Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Report on the Far East
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
The Millionaires' Magician
Author: Steve CohenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732361300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Environment, Health, and Safety
Author: Lari A. BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Philip Guston Retrospective
Author: Philip GustonDilbert and the Way of the Weasel
Author: Scott AdamsPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006052149X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Back after a four–year hiatus, New York Times bestselling author Scott Adams presents an outrageous look at work, home and everyday life in his new book, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel. Building on Dilbert's theory that 'All people are idiots', Adams now says, 'All people are idiots. And they are also weasels.' Just ask anyone who worked at Enron. In this book, Adams takes a look into the Weasel Zone, the giant grey area between good moral behaviour and outright felonious activities. In the Weasel Zone, where most people reside, everything is misleading, but not exactly a lie. Building on his popular comic strip, Adams looks into work, home and everyday life and exposes the way of the weasel for everyone to see. With appearances from all the regular comic strip characters, Adams and Dilbert are at the top of their game – master satirists who expose the truth while making us laugh our heads off.
Reliability of Power Electronic Converter Systems
Author: Henry Shu-hung ChungPublisher: IET
ISBN: 1849199019
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The main aims of power electronic converter systems (PECS) are to control, convert, and condition electrical power flow from one form to another through the use of solid state electronics. This book outlines current research into the scientific modeling, experimentation, and remedial measures for advancing the reliability, availability, system robustness, and maintainability of PECS at different levels of complexity.
This Flying Game
Author: Henry Harley ArnoldPublisher: New York and London : Funk & Wagnalls
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hallelujah Trombone!
Author: Paul E. BierleyPublisher: Grupo Editorial Norma
ISBN: 9780825849664
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Power System Control and Protection
Author: B. Don RussellPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0323157009
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Power System Control and Protection focuses on the control and protection of power systems to ensure a secure and reliable supply as the society depends greatly on electric energy. This book examines the problems surrounding the generation, transmission, distribution, and utilization of electricity. Comprised of 10 chapters, this book starts with an overview of the functional and environmental requirements for the intelligent remote terminal in which much of the logic linked with each function has been programmed and is executed in a digital processor. This text then examines the objectives, functions, and elements of the control center design. Other chapters consider the operating characteristics and configuration of the system components of an audio-frequency power line carrier load management system. This book discusses as well the concept of transmission line relaying by digital computer. The final chapter deals with the large-scale utilization of wind energy. Power systems engineers will find this book useful.