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Este é o sétimo título da consagrada série O Guia dos Curiosos. Lançado em 1997 como O livro das invenções, a obra foi totalmente atualizada e reformulada. Há trezentos verbetes inéditos. O livro é dividido em duas partes. A primeira traz a história de inventos que fazem parte de nosso dia a dia, como os talheres, as roupas, os móveis, os aparelhos eletrônicos, os meios de transporte. Na segunda parte, apresenta-se a história de marcas e empresas famosas, como OMO, Coca-Cola, Nike e muito mais. É contado como elas surgiram, a origem do nome e o desenvolvimento dos principais produtos.

The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design offers a comprehensive overview of the diverse contexts of creativity and research that characterize contemporary sound design practice. Readers will find expansive coverage of sound design in relation to games, VR, globalization, performance, soundscape and feminism, amongst other fields.Half a century since its formal emergence, this book considers sound design in a plethora of practical contexts, including music, film, soundscape and sonification, as well as the emerging theoretical and analytical approaches being used in scholarship on the subject. The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design tracks how ideas and techniques have migrated from one field to the next, as professionals expand the industry applications for their skills and knowledge, and technologies produce new form factors for entertainment and information.Collectively, the chapters included in this volume illustrate the robustness and variety of contemporary sound design research and creativity, making The Routledge Handbook of Sound Design essential reading for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners working on sound design in its many forms.

This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming from a variety of fields such as robotics, archaeology, gesture studies, anthropology, philosophy, and gestural practices like choreography, music performance, and composition. It underlines how embodiment and technology change the interplay between maker and artefact over time and appeals to students and researchers in these fields. Its goal is to enable the reader to understand that the recurring topics and questions as well as multi-level similarities are by no means accidental, but can best be understood if one pays attention to the intertwinements of materiality and cognition, praxis and techne.

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, political, and military power as manifest in and through sound. However, most of this scholarship has focused on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Conversely, sound and media studies have made nineteenth-century histories of science and technology a central part of their canonical repertoire, but largely overlooked the ways in which these technological developments emerged from contexts of empire. Acoustics of Empire provides a cultural history of global acoustics in the Age of Empire. Examining histories of sound, listening practices, and audiovisual technologies of the long nineteenth century through the lens of geopolitical power, the authors recover a sonic history that is irrefutably entangled with questions of imperial power and colonial rule. This volume brings together historians, musicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to consider topics ranging from Indian music treatises and vocal practices in Brazil to Egyptian traffic noises and stethoscopes-as-props in South Africa. Across its chapters more broadly, it also draws attention to a period when Euro-American academic disciplines like musicology and linguistics were created, shaped by the imperial contexts in which they emerged. These intertwined legacies of sound and power are not simply historical curiosities; rather, they stand as formative influences in cultural modernity and its discontents that continue to shape the ways we hear and experience the world today.

Toutes les régions de France ont leurs fromages, pour la plupart depuis longtemps. C'est sans doute pourquoi nous, Français, aimons bien nous définir comme le pays des fromages. Considéré à l'origine comme un aliment de paysan, le fromage mettra du temps pour devenir un aliment emblématique de notre gastronomie et le fleuron de notre économie laitière. Son histoire se développe dans la grande histoire et dans la géographie d'une France dont le territoire s'est construit lentement. Ainsi, raconter l'histoire des fromages s'inscrit dans celle de la France et des Français, des évolutions sociales, des connaissances, des sciences et des techniques, des goûts et des modes de vie. Ce livre de synthèse porte sur deux millénaires et tous les fromages, il s'adresse aux professionnels et aux historiens de l'alimentation mais aussi aux amateurs de fromages, de gastronomie et d'histoire.

Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada sin parangón a la historia, la cultura y la humanidad. Delta del Nilo, 1799. En un asfixiante día de julio es hallada entre un montón de escombros la piedra de Rosetta, uno de los objetos arqueológicos más famosos del mundo y la clave para desentrañar una lengua perdida. La losa de granito contenía el mismo texto grabado en tres idiomas distintos: en egipcio, en demótico y en griego. Hasta su descubrimiento, nadie era capaz de leer los innumerables jeroglíficos que cubrían los templos y estatuas del antiguo Egipto, un poderoso imperio que había dominado el mundo durante treinta siglos, pero sobre el que, sin embargo, se ignoraba prácticamente todo. Quien fuera capaz de descifrar la piedra de Rosetta abriría definitivamente la puerta de un misterio sellado desde hacía dos mil años. A partir de 1802, en una época en que Inglaterra y Francia se disputaban encarnizadamente en todos los frentes la supremacía mundial, dos brillantes rivales se propusieron alcanzar ese honor: Thomas Young, un polímata británico que destacaba tanto en física como en lingüística, y Jean-François Champollion, educado en un pequeño enclave provinciano durante la Revolución francesa y con una verdadera fijación por todo lo egipcio. La escritura de los dioses narra esta trepidante carrera intelectual, en la que el ganador obtendría sin duda la gloria eterna, tanto para su nación como para sí mismo. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada sin parangón a la historia, la cultura y la humanidad. «Un viaje al corazón del enigma, la historia del libro de piedra que nos enseñó a descifrar códigos secretos, la hebra que une el antiguo Egipto con el nacimiento de la informática, el nexo entre Champollion y Sherlock Holmes».Irene Vallejo «Edward Dolnick narra el apasionante relato sobre cómo se descifró el enigma de la piedra de Rosetta.»Mónica Arrizabalaga, ABC «El placer que ofrece la lectura del libro de Edward Dolnick es comparable al de El infinito en un junco, de Irene Vallejo». Luis Alemany, El Mundo

Innovation in Music: Technology and Creativity is a groundbreaking collection bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and professionals. Split into two sections, covering composition and performance, and technology and innovation, this volume offers truly international perspectives on ever-evolving practices.Including chapters on audience interaction, dynamic music methods, AI, and live electronic performances, this is recommended reading for professionals, students, and researchers looking for global insights into the fields of music production, music business, and music technology.

To address today's media-saturated world, Introduction to Mass Communication keeps media literacy and culture at its core. Using examples of the past to show how mass communications got their roots--while keeping current with the latest emerging technologies and trends--Introduction to Mass Communication gives students a deeper understanding of the role media plays in both shaping and reflecting culture. By understanding and evaluating the ways in which media convergence is changing the landscape of media today, students are guided to think critically about their own roles in society as active media consumers and, increasingly, as media producers. Through these lenses, students are encouraged to be more ethical and confident participants in the mediated world.Media literacy is about living in, interacting with, and making the most of the world that surrounds us. That belief is the central philosophy of this Introduction to Mass Communication.

Trotz seiner unverkennbar zentralen Stellung für die Musikkultur der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ist eine detaillierte und differenzierte Analyse des Tonbandes in der Medien-, Kultur- und Musikwissenschaft bisher ausgeblieben. Das Buch reagiert auf dieses Ungleichgewicht und fragt nach tonbandbedingten Veränderungen der musikalischen (Produktions-)Ästhetik in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren sowie nach damit einhergehenden Klangkonzepten. Hierfür werden ausführliche Fallstudien angestellt, die den Spuren des Tonbandes in konkreten Diskursen und Kompositionen der Musikkulturgeschichte folgen. Als Gegenstände dienen die Tonbandanwendungen und -diskursivierungen der Musique Concrète und der Elektronischen Musik sowie die Verwendungsweisen von Tonbandtechnologie in der populären Musikproduktion. Tonbandtechnologie lässt sich nicht als einfache Fortführung der Phonographie verstehen, sondern fordert in seinen praktischen, künstlerischen und klanganalytischen Anwendungen aus der Phonographie erwachsene Konzepte von Klang heraus.'Tape Matters'versteht sich damit als Gegenerzählung zu einem vom Phonographen geprägten Klangdiskurs der Moderne.

Para conmemorar los primeros 10 años de la serie'pequeñas dosis de ciencia', se presenta una tercera selección de 400 dosis contenidas en cápsulas radiofónicas. Esta obra, además, es el primer libro de divulgación científica de la UNAM que incorpora la novedosa tecnología de la realidad aumentada (RA). Esto consiste en que el contenido escrito se refuerza con videos y animaciones que aparecen en el monitor de la computadora cuando un código del libro se coloca frente a la cámara de ésta.

Il suono è fatto di vibrazioni, di materiali che si percuotono, di ritmi che muovono i corpi. Andrea Benedetti ricostruisce un'altra storia del suono, soffermandosi sulle svolte epocali della relazione tra musica e tecnologia e sulle teorie di tanti artisti geniali che hanno cercato di cambiare lo status quo oltre ogni previsione possibile. Dalla preistoria fino ad arrivare alla nascita di generi come house e techno, emergono i tratti di una rivoluzione sonora e sociale di cui possiamo riannodare i fili in queste pagine che collegano passato, presente e futuro e ci fanno capire come la visione techno sia ancora unica e indispensabile. Il volume è arricchito da una raccolta di interviste ai maggiori produttori techno di Detroit e i saggi di Francesca Borelli e Andrea Paolo Lisi. Il primo si incentra sulla necessità del dialogo fra le culture grazie alla musica e sull'analisi del delicato tema dell'appropriazione culturale nell'era digitale, mentre il secondo illustra le ragioni per cui la techno si mostra più interessata ad attualizzare gli ideali della modernità umanista e universalista, che non a esprimere valori identitari di tipo razziale o comunitario. Chiude il progetto una postfazione di Christian Zingales, geniale critico musicale di “Blow Up” e grande conoscitore del mondo techno mondiale.

An in-depth and comprehensive guide to – and history of – music collecting, The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features informative and entertaining sections on every significant format in which recorded music has been released – and some that are now almost completely forgotten.Based on Dave Thompson's original Backbeat classic, The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting, this revamped, colorful, expanded edition takes readers from the early days of cylinders, 78s, and Edison records on through 45s, LPs, 8-tracks, cassettes, bootlegs, CDs, MiniDiscs, MP3s, LPs, and other formats.Landmark labels, collectable artists, specialist themes, and more are explored across a series of essays, while dozens of color images bring the most obscure corners of the hobby to life. Unlike other volumes that focus exclusively on vinyl, this book caters to the audiophile whose obsession for music welcomes all formats. Through it all, the joy and fascination of music collecting in all its guises comes alive.

The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of various ways in which experiments are used across all domains of linguistics and surveys the range of state-of-the-art methods that can be applied to analyse the language of populations with a wide range of linguistic profiles.Each chapter provides a step-by-step introduction to theoretical and methodological challenges and critically presents a wide range of studies in various domains of experimental linguistics.This handbook: Provides a unified perspective on the data, methods and findings stemming from all experimental research in linguistics Covers many different subfields of linguistics, including argumentation theory, discourse studies and typology Provides an introduction to classical as well as new methods to conduct experiments such as eye tracking and brain imaging Features a range of internationally renowned academics Shows how experimental research can be used to study populations with various linguistic profiles, including young children, people with linguistic impairments, older adults, language learners and bilingual speakers Providing readers with a wealth of theoretical and practical information in order to guide them in designing methodologically sound linguistic experiments, this handbook is essential reading for scholars and students researching in all areas of linguistics.

Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespeare, with one entry for every night of the year. Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and daily events, the entries in this glorious book include: Romeo and Juliet on Valentine's Day. A Midsummer Night's Dream in Midsummer. The witches of Macbeth around their cauldron on Halloween. Also featured is one of Shakespeare's only two mentions of football for the anniversary of the first FA cup final. Beautifully illustrated with favourite scenes from Shakespeare's best-loved plays, this magnificent volume is a fun introduction to the well-known work and lesser known plays and poetry and is designed to be accessible to both adults and curious children. Keep this book by your bedside and luxuriate in the rich language of the greatest writer the world has ever known, for entertainment, relaxation and timeless wisdom every night of the year.

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. The volume brings together essays from multidisciplinary perspectives, addressing the use of music to convey a sense of the past in a wide range of multimedia contexts, including television, documentaries, opera, musical theatre, contemporary and historical film, videogames, and virtual reality. With a focus on early music and medievalism, the contributors theorise the role of music and sound in constructing ideas of the past. In three interrelated sections, the chapters problematise notions of historical authenticity on the stage and screen; theorise the future of musical histories in immersive and virtual media; and explore sound's role in more fantastical appropriations of history in television and videogames. Together, they poseprovocative questions regarding our perceptions of ‘early'music and the sensory experience of distant history. Offering new ways to understand the past at the crossroads of musical and visual culture, this collection is relevant to researchers across music, media, and historical and cultural studies.

An exciting, visual adventure through world history with day-by-day accounts of extraordinary events, notable people, and incredible inventions for kids ages 8-12.History comes alive in this beautifully illustrated book with bite-size facts (along with a touch of humor) that will engage and entertain young curious minds. Jam-packed with important events, inspiring accomplishments by remarkable people, and groundbreaking inventions, this super-fun fact-filled book, the first kids book from History Channel, includes the most interesting historical facts--from early civilization up to the 21st century all around the world for every day of the year. Each day's entry includes multiple events that occurred on that day in history along with charming original illustrations and photography. Plus, readers are prompted to recall their own remarkable milestones, helping them to consider their place in history. Inside, kids will discover:Historic events that happened on their birthdayMajor moments in sportsGroundbreaking events and famous military battlesFearless explorers, inventors and freedom fightersRecord-breaking stuntsWeird and wacky holidaysIncredible dinosaur discoveries, and much more!A great gift for an up-and-coming history buff and an engaging resource for the classroom, this book offers a fresh twist on history, looking into the past and letting you recall your own.

An accessible and exciting new textbook that provides students with an in-depth historical and conceptual understanding of the nature and function of media in society.Stacey O. Irwin contextualizes media objects and experiences – including cinema, TV, phones, gaming, radio and podcasting, journalism, publishing, advertising, and more – into three descriptive sections: screens, sounds, and synergies. The text examines how technology is enfolded into the cultural process of contemporary media experience, exploring topics such as social media, augmented reality and other trends from the metaverse. It also reflects on the impact of legacy media and highlights instrumental moments in media history along the way. By examining media history from the perspective of future decision-making, this textbook explores how media technologies have a positive and negative sociocultural impact. This provides students with a more accessible entry point to the topic, and readers are left with a well-rounded understanding of media and the interplay between media, culture, technology, and society. Each chapter concludes with things to consider and additional takeaways to enhance student learning.This is an essential text for students taking classes such as Introduction to Mass Media, Survey of Media, Media History, Media and Society, and Media Culture.

From cathedral choirs, football chanting, and birdsong, to castrati, protest songs and artificial intelligence, On Voice explores the world of the voice that exists between the mouth and the ear. This is a book about the sound that journeys from the lips to the heart; how we speak it, how we hear it and how we embody it as people made in the image of the God whose voice created the heavens and the earth. Through the lens of Christian worship, theology and culture, the voice is explored as a spoken, sung and heard phenomenon. As an animateur of worship and working towards a theology of voice, Victoria reflects on the power of the church's musical and liturgical heritage to cut through the clamour of our modern-day echo chambers and the roar of populism, empower those who are seldom heard, and speak into the challenges of contemporary life. Victoria Johnson is the new Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, and was previously Precentor of York Minster, the first woman to inhabit that role in a history which reaches back over a thousand years.

This book is a call to expand and diversify our approach to the study of the human mind in relation to the Theory of Mind. It proposes that it is necessary to combine cross-disciplinary methods to arrive at a more complete understanding of how our minds work. Seeking to expand the discussion surrounding the Theory of Mind beyond the field of psychology, and its focus on our capacity to ascribe mental states to other people, this volume collects evidence and research to point to a more holistic understanding of our own minds, the minds of others, behavior, language, and reasoning. This book therefore illuminates the conceptual intricacy underlying the Theory of Mind. It posits that a wide scope is necessary to make a breakthrough in scientific research towards a full understanding of the nature, function, and development of our capacity to converge on biological processes of the brain towards consciousness, emotion, awareness, and cognition. The volume presents methods, results, critiques, and models intended to provoke debates in various academic disciplines. It is of interest to scholars working in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence.

Déclinée de A à Z dans tous ses aspects, de son origine au QR code d'aujourd'hui, l'écriture est un outil de communication qu'elle soit gravée sur tablette, dessinée sur papyrus, calligraphiée sur parchemin ou couchée sur papier. Universelle, utilisée selon les époques par les scribes, les moines copistes, l'écrivain public, le diariste ou encore le faussaire et l'anonymographe, sous forme de calligramme, de boustrophédon, de lettre de corbeau ou de banale correspondance, l'écriture s'est répandue à travers le monde et transformée au fil des siècles. De l'enfance à l'âge adulte, l'écriture évolue, régresse ou se fige, qu'elle soit de la main droite, de la main gauche ou issue d'un ambidextre. D'une grande diversité, marquée par l'empreinte culturelle, conventionnelle ou enjolivée, simplifiée ou compliquée, spontanée, déguisée ou sous influence, elle reflète aussi la personnalité du scripteur. L'écriture est unique : chacun a la sienne.

Thomas Edison, nienasycony wynalazca z ponad tysiącem patentów, jest uosobieniem amerykańskiego self-made mana. Ten samouk, który został przedsiębiorcą w wieku 24 lat, jest uważany za największego wynalazcę wszech czasów. Bez jego geniuszu nigdy nie byłoby odtwarzacza płyt, kina, telefonu czy żarówki. Stworzył też przemysł elektroniczny, który doprowadził do wynalezienia radia i telewizji. Odkryj w 50 minut życie tego człowieka, który wyruszył, aby zmienić życie ludzi, demokratyzując użycie elektryczności w amerykańskich i europejskich domach i promując rozwój elektrycznego oświetlenia ulic.

Thomas Edison, insaziabile inventore con più di mille brevetti, è l'emblema del self-made man americano. Quest'uomo autodidatta, diventato imprenditore all'età di 24 anni, è considerato il più grande inventore di tutti i tempi. Senza il suo genio non sarebbero mai esistiti il giradischi, il cinema, il telefono o la lampadina. Ha anche creato l'industria elettronica che ha portato all'invenzione della radio e della televisione. Scoprite in 50 minuti la vita di quest'uomo che ha deciso di cambiare la vita delle persone democratizzando l'uso dell'elettricità nelle case americane ed europee e promuovendo lo sviluppo dell'illuminazione stradale elettrica.

Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm was the result of decades of negotiations between countries, involving a diverse group of performers, composers, diplomats, physicists, and sound engineers. Although there is widespread awareness of the variability of musical pitches over time, as attested by the use of lower frequencies to perform early music repertoires, no study has fully explained the invention of our current concert pitch. In this book, Fanny Gribenski draws on a rich variety of previously unexplored archival sources and a unique combination of musicological perspectives, transnational history, and science studies to tell the unknown story of how A 440 became the global norm. Tuning the World demonstrates the aesthetic, scientific, industrial, and political contingencies underlying the construction of one of the most “natural” objects of contemporary musical performance and shows how this century-old effort was ultimately determined by the influence of a few powerful nations.

Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Street links sound aesthetics, radio, natural history, and literature to explore how the brain and imagination translate sonic codes as well as the nature of the silent sound we'hear'when we read a text. This creates an awareness of sound through the tuned attention of the senses, learning from sound texts of the natural world that sought – and seek – to convey the intensity of the sonic moment and fleeting experience. To absorb these lessons is to enable a more highly interactive relationship with sound and listening, and to interpret the subtleties of audio as a means of expression and translation of the living world.

Thomas Edison, un inventator insațiabil, cu peste o mie de brevete, este întruchiparea omului american care s-a făcut singur. Acest autodidact, care a devenit antreprenor la vârsta de 24 de ani, este considerat cel mai mare inventator al tuturor timpurilor. Fără geniul său, nu ar fi existat niciodată casetofonul, cinematograful, telefonul sau becul. De asemenea, a creat industria electronică, care a dus la inventarea radioului și a televiziunii. Descoperiți în 50 de minute viața acestui om care și-a propus să schimbe viețile oamenilor, democratizând utilizarea electricității în casele americane și europene și promovând dezvoltarea iluminatului stradal electric.

Over 3 million years ago, our ancestors realised that rocks could be broken apart for sharp edges, to cut and slice meat. The discovery made for a good meal. It also changed the fate of our species and our planet.In this lively and learned book, Chip Colwell charts three great leaps in humankind's relationship with objects and belongings, from the discovery of tools to the production of endless commodities. How did we start out as primates who needed nothing, and end up as people who need everything? With colourful characters, astonishing archaeological discoveries, and reflections from philosophy and culture, Colwell's quest for answers takes readers to places both spectacular and strange: the Italian cave featuring the world's first painted art; a Hong Kong skyscraper where a priestess channels the gods; a mountain of trash whose height rivals Big Ben or the Statue of Liberty.Humans make stuff, but our stuff makes us human—and our love affair with things may be our downfall. With landfills brimming and oceans drowning in plastic, now is the time for a fourth and final leap for humanity: to reevaluate our relationship to the things that make, and could break, our world.