Eccentric Nation

Eccentric Nation
Title Eccentric Nation PDF eBook
Author Stephen Albert Rohs
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 263
Release 2009
Genre Art
ISBN 0838641385

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The book takes as its point of departure the notion that a nation's music and performance culture was, in the nineteenth century, conceived of as the voice of its people. From ballads to parades to plays to orations, these cultural forms carried the burden of staging an identity for the national community and for the onlooking eyes of outsiders.

Gadget Nation

Gadget Nation
Title Gadget Nation PDF eBook
Author Steve Greenberg
Publisher Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Pages 260
Release 2008
Genre Inventions
ISBN 140273686X

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Whether you're a would-be entrepreneur, a hard-core geek, or just a gadget lover, it is hard to imagine a bigger thrill than inventing something and sharing your creation with the world--and maybe even making a profit somewhere along the way. Gadget Nation celebrates that spirit through the irresistible, often quirky stories of more than 100 amateur inventors and their gizmos, from lighted slippers to an alarm clock that rolls away from you when you reach for the snooze button.

The National Engineer

The National Engineer
Title The National Engineer PDF eBook
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Pages 1040
Release 1915
Genre Steam engineering
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Vols. 34- contain official N.A.P.E. directory.

Eccentric Orbits

Eccentric Orbits
Title Eccentric Orbits PDF eBook
Author John Bloom
Publisher Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Pages 604
Release 2016-06-07
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0802192823

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“Good corporate drama . . . an enlightening narrative of how new communications infrastructures often come about.” —The Economist, “A Book of the Year 2016” In the early 1990s, Motorola developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Its constellation of 66 satellites in polar orbit was a mind-boggling technical accomplishment, surely the future of communication. The only problem was that Iridium the company was a commercial disaster. Only months after launching service, it was $11 billion in debt, burning through $100 million a month and crippled by baroque rate plans and agreements that forced calls through Moscow, Beijing, Fucino, Italy, and elsewhere. Bankruptcy was inevitable—the largest to that point in American history. And when no real buyers seemed to materialize, it looked like Iridium would go down as just a “science experiment.” That is, until Dan Colussy got a wild idea. Colussy, a former head of Pan-Am now retired and working on his golf game in Palm Beach, heard about Motorola’s plans to “de-orbit” the system and decided he would buy Iridium and somehow turn around one of the biggest blunders in the history of business. Impeccably researched and wonderfully told, Eccentric Orbits is a rollicking, unforgettable tale of technological achievement, business failure, the military-industrial complex, and one of the greatest deals of all time. “Deep reporting put forward with epic intentions . . . a story that soars and jumps and dives and digresses . . . [A] big, gutsy, exciting book.” —The Wall Street Journal, “A Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016” “Spellbinding . . . A tireless researcher, Bloom delivers a superlative history . . . A tour de force.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The Nation

The Nation
Title The Nation PDF eBook
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Pages 914
Release 1919
Genre Current events
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D'Aveyro

D'Aveyro
Title D'Aveyro PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 258
Release 1803
Genre
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Eccentric Neighborhoods

Eccentric Neighborhoods
Title Eccentric Neighborhoods PDF eBook
Author Rosario Ferré
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 366
Release 1998-02-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780374146382

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Eccentric Neighborhoods is a an attempt to lay bare the psychological conflicts that determine the relationships between mothers and daughters and the story of Puerto Rico's transformation, from the beginning of the century, into a spearhead of the Caribbean.