Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: second, design, mechanical
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-01-13
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0750657715
ISBN-13: 9780750657716

This book introduces the subject of total design, and introduces the design and selection of various common mechanical engineering components and machine elements. These provide "building blocks", with which the engineer can practice his or her art.The approach adopted for defining design follows that developed by the SEED (Sharing Experience in Engineering Design) programme where design is viewed as "the total activity necessary to provide a product or process to meet a market need." Within this framework the book concentrates on developing detailed mechanical design skills in the areas of be

Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: texts, approaches, critical, cultural, contemporary
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-09-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0748620443
ISBN-13: 9780748620449

Texts shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural, and media texts ranging from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites, and lyrics to such films as The Matrix and Harry Potter, to television shows like Big Brother, and to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using one of sixteen key approaches, including established angles like feminism, postcolonial studies, and deconstruction to newer areas such as ecocriticis

Author: Peter R. N. Childs
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: current, thinking, challenging, technology, vehicle, total
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2001-12-05
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 1860583245
ISBN-13: 9781860583247

The automotive industry is constantly challenged at the design and manufacturing stages with providing the newest and most advanced technology for the customer. Integrating it seamlessly into everyday vehicle manufacture taking into account aspects such as environmental and safety legislation, customer comfort and cost-effectiveness. "Total Vehicle Technology - Challenging Current Thinking" provides an opportunity for the presentation of the engineering and design tasks involved in the production of a vehicle. The underlying theme of the contributions is the integration of technologies in vehi

Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: idiom, critical, new, modernism
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-08-08
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0415196477
ISBN-13: 9780415196475

Modernism is a succinct but authoritative analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years. Peter Childs explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes that occurred in the novel, poetry and drama, as well as the many revolutions in art, film and aesthetic theory. This highly readable book explains the key terminology of the subject; orients the reader in terms of modernism’s basic aspects; explores the literary shifts from realism to modernism to postmodernism; analyzes to modernist elements in the texts of writers such as Joyce, Woolf,

Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, sourcebook, guides, literature, guide, study, passage, india, forster
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-07-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0415238234
ISBN-13: 9780415238236

An invaluable sourcebook to E. M. Forster’s easily most challenging and provocative work, A Passage to India has stirred up debate on such topics as imperialism, modernism, ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook introduces not only the novel but also the key issues which surround it. It offers a contextual and biographical overview, with a chronology, contemporary reviews, key extracts from Forster’s relevant essays, books and articles, a summary of the work’s critical history, a consideration of film and television adaptations, including the

Authors:Peter Childs, Michael Storry,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: culture, contemporary, encyclopedias, british, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $305.00
ISBN-10: 0415147263
ISBN-13: 9780415147262

In over 970 alphabetically arranged entries, this single-volume encyclopedia examines both high and popular culture in the UK, and encompasses everything British--from architecture to pubs to film to internet to the monarchy. This unique encyclopedia casts its net over the whole range of British contemporary life. Entries range from short biographical synopses of the careers of key individuals to longer overview articles exploring the main issues within contemporary cultural debates. Bringing together subjects rarely found in one volume, the Encyclopedia defines "culture" in its broadest sense

Authors:Peter Childs, Roger Fowler,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, dictionaries, terms, literary, dictionary
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2005-11-10
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415340179
ISBN-13: 9780415340175

A twenty-first century version of Roger Fowler’s 1973 Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms, this latest edition of The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms is the most up-to-date guide to critical and theoretical concepts available to students of literature at all levels. With over forty newly commissioned entries, this essential reference book includes: an exhaustive range of entries, covering such topics as genre, form, cultural theory and literary technique new definitions of contemporary critical issues such as Cybercriticism and Globalization complete coverage of traditional and radic