Author: J Robert Mondt
Publisher: SAE International
ISBN: 0768002222
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book chronicles a 35-year success story - the technology that was developed and the progress that was made to achieve the goal of reducing air pollution from automobiles. "Air pollution from automobiles as of the year 2000 will have been lowered to levels less than 5% of those for pre-control era vehicles," writes author J. Robert Mondt, who spent over 30 years working on the development of emission control systems for automobiles. Mondt covers both the technological and political aspects of this effort, from the early environmental concerns in California to the Clean Air Acts of the 1960s to the introduction of catalytic converters in 1975. He also covers the revised Clean Air Acts of the 1960s to the introduction of catalytic converters in 1975.
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies
Author: Kristin Ross
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262680912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts—automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism—as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses. In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities (revolutionary, corporate, and structural) become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France. Modernization ideology, Ross argues, offered the promise of limitless, even timeless, development. By situating the rise of "end of history" ideologies within the context of France's transition into mass culture and consumption, Ross returns the touted timelessness of modernization to history. She shows how the realist fiction and film of the period, as well as the work of social theorists such as Barthes, Lefebvre, and Morin who began at the time to conceptualize "everyday life," laid bare the disruptions and the social costs of events. And she argues that the logic of the racism prevalent in France today, focused on the figure of the immigrant worker, is itself the outcome of the French state's embrace of capitalist modernization ideology in the 1950s and 1960s.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262680912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts—automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, film, popular fiction, even structuralism—as well as in the practices that shape, determine, and delimit their uses. In each of the book's four chapters, a central object of mythical image is refracted across a range of discursive and material spaces: social and private, textual and cinematic, national and international. The automobile, the new cult of cleanliness in the capital and the colonies, the waning of Sartre and de Beauvoir as the couple of national attention, and the emergence of reshaped, functionalist masculinities (revolutionary, corporate, and structural) become the key elements in this prehistory of postmodernism in France. Modernization ideology, Ross argues, offered the promise of limitless, even timeless, development. By situating the rise of "end of history" ideologies within the context of France's transition into mass culture and consumption, Ross returns the touted timelessness of modernization to history. She shows how the realist fiction and film of the period, as well as the work of social theorists such as Barthes, Lefebvre, and Morin who began at the time to conceptualize "everyday life," laid bare the disruptions and the social costs of events. And she argues that the logic of the racism prevalent in France today, focused on the figure of the immigrant worker, is itself the outcome of the French state's embrace of capitalist modernization ideology in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cleaner Cars
Author: J Robert Mondt
Publisher: SAE International
ISBN: 0768002222
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book chronicles a 35-year success story - the technology that was developed and the progress that was made to achieve the goal of reducing air pollution from automobiles. "Air pollution from automobiles as of the year 2000 will have been lowered to levels less than 5% of those for pre-control era vehicles," writes author J. Robert Mondt, who spent over 30 years working on the development of emission control systems for automobiles. Mondt covers both the technological and political aspects of this effort, from the early environmental concerns in California to the Clean Air Acts of the 1960s to the introduction of catalytic converters in 1975. He also covers the revised Clean Air Acts of the 1960s to the introduction of catalytic converters in 1975.
Publisher: SAE International
ISBN: 0768002222
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book chronicles a 35-year success story - the technology that was developed and the progress that was made to achieve the goal of reducing air pollution from automobiles. "Air pollution from automobiles as of the year 2000 will have been lowered to levels less than 5% of those for pre-control era vehicles," writes author J. Robert Mondt, who spent over 30 years working on the development of emission control systems for automobiles. Mondt covers both the technological and political aspects of this effort, from the early environmental concerns in California to the Clean Air Acts of the 1960s to the introduction of catalytic converters in 1975. He also covers the revised Clean Air Acts of the 1960s to the introduction of catalytic converters in 1975.
Cleaner Cars Fleet Renewal and Scrappage Schemes
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9789264180277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This publication analyses the effectiveness of fleet renewal and scrappage schemes in protecting the environment and reviews the schemes introduced to date in Europe and North America.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9789264180277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
This publication analyses the effectiveness of fleet renewal and scrappage schemes in protecting the environment and reviews the schemes introduced to date in Europe and North America.
Can Cars Come Clean? Strategies for Low-Emission Vehicles
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264104976
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This report identifies policy options and makes recommendations on market-oriented actions to promote the purchase of the most environmentally friendly vehicles.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264104976
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This report identifies policy options and makes recommendations on market-oriented actions to promote the purchase of the most environmentally friendly vehicles.
Disney Pixar Cars 3 Wipe-Clean Activity Book
Author: Parragon Books Ltd
Publisher: Parragon
ISBN: 9781474898515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Complete the puzzles and activities then wipe and write again with Disney Pixar Cars 3 Wipe-Clean Activity Book.
Publisher: Parragon
ISBN: 9781474898515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Complete the puzzles and activities then wipe and write again with Disney Pixar Cars 3 Wipe-Clean Activity Book.
Forward Drive
Author: Jim Motavalli
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136534105
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This comprehensive account of the past, present and future of the automobile examines the key trends, key technologies and key players involved in the race to develop clean, environmentally friendly vehicles that are affordable and that do not compromise on safety or design. Undertaking a rigorous interrogation of our global dependency on oil, the author demonstrates just how unwise and unnecessary this is in light of current developments such as the fuel cell revolution and the increasing viability of hybrid cars, which use both petrol and electricity - innovations that could signal a new era of clean, sustainable energy. The arguments put forward draw on support from an eclectic range of sources - including industry insiders, scientists, economists and environmentalists - to make for an enlightening read.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136534105
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This comprehensive account of the past, present and future of the automobile examines the key trends, key technologies and key players involved in the race to develop clean, environmentally friendly vehicles that are affordable and that do not compromise on safety or design. Undertaking a rigorous interrogation of our global dependency on oil, the author demonstrates just how unwise and unnecessary this is in light of current developments such as the fuel cell revolution and the increasing viability of hybrid cars, which use both petrol and electricity - innovations that could signal a new era of clean, sustainable energy. The arguments put forward draw on support from an eclectic range of sources - including industry insiders, scientists, economists and environmentalists - to make for an enlightening read.
Railway Master Mechanic
Clean Air Act Oversight (field Hearings): ... July 8, 9, 1981
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Automotive Detailing
Author: Don Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781557882882
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Fully illustrated sections include how to detail for show competition, the latest in detailing technology, products and equipment, setting up an auto detailing business, and more.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781557882882
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Fully illustrated sections include how to detail for show competition, the latest in detailing technology, products and equipment, setting up an auto detailing business, and more.
Public Health Papers and Reports
Author: American Public Health Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description