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Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of
comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us
laughing in the cinema. It traces the beginning of comic motion
pictures and the pioneer work of Paul, Gaumont, Hepworth, Pathe and
Zecca. Then comes the picture palace craze and the success of the
early Italian and French comedies and trick films. The work of Al
Christie and Mack Sennett in America, and the rise of American
films, is fully described, as knockabout gives way to slapstick,
and salaries and box-office receipts soar. Now come Chaplin, Harold
Lloyd and all the other bright figures of the Roaring Twenties,
with favourites like Buster Keaton and Will Rogers to the fore. The
development of sound and its effect on the comedians is explained,
and the story comes up to date through the thirties and forties to
1954. Some of the hundreds of names to whom tribute is paid include
Mabel Normand, Larry Semon, Roscoe Arbuckle, Monty Banks, Max
Linder, Harry Langdon, Will Hay, the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope,
Fernandel and Alec Guinness. These are only a few of the many whose
careers are traced. The book is illustrated by a number of
carefully selected photographs, many of which are unique. This
edition, first published in 1968 has been revised but the period it
covers remains the same, 1894-1954, sixty years of film humour.
Biomimetics is the idea of creating new technologies abstracted
from what we find in biology. Ocean Innovation: Biomimetics Beneath
the Waves seeks that technological inspiration from the rich
biodiversity of marine organisms. Bringing both a biological and
engineering perspective to the biomimetic potential of oceanic
organisms, this richly illustrated book investigates questions such
as: How can we mimic the sensory systems of sea creatures like
sharks, sea turtles, and lobsters to improve our ability to
navigate underwater? What can we do to afford humans the
opportunity to go unnoticed by marine life? How can we diffuse
oxygen from water to enable deep diving without the risk of
decompression sickness? Each chapter explores an area where we, as
divers and technologists, can benefit from understanding how
animals survive in the sea, presenting case studies that
demonstrate how natural solutions can be applied to mankind's
engineering challenges.
Countering the many claims that the best days of capitalism are
over following the economic meltdown of 2008 onwards, this book
provocatively argues that a new golden age of capitalism - or
upwave - began around 2002, and despite the unstable markets in the
western world of the past few years, this upwave will produce
previously unseen levels of wealth creation during the next twenty
years. Basing this theory on the commercialisation of new
technologies and the growth of new markets, the author claims that
these positive trends are key to economic recovery in the US, UK
and Europe. It argues that the most serious problem facing some
countries in the west is government debt and that macroeconomic
policy is of limited use in flexible and adaptive economies, where
innovation, entrepreneurship and private investment should be
encouraged in a range of cities and city regions. This highly
original book will interest those concerned with national
economies, nation states and urban policy.
Countering the many claims that the best days of capitalism are
over following the economic meltdown of 2008 onwards, this book
provocatively argues that a new golden age of capitalism - or
upwave - began around 2002, and despite the unstable markets in the
western world of the past few years, this upwave will produce
previously unseen levels of wealth creation during the next twenty
years. Basing this theory on the commercialisation of new
technologies and the growth of new markets, the author claims that
these positive trends are key to economic recovery in the US, UK
and Europe. It argues that the most serious problem facing some
countries in the west is government debt and that macroeconomic
policy is of limited use in flexible and adaptive economies, where
innovation, entrepreneurship and private investment should be
encouraged in a range of cities and city regions. This highly
original book will interest those concerned with national
economies, nation states and urban policy.
Over the past two decades, city economies have restructured in
response to the decline of older industries. This has involved new
forms of planning and urban economic development, a return to
traditional concerns of city building and a focus on urban design.
During this period, there has also been a marked rise in our
understanding of cultural development and its role in the design,
economy and life of cities. In this book, John Montgomery argues
that this amounts to a shift in urban development. He provides a
long overdue look at the dynamics of the city, that is, how cities
work in relation to the long cycles of economic development and
suggests that a new wave of prosperity, built on new technologies
and new industries, is just getting underway in the Western world.
The New Wealth of Cities focuses on what effect this will have on
cities and city regions and how they should react. Original and
wide-ranging, this book will be a definitive resource on city
economies and urban planning, explaining why it is that cities
develop over time in periods of propulsive growth and bouts of
decline.
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