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500 paper objects : new directions in paper art / by McHugh, Gene

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Distinguished Figures in Descriptive Geometry and Its Applications for Mechanism Science From the Middle Ages to the 17th Century /

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Grand Theater Urbanism Chinese Cities in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: City Branding and Cultural Facilities-boosting Chinese cities -- Development of Theaters and the City in Beijing: the 1950s and After the 1980s -- To Be Cultural Capital-grand theaters in Shanghai -- Guangzhou Opera House: Building a Gated Public Space -- City Center Shifting and Cultural Facilities - Performance Space in Shenzhen -- Growing with the City: Theatrical Buildings in Chongqing -- The Henan Art Center: From Dilemma to Ambition -- The Shanxi Grand Theater: "Renaissance" of Chinese Drama Land -- A Butterfly by the Lake - Wuxi Grand Theater -- The National Taichung Theater: experimenting publicity of metropolitan urbanism -- From Colonial to Global-performance space in Hong Kong -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Creative Ways of Knowing in Engineering

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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine A History of Production and Information Machines / by Koetsier, Teun

Table of Contents: “…-- Innovation and long waves -- The Control Revolution -- Textile industry -- Steam engines -- Safety valve and governor -- Robert Stirling -- Printing -- A changing world -- The clockmakers and the art of the transformation of motion -- Watt's parallelogram -- Babbage's machines -- 9 The Second Wave of Industrial Revolution: Railroads and Steel -- Globalization -- The Railroads -- Stephenson's valve gear -- Corliss Engines -- Problems of control -- Organizational charts: the birth of a new information tool -- Office technology -- Kinematics and the birth of scientific technology -- The energetic approach -- Sadi Carnot and the Carnot machine -- Thermodynamics is born -- The application of thermodynamics to the design of actual machines -- 10 More Scientific Technology -- Electrical engineering -- Ballistics -- Iron in architecture -- Scientific management -- Control rooms -- Sales -- Calculators -- Statistical machines -- Scientific calculators -- Kelvin's tide predictors -- Differential analyzers -- 11 Electronic Brains -- The fourth wave and the first programmable computers -- Turing machines: What can be computed in principle? …”
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