The Stone and the Wireless

The Stone and the Wireless
Author: Shaoling Ma
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478013052

In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large.

The Stone and the Wireless

The Stone and the Wireless
Author: Shaoling Ma
Publisher: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021
Genre: Mass media
ISBN: 9781478011477

Shaoling Ma examines late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the problem of the dynamics between new media technologies such as the telegraph the discursive representations of them.

Before We Went Wireless

Before We Went Wireless
Author: Ivor Hughes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781884592539

"The first biography of the brilliant inventor and practical experimenter in late 19th century telegraphy, telephony, metal detection, and audiology, British-born David Edward Hughes"--Provided by publisher.

The Stone and the Flute

The Stone and the Flute
Author: Hans Bemmann
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Total Pages: 868
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140074451

Setting out to find his grandfather, Listener carries with him a mysterious stone which takes him far away to do great harm. But, through the magical powers of the stone and his grandfather's flute, he also comes to find happiness and to possess a power greater than life itself.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wireless Computing and Networking

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wireless Computing and Networking
Author: Paul Heltzel
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780028642871

Providing extensive instructions and tips on various wireless devices, this text covers several tools and focuses on several task-oriented explanations for each highlighted device (for example, sending or beaming data between a PC and a PDA).

InfoWorld

InfoWorld
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1999-11-01
Genre:
ISBN:

InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.

Stone Mattress

Stone Mattress
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385539134

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her. Stone Mattress is a collection of unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity.

Wireless Communications

Wireless Communications
Author: Andreas F. Molisch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 883
Release: 2012-02-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118355687

"Professor Andreas F. Molisch, renowned researcher and educator, has put together the comprehensive book, Wireless Communications. The second edition, which includes a wealth of new material on important topics, ensures the role of the text as the key resource for every student, researcher, and practitioner in the field." —Professor Moe Win, MIT, USA Wireless communications has grown rapidly over the past decade from a niche market into one of the most important, fast moving industries. Fully updated to incorporate the latest research and developments, Wireless Communications, Second Edition provides an authoritative overview of the principles and applications of mobile communication technology. The author provides an in-depth analysis of current treatment of the area, addressing both the traditional elements, such as Rayleigh fading, BER in flat fading channels, and equalisation, and more recently emerging topics such as multi-user detection in CDMA systems, MIMO systems, and cognitive radio. The dominant wireless standards; including cellular, cordless and wireless LANs; are discussed. Topics featured include: wireless propagation channels, transceivers and signal processing, multiple access and advanced transceiver schemes, and standardised wireless systems. Combines mathematical descriptions with intuitive explanations of the physical facts, enabling readers to acquire a deep understanding of the subject. Includes new chapters on cognitive radio, cooperative communications and relaying, video coding, 3GPP Long Term Evolution, and WiMax; plus significant new sections on multi-user MIMO, 802.11n, and information theory. Companion website featuring: supplementary material on 'DECT', solutions manual and presentation slides for instructors, appendices, list of abbreviations and other useful resources.

Electrical and Electronic Technologies

Electrical and Electronic Technologies
Author: Henry B. O. Davis
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1983
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780810815902

A year-by-year chronology of the development of the electrical and electronic technologies.