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  • Same Player Shoots Again

    A Biography of the Pinball Machine

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub, and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. Andreas Bernard, looking back on his coming of age as an avid pinballer, reflects on what the disappearance of pinball machines tells us about the modern ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Lifted

    A Cultural History of the Elevator

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Traveller

    Far Trader - Volume 1

    by Chris Griffen, Xavier Bernard,Andrea Corsi ...
    Mayday! Mayday! We are under attack! Main drive is gone! Please help… this is Far Trader Slowhand… Mayday! The clarion call of a Starship in distress cannot be ignored, but sometimes there's no one there to help. The crew of far trader Slowhand travels the dangerous frontier worlds of Aramis Subsector. Just honest merchants trying to make a Credit — without being killed in the process! Traveller ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Triumph of Profiling

    The Self in Digital Culture

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    Until fairly recently, only serial killers and lunatics had profiles. Yet today, almost everyone is profiled through social media, mobile phones, and a multitude of other methods. But where does the idea of “profiling” come from, how has it changed over time, and what are its implications?In this book, Andreas Bernard examines contemporary profiling’s roots in late-nineteenth-century criminology, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Theory of the Hashtag

    by Andreas Bernard ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis, Daniel Ross ...
    This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times. The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate. With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is organized and amplified around common buzzwords. This method enables us to navigate more easily the huge volume of online ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Future Fit

    How to stay relevant and competitive in the future of work

    by Andrea Clarke ...
    Prepare for the future with the eight skills needed to become future fit.Winner, Australian Business Book of the Year 2019Finalist, UK Business Book Awards 2020Finalist, Australian Career Book of the Year 2019The need for skills that defy disruption has never been so urgent, as traditional workplace models give way to confronting new rules of engagement. If you’re looking for job security, gro... ... Read more

    $13.43 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Body of Knowledge for Modeling and Simulation

    A Handbook by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International

    Edited by Tuncer Ören, Bernard P. Zeigler, Andreas Tolk ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Commissioned by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), this needed, useful new ‘Body of Knowledge’ (BoK) collects and organizes the common understanding of a wide collection of professionals and professional associations.Modeling and simulation (M&S) is a ubiquitous discipline that lays the computational foundation for real and virtual experimentation, clearly stating ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • AI*IA 2018 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence

    XVIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Trento, Italy, November 20–23, 2018, Proceedings

    Edited by Chiara Ghidini, Bernardo Magnini, Andrea Passerini, Paolo Traverso ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the XVIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2018, held in Trento, Italy, in November 2018.The 41 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; Applications of AI; Knowledge ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Electrodialysis and Water Reuse

    Novel Approaches

    Edited by Marco Antônio Siqueira Rodrigues, Jane Zoppas Ferreira, Andréa Moura Bernardes ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents novel techniques to evaluate electrodialysis processes, to synthesize ionic membranes and to characterize their properties. It shows the potential use of membrane process to the treatment of effluents generated in many industrial sectors such as refineries, leather industries, mining and electroplating processes. The book is based on the results obtained by the author's research ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Electronic Waste

    Recycling Techniques

    Edited by Hugo Marcelo Veit, Andréa Moura Bernardes ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents an overview of the characterization of electronic waste. In addition, processing techniques for the recovery of metals, polymers and ceramics are described. This book serves as a source of information and as an educational technical reference for practicing scientists and engineers, as well as for students. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Plasma Modeling (Second Edition)

    Methods and applications

    by Detlef Loffhagen, Giovanni Lapenta, Gianni Coppa, Luis Silva, Fabio Peano, Federico Peinetti, Daniela Grasso, Dario Borgogno, Andrea Cristofolini, Bernard Parent, Mario Capitelli, Lucia Daniela Pietanza, Giuseppe Pascazio, Davide Ninni, Francesco Bonelli, Francesco Taccogna, Pierpaolo Minelli, Marco Ridenti, Vasco Guerra, Jayr Amorim, Margarita Baeva, Markus Becker, Florian Sigeneger, Sergey Surzhikov, Jonathan Poggie, Gian Luca Delzanno, Xianzhu Tang, Enzo Lazzaro, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Ambrogio Fasoli, Fabio Riva, Christian Theiler, Annarita Laricchiuta, Roberto Celiberto, Jimena Gorfinkiel, Jonathan Tennyson, Igor Adamovich, Fabrizio Esposito, Sergey Macheret ...
    Series series IOP ebooks
    Plasma Modeling: Methods and applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods. It describes kinetic models used in plasma investigations, develops the theory of fluid equations and hybrid models, and discusses applications and practical problems across a range of fields.This updated second ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

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    Future Fit

    How to stay relevant and competitive in the future of work

    by Andrea Clarke ...
    Narrated by Andrea Clarke ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    Prepare for the future with the eight skills needed to become future fit.Winner, Australian Business Book of the Year 2019Finalist, UK Business Book Awards 2020Finalist, Australian Career Book of the Year 2019The need for skills that defy disruption has never been so urgent, as traditional workplace models give way to confronting new rules of engagement. If you’re looking for job security, gro... ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook