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Un emocionante viaje por las marcas y los modelos más legendarios del mundoDescubre la apasionante y emocionante historia de la motocicleta, desde los primeros motores hasta las deslumbrantes superbikes actuales.Este libro, que recorre la historia y el encanto de la motocicleta, ilustra su diversa gama, desde los primeros prototipos hasta las motos electricas de la era moderna.Las sencillas scooters ofrecen movilidad al gran publico, las scrambler son versatiles, las de carreras deslumbran a los seguidores y las cruisers pueden recorrer largas distancias.El libro de la motocicleta narra las fascinantes historias detras de los principales fabricantes del mundo, el papel de sus influyentes diseñadores e ingenieros y los modelos mas celebres. Tambien explora el contexto cultural en el que surgieron los distintos modelos y su impacto en la sociedad: como objetos de curiosidad, medios de transporte asequibles o simbolos de rebelion.Completamente actualizado para incluir los modelos mas recientes de todo el mundo y las innovaciones de vanguardia, este libro presenta mas de 1000 maquinas imprescindibles, desde Ace hasta Zundapp.El libro definitivo para los aficionados al motociclismo en todas sus vertientes.

For centuries it was far more efficient to move goods by water than by road. The end of the 18th century saw 2,000 miles of canal built in Britain: the Canal Age had begun.Constructing the canals consisted of a great deal of hard work and manual labour, headlines by individual names but mostly done by tens of thousands of men across Britain called navvies. Initially much like carting on roads, boating on canals grew as canal systems expanded across the country, but still required long hours, hard work and specific skills.This detailed and informative guide tells the story of the boats and their workers. From the professional leggers who walked boats through tunnels to lock keepers to canal children running ahead of the boats, original photographs and artefacts such as tug tickets and timetables show what life was like on the canal.A classic Pitkin guide to immerse readers in the world of canals in Britain, including a list of museums and heritage centres to provide further insight into the history of the canal network.

A story of Silicon Valley dreams and hubrisand the gap between so-called visionary thinking and its effects on our lives.The Time Lords tells the story of how Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and a secretive group of San Francisco tech founders have committed over two decades and $42 million building a monumental clock designed to tick for 10,000 years hidden in a Texas mountain.The Clock of the Long Now, as it is called, was conceived in the 1990s, a time of utopian hopes about the power of the emerging internet, excitement about the wealth creation it promised, and anxieties about the frenetic pace and unknown effects of this major technological shift. Amongst the tech and cultural visionaries who conceived of it and began to work to make it a reality-- Danny Hillis, Stewart Brand, and Jeff Bezos prominently among them--it was meant to inspire long-term global problem solving, thinking and action that would affect the long term trajectory of human civilization itself.Meanwhile, the tech world that produced Bezos and the clock began driving unprecedented economic inequality and gentrification, while spreading online hate and conspiracies. And despite his multi-billion dollar climate philanthropies, Bezos came to hold an equally grim vision of Earth as a tapped-out planet in need of a space frontier for human life to continue.Against this backdrop, a clock designed to give long-term hope seemed like a cruel joke. The billionaire behind it funded climate work while working with fossil fuel companies and trying to escape the Earth. He pushed the long-term view, while grinding workers to the bone to keep up with warehouse robots. The Time Lords takes readers from the counter-culture infused origins of Silicon Valley culture, to the workshops of San Francisco and to Bezoss Texas ranch, using the tale of the clock to expose the glaring contradictions within both Silicon Valleys attempts to save the world and capitalism itself.

Fernando Alonso is one of the best drivers to ever drive in Formula One; a double World Championship winner, he is admired and loved by millions. Here he tells his incredible journey to motorsport superstardom for the first time.Fernando Alonso: Two-time Formula 1 world champion. Three-time Formula 1 runner-up. World Endurance Champion. Winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona. Participant in the Dakar Rally, the most prestigious of its kind in the world. The youngest racer to achieve pole position and a Grand Prix win. A fighter whose life is a tale of constant overcoming, a succession of challenges that demanded a steady hand behind the wheel.But what is the man like behind this consummate driver, this absolute master of speed, champion of endurance trials and rallies? Who is the real Fernando Alonso? Written amid asphalt, dunes, obstacles, and ever-higher goals, Fernandos first and only autobiography, Racer, is a journey through reflections on his life, his world, his dreams, and everything that really matters to him in ways he never has before. At its heart this is a story about a young boy from Spain who lit up the go-kart circuits precociously and worked hard all his life to become a champion like none other. A career that spans racing against Schumacher to Hamilton, a life on the track like no other, this is the ultimate F1 autobiography by the ultimate F1 racer.

How systems thinking underpinned some of the most significant cultural activity between the mid-1960s and early 1980s in the Americas and Europe.Arts of Control argues that much of the new artistic, critical, and curatorial activity between the mid-1960s and early 1980s was propelled by a fascination with the Cold War sciences of control. Christopher Williams-Wynn reveals the breadth, depth, and variation of cultural encounters with the sciences of controlshorthand for the related disciplines of cybernetics, systems theory, and information theorythat underwrote a widespread turn to systems thinking across institutions and disciplines, from biology to economics. Defining the arts of control as those forms of practice that internalized the metaphors, methods, and models of systems thinking, this book shows that the central problem was the very way in which connections themselves were framed and understood.Drawing on original archival research conducted in six countries, the book is structured around four key concepts from systems theoryboundaries, environments, relations, and elementsand focuses on Argentina, East Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Williams-Wynn closely examines work by Jack Burnham, Stephen Willats, Luis Benedit, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, and others. Working at different scales, each chapter reveals how these artists and critics mobilized systems thinking to reflect on political, technological, and social shifts via a range of media, from prints and sculptures to participatory projects and mail art.

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All aboard for the most gripping cosy mystery of the year. Eight passengers board the train. Will any of them survive the journey?When ex-detective Midge McGowan embarks on a sleeper train to Scotland, shes hoping for a nice relaxing trip to enjoy the snowy highlands. Instead, the journey quickly turns into a nightmare.The train has a haunted history, as multiple witnesses have claimed to see a shadowy figure jumping out of the last carriage, before reappearing on board and repeating the loop.. One of the passengers is a mysterious prisoner on release from jail, who wont speak to anyone and remains locked in his cabin, with a guard posted on the door. And then the lights go out, the train stops, and someone turns up dead.Their body is found inside a locked carriage with no way in or out so how was the crime committed? Is this really the work of a ghost? Or has one of the guests just pulled off the perfect murder? The only thing Midge knows for sure is that not all of them will reach their destination alive...Readers love Emma Mason:One of the best books I have read in yearsFIVE-STAR READER REVIEWMidge is my heroFIVE-STAR READER REVIEWPerfect reading for a wet and windy afternoon. FIVE-STAR READER REVIEWI read this in two days ... I was hooked! FIVE-STAR READER REVIEWUtterly brilliant!FIVE-STAR READER REVIEWA masterclassFIVE-STAR READER REVIEWLoved this book from start to finish FIVE-STAR READER REVIEW

The origins of the modern peer review system at both scientific journals and funding bodiesand how young peer review as a practice actually is.In Referees We Trust? investigates the origins of the peer review system, a system that is often considered the essential mechanism that protects the trustworthiness of scientific research. Melinda Baldwin traces the first refereeing systems to journals affiliated with scientific societies in the early nineteenth century and follows refereeing as it spread from Britain to the United States. She finds that the refereeing system was not immediately embraced by all scientific journals; many institutions deliberately eschewed refereeing and were not seen as less reliable because of that choice.The book shows that the modern link between peer review and scientific legitimacy was forged during the Cold War, as legislators and other government stakeholders began to question the need for scientists advice on how to award federal grant money. Scientists argued that if grant money was awarded without their expert opinionsin other words, without review by a grant applicants scientific peersthe US government would be violating a core principle of science itself. That argument was so successful that the idea of peer review as a cornerstone of science took hold and spread, elevating peer review from an optional process to a system intended to ensure the quality and trustworthiness of all of science.

Un livre indispensable pour maîtriser tous les aspects de lélectronique moderneCe livre de près de 900 pages va vous faire plonger au cœur des circuits, résistances et autres réducteurs dune manière

How the human voice must be understood, framed, and transformed to fit the conceptual formats required for artificial intelligence.What does it mean to know a voice, and how is that knowledge troubled through attempts to measure, analyze, and generate it? In Machine Voices, Edward Kang explores the sonic beliefs and practices that orbit voice AI technologies. He resists the paralysis of the increasingly ambiguous term artificial intelligence and examines it as a cultural hypothesis of human capability. Similar to how computer vision models inherit a limited belief of how humans see, or how LLMs employ a narrow proposition about what language is, voice AI systems invoke a thesis of how humans listen and speak.Kang offers the machine voice as a critical frame for understanding how the human voice is made commensurate with the mechanical formats required for artificial intelligence. In so doing, Kang not only presents new analytical frames to understand voice AI technologies and the economic, social, and cultural forces underlying their construction, but also pushes the boundaries of voice and listening in ways with which we have not yet contended.

Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of the airplane, are the heroes of this 40th biography in the New York Times bestselling picture book series, for ages 5 to 9.Orville and Wilbur Wright always loved figuring out how things work, and from the day they received a toy wind-up helicopter as kids, they were especially focused on solving the puzzle of flight. Eventually that curiosity, combined with lots of hard work, led to an invention that changed the world: In 1903, the Wright Brothers created the worlds very first successful airplane.This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big.Included in each book are: A timeline of key events in the heros history Photos that bring the story more fully to life Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable Childhood moments that influenced the heroes Facts that make great conversation-starters A virtue these heroes embody: This book highlights the Wright Brothers determination and perseverance. Youll want to collect each book in this dynamic, informative series!

How the turmoil of revolution and war created the London we know today the worlds first truly global city.The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars changed London beyond recognition, turning it into the capital of the world the focal point of international finance and trade. Victory over France in 1815 ushered in the British Century: the next hundred years would be defined by Britains capitalist innovation and financial might, naval supremacy and imperial ambition.In this brilliant portrait of these pivotal years, Jerry White looks at how revolution and war on the Continent transformed the capital. While the manufacture of war materials brought wealth for some, high food prices led to bread riots. The war divided public opinion, with ultra-patriots clamouring for the defeat of Bony, while others sought to emulate the democratic reforms pioneered across the Channel. Crucially, the chaos and uncertainty on the Continent led to a mass flight of foreign bankers and merchants to London, which would help turn London into the worlds leading financial centre -- contemporaries called it The Modern Rome.Yet Birth of a Global City takes in the wider world too. Who was feeding London, in the British Isles and across the empire? How instrumental was Britains financial might in victory over France? What impact did the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 have on London, Britain and its empire? And how dangerous were the political ideas coming from the Continent? It was this turbulent period of war and political turmoil that created London as we know it today.

Two original essays scrutinize the use of acoustic camouflage and the outer limits of unsound.In Phantom Lure Angus Carlyle explores the ways in which the frequency spectrum can become a site for disguise and deception. Acoustic camouflage is deployed in the concrete curves of sound mirrors, military battlefield sensors, and snipers sonic concealment tactics, but also in the silent steps of the hunter and the mimicry of duck calls, antler rattles, and fox flutes.This trail of decoys leads us into forensic acoustic analysis, electronic voice phenomena, and music encrypted with secret signalsfrom Metal Gear Solid to "Windowlicker," from moths thoraxes to horror-film whispers, from Silent Escape to Turing tests and vocoders.In Notes on the Third Ear Steve Goodman plunges further into the thresholds of audibility and the Janus-faced instrumentalization of vibration involved in sonic warfare. Taking cues from the lore surrounding Nguyn Vn Phong, an elusive Vietnamese bio-acoustician alleged to have influenced several US psyops campaigns, and folding in the friction and fabulations of his own experiences as an artist, Goodman charts the outskirts of aurality with an inventory of the tones, booms, blasts, bleeps, roars, hisses, and purrs that populate the liminal space between art and war, attack and defense, destruction and healing, detection and deception, aggression and seduction, fear and delight, signal and camouflage, the ferocious and the cute. In an era marked by the auricular multiplication of machine listening, three ears is the absolute minimum.An Urbanomic K-Pulp Switch: singular texts by two different authors in a classic pulp format.

At the outbreak of World War Two, the Bank of England was shipping gold to America to purchase arms and munitions. In June 1940, RMS Niagara was secretly carrying 8 tons of British gold when it hit a German mine and sank off New Zealand. The Royal Navy declared salvage was impossible because the water was too deep, so the desperate Bank of England offered the job to a retired sea captain, John Williams. Within weeks, Williams hired a deep-sea diver, built an experimental diving bell, employed a team of misfits, and refloated a rusting hulk to use as a salvage ship. Then, against orders, Williams sailed into the minefield to search for the sunken liner.Over the coming months, the crew battled bureaucracy, storms, German mines, and each other, as they dove to record depths. But the closer they got to the gold, the more they realised they would be betrayed by the people who sent them on their mission. With exclusive access to diaries, reports, logbooks, correspondence and interviews, Jeff Maynard tells a story of underdogs overcoming insurmountable odds, and the people of a small coastal community who welcomed them, revealing the truth behind one of the most incredible adventures of the Second World War.

Produced between 1999 and 2004 in Modena coupé, Spider convertible and Challenge Stradale form, the Ferrari 360 marked a turning point for the brand. With its aluminium-spaceframe chassis and curvaceous new styling, it set the blueprint for two decades of Ferrari design and engineering.Offering improved ergonomics and everyday usability without sacrificing performance, the 360 remains one of the most accessible and desirable Ferraris, praised for its balance of practicality, power, and presence. Launched in 1999 with the elegant 360 Modena coupe, the Ferrari 360 marked a bold new chapter in Maranellos history. It was soon joined by the convertible 360 Spider and the lightweight, track-focused Challenge Stradale each a masterclass in performance and design. In true Ferrari fashion, competition versions of the 360 were also produced, both for the exclusive Ferrari Challenge series and for top-level national and international GT racing. Although the 360 followed a proud tradition of mid-engined, V8-powered, two-seat Ferraris, its all-aluminium chassis and curvaceous Pininfarina styling signalled a shift toward the future one that combined breathtaking performance with an accessible driving experience. By the end of production in 2004, over 17,000 had been built the highest production volume for any Ferrari up to that point. More than just a performance icon, the 360 introduced a new ethos: to offer Ferraris that were more accessible to a wider range of customers, with improved interior space, ergonomics and drivability. Today, it has become a favourite among both first-time Ferrari buyers and seasoned collectors, known for its relative affordability, stunning performance, reliability and distinctive character.

On the emergence, embodiment, and mediation of voice as skin.How do we build or make a voice together? Can we imagine the voices we make in the form of a skin, a multi-sensory interface that behaves both as a boundary and as a point of connection? What does such a voice capacitate in times of crises and uncertainties? In Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin, Zeynep Bulut explores these questions. She examines the multi-sensory and collective forms of voice making in experimental music, sound and media art in conversation with the use of voice in creative interventions for environmental crisis, experiences of voice hearing, and digital technologies of artificial and tactile speech. Through this conversation, she points to two key terms: plasticity of voice, and non-dialogue. Plasticity of voice indicates both malleable and resistant aspects of voice. Non-dialogue refers to cross-sensory, non-dyadic, and distributed modes of interaction across both humans and nonhumans. The plasticity of voice and the non-dialogue, Bulut argues, encourage us to think about voice in the form of a skin, a surface that both connects and differentiates, without being limited to human body or labels of verbal language. Voice-as-skin, in effect, prompts us to reflect on both individual and collective, concrete and emergent, and uncertain and shared aspects of voice and speech, as well as to pace and revisit our conceptions of communication, intersubjectivity, connectivity, understanding and empathy.

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Disney and Pixars Cars with a surprise party in Radiator Springs!Return to Radiator Springs for an all-new adventure just in time for the 20th anniversary of the original Cars film! This full-color, paperback storybook is sure to delight fans of all ages as Mater, Sally, Cruz, and their friends throw a surprise party to celebrate their favorite racer on the first annual Lightning McQueen Day.

In this inspiring memoir, a Black woman pilot leading the way for other aviatrixes shares her journey of fulfilling a lifelong dream to flyand how she rediscovered her passion in the face of tragedy and adversity.Before being cleared for takeoff, Captain Nia Gilliam witnesses the World Trade Center attacks from the co-pilots seat on the runway of Newark Airport. Struggling with the harrowing sights unfolding before her, she finds the composure to take off as smoke billows from the Twin Towers. In a moment that changed everything, for her and the world, Gilliams dedication to the skies is forever shaken and she resolves to never fly again.Now, Gilliam traces her path to the pilots seat, from the moment her mother showed her an article of Black aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman to the day she ditched school to pay her respects at the funeral of Janet Harmon Bragg, the first Black woman to earn a commercial pilots license, where she ultimately met her future mentor. Alongside the grit and determination to work towards her dream, Gilliam captures the challenges, both personal and societal, and triumphs of earning her spot in the pilots seat. But just as Gilliams life begins to soar, the aftermath of 9/11 thrusts her into a moment of unforeseen decisions. As she finds the fortitude to stand strong after a national tragedy, she confronts bias as the first pregnant pilot at her airline, fights to overcome postpartum depression, and navigates a career transition that would take her away from the life shed worked so hard for.Cleared for Takeoff is a deeply affecting story, tracing Gilliams roots to navigating a male-dominated industry and illuminating one womans unwavering faith in herself.

The perfect book for motor enthusiasts, thrill seekers and anyone who loves a good yarn.Fear and I started our long relationship at a very early age, and every time we met, I think we worked together to thicken my skin a little.As a veteran of the famous (some would say infamous) Targa Rally in Tasmania, Philip Blake has had plenty of brushes with death, but even the bravest and most foolhardy of rev heads would be shocked by his record.In short, Philip Blake should not be alive. He has fallen off a mountain, been blown out of bed by an IRA bomb, survived an armed robbery and had far too many close shaves on the road and thats before you even get to the Targa.In this wickedly funny book, this master storyteller races through a life overflowing with thrills.