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Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention that Happened First

Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from the first lighthouse and public library to the first madam and ready-made suit. Boston-based journalist and essayist Lynda Morgenroth has written forty original essays on the city's long history of innovation, from the colonial era to the present. These lively takes on Boston's innovative history range from the first use of ether in publicly performed surgery to the first school desegregation court case to the one—and only—automatic bargain basement.Consider this: Ice cut from Boston ponds and shipped to hot climates became a worldwide industry. A controversial kidney transplant between twin brothers marked the start of organ transplantation. The glorious Massachusetts 54th Regiment was the first black army regiment in U.S. history. First newspaper, novel, subway, telephone, gay marriage—the beat goes on!Ranging from advances in science and engineering—the smallpox inoculation and the Boston Harbor cleanup—to innovations in culture and society—Fannie Farmer's cookbook and the YMCA—the collection investigates, celebrates, and integrates America's workshop of ideas.

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GT40: The Legend Lives on (Osprey Classic Marques)

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Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach

This comprehensive new textbook covers theory and service for all mechanical and electrical systems and components of the modern automobile, in easy to understand terms. It is designed to serve as a single foundational text for all technical areas, covering the "need to know" information for becoming a qualified, professional technician. Organization and content are based on ASE - certification tasks, following the eight ASE systems in a logical but flexible chapter arrangement that constantly revisits professionalism and certification. Special care has been taken to focus on the "learning process" with the inclusion of step by step procedures captured in unique photographic sequences that encourage better understanding of the subject. Retention, diagnostics, customer relations and safety are all emphasized throughout. This book should be of interest to students of automotive technology.

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Jaguar Project Xj40/the Inside Story of the New Xj6 (A Foulis motoring b

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Gt40 Photo Archive

GT40 was one of the finest racing automobiles ever built, a supreme effort on the part of Ford motor Company. Featured is the GT40, Mk. I - Mk. IV, from design to construction, in both racing & street clothes. Pictured are the cars of such racing greats as Bob Bondurant, Phil Hill, Masten Gregory, Ritchie Ginther, Rob Walker, Bruce McLaren, Peter Reveson, Dan Gurney, Denis Hulme, and Mark Donahue at venues that include Le Mans, Daytona, and Sebring. In his foreword, Bob Bondurant, world racing champion, reminisces about his days behind the wheel of the GT40.

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Modern Combat Ammunition

Now, Paladin's leading weapons author presents his exhaustive evaluation of the stopping power of modern rifle, pistol, shotgun and machine gun rounds based on actual case studies of shooting incidents. He looks at the hot new cartridges that promise to dominate well into the next century - .40 S&W, 10mm Auto, subsonic 9mms - as well as the trusted standbys. Find out how to make your own exotic tracers, flechette and sabot rounds, caseless ammo and fragmenting bullets.

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Poetics of Architecture: Theory of Design

In order for a book to succeed in presenting a theory of architecture, it must address aspects of imagination and creativity as well as the channels one can use to achieve truly significant architectural design. Poetics of Architecture explores the fundamental theories of Modern and Postmodern design and attempts to reconcile all that is worthwhile in these two movements into a new inclusivist attitude toward architecture. Anthony C. Antoniades looks at the many intangible and tangible channels one can harness in creating architectural design. By opening up architecture to the full range of creative influences, he tries to help readers produce designs that are richer on spatial, sensual, spiritual, and environmental levels. Some of the intangible channels to creativity explored in the book include fantasy, metaphor, the paradoxical and metaphysical, the primordial and untouched, poetry and literature, and the exotic and multicultural. Among the tangible channels covered are history and the study of precedents, mimesis and literal interpretation, geometry, materials, and the role of nature. The author presents rich and imaginative discussions of these various channels, explaining which were favored during the Modern and Postmodern movements and clarifying his theoretical analyses through the use of many vivid examples, tables, and illustrations. Included among the examples in the volume are many distinguished projects and theories by a wide range of noted architects such as Asplund, Aalto, Utzon, Pikionis, Barragin, Pietila, Predock, and Legorreta, who are latecomers to the attention of the media. Antoniades also provides fascinating material on the study of architectural biographies as a means of achieving an all-inclusive creativity in architectural design. Highly original yet based on solid principles, Poetics of Architecture will help architects, designers, and students increase their versatility and creativity in the studio. It will also deepen their understanding and appreciation of the creative process and its many influences.

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Analysis of Sampled Imaging Systems (SPIE Tutorial Texts in Optical Engi

Advances in solid state detector arrays, flat panel displays, and digital image processing have prompted an increasing variety of sampled imaging products and possibilities. These technology developments provide new opportunities and problems for the design engineer and system analyst--this tutorial's intended reader.Contents - Preface - Introduction - Fourier integral representation of an optical image - Sampled imager response function - Sampled imager design and optimization - Interlace and Dither - Dynamic Sampling, Resolution Enhancement, and Super-Resolution - The Sampling Theorem - Laboratory Measurements of Sampled Infrared Imaging System Performance - Appendix A: Fourier integrals and Fourier series - Appendix B: The impulse function

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Landscaping With Wildflowers and Native Plants

Create the sweeping color of a forest meadow, a tall grass prairie, or a desert landscape in your own garden. You can learn how to design a natural landscape or just grow a few wildflowers by your front path, once you learn where to find seeds, how to take cuttings from wildplants, and much more.

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