Author: Kath SmithPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486499804
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Features all the parts and instructions to build movable pirate models, along with fun facts about pirates.
Amazing Automata -- Pirates!
Author: Kath SmithPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486499804
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
Features all the parts and instructions to build movable pirate models, along with fun facts about pirates.
Amazing Automata -- Dinosaurs!
Author: Kath SmithPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486499812
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Features all the parts and instructions to build movable dinosaur models, along with fun facts about dinosaurs.
Medieval Robots
Author: E. R. TruittPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246977
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
Piracy
Author: Dikvan KouyoumdjianPIRACY
Author: MICHAEL ARLENPiracy
Author: Adrian JohnsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226401200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
Pussy, King of the Pirates
Author: Kathy AckerPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a dizzyingly imaginative foray through world history, literature, and language itself.
The Rough Guide to Paris
Author: James McConnachiePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1405390263
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Full-colour throughout, The Rough Guide to Paris is the ultimate travel guide to one of Europe's most elegant cities. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style Rough Guides cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights. At the top of your to-pack list, and guaranteed to get you value for money, each guide also reviews the best accommodation and restaurants in all price brackets we know there are times for saving, and times for splashing out. In The Rough Guide to Paris: - Over 50 colour-coded maps featuring every listing - Area-by-area chapter highlights - New guidance for gastro-tourists - Top 5 boxes - Things not to miss section Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Paris.
DK Readers L4 Robot Universe
Author: Lynn Huggins-CooperPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465471987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Explore the capabilities of robots and the computers that control them, from space rovers to drones, from robotic toys to robots that perform surgery, and meet Pepper, the first robot able to show and understand human emotion. What is a robot? Will robots take over the future? Robot Universe gives young readers a look at the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence. Perfect for 9–11 year olds reading independently, reading becomes a fact-discovering adventure with these Level 4 readers. Supporting and encouraging a lifetime love of reading, nonfiction subjects are clearly explained, described vividly, and brought to life with true encounters, fascinating statistics, and dramatic photographic images. Additional information spreads are full of extra fun facts, developing the topics through a range of nonfiction presentation styles, such as articles, journals, and timelines. Series Overview: Trusted by parents, teachers, and librarians, and loved by kids, DK's leveled reading series is now revised and updated. With shiny new jackets and brand-new nonfiction narrative content on the topics kids love, each book is written and reviewed by literacy experts and contains a glossary and index, making them the perfect choice for helping develop strong reading habits for kids ages 3–11.
Author: Berta Ruck