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1927 books match the query 'Technology & Engineering' and 87 start with r
R. F. D.
Charles Allen SmartCharles Allen Smart
Ohio University Press, 1998
“This book,” the author tells us in his preface, “is intended to be a picture of life on a farm in Southern Ohio in the 1930s.” It is a faithful portrait of farm life as thousands of men and women experienced it from one end of the country to the other and from pioneering times to the present century.
Originally published in 1938 to enthusiastic reviews and commercial success, RFD is the story of one couple’s trials with leaving the comforts of city life for a chance to get back to the land.
From his farm near Chillicothe, Ohio, Charles Allen Smart gives a realistic rendering of what it meant to farm in the 1930s. It is part of the book’s intrinsic honesty that it could not be as good as Walden. Thoreau had worked out a philosophy that suited him and that he was ready to recommend to others. Mr. Smart had no prescription for the general ailments, beyond a belief that creating things is important and that owning, buying, and selling things are unimportant.
What he tells us throughout this unusual book is that for him life on this particular farm, in this particular house, with this particular set-up of friends, neighbors, dogs, sheep, hens, cattle, trees, corn, vegetables, grass, and weather, costs less in human values than life in New York City—or in Chillicothe.
Ohio University Press is especially pleased to reissue this midwestern classic with a new foreword by noted farm writer Gene Logsdon.
RF Power Amplifiers
Mihai Albulet
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2001
RF and Microwave Modeling and Measurement Techniques for Field Effect Transistors
Jianjun Gao
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2010
RF and Microwave Module Level Design and Integration
Mohammad Almalkawi
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
RFIC and MMIC Design and Technology
I.D. Robertson
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2001
RFID Protocol Design, Optimization, and Security for the Internet of Things
Alex X. Liu
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018
Radar Array Design using Optimization Theory
Guolong Cui
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2024
Radar Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) and Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR)
David Blacknell
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2013
Radar Countermeasures for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Carmine Clemente
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021
Radar Cross Section
Eugene F. Knott
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2004
Radar Detection
Julius V. DiFranco
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2004
Radar Essentials
A concise handbook for radar design and performance analysisG. Richard Curry
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012
Radar Essentials
A concise handbook for radar design and performance analysisG. Richard Curry
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2025
Radar Foundations for Imaging and Advanced Concepts
Roger J. Sullivan
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2004
Radar Imaging and Holography
A. Pasmurov
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2005
Radar Interference Matters
Alan Collinson
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2026
Radar Micro-Doppler Signatures
Processing and applicationsVictor C. Chen
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014
Radar Principles for the Non-Specialist
J.C. Toomay
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2004
Radar Sea Clutter
Modelling and target detectionLuke Rosenberg
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022
Radar Techniques Using Array Antennas
Wulf-Dieter Wirth
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2001
Radar Techniques Using Array Antennas
Wulf-Dieter Wirth
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2013
Radar Waveform Design based on Optimization Theory
Guolong Cui
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020
Radar and Communication Spectrum Sharing
Shannon D. Blunt
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
Radar and Electronic Warfare Principles for the Non-Specialist
Paul Hannen
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014
Radar and Electronic Warfare Principles for the Non-Specialist
Paul Hannen
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2014
Radio Direction Finding and Superresolution
P.J.D. Gething
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1991
Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Pocket Guide
Kenneth Wyatt
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2015
Radio Frequency and Microwave Power Amplifiers
Efficiency and Linearity Enhancement Techniques, Volume 2Andrei Grebennikov
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
Radio Frequency and Microwave Power Amplifiers
Principles, Device Modeling and Matching Networks, Volume 1Andrei Grebennikov
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
Radio Frequency and Microwave Power Amplifiers
Theory, design and applicationsAndrei Grebennikov
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
Radio Frequency and Microwave Power Measurement
Alan E. Fantom
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1990
Radio Man
The remarkable rise and fall of C.O. StanleyMark Frankland
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2002
Radio Spectrum Management
Management of the spectrum and regulation of radio servicesDavid Withers
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 1999
Radio Utopia
Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public InterestMatthew Ehrlich
University of Illinois Press, 2017
Radio Wave Propagation in Vehicular Environments
Leyre Azpilicueta
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021
Radio's America
The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass CultureBruce Lenthall
University of Chicago Press, 2007
Orson Welles’s greatest breakthrough into the popular consciousness occurred in 1938, three years before Citizen Kane, when his War of the Worlds radio broadcast succeeded so spectacularly that terrified listeners believed they were hearing a genuine report of an alien invasion—a landmark in the history of radio’s powerful relationship with its audience. In Radio’s America, Bruce Lenthall documents the enormous impact radio had on the lives of Depression-era Americans and charts the formative years of our modern mass culture.
Many Americans became alienated from their government and economy in the twentieth century, and Lenthall explains that radio’s appeal came from its capability to personalize an increasingly impersonal public arena. His depictions of such figures as proto-Fascist Charles Coughlin and medical quack John Brinkley offer penetrating insight into radio’s use as a persuasive tool, and Lenthall’s book is unique in its exploration of how ordinary Americans made radio a part of their lives. Television inherited radio’s cultural role, and as the voting tallies for American Idol attest, broadcasting continues to occupy a powerfully intimate place in American life. Radio’s America reveals how the connections between power and mass media began.
Radium and the Secret of Life
Luis A. Campos
University of Chicago Press, 2015
From the creation of half-living microbes in the test tube to charting the earliest histories of genetic engineering, Radium and the Secret of Life highlights previously unknown interconnections between the history of the early radioactive sciences and the sciences of heredity. Equating the transmutation of radium with the biological transmutation of living species, biologists saw in metabolism and mutation properties that reminded them of the new element. These initially provocative metaphoric links between radium and life proved remarkably productive and ultimately led to key biological insights into the origin of life, the nature of heredity, and the structure of the gene. Radium and the Secret of Life recovers a forgotten history of the connections between radioactivity and the life sciences that existed long before the dawn of molecular biology.
Reading Sounds
Closed-Captioned Media and Popular CultureSean Zdenek
University of Chicago Press, 2015
These are the choices closed captioners face every day. Captioners must decide whether and how to describe background noises, accents, laughter, musical cues, and even silences. When captioners describe a sound—or choose to ignore it—they are applying their own subjective interpretations to otherwise objective noises, creating meaning that does not necessarily exist in the soundtrack or the script.
Reading Sounds looks at closed-captioning as a potent source of meaning in rhetorical analysis. Through nine engrossing chapters, Sean Zdenek demonstrates how the choices captioners make affect the way deaf and hard of hearing viewers experience media. He draws on hundreds of real-life examples, as well as interviews with both professional captioners and regular viewers of closed captioning. Zdenek’s analysis is an engrossing look at how we make the audible visible, one that proves that better standards for closed captioning create a better entertainment experience for all viewers.
Reading in a Digital Age
David M. Durant
Against the Grain, LLC, 2017
The Charleston Briefings are written by authorities who provide an effective, readable overview of their topics—not an academic monograph. The intended audience is busy nonspecialist readers who want to be informed concerning important issues in our industry in an accessible and timely manner.
How is reading changing in the digital environment? How will it continue to change? Are we headed for an all- digital future? Or does print still have a place in the reading environment? Does format matter? What do readers tell us they want? This brief monograph offers librarians, publishers, vendors, and others an overview of these key issues as well as advice on how their institutions should approach the print versus digital controversy.
Reagan and Public Discourse in America
Michael Weiler
University of Alabama Press, 1992
The authors show that more than any president since John F. Kennedy, Reagan’s influence flowed from his rhetorical practices. And he is remembered as having reversed certain trends and cast the U.S. on a new course. The contributors to this insightful collection of essays show that Reagan’s rhetorical tactics were matters of primary concern to his administration’s chief political strategists.
Real American Ethics
Taking Responsibility for Our CountryAlbert Borgmann
University of Chicago Press, 2006
America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism. But America, for better or for worse, is still a nation that we have built. So why then, asks Albert Borgmann in this most timely and urgent work, are we failing to take responsibility for it?
In Real American Ethics, Borgmann asks us to reevaluate our role in the making of American values. Taking his cue from Winston Churchill—who once observed that we shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us—Borgmann considers the power of our most enduring institutions and the condition of our present moral makeup to propose inspired new ways in which we, as ordinary citizens, can act to improve our country. This, he shows, includes everything from where we choose to live and what we spend our money on to daunting tasks like the reshaping of our cities—habits and actions that can guide us to more accomplished and virtuous lives. Using prose that is easy and direct throughout, Borgmann’s position is grounded neither by conservative nor liberal ideology, but in his understanding that he is a devoted citizen among many.
In an age in which the blame game is the only game in town, this patriotic book is an eloquent reminder of the political strength we all wield when we work together.
Real Time Convex Optimisation for 5G Networks and Beyond
Long D. Nguyen
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2022
Recasting the Machine Age
Henry Ford's Village IndustriesHoward P. Segal
University of Massachusetts Press, 2005
Recasting the Machine Age recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen decentralized, small-scale plants within sixty miles of Ford headquarters in Dearborn. The visionary who had become famous in the early twentieth century for his huge and technologically advanced Highland Park and River Rouge complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the teens and continuing until his death in 1947.
Ford may well have been motivated to spend great sums on the village industries in part to prevent the unionization of his company. But these industrial experiments represented much more than “union busting.” They were significant examples of profound social, cultural, and ideological shifts in America between the World Wars as reflected in the thought and practice of one notable industrialist.
Howard P. Segal recounts the development of the plants, their fate after Ford's death, their recent revival as part of Michigan's renewed appreciation of its industrial heritage, and their connections to contemporary efforts to decentralize high-tech working and living arrangements.
Recent Advances in High-Power Electromagnetics
Felix Vega
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2024
Recent Trends in Sliding Mode Control
Leonid Fridman
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016
Reckoning with Matter
Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to BabbageMatthew L. Jones
University of Chicago Press, 2016
In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew L. Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining, elaborating, testing, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople, showing how they thought about technical novelty, their distinctive areas of expertise, and ways they could coordinate their efforts. In doing so, Jones argues that the conceptions of creativity and making they exhibited are often more incisive—and more honest—than those that dominate our current legal, political, and aesthetic culture.
Recommendations for Energy-efficient Exterior Lighting Systems
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2015
Reconstructors
Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil WarJohn Dean Davis
University of Chicago Press, 2026
Explores the institutional and environmental transformations that occurred during the Reconstruction Era.
While the Reconstruction Era in America saw a paradigmatic realignment of the country’s core institutions and values, there was a physical quality to Reconstruction as well: the country was not only rebuilding the South after the Civil War, but flat-out building as it expanded westward.
In Reconstructors, John Dean Davis details how the Army Corps of Engineers and its subcontractors designed and redesigned the infrastructural landscape to support the republic’s rebirth. The Corps’ projects not only transformed the landscape; they created markets, fostered a distinctive expansionist culture, and—for a time—enacted a less discriminatory economic and social agenda across the South and West. Davis aims to bring federal power, environmentalism, and capitalism into a frame that reveals the landscape's power to further ideology.
Red Metal
The Calumet and Hecla StoryC. Harry Benedict
University of Michigan Press, 1952
Red Revolution, Green Revolution
Scientific Farming in Socialist ChinaSigrid Schmalzer
University of Chicago Press, 2016
In Red Revolution, Green Revolution, Sigrid Schmalzer explores the intersection of politics and agriculture in socialist China through the diverse experiences of scientists, peasants, state agents, and “educated youth.” The environmental costs of chemical-intensive agriculture and the human costs of emphasizing increasing production over equitable distribution of food and labor have been felt as strongly in China as anywhere—and yet, as Schmalzer shows, Mao-era challenges to technocracy laid important groundwork for today’s sustainability and food justice movements. This history of “scientific farming” in China offers us a unique opportunity not only to explore the consequences of modern agricultural technologies but also to engage in a necessary rethinking of fundamental assumptions about science and society.