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Electrical wiring and circuitry can be a very exacting undertaking, with the great potential for negative results occurring if a circuit's connections are off by even one space. A circuit analysis guide provides a breakdown of every possible symbol and mechanism within a circuit diagram in order to educate electricians, engineers, and so on, about the proper ways to align a circuit and what common symbols to pay extra focus upon. Studying it and class texts should lead to excellence.

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Take a step back into the world of steam railways, and discover the reality of life and work on Britain's railway system before the Beeching cuts and the introduction of diesel changed it forever. Tom Quinn has sought out a fascinating range of characters who recount their experiences of working on steam trains. From a shedmaster to a fireman, from an engine driver to a signalman, tales of accidents and mishaps, evenings round the fire in the worker's common room and the perils of left luggage in the days when almost anything might – and frequently did – turn up! Remarkable reminiscences about life on the old railways when Britain's railway system was the envy of the world.

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In <I>Cartoon Vision</I> Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara considers animation akin to a laboratory, exploring new models of vision and space alongside theorists and practitioners in other fields. The links&mdash;theoretical, historical, and aesthetic&mdash;between animators, architects, designers, artists, and filmmakers reveal a specific midcentury modernism that rigorously reimagined the senses. <I>Cartoon Vision </I>invokes the American Bauhaus legacy of L&aacute;szl&oacute; Moholy-Nagy and Gy&ouml;rgy Kepes and advocates for animation&rsquo;s pivotal role in a utopian design project of retraining the public&rsquo;s vision to better apprehend a rapidly changing modern world.

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Electricity is an integral part of everyday life&mdash;so integral that we rarely think of it as political. In&#160;<I>Electrical Palestine</I>, Fredrik Meiton illustrates how political power, just like electrical power, moves through physical materials whose properties govern its flow. At the dawn of the Arab-Israeli conflict, both kinds of power were circulated through the electric grid that was built by the Zionist engineer Pinhas Rutenberg in the period of British rule from 1917 to 1948. Drawing on new sources in Arabic, Hebrew, and several European languages, <I>Electrical Palestine</I> charts a story of rapid and uneven development that was greatly influenced by the electric grid and set the stage for the conflict between Arabs and Jews. Electrification, Meiton shows, was a critical element of Zionist state building. The outcome in 1948, therefore, of Jewish statehood and Palestinian statelessness was the result of a logic that was profoundly conditioned by the power system, a logic that has continued to shape the area until today.

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Christopher Neves classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? Painting, says Neve, is a process of finding out, and landscape can be its thesis. What he is writing is not precisely art history: it is about pictures, about landscape and about thought. Over the years, he was able to have discussions with many of the thirty or so artists he focuses on, the inspiration for the book having come from his talks with Ben Nicholson; and he has immersed himself in their work, their countryside, their ideas. Because he is a painter himself, and an expert on 20th-century art, Neve is well equipped for such a journey. Few writers have conveyed more vividly the mixture of motives, emotions, unconscious forces and contradictions which culminate in the creative act of painting. <br/> <br/> Each of the thirteen chapters has a theme and explores its significance for one or more of the artists. The problem of time, for instance, is considered in relation to Paul Nash, God in relation to David Jones, music to Ivon Hitchens, hysteria to Edward Burra, abstraction to Ben Nicholson, the spirit in the mass to David Bomberg. There are also chapters about painters ideas on specific types of country: about Eric Ravilious and the chalk landscape, Joan Eardley and the sea, and Cedric Morris and the garden.

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From Francis Alÿs and Ursula Biemann to Vivan Sundaram, Allora & Calzadilla, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, some of the most compelling artists today are engaging with the politics of land use, including the growth of the global economy, climate change, sustainability, Occupy movements, and the privatization of public space. Their work pivots around a set of evolving questions: In what ways is land, formed over the course of geological time, also contemporary and formed by the conditions of the present? How might art contribute to the expansion of spatial and environmental justice? Editors Emily Eliza Scott and Kirsten Swenson bring together a range of international voices and artworks to illuminate this critical mass of practices. One of the first comprehensive treatments of land use in contemporary art, <I>Critical Landscapes</I> skillfully surveys the stakes and concerns of recent land-based practices, outlining the art historical contexts, methodological strategies, and geopolitical phenomena. This cross-disciplinary collection is destined to be an essential reference not only within the fields of art and art history, but also across those of cultural geography, architecture and urban planning, environmental history, and landscape studies.

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From the 1940s to the 1970s, the phonograph industry experienced phenomenal growth, both in sales and in cultural influence. Along with hugely popular music recordings, spoken word LPs served a multitude of functions and assumed an important place in the American home. In this book, Jacob Smith surveys a diverse range of spoken word genres—including readings of classic works of literature and drama, comedy albums, children’s records, home therapy kits, even erotica—to illuminate this often overlooked aspect of the postwar entertainment industry and American culture. A viable alternative to mainstream broadcasting, records gave their listeners control over what they could hear at home. Smith shows how the savvy industry used spoken word records to develop markets for children, African Americans, women, and others not well served by radio and television.

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This is the first book to take us inside Youth Radio for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a unique, Peabody Award-winning organization that produces distinctive content for outlets from National Public Radio to YouTube. Young people come to Youth Radio, headquartered in Oakland, California, from under-resourced public schools and neighborhoods in order to produce media that will transform both their own lives and the world around them.<i> Drop That Knowledge </i>weaves their compelling personal stories into a fresh framework for understanding the relationship between media, learning, and youth culture at a moment when all three spheres are undergoing dramatic change. The book emphasizes what is innovative and exciting in youth culture and offers concrete strategies for engaging and collaborating with diverse groups of young people on real-world initiatives in a range of settings, online and in real life.

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Researchers working at the frontier of high-Tc Superconductors have reviewed the development in this area in the past 20 years. Both experimental and theoretical aspects have been covered. New directions and possible theoretical models were suggested. The contributors of this book are from China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (CCAST); Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); National Lab for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, CAS; School of Physics, Peking University and Center of Advanced Study Tsinghua University.This volume will be a useful guide to those who are working in the field.

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Recent developments of Internet-based digital technologies have revealed a huge potential of developing open, collaborative and network-centred innovation. However, firms face major challenges in using new technologies for rapid prototyping, data-mining, simulation, visualization, etc. to support their Open Innovation strategies.Responding to the need for further conceptual and empirical research on technology-enhanced open innovation, this book provides fresh and topical insights on how firms from different sectors have successfully implemented digital technologies for Open Innovation. Based on rich empirical data, this book discusses the benefits and drawbacks, the processes, the characteristics and the management practices of ICT-driven Open Innovation in private as well as public organizations.<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li>The Interplay of Digital Technologies and the Open Innovation Process: Benefits and Challenges <i>(Pierre-Jean Barlatier, Anne-Laure Mention and Avni Misra)</i></li><li>Innovation in Digital Business Models <i>(Dagfinn W&#x00E5;ge and Gunnar E Crawford)</i></li><li>Managing Digital Disruption of Business Models in Industry 4.0 <i>(Julian M M&#x00FC;ller, Jana Traub, Peter Gantner and Kai-Ingo Voigt)</i></li><li>From Open Design to Open Strategy: Managing the Evolution of Crowdsourcing-Based Business Models <i>(Thierry Burger-Helmchen and Erica J Siegel)</i></li><li>Modular Crowd Workflows for Open Innovation <i>(Ioanna Lykourentzou, Nikolaos Thomos and Zolt&#x00E1;n Szl&#x00E1;vik)</i></li><li>Profiting from Innovation in the Digital Era: Evidence from the Swedish Videogames Industry <i>(Vicky Long)</i></li><li>Network Orchestration and System Dynamics Modeling in Developing Innovative Decision Support Systems for Policy Makers <i>(Minna Pikkarainen, Julius Francis Gomes, Jukka Ranta, Peter Yl&#x00E9;n, Marika Iivari and Piia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen)</i></li><li>Open Science for Innovation: A Knowledge and Policy Perspective <i>(Erich Prem)</i></li><li>Innovating New B2B Business through Big Data &#x2014; Key Challenges Faced <i>(Tuija Rantala, Katariina Palom?ki and Katri Valkokari)</i></li><li>Planning a Smart Service Business Integrating External Partners <i>(Christian Koldewey, Jannik Reinhold and Roman Dumitrescu)</i></li><li>Organizational Impact of Digital Open Innovation in Retail Banks: Managing External and Internal Pressure <i>(Clarice Bertin and V&#x00E9;ronique Schaeffer)</i></li><li>From Knowledge Capture to Knowledge Integration, the Key Role of Integrative Actions in Crowdsourcing for Innovation <i>(&#x00C9;milie Ruiz, S&#x00E9;bastien Brion and Guy Parmentier)</i></li><li>The Rise of Data-Driven Business Models in the Berlin Start-up Scene <i>(Romy Hilbig, Stefanie Hecht and Bennet Etsiwah)</i></li><li>Competences for the In-house Development of Digital Innovations in German Mechanical Engineering Companies <i>(Steffen Kinkel, Johanna Rahn and Bernhard Rieder)</i></li><li>Blockchain and the Future of Open Innovation Intermediaries: The Case of Crowdsourcing Platforms <i>(Eric Schenk, V&#x00E9;ronique Schaeffer and Julien P&#x00E9;nin)</i></li><li>Playful Design Manifesto for Creative Blockchain Ecosystems <i>(Bronwin Patrickson and Michael Pierre Johnson)</i></li><li>What is the Role of Social Media in (Open) Innovation Strategies? <i>(Sharan Kaur Garib Singh)</i></li><li>Leveraging Open Innovation through Social Media: A Study on Geneva-based SMEs <i>(Angela Bacchetta Beckh, Mathias Beck and Patrick-Yves Badillo)</i></li><li>Social Media and New Service Development: An Exploratory Study within a Consulting Firm <i>(Micha&#x00EB;l B&#x00E9;n&#x00E9;dic)</i></li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> The target audience of this book is composed of researchers, university lecturers and faculty members, university students and institutions, as well as thought leaders, managers and policy-makers whose goals include the understanding and appreciation of the role of digital technologies, and how these are intertwined with open and collaborative innovation strategies and practices.Open Innovation;Digital Disruption;Industry 4.0;Data-Driven Decision;Value Networks;Organizational Agility;Digital Design;Collaboration;Innovation Policy;Social Media;Open Strategy0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>Industry 4.0 and open innovation are no longer just buzz words. Their implications are pervasive in daily operations of businesses, both small and large. However, firms face major challenges in using new technologies for rapid prototyping, data-mining, simulation, visualization, etc. to support their Open Innovation strategies. The principles, structures, processes, models and mechanics of how to create and capture value from digital open innovation are up for debate and discussion. In examining the state-of-the-art through conceptual and empirical research, this book extends the discourse on linking digitalization and digitization with open innovation practice. Thus, the book explores not only the implications for digital innovation and capacity building but also that for digital disruption of business models, open strategy, profiting from innovation, innovation system dynamics and open knowledge policy. Researchers from multiple disciplines have shared their latest empirical research findings to unveil lessons and strategies of how digital technologies might be used and managed to support open innovation strategies.</li></ul>

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