Author: W. J. Rorabaugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: sixties, promise, kennedy
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2002-09-16
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0521816173
ISBN-13: 9780521816175

W.J. Rorabaugh offers a social history of the early 1960s through the lens of John F. Kennedy’s presidential career. JFK, writes Rorabaugh, "was both a unique figure and a true representative of his times." He governed during the bleakest years of the Cold War, which coincided with the emergence of the civil rights movement, the rise of feminist ambition, and, through the Beats, the invention of postmodernism. The myth of Camelot has led many Americans to believe that these were a final few idyllic years before the disastrous arrival of political assassinations, urban riots, and failure

Author: W.J. Rorabaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: 1960s, war, berkeley
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1990-12-13
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0195066677
ISBN-13: 9780195066678

Berkeley, California stood at the center of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period in American history. In Berkeley at War, W.J. Rorabaugh, who attended the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s, presents a lively, informative account of the events that changed forever what had once been a quiet, conservative white suburb. Rorabaugh’s meticulously researched, authoritative narrative covers the entire period, from the rise of the Free Speech Movement to the growth and increasing militance of a black community

Author: W. J. Rorabaugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sixties, promise, kennedy
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2004-03-21
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 0521543835
ISBN-13: 9780521543835

This book explores life in America during that brief promising period in the early sixties when John F. Kennedy was the U.S. president. Kennedy’s optimism and charm helped to give promise to the times. At the same time, Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried Americans, while the 1962 Missile Crisis narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster. Early in the decade, the Civil Rights movement gained momentum through student sit-ins and Freedom Rides. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a powerful spokesman for non-violent social change and gave his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech at the

Author: W.J. Rorabaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: tradition, american, republic, alcoholic
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1981-09-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195029909
ISBN-13: 9780195029901

"Rorabaugh has written a well thought out and intriguing social history of America’s great alcoholic binge that occurred between 1790 and 1830, what he terms ’a key formative period’ in our history....A pioneering work that illuminates a part of our heritage that can no longer be neglected in future studies of America’s social fabric. A bold and frequently illuminating attempt to investigate the relationship of a single social custom to the central features of our historical experience....A book which always asks interesting questions and provides many provocative answe

Author: W.J. Rorabaugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: america, machine, franklin, apprentice, craft
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1988-02-11
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0195051890
ISBN-13: 9780195051896

The apprentice system in colonial America began as a way for young men to learn valuable trade skills from experienced artisans and mechanics and soon flourished into a fascinating and essential social institution. Benjamin Franklin got his start in life as an apprentice, as did Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, William Dean Howells, Willian Lloyd Garrison, and many other famous Americans. But the Industrial Revolution brought with it radical changes in the lives of craft apprentices. In this book, W. J. Rorabaugh has woven an intriguing collection of case histories, gleaned from numerous letters,

Author: C. Britton Rorabaugh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
Keywords: experimenter, electronics, devices, mechanical
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 1995-03-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0070535477
ISBN-13: 9780070535473

At last! The nuts and bolts of building robotics... MECHANICAL DEVICES FOR THE ELECTRONICS EXPERIMENTER Here’s the book electronics experimenters have been waiting for... a how-to book for designing and fabricating the mechnical devices for motion and positioning in robotic applications-as well as others. Filled with easy-to-understand illustrations, this unique guide describes in detail how to: design robot propulsion systems; fabricate components for pneumatic systems; design simple hydraulic systems and motor controller circuits; design and fabricate solenoids, gear trains and cams; a

Author: C. Britton Rorabaugh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: primer, dsp
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0070540047
ISBN-13: 9780070540040

For day-to-day digital signal processing, you simply can’t find a better source than DSP Primer. After a concise statement of the applicable theory, this clear, practical book/CD package hands you ready-to-apply tools that cover the vast majority of digital signal processing deployment challenges. You get more than 200 useful algorithms, mathematical models, and design procedures; code in both executable Windows and source forms; and a step-by-step approach to solving problems and selecting techniques. DSP Primer covers digital filtering methods, discrete transform techniques, digital sp