Crystal Clear: The Struggle for Reliable Communications Technology in World War II
Quartz crystal— a technology that changed the tide of World War II
Some of the defining leaps in technology in the twentieth century occurred during the Second World War, from radar to nuclear energy. Often left out of historical discussions are quartz crystals, which proved to be just as pivotal to the Allied victory— and to post-war development— as other technologies. Quartz crystals provided the U.S. military, for the first time, with reliable communication on the front lines, and then went on to become the core of some of the most basic devices of the post-war era, from watches, clocks, and color televisions, to cell phones and computers.
In Crystal Clear, Richard Thompson relates the story of the quartz crystal in World War II, from its early days as a curiosity for amateur radio enthusiasts, to its use by the United States Armed Forces. It follows the intrepid group of scientists and engineers from the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army as they raced to create an effective quartz crystal unit. They had to find a reliable supply of radio-quality quartz; devise methods to reach, mine, and transport the quartz; find a way to manufacture quartz crystal oscillators rapidly; and then solve the puzzling "aging problem" that plagued the early units. Ultimately, the development of quartz oscillators became the second largest scientific undertaking in World War II after the Manhattan Project.
Bringing to light a little-known aspect of World War II, Crystal Clear offers a glimpse inside one of the most significant efforts in the annals of engineering.
Bibidibobidiboo: The Collection: Ten Years of the Fondazoine Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Founded in 1995 by the contemporary art collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Fondazione set up its first public gallery in 1997. Over the following years many of today's international artists created a rich exhibition history and quickly made it premier contemporary art collection. That history is recreated here in a sharp, exciting catalog covering the first two decades of the Fondazione.
The 200 works range in media from installation, photography, painting, video, and sculpture, featuring over 60 artists such as Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, James Casebere, Maurizio Cattelan, Thomas Demand, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Carsten Holler, Gary Hume, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Paul McCarthy, Shirin Neshat, Tony Oursler, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Jeff Wall.
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Scriabin's Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 20, and Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No.4 in D Minor, by Alexander Scriabin, ISBN 0486424383
This handsome compilation features a pair of great works from two distinguished Russian composers. Alexander Scriabin wrote his Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor during the first significant phase of his artistic career, during which he focused on creating piano works in the modes of Chopin and Liszt. He ventured beyond his Romantic models to fashion pieces with a fresh delicacy, clarity, and richness, as well as a uniquely expressive range that ran from subtlety to vivid "sensations" (the composer's favorite term). Anton Rubinstein spent a lifetime touring, thrilling audiences with a pianistic virtuosity reputed to rival that of Liszt. A prolific composer (his oeuvre includes 17 operas), Rubinstein naturally wrote a vast quantity of piano music, including this magnificent concerto. Pianists as well as any admirer of these composers will delight in this convenient, authoritative edition of two excellent piano concertos. Unabridged republication of Scriabin's Piano Concerto, Op. 20, originally...
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The Coffee Trader
Amsterdam, 1659: On the world's first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city's most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly lost everything. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living in his younger brother's canal-flooded basement, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation.
Miguel enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success--a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and face a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam's ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas.
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Griffin iTrip FM Transmitter LCD/Dock Connector - Black, ITRIPDOCKLCDBLK
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How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce, ISBN 0671751085
Castigated in his time for breaching such American conversational taboos as religion, sex, censorship, and racism, Lenny Bruce proved to be a pioneer in exposing hypocrisies, the impact of which still echoes on both sides of censorship controversies. This book and soon-to-be-released private tapes are sure to bring the extent of Bruce's influence into sharp focus. Photo insert.
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Dragon Head: Vol. 5
Injured and barely clinging to hope, Teru and Ako miraculously stumble upon a helicopter manned by two soldiers. Once airborne, Teru wonders about home as the helicopter cuts through the chilling cacophony of the brutal carnage. But their journey to safety takes a sharp downward turn, and forces them to make an emergency landing. Older teens.
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Paint by Magic
When Connor's mother begins to act strangely--she removes all the televisions from the house and cooks dinner from scratch--Connor suspects the book containing paintings of a woman who looks creepily similar to his mother is at the root of the problem. Transported back into the 1920s, Connor must solve the mystery of the obsessed artist who only has eyes for his mother. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation
"An indispensable primer for those who want to protect their digital rights from the dark forces of big media."
-Kara Swisher, author of aol.com
The first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, computers, and other cutting-edge devices...
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Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World with DVD
A two-day retreat at Findhorn, Scotland -- famous as a spiritual center on the leading edge of personal and global transformation -- offered an ideal showcase for Eckhart Tolle's transformative concepts. These are documented in this exciting package containing a book and two DVDs that capture the author at his best. Using his trademark light-hearted but penetrating style, Tolle explores in depth the concept of stillness and how to achieve it. Only by doing so, says the author, can transformation...
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Schizopolis (Full Frame)
Fletcher Munson has a doppelg?nger in dentist Dr. Jeffrey Korchek. In his only starring performance to date, acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh inhabits both roles: Munson, onanistic corporate drone and speechwriter for New Age guru T. Azimuth Schwitters, and the swinging Korchek, Muzak enthusiast and lover to Munson's disenchanted wife. Meanwhile, mad exterminator and part-time celebrity prima donna Elmo Oxygen seduces local housewives in secret code and plots against Schwitters. Placing the onus...
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The Dish (DVD)
In July 1969, the eyes of the world were on the Apollo 11 moon landing--but the world would have watched blank television screens if not for the hard work of a group of Australians manning the Parkes Radio Telescope, one of the largest dishes in the world. In THE DISH, a dramatization of the events surrounding the telecast or the space mission, Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill) and Al Burnett (Patrick Warburton) try to hold their crew together through calamities and crises ranging from dangerously high winds...
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