Remote Control

Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250772796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105

Book Description
An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor “She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.” The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa—a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks—alone, except for her fox companion—searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion? Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award (audiobook version). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hunter and His Amazing Remote Control

Author:
Publisher: Youthlight Incorporated
ISBN: 9781889636139
Category : Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Teach self-control to your third and fourth grade children by using their buttons on their remote controls. The book contains an activity guide and an illustrated storybook.

Remote Control

Author: Barbara Kruger
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262611060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Barbara Kruger is a talking viewer with a hit-and-run attitude. Her vivid commentary on TV and film will galvanize even the most jaded with its social clarity and its savvy sense of cultural justice.

Remote Control Robotics

Author: Craig Sayers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387985978
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Increasingly, robots are being used in environments inhospitable to humans such as the deep ocean, inside nuclear reactors, and in deep space. Such robots are controlled by remote links to human operators who may be close by or thousands of miles away. The techniques used to control these robots is the subject of this book. The author begins with a basic introduction to robot control and then considers the important problems to be overcome: delays or noisy control lines, feedback and response information, and predictive displays. Readers are assumed to have a basic understanding of robotics though this may be their first exposure to the subject of telerobotics. Professional engineers and roboticists will find this an invaluable introduction to this subject.

Remote Control

Author: 伊坂幸太郎
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated
ISBN: 9784770031082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
An epic manhunt begins when Masaharu Aoyagi, an unemployed delivery truck driver, is accused of the assination of Sadoyoshi Kaneda, the youngest prime minister in Japanese history.

Remote Control

Author: Stephen White
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451191694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
After her father is assassinated, beautiful Emma Spire retreats to Colorado in search of privacy, but when someone stalking her is shot by a friend, the situation escalates, and Dr. Alan Gregory takes on the most personal case of his career

Remote Control

Author: Ellen Seiter
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113503690X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
The ways in which we watch television tell us much about our views of gender, the family and society. Bringing together the leading experts in the field of audience studies, this book investigates how viewers watch television, and what they think about the programmes they see. Originally published in 1989, the book is divided into two sections which discuss some of the theoretical issues at stake and then present case studies of a wide range of viewers: women office workers, Israeli watchers of Dallas, German families, the elderly, and American daytime soap fans. Contributors from Britain, the United States, Western Europe, Australia and Israel offer a wide range of perspectives, from feminism to post-modernism, and from semiotics to Marxism. ‘Together these essays constitute one of the best possible introductions to the leading edge of research into the phenomenon of television.’ Choice

Murder by Remote Control

Author: Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486805603
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Gripping graphic novel recounts the murder of a notorious oil tycoon and a private eye's investigations of a rogues' gallery of suspects, from crusty Maine natives to a retired movie star. Suggested for mature readers.

Remote Control

Author: Caetlin Benson-Allott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 162892344X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Drone

Author: Hugh Gusterson
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026253441X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others. "[A] thoughtful examination of the dilemmas this new weapon poses." —Foreign Affairs Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths while keeping American pilots out of harm's way. Critics say that drones are cowardly and that they often kill innocent civilians while terrorizing entire villages on the ground. In this book, Hugh Gusterson explores the significance of drone warfare from multiple perspectives, drawing on accounts by drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, human rights activists, international lawyers, journalists, military thinkers, and academic experts. Gusterson examines the way drone warfare has created commuter warriors and redefined the space of the battlefield. He looks at the paradoxical mix of closeness and distance involved in remote killing: is it easier than killing someone on the physical battlefield if you have to watch onscreen? He suggests a new way of understanding the debate over civilian casualties of drone attacks. He maps “ethical slippage” over time in the Obama administration's targeting practices. And he contrasts Obama administration officials' legal justification of drone attacks with arguments by international lawyers and NGOs.