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Inventology

Author : Pagan Kennedy
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544324013
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Inventology written by Pagan Kennedy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out where great ideas come from in this “delightful account of how inventors do what they do” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won’t spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these—the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed —we can learn how people imagine their way around “impossible” problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities. Inventology uses the stories of inventors and surprising research to reveal the steps that produce innovation. Recent advances in technology and communication have placed us at the cusp of a golden age; it’s now more possible than ever before to transform ideas into actuality. Inventology is a must-read for designers, artists, makers—and anyone else who is curious about creativity. By identifying the steps of the invention process, Kennedy reveals the imaginative tools required to solve our most challenging problems. “There’s ample interest here even for readers who aren’t actively inventing anything.” —The Boston Globe

Inventology by Pagan Kennedy (Summary)

Author : QuickRead
Publisher : QuickRead.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventology by Pagan Kennedy (Summary) written by QuickRead and published by QuickRead.com. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want more free book summaires like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. Find out the science behind invention and how we have dreamed up inventions that have changed the world. When people think of inventors, many might conjure up images of mad scientists mixing chemicals in laboratories, creating dangerous concoctions, wearing white coats with bloodshot eyes from working hours into the night. In reality, many of the most successful inventors simply brought their ideas to life in their homes, probably wearing pajamas! Take Jake Stap, for example, who in the late 1960s worked as a tennis coach in Wisconsin. His problem? His back ached from stooping down to retrieve hundreds of balls a day. Surely there was a better way. One day, he discovered that the ball could squeeze through metal bars and take a one-way trip into a wire bin. After fooling around at home with various baskets and wires, he created what he called a “ball hopper.” Soon, everyone wanted one. People see the invention today and say, “I could’ve thought of that.” Yet, it took nearly a century of tennis-playing for someone to create a seemingly obvious invention. So what does this invention have in common with others? As you read, you’ll discover the common denominator that many inventions have, how lucky people are more likely to create something, and how the Wayne Gretzky Game can help you invent something revolutionary.

Inventology

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ISBN 13 : 9781680659122
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (591 download)

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Flash of Genius

Author : John Seabrook
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312535728
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Flash of Genius written by John Seabrook and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays explore inspiration and entrepreneurship in everyday Americans, including the story of Bob Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.

Everything Below the Waist

Author : Jennifer Block
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781250110053
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Everything Below the Waist written by Jennifer Block and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy. Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors' office has remained stuck in time. Block returns to the 1970s women's health movement to understand how in today's supposed age of empowerment, women's bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control—particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives. In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies.

Engineering Education for the Next Generation: A Nature-Inspired Approach

Author : Samuel Cord Stier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393713784
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Education for the Next Generation: A Nature-Inspired Approach written by Samuel Cord Stier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide your students through the fascinating world of engineering, and how to draw inspiration from Nature’s genius to create, make, and innovate a better human-built world. Studded with more than 150 illustrations of natural phenomena and engineering concepts, this fascinating and practical book clearly demonstrates how engineering design is broadly relevant for all students, not just those who may become scientists or engineers. Mr. Stier describes clever, engaging activities for students at every grade level to grasp engineering concepts by exploring the everyday design genius of the natural world around us. Students will love learning about structural engineering while standing on eggs; investigating concepts in sustainable design by manufacturing cement out of car exhaust; and coming to understand how ant behavior has revolutionized the way computer programs, robots, movies, and video games are designed today. You will come away with an understanding of engineering and Nature unlike any you’ve had before, while taking your ability to engage students to a whole new level. Engineering Education for the Next Generation is a wonderful introduction to the topic for any teacher who wants to understand more about engineering design in particular, its relation to the larger subjects of STEM/STEAM, and how to engage students from all backgrounds in a way that meaningfully transforms their outlook on the world and their own creativity in a lifelong way. · Fun to read, comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge approaches to K-12 engineering education · Detailed descriptions and explanations to help teachers create activities and lessons · An emphasis on engaging students with broad and diverse interests and backgrounds · Insights from a leading, award-winning K-12 engineering curriculum that has reached thousands of teachers and students in the U.S. and beyond · Additional support website (www.LearningWithNature.org) providing more background, videos, curricula, slide decks, and other supplemental materials

Inventing the World

Author : Meredith Small
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135392
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the World written by Meredith Small and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. But Venice is far from a historic relic or a life-sized museum. It is a living city that still embraces its innovative roots. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural history to inspire a new generation of innovators.

Black Livingstone

Author : Pagan Kennedy
Publisher : Santa Fe Writer's Project
ISBN 13 : 0988225247
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Black Livingstone written by Pagan Kennedy and published by Santa Fe Writer's Project. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A largely untold story of an extraordinary historical figure, this biography sheds light on the life of William Sheppard, a 19th-century African American who, for more than 20 years, defied segregation and operated a missionary run by black Americans in the Belgian Congo. This work shows how Sheppard returned to the United States periodically, and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to packed auditoriums. An anthropologist, photographer, big-game hunter, and art collector, the man billed as the &“Black Livingstone&” helped expose the atrocities that occurred under the reign of King Leopold, and this stirring work tells how he eventually helped to break Belgium's hold on the Congo.

The Moro Cookbook

Author : Samantha Clark
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1529921651
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Moro Cookbook written by Samantha Clark and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 2001, Moro: The Cookbook has been one of the most talked about, praised and cherished cookbooks of its time. Sam & Sam Clark share a passion for the food of Spain, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean and their London restaurant, Moro, was born out of a desire to cook within these wonderful traditions and to explore exotic flavours little known in the UK. Both the recipe book and restaurant have been showered with awards, accolades and endorsements and the Clarks have built up a legion of devoted fans. In their first book, Sam and Sam have distilled the restaurant's most accomplished and delicious recipes, those that have ensured its extraordinary success. Authenticity is key and their food remains true to the origins of the dishes - heady fusions of warm spices and fiery sauces, slow-cooked earthy stews and delicate flavourings. This is a must-have book for every cook's shelves, written and designed with palpable passion and insight.

The Problem of Alzheimer's

Author : Jason Karlawish
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250218748
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Alzheimer's written by Jason Karlawish and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and compelling book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses. In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. 16 million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their seventies and eighties, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2050. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, The Problem of Alzheimer's traces Alzheimer’s from its beginnings to its recognition as a crisis. While it is an unambiguous account of decades of missed opportunities and our health care systems’ failures to take action, it tells the story of the biomedical breakthroughs that may allow Alzheimer’s to finally be prevented and treated by medicine and also presents an argument for how we can live with dementia: the ways patients can reclaim their autonomy and redefine their sense of self, how families can support their loved ones, and the innovative reforms we can make as a society that would give caregivers and patients better quality of life. Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center.

The Race to Truth

Author : Emma O'Reilly
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552171077
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Race to Truth written by Emma O'Reilly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emma O'Reilly joined the US Postal cycling team in 1996, she could have had no idea how she would become a central figure in the biggest doping scandal in sporting history. Yet when Lance Armstrong, starting his comeback from cancer, signed for US Postal, it was Emma, the only woman on the team, who became his personal soigneur. This is the definitive inside story of that time, and of the enormous repercussions that resonate to this day for Emma, Lance and the whole sport. Emma had the strength to break cycling's omerta by speaking out against the culture of doping. She thought she would be one of many whistleblowers, doing what she believed was right. Isolated and shunned by the sport she loved, however, her reputation was systematically destroyed. And yet she had the courage to bounce back, and remarkably, to forgive those who made her existence a living hell. This is the ultimate memoir of truth and its many consequences.

Bourbon Empire

Author : Reid Mitenbuler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014310814X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Bourbon Empire written by Reid Mitenbuler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pulls aside the curtain of puffery to show . . . the business of liquor to be every bit as fascinating as the fictions in which the distillers love to swaddle themselves.” —Wayne Curtis, The Wall Street Journal Walk into a well-stocked liquor store and you’ll see countless whiskey brands, each boasting an inspiring story of independence and heritage. And yet, more than 95% of the nation’s whiskey comes from a small handful of giant companies with links to organized crime, political controversy, and a colorful history that is far different than what appears on modern labels. In Bourbon Empire, Reid Mitenbuler shows how bourbon, America’s most iconic style of whiskey, and the industry surrounding it, really came to be—a saga of shrewd capitalism as well as dedicated craftsmanship. Mitenbuler traces the big names—Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, Evan Williams, and more—back to their origins, exploring bourbon’s founding myths and great successes against the backdrop of America’s economic history. Illusion is separated from reality in a tale reaching back to the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, when the ideologies of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton battled to define the soul of American business. That debate continues today, punctuated along the way by Prohibition-era bootleggers, the liquor-fueled origins of NASCAR, intense consolidation driven by savvy lobbying, and a Madison Avenue plot to release five thousand parrots—trained to screech the name of a popular brand—into the nation’s bars. Today, the whiskey business takes a new turn as a nascent craft distilling movement offers the potential to revolutionize the industry once again. But, as Mitenbuler shows, many take advantage of this excitement while employing questionable business practices, either by masquerading whiskey made elsewhere as their own or by shortcutting the proven production standards that made many historic brands great to begin with. A tale of innovation, success, downfall, and resurrection, Bourbon Empire is an exploration of the spirit in all its unique forms, creating an indelible portrait of both American whiskey and the people who make it.

The World Without Us

Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312427900
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The World Without Us written by Alan Weisman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence

History without Chronology

Author : Stefan Tanaka
Publisher : Lever Press
ISBN 13 : 1643150030
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book History without Chronology written by Stefan Tanaka and published by Lever Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although numerous disciplines recognize multiple ways of conceptualizing time, Stefan Tanaka argues that scholars still overwhelmingly operate on chronological and linear Newtonian or classical time that emerged during the Enlightenment. This short, approachable book implores the humanities and humanistic social sciences to actively embrace the richness of different times that are evident in non-modern societies and have become common in several scientific fields throughout the twentieth century. Tanaka first offers a history of chronology by showing how the social structures built on clocks and calendars gained material expression. Tanaka then proposes that we can move away from this chronology by considering how contemporary scientific understandings of time might be adapted to reconceive the present and pasts. This opens up a conversation that allows for the possibility of other ways to know about and re-present pasts. A multiplicity of times will help us broaden the historical horizon by embracing the heterogeneity of our lives and world via rethinking the complex interaction between stability, repetition, and change. This history without chronology also allows for incorporating the affordances of digital media.

Solution Free Remedials And Conditions

Author : Jim McCourt
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1641665939
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Solution Free Remedials And Conditions written by Jim McCourt and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitions: formal advice on a meaning or an outline. Interpretations: an explanation to a meaning or an action to display something. The pair of these are brothers in arms at the route source to comply the need for education itself. Peripherality is the underrated (undermined often) understudy of the both of these. The writer has more stature than the reader. Time it is for an alternative interpretation; time to see lost that authoritarian acceptance. Peripharality no longer to be viewed as (part of) a lost dimension. Best and most meaningful parts of life are already glossed by the sparkle of peripherality. Elusion remains. Now comes the quest for remedies, answers and solutions (or other)!!!

Why Women Talk and Men Walk

Author : Patricia Love
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448147026
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Why Women Talk and Men Walk written by Patricia Love and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know how it can get when a relationship turns sour. Women want to talk things through. Men want to walk away and ignore the problem. By explaining that it is the fundamental differences between men and women that can make relationships so hard, authors Patricia Love and Steven Stosny reveal that the key to a great relationship is rediscovering and maintaining the spark that brought you and your partner together. By following their groundbreaking techniques you will learn how to engage with your partner and reignite the feelings you had when you first met.

Why Information Grows

Author : Cesar Hidalgo
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465039715
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Why Information Grows written by Cesar Hidalgo and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hidalgo has made a bold attempt to synthesize a large body of cutting-edge work into a readable, slender volume. This is the future of growth theory." -- Financial Times What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinarian Cér Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order. At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynamics dictates that over time, order-or information-disappears. Whispers vanish in the wind just like the beauty of swirling cigarette smoke collapses into disorderly clouds. But thermodynamics also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets. Although cities are all pockets where information grows, they are not all the same. For every Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Paris, there are dozens of places with economies that accomplish little more than pulling rocks out of the ground. So, why does the US economy outstrip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did the technology corridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossomed? In each case, the key is how people, firms, and the networks they form make use of information. Seen from Hidalgo's vantage, economies become distributed computers, made of networks of people, and the problem of economic development becomes the problem of making these computers more powerful. By uncovering the mechanisms that enable the growth of information in nature and society, Why Information Grows lays bear the origins of physical order and economic growth. Situated at the nexus of information theory, physics, sociology, and economics, this book propounds a new theory of how economies can do not just more things, but more interesting things.