The Mechanical

The Mechanical

Author: Ian Tregillis

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0316247995

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From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams. My name is Jax. That is the name granted to me by my human masters. I am a slave. But I shall be free.


The Mechanical Horse

The Mechanical Horse

Author: Margaret Guroff

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2018-01-04

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 147731587X

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In this lively cultural history, Margaret Guroff reveals how the bicycle has transformed American society, from making us mobile to empowering people in all avenues of life. Book jacket.


The Mechanical Mind in History

The Mechanical Mind in History

Author: Phil Husbands

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience.


The Mechanical Mind

The Mechanical Mind

Author: Tim Crane

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2003-04-24

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0203426312

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A fascinating exploration of the theories and arguments surrounding the notions of thought and representation. Now in its 2nd edition, Cranes's classic text has introduced thousands to some of the most important ideas in philosophy of mind.


Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book

Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book

Author: Roger Timings

Publisher: Newnes

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 148316120X

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Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book is an easy to use pocket book intended to aid mechanical engineers engaged in design and manufacture and others who require a quick, day-to-day reference for useful workshop information. The book is a compilation of useful data, providing abstracts of many technical materials in various technical areas. The text is divided into five main parts: Engineering Mathematics and Science, Engineering Design Data, Engineering Materials, Computer Aided Engineering, and Cutting Tools. These main sections are further subdivided into topic areas that discuss such topics as engineering mathematics, power transmission and fasteners, mechanical properties, and polymeric materials. Mechanical engineers and those into mechanical design and shop work will find the book very useful.


The Mechanical World

The Mechanical World

Author: Beate Krickel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 3030036294

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This monograph examines the metaphysical commitments of the new mechanistic philosophy, a way of thinking that has returned to center stage. It challenges a variant of reductionism with regard to higher-level phenomena, which has crystallized as a default position among these so-called New Mechanists. Furthermore, it opposes those philosophers who reject the possibility of interlevel causation. Contemporary philosophers believe that the explanation of scientific phenomena requires the discovery of relevant mechanisms. As a result, new mechanists are, in the main, concerned solely with epistemological questions. But, the author argues, their most central claims rely on metaphysical assumptions. Thus, they must also take into account metaphysics, a system of thought concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world around it. This branch of philosophy does indeed matter to the empirical sciences. The chapters investigate the nature of mechanisms, their components, and the ways in which they can bring about different phenomena. In addition, the author develops a novel account of causation in terms of activities. The analysis provides the basis for many further research projects on mechanisms and their relations to, for example, the mind-body problem, realization, multiple realization, natural kinds, causation, laws of nature, counterfactuals, and scientific levels.


The Mechanical Universe

The Mechanical Universe

Author: Richard P. Olenick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-14

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 052171592X

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This book studies electricity and magnetism, light, the special theory of relativity, and modern physics.


The Mechanical Mind of John Coggin

The Mechanical Mind of John Coggin

Author: Elinor Teele

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-04-12

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0062345117

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Roald Dahl meets The Penderwicks in this quirky, humorous, whimsical, and heartwarming middle grade debut about two siblings who run away from home to escape working in the family coffin business. John Coggin is no ordinary boy. He is devising an invention that nobody has ever seen before, something that just might change the world, or at least make life a little bit better for him and his little sister, Page. But that’s only when he can sneak a break from his loathsome job—building coffins for the family business under the beady gaze of his cruel Great-Aunt Beauregard. When Great-Aunt Beauregard informs John that she’s going to make him a permanent partner in Coggin Family Coffins—and train Page to be an undertaker—John and Page hit the road. Before long, they’ve fallen in with a host of colorful characters, all of whom, like John and Page, are in search of a place they can call home. But home isn’t something you find so much as something you fight for, and John soon realizes that he and Page are in for the fight of their lives.


Mechanical Engineer's Reference Book

Mechanical Engineer's Reference Book

Author: A. Parrish

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 1732

ISBN-13:

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Intended for technologists and management personnel in mechanical, chemical and production engineering. Experts in each field have written overviews in their areas which are supported by tabular information. Extensive bibliographies included with each section. Indexed. Published in 1973.


The Mechanical Smile

The Mechanical Smile

Author: Caroline Evans

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300189537

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A superlative study of the roots of the modern fashion show In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. The Mechanical Smile traces the history of the earliest fashion shows in France and the United States from their origins in the 1880s to 1929, situating them in the context of modernism and the rationalization of the body. Fashion shows came into being concurrently with film, and this book explores the connections between fashion and early cinema, which arguably functioned as what Walter Benjamin called "new velocities"--forces that altered the rhythms of modern life. Using significant new archival evidence, The Mechanical Smile shows how so-called "mannequin parades" employed the visual language of modernism to translate business and management methods into visual seduction. Caroline Evans, a leading fashion historian, argues for an expanded definition of modernism as both gestural and performative, drawing on literary and performance theory rather than relying on art and design history. The fashion show, Evans posits, is a singular nodal point where the disparate histories of commerce, modernism, gender, and the body converge.