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Atlantic automobilism
Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs to unearth the desires that shaped our present \"car society.\" Combining social, psychological, and structural explanations, the author concludes that the ability of cars to convey transcendental experience, especially for men, explains our attachment to the vehicle.
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Modeling and control of engines and drivelines
Control systems have come to play an important role in the performance of modern vehicles with regards to meeting goals on low emissions and low fuel consumption. To achieve these goals, modeling, simulation, and analysis have become standard tools for the development of control systems in the automotive industry.
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GQ drives : a stylish guide to the greatest cars ever made
A celebration of the world's finest cars, from stylish classics to the latest jaw-dropping models, as chosen by the experts at GQ. Foreword by Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button. From the magazine synonymous with style comes the ultimate guide to the greatest cars the world has ever seen. With imagery from the finest motoring photographers, plus British GQ's knowledgeable in-depth reports, the cars in this book represent the pinnacle of driving style and performance. From design classics to the very latest machines, GQ DRIVES is an indispensable handbook of automotive excellence. Over 50 incredible drives, including: Ferrari FXX, Mercedes-AMG Project One, Lamborghini Huracan, Aston Martin One-77, Jaguar E-Type, Chevrolet Corvette ZO6, Pininfarina Battista, Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe; And many more...
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The Socialist Car
Across the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobile exemplified the tension between the ideological imperatives of political authorities and the aspirations of ordinary citizens. For the latter, the automobile was the ticket to personal freedom and a piece of the imagined consumer paradise of the West. For the authorities, the personal car was a private, mobile space that challenged the most basic assumptions of the collectivity. The \"socialist car\"-and the car culture that built up around it-was the result of an always unstable compromise between official ideology, available resources, and the desires of an increasingly restless citizenry. InThe Socialist Car, eleven scholars from Europe and North America explore in vivid detail the interface between the motorcar and the state socialist countries of Eastern Europe, including the USSR.
In addition to the metal, glass, upholstery, and plastic from which the Ladas, Dacias, Trabants, and other still extant but aging models were fabricated, the socialist car embodied East Europeans' longings and compromises, hopes and disappointments. The socialist car represented both aspirations of overcoming the technological gap between the capitalist first and socialist second worlds and dreams of enhancing personal mobility and status. Certain features of automobility-shortages and privileges, waiting lists and lack of readily available credit, the inadequacy of streets and highways-prevailed across the Soviet Bloc. In this collective history, the authors put aside both ridicule and nostalgia in the interest of trying to understand the socialist car in its own context.
Contributors: Elke Beyer, Swiss Institute of Technology; Valentina Fava, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and University of Helsinki; Luminita Gatejel, European University Institute, Florence; Mariusz Jastrzab, Kozminski University; Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, University of Bochum; Brigitte Le Normand, Indiana University Southeast; Esther Meier, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg; Kurt Möser, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; György Péteri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; Eli Rubin, Western Michigan University; Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
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The Cultural Life of the Automobile
From its invention in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century, the automobile crisscrossed the world, completely took over the cities, and became a feature of daily life. Considered basic to the American lifestyle, the car reflected individualism, pragmatism, comfort, and above all modernity. In Latin America, it served as a symbol of distinction, similar to jewelry or fine clothing. In The Cultural Life of the Automobile, Guillermo Giucci focuses on the automobile as an instrument of social change through its “kinetic modernity\" and as an embodiment of the tremendous social impact of technology on cultural life. Material culture—how certain objects generate a wide array of cultural responses—has been the focus of much scholarly discussion in recent years. The automobile wrought major changes and inspired images in language, literature, and popular culture. Focusing primarily on Latin America but also covering the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa, Giucci examines how the automobile was variously adapted by different cultures and how its use shaped and changed social and economic relationships within them. At the same time, he shows how the “automobilization\" of society became an essential support for the development of modern individualism, and the automobile its clearest material manifestation.
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La paura ha il colore di un Suv. Voci di donne iraniane
Dalla restrizione delle liberta alle regole sull'abbigliamento e agli abusi della \"polizia morale\", le donne iraniane sono soggette a molteplici pressioni che limitano il loro accesso allo spazio pubblico, soffocano le loro aspirazioni personali e professionali e instillano la paura nella loro vita quotidiana. Il timore delle ripercussioni che la richiesta di diritti fondamentali puo comportare, la costante sorveglianza esercitata dal regime sulle loro vite e la minaccia di misure punitive in caso di non conformita conducono a un senso pervasivo di incertezza sul futuro e a forme di auto-censura che permangono anche quando si e lasciato l'Iran. Dopo una breve disamina contestuale, il contributo guarda alle esperienze di queste donne, mettendo in luce le loro voci e storie. Attraverso una serie di interviste a donne iraniane che negli ultimi anni hanno lasciato l'Iran e al momento risiedono in Europa, si esplorano i timori che plasmano la loro vita, e che sono espressione di fattori piu ampi di ordine socio-politico. From restricted freedoms to enforced dress codes and abuses by the \"morality police\", Iranian women face a multitude of pressures that restrict their access to public space, stifle their personal and professional ambitions and instil fear in their every-day life. The fear of repercussions for seeking basic rights, the constant surveillance over their lives and the threat of punitive measures for non- conformity lead to a pervasive sense of insecurity and uncertainty about the future and to forms of self-censoring that persist even after leaving Iran. After a brief contextual analysis, the article delves into the lived experiences of these women, highlighting their voices and stories. Through a series of interviews of Iranian women, most of whom left their country in the last few years and currently reside in Europe, we explore the fears that shape their reality, thus gaining insight also into the broader sociopolitical issues at play in contemporary Iran. Keywords: Iran, paura, polizia morale, hijab; Iran, fear, Morality police, hijab.
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