For example, two students studying engineering degrees, who had familiarity with mathematical modelling, were quickly surrounded by a particular network of objects (the modelling software, scribbled equations, coffee machine, books and so on) and people who separated them from the activity of the laboratory.
The Stadium by Tim Abrahams (Machine Books, £8) And so to Beijing's "bird's-nest" Olympic stadium, which one engineer who worked on Munich's stadium called, with enjoyably rivalrous vitriol, an "insult to birds".
Although transporting solids by pipeline is more difficult and more costly than transporting liquid and gas by pipeline, in many situations pipelines have been chosen to transport solids ranging from coal and other minerals over long distances or to transport grain, rocks, cement, concrete, solid wastes, pulp, machine parts, books, and hundreds of other products over short distances.
A floor of the old factory has been filled with artworks about its past as "the one-time shirt-making capital of the world", with sewing machines, cloth, books and archive material strewn around as if at random.
Originally the firm acted as an agent of UAC and was trading in sewing machines, religious books and bicycles.
With Cristiana Baik, he is currently assembling the Letter Machine Book of Interviews.
When a professor invents a machine that writes books, and then uses that machine to write more than 200,000 different books, there arises the question, "Why?" Among Parker's bestselling books (as ranked by Amazon.co.uk) one finds surprises.
The exhibition was planned to consist of nine rooms, symbolic settings decorated with paintings, photographs, machines, books nailed to tables and video screens where films would play continuously.
His book reminds me of those that promote conspiracy theories or perpetual-motion machines, books full of detail and scientific-sounding authority that collapse when you look for foundations.
In his 1945 novel "Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer," Kenneth Patchen skewers postwar literary pretensions by imagining a machine that writes books, and another that reviews them for the New York Times.
My only question is whether or not the quality of vending-machine books is any better than vending-machine food.
