages ., Modern Library, 1992<