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Hydraulic Musical Automata in Italian Villas and Other Ingenia. 1400-2000 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man
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Marshall McLuhan
4.03 avg rating β 321 ratings 3. 
Juanelo Turriano, Charles V's Clockmaker: The Man and His Legend (Monograph Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating β 2,737 ratings 7. 
Japanese Automata, Karakuri Zui: An Eighteenth Century Japanese Manual of Automatic Mechanical Devices
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murakami kazuo
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 7. 
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
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Kevin Roose
3.95 avg rating β 2,194 ratings 9. 
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
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Adrienne Mayor
3.71 avg rating β 667 ratings 9. 
The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths
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Angela Vanhaelen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 11. 
Stage Effect Sensations: An Astounding History Revealing Amazing Mechanical Devices
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Harry Stone
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 11. 
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #1)
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Philip K. Dick
4.04 avg rating β 4,318 ratings 13. 
A Mechanical Bestiary: Automaton Clocks of the Renaissance, 1580-1640
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Alexis Kugel
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
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Robin Hanson
3.43 avg rating β 601 ratings 
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Display Animation: The Year Book of Motion Displays, 1938
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Ira Lee Cochrane
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 19. 
Flying Cars, Zombie Dogs, and Robot Overlords: How World's Fairs and Trade Expos Changed the World
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Charles Pappas
3.96 avg rating β 25 ratings 
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Amazing Adventures, Volume 4, Invasion of the Love Robots
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Jerry Siegel
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
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Ian Morris
3.94 avg rating β 1,494 ratings 25. 
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Antique Phonograph Gadgets, Gizmos, and Gimmicks (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
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P.W. Singer
3.97 avg rating β 2,592 ratings 29. 
Ethel's World: The Ethel Holmes Collection of Automata it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Robots on Their Battlefields: And other New York World's Fair poems
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Walter Makowski
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
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Dronescapes: The New Aerial Photography from Dronestagram
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Dronestagram
3.81 avg rating β 59 ratings 35. 
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The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law
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Jameel Jaffer
4.09 avg rating β 33 ratings 37. 
Hunter Killer: The True Story of the Drone Mission That Killed Anwar al-Awlaki
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T. Mark McCurley
3.88 avg rating β 395 ratings 37. 
The Violin-Playing Machines: Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina, Mills Violano-Virtuoso: A Study and Appreciation
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Q. David Bowers
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
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Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend
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Elizabeth King
4.56 avg rating β 9 ratings 41. 
Clockwork Universe: German Clocks and Automata, 1550-1650
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K. Maurice
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 41. 
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
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Jeremy Scahill
3.90 avg rating β 899 ratings 43. 
Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology: Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities (Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology)
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Kara Reilly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 43. 
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
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Scott Shane
4.08 avg rating β 596 ratings 45. 
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Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare
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William M. Arkin
3.36 avg rating β 55 ratings 
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Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
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Andrew Cockburn
3.82 avg rating β 785 ratings 49. 
Baranger: Window displays in motion : dramatizing the jewel
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John A. Daniel
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 49. 
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
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Richard Whittle
4.11 avg rating β 349 ratings 51. 
The Geometry of Power: Mathematical Instruments and Princely Mechanics Around 1600
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Michael Korey
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 51. 
Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren't Making Us Safer
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Sylvia Longmire
3.88 avg rating β 43 ratings 
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Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare
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Lloyd C. Gardner
3.55 avg rating β 40 ratings 
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The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare
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Nick Turse
3.39 avg rating β 98 ratings 61. 
Savage of King's Lynn: Inventor of machines & merry-go-rounds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare
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Noam Chomsky
3.84 avg rating β 1,072 ratings 63. 
Bibliotheca Magica Et Pneumatica/Dictionary of Magic and Pneumatics: Occult Sciences - Folklore 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 69) 3.32 avg rating β 72 ratings
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
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Melanie Mitchell
4.35 avg rating β 3,493 ratings 65. 
Greek and Roman Mechanical Water-Lifting Devices: The History of a Technology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Playing Their Parts: 19th Century Automata, Musical Boxes and Singing Birds it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Amir Husain
3.54 avg rating β 849 ratings 69. 
Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid
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Moshe Idel
4.37 avg rating β 43 ratings 69. 
Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence--and Where It's Taking Us Next
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Luke Dormehl
3.57 avg rating β 451 ratings 71. 
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence 3.86 avg rating β 277 ratings
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A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
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Flynn Coleman
3.56 avg rating β 290 ratings 75. 
Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology: From Philo to al-Jazari β from Alexandria to Diyar Bakr 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence 3.83 avg rating β 203 ratings
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Enchanting Robots: Intimacy, Magic, and Technology
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Maciej MusiaΕ
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 77. 
T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
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Michael Kanaan
3.76 avg rating β 696 ratings 79. 
Dinomania: The Lost Art of Winsor McCay, The Secret Origins o
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Ulrich Merkl
4.41 avg rating β 17 ratings 
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Oiseaux de bonheur: tabatières et automates - Flights of Fancy: Mechanical Singing Birds
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Christian Bailly
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 81. 
Outside the Jukebox: How I Turned My Vintage Music Obsession Into My Dream Gig
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Scott Bradlee
4.26 avg rating β 408 ratings 
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A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover
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Robert Polito
3.33 avg rating β 6 ratings 
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Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM122)
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Yoseph Bar-Cohen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 87. 
Androids in the Enlightenment: Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self
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Adelheid Voskuhl
3.83 avg rating β 23 ratings 87. 
Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World: Man of Visions Now on This Earth
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Howard Finster
4.38 avg rating β 40 ratings 89. 
Richard Sutcliffe: The Pioneer of Underground Belt Conveying
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R. J. Sutcliffe
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 90. 
Scenes and Machines on the English Stage during the Renaissance: A Classical Revival 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Nathan Coppedge's Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory
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Nathan Coppedge
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection
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David Dufty
3.52 avg rating β 315 ratings 95. 
Karakuri Ningyo: Japanese Automata = γγγγδΊΊε½’
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Yasuko Senda
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 96. 
The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series) 4.45 avg rating β 40 ratings
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Collector's Guide to Motion Lamps, Identification & Values
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Sam Samuelian
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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Faster, Faster: A Simple Description of a Giant Electronic Calculator and the Problems it Solves
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W.J. Eckert
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 100. 
The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention
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Paul Scheerbart
3.97 avg rating β 110 ratings