Auto Mania

Auto Mania
Author: Tom McCarthy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0300110383

The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle--from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. From the provocative public antics of young millionaires who owned the first cars early in the twentieth century to the SUV craze of the 1990s, Auto Mania explores developments that touched the environment. Along the way McCarthy examines how Henry Ford’s fetish for waste reduction tempered the environmental impacts of Model T mass production; how Elvis Presley’s widely shared postwar desire for Cadillacs made matters worse; how the 1970s energy crisis hurt small cars; and why baby boomers ignored worries about global warming. McCarthy shows that problems were recognized early. The difficulty was addressing them, a matter less of doing scientific research and educating the public than implementing solutions through America’s market economy and democratic government. Consumer and producer interests have rarely aligned in helpful ways, and automakers and consumers have made powerful opponents of regulation. The result has been a mixed record of environmental reform with troubling prospects for the future.

Automania

Automania
Author: Juliet Kinchin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781633451278

Automaniaexplores the ways in which motor vehicles reshaped how people lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves over the course of the 20th century, and the continuing positive and negative imprint on the design and organization of today's built environment. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, the catalogue showcases ten cars in MoMA's collection: a Jeep (designed 1952), a Citroën DS23 (1973), a Volkswagen Beetle (designed 1938), a Fiat Cinquecento City Car (launched 1957), a Pininfarina Cisitalia 202 GT Car (designed 1946), a Formula 1 Racing Car, (1990), a Porsche 911 coupé (1965), an Airstream Bambi Traveler (1960), E-type Roadster (1966), and a Smart Car (1998). Presented alongside the vehicles are car parts, architectural models, films, photographs, posters, paintings, and sculptures, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 1898 print L'Automobiliste, Lily Reich's 1930s designs for a tubular-steel car seat, photographs of American car factories (c. 1930-32) by Margaret Bourke-White, Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times (1963) by Andy Warhol, and Jorge Rigamonti's 1966-70 photocollage illustrating a dystopic view of environmental destruction in Venezuela.Organized into six thematic chapters, Automania includes an introductory essay by curator Juliet Kinchin and examines the car as a modern industrial product, transportation innovator, and style icon, as well as the generator of fatalities, traffic-choked environments, and ecological disaster in the oil age. "Cars have reimagined mobility, connecting us across great distances at ever greater speed, but this increased freedom and economic empowerment have come at the expense of tremendous human suffering and environmental damage," says Kinchin.

Automania

Automania
Author: Julian Pettifer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1984
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

Muscle Cars

Muscle Cars
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013
Genre: Antique and classic cars
ISBN: 9781450861502

Auto-mania!

Auto-mania!
Author: David Kimber
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780836837810

Hit the road with some of the world's fastest cars in Auto-Mania. Learn about the incredible McLaren F[subscript 1] and the superfast Porsche 911 GT[subscript 2]. Find out the best way to back up a Lamborghini Murcielago and how the Pagani Zonda got its name. Featuring thirteen of the world's hottest automobiles, this book is a must for all young car lovers! Book jacket.

The Orbiter

The Orbiter
Author: Patrick Cristobal
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1615667962

4000 A.D. Far off in an unknown galaxy, Pierre Zeyfur is ready to prove himself. Having just obtained his SENTINELS license, he's anxious to sign up for important missions that will help him achieve his ultimate dream: to become the highest ranking SENTINELS. The problem is, he is merely a cassleon, the bottom rung in the ranking system, and there are no missions available to help him move up. So when a fateful encounter with Eva Lyn, the best SENTINELS in the world, offers him the opportunity to be mentored, he agrees wholeheartedly, disregarding any doubts or warnings about the danger ahead. Little does he know the adventures that await him as he impulsively agrees to this partnership. Eva Lyn becomes his teacher, showing him his own strength and abilities, but it soon becomes clear that beneath her pretty face and distinguished title, there's a dark secret she's working hard to keep hidden. Join Pierre as he embarks on the battle of a lifetime. Will he uncover the truth about Eva Lyn? Will he learn to wield The Orbiter, a weapon of unique abilities, and save the galaxy from peril? And does he have the strength to risk all in his quest to find his true destiny?

The Momentaer

The Momentaer
Author: Patrick Cristobal
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1621475077

Claire's journey of a lifetime takes her far and wide, and she slowly puts together a few clues in how to get the watch off. She also learns she has only three months to do it. The real trouble is that some of what she needs doesn't even exist in present time, so she must master the dangerous time-travelling art given by the watch. With the help of friends new and old, Claire comes closer and closer to saving herself, but the clock is always ticking faster. When she finally faces the creator of The Momentaer, will she have learned enough to free herself?

Cry Baby Mystic

Cry Baby Mystic
Author: Daniel Tiffany
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1643172034

Bobbing alongside Margery Kempe—an illiterate medieval mystic who dictated the first autobiography in English—the ragged voice of Cry Baby Mystic finds itself drawn into strange predicaments that are not its own and ferried into abandoned spaces by the gearing of stardom and shame. The revolving sentences overheard by the reader--a muffled chorus of Brechtian aftershocks--survive only as traces of sorrow now craved by all who have known it: sound gossiping the unsound, the excess of the pilgrim. A person climbs out and never comes home.

Cursed Bunny

Cursed Bunny
Author: Bora Chung
Publisher: Honford Star
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1916277187

Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur’s translation skilfully captures the way Chung’s prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous. Winner of a PEN/Heim Grant.

Farang

Farang
Author: Iain Corness
Publisher: Maverick House
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-01-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1905379773

Dr Iain Corness fell in love with Thailand on a holiday in 1975, and finally managed to move there permanently in 1997. As a settled farang, or foreigner, he enjoys a unique perspective on Thai life and all its eccentricities; looking in from the outside while also getting to see the things most foreigners don’t. His stories and anecdotes are full of the joys of life, and celebrate this exotic and exciting land in all its glory with painfully funny observations. From a date with a fortune teller to tales of a reincarnated squid, Corness revels in the chaos and charm of ‘the only country where you can be run over by a shop.’ This is a book to be enjoyed by tourists and Thais alike.