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Lonely Planet's Texas is our most comprehensive guide that
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visit NASA's Space Center in Houston; all with your trusted travel
companion. Inside Lonely Planet's Texas Travel Guide: Lonely
Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the
destination's best experiences and where to have them Itineraries
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3D Printing for Product Designers closes the gap between the
rhetoric of 3D printing in manufacturing and the reality for
product designers. It provides practical strategies to support the
adoption and integration of 3D printing into professional practice.
3D printing has evolved over the last decade into a practical
proposition for manufacturing, opening up innovative opportunities
for product designers. From its foundations in rapid prototyping,
additive manufacturing has developed into a range of technologies
suitable for end-use products. This book shows you how to evaluate
and sensitively understand people, process, and products and
demonstrates how solutions for working with additive manufacturing
can be developed in context. It includes a practical, step-by-step
plan for product designers and CEOs aimed at supporting the
successful implementation of 3D printing by stakeholders at all
levels of a manufacturing facility, tailored to their stage of
technology integration and business readiness. It features a wide
range of real-world examples of practice illustrated in full
colour, across industries such as healthcare, construction, and
film, aligning with the strategic approach outlined in the book.
The book can be followed chronologically to guide you to transform
your process for a company, to meet the unique needs of a specific
client, or to be used as a starting point for the product design
entrepreneur. Written by experienced industry professionals and
academics, this is a fundamental reference for product designers,
industrial designers, design engineers, CEOs, consultants, and
makers.
G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian
era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific
novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential
journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in both his
life and writing: a middle-class figure who devoted his life to
working class issues but seldom missed a chance to profit from the
exploitation of current issues; the founder of the radical
newspaper Reynolds Weekly, as well as a bestselling author of
historical romances, gothic and sensation novels, oriental tales,
and domestic fiction; a perennial bankrupt who nevertheless ended
his life prosperously. A figure of such diversity requires a
collaborative study. Bringing together a distinguished group of
scholars, this volume does justice to the full range of Reynolds's
achievement and influence. With proper emphasis on new work in the
field, the contributors take on Reynolds's involvement with
Chartism, serial publication, the mass market periodical, commodity
culture, and the introduction of French literature into British
consciousness, to name just a few of the topics covered. The
Mysteries of London, the century's most widely read serial,
receives the extensive treatment this long-running urban gothic
work deserves. Adding to the volume's usefulness are comprehensive
bibliographies of Reynolds's own writings and secondary criticism
relevant to the study of this central figure in
mid-nineteenth-century Britain.
Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise
regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one
area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages,
including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the
Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave
it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's
Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the
sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common
experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual
local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary, examining the
heritage of the plantation era, and the issues of language and
racial identity it created. From this base, Louis James reassesses
the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He
traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of
an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n'
is considered as a West Indian island, created by `colonization in
reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean
aesthetic, and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and
Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean
literature with an exploration of its place in world and
postcolonial literatures, this study offers a panoramic view that
has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in
English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal
to the general reader and student alike, and particularly to all
who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and
culture, postcolonial studies, Commonwealth 'new literatures' and
contemporary literature and drama.
G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian
era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific
novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential
journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in both his
life and writing: a middle-class figure who devoted his life to
working class issues but seldom missed a chance to profit from the
exploitation of current issues; the founder of the radical
newspaper Reynolds Weekly, as well as a bestselling author of
historical romances, gothic and sensation novels, oriental tales,
and domestic fiction; a perennial bankrupt who nevertheless ended
his life prosperously. A figure of such diversity requires a
collaborative study. Bringing together a distinguished group of
scholars, this volume does justice to the full range of Reynolds's
achievement and influence. With proper emphasis on new work in the
field, the contributors take on Reynolds's involvement with
Chartism, serial publication, the mass market periodical, commodity
culture, and the introduction of French literature into British
consciousness, to name just a few of the topics covered. The
Mysteries of London, the century's most widely read serial,
receives the extensive treatment this long-running urban gothic
work deserves. Adding to the volume's usefulness are comprehensive
bibliographies of Reynolds's own writings and secondary criticism
relevant to the study of this central figure in
mid-nineteenth-century Britain.
Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise
regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one
area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages,
including mainland Guyana, the Atlantic island of Barbados, the
Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and Jamaica, whose size and history gave
it an early sense of separate nationhood. Beginning with Raleigh's
Discoverie of...Guiana (1596), this innovative study traces the
sometimes surprising evolution of cultures which shared a common
experience of slavery, but were intimately related to individual
local areas. The approach is interdisciplinary, examining the
heritage of the plantation era, and the issues of language and
racial identity it created. From this base, Louis James reassesses
the phenomenal expansion of writing in the contemporary period. He
traces the influence of pan-Caribbean movements and the creation of
an expatriate Caribbean identity in Britain and America: `Brit'n'
is considered as a West Indian island, created by `colonization in
reverse'. Further sections treat the development of a Caribbean
aesthetic, and the repossession of cultural roots from Africa and
Asia. Balancing an awareness of the regional identity of Caribbean
literature with an exploration of its place in world and
postcolonial literatures, this study offers a panoramic view that
has become one of the most vital of the `new literatures in
English'. This accessible overview of Caribbean writing will appeal
to the general reader and student alike, and particularly to all
who are interested in or studying Caribbean literatures and
culture, postcolonial studies, Commonwealth 'new literatures' and
contemporary literature and drama.
3D Printing for Product Designers closes the gap between the
rhetoric of 3D printing in manufacturing and the reality for
product designers. It provides practical strategies to support the
adoption and integration of 3D printing into professional practice.
3D printing has evolved over the last decade into a practical
proposition for manufacturing, opening up innovative opportunities
for product designers. From its foundations in rapid prototyping,
additive manufacturing has developed into a range of technologies
suitable for end-use products. This book shows you how to evaluate
and sensitively understand people, process, and products and
demonstrates how solutions for working with additive manufacturing
can be developed in context. It includes a practical, step-by-step
plan for product designers and CEOs aimed at supporting the
successful implementation of 3D printing by stakeholders at all
levels of a manufacturing facility, tailored to their stage of
technology integration and business readiness. It features a wide
range of real-world examples of practice illustrated in full
colour, across industries such as healthcare, construction, and
film, aligning with the strategic approach outlined in the book.
The book can be followed chronologically to guide you to transform
your process for a company, to meet the unique needs of a specific
client, or to be used as a starting point for the product design
entrepreneur. Written by experienced industry professionals and
academics, this is a fundamental reference for product designers,
industrial designers, design engineers, CEOs, consultants, and
makers.
This work offers a wonderfully illustrated guide - and a rigorous
analysis - of popular print and literature in all its many forms in
the first half of the 19th century.It provides a unique collection
of illustrated popular literature published between the events of
'Peterloo' in 1819 and the Great Exhibition of 1851, much never
reprinted before. This was a time when the expansive growth of
literacy led to the rapid and diverse evolution of popular culture,
of publishing and print. This did much to transform the life
experiences of millions. The printing press, combined with the
railways and the telegraph, was a key agent of mass change.Louis
James gives a picture of what the working classes were reading and
a fascinating insight into their interest and concerns - their
sports, work, crime, politics, religion and entertainments. His
detailed introduction places all of this in its context of the
contemporary cultural and social movements.The book profusely
illustrates the fare which was offered: woodcut pictures,
broadsheets and ballads, sensational Gothic novels issued in parts,
newspapers and magazines, melodramatic penny dreadfuls published
weekly in parts, and tracts of all kinds. The work examines this
material in its many aspects, and from both sides of the social
mirror. As well as showing the material, and analysing its
significance, the book deals with official attempts to damp down or
suppress the revolutionary new political and cultural press which
served the new literacy. This did much to change taste, and ways of
thinking and feeling. The book brings thus not only brings together
a great deal of unusual and otherwise inaccessible illustration, it
also offers a multi-facetted discussion of how the material was
received, and its longer-term cultural influences.The new edition
also includes a survey of studies in popular culture including song
(A.L. Lloyd); the popular arts (Barbara Jones, Marx and Lambert,
Panofsky, Gombrich); cartoons and graphic satire (Meisel,
Maidment); the conventions and influence of popular melodrama and
woodcuts, and a case study of the fiction of G.W.M. Reynolds. Also,
a list of relevant web sites.
Literature for the masses appeared on an unprecedented scale in the
first half of the 19th-century. This was the earliest response to
new and voracious demands for cheap books of all kinds. This famous
and innovative book enquires as to the nature of this new material,
the responses to it, and its audiences amidst the new reading
public which it illuminatesThe technological advances in printing,
and the urbanisation of the population were key influences. So,
too, were new entrepreneurial energies amongst author and
publishers.Professor James shows what were the realities and the
resonances of this new culture. He examines the effects of a new
urban culture, its complicated class relations, the difficult
history of the radical press, and the relationships between popular
fiction and 'literature'. His is a detailed and engaging, well
illustrated study of the growth of literacy and the vivacious and
enormously varied popular literature of both entertainment,
improvement, and instruction which was published. This included
chapbooks and broadsheets, plagiarisms of Dickens in penny serial
numbers, gothic tales of terror, 'blood-and-murder',
'ghost-and-goblin' fiction, exuberant historical novels, domestic
stories, romances, and tales of fashionable life.The first edition
was welcomed by Raymond Williams, who wrote that "Dr. James has
done so thorough a job that all students of the period will be
permanently in his debt...the success of the enquiry, in research
terms is outstanding: a solid contribution to the necessary
rewriting of nineteenth-century cultural history."This expanded
edition includes new material on how this important study started
with, D. Phil work on the Barry Ono Collection; existing
non-academic collectors and enthusiasts (Lawson, Algar, Jay,
Medcraft, Summers); theatrical artistes (Barry Ono , Frank
Pettingell); research on 'Old Boys blood and thunder' serials (E.S.
Turner), early academic studies of popular fiction and its
audience; literary studies (J.M.S. Tompkins, Margaret Dalziel);
readership (Richard Altick, Raymond Williams); social issues (Q.D.
Leavis, Richard Hoggart).The author has also added a short epilogue
on other work in the field by radical historians, including E. P.
Thompson, Ian Haywood, and Rohan McWilliam.On working-class
readership (by David Vincent); on serial fiction and popular
traditions, journalism, melodrama and the visual arts; and on
recent studies of Edward Lloyd, J.M. Rymer, G.W.M. Reynolds;
reprinted fiction by Valancourt et al. He has added a guide to
relevant websites for ongoing study.
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