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Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432954393
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind Rubber written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to rubber and its uses.
Author : John Tully
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583672613
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Devil’s Milk written by John Tully and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the modern world told through the multiple lives of rubber Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution and beyond, rubber is one of a handful of commodities that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world, and yet, as John Tully shows in this remarkable book, laboring people around the globe have every reason to regard it as “the devil’s milk.” All the advancements made possible by rubber—industrial machinery, telegraph technology, medical equipment, countless consumer goods—have occurred against a backdrop of seemingly endless exploitation, conquest, slavery, and war. But Tully is quick to remind us that the vast terrain of rubber production has always been a site of struggle, and that the oppressed who toil closest to “the devil’s milk” in all its forms have never accepted their immiseration without a fight. This book, the product of exhaustive scholarship carried out in many countries and several continents, is destined to become a classic. Tully tells the story of humanity’s long encounter with rubber in a kaleidoscopic narrative that regards little as outside its range without losing sight of the commodity in question. With the skill of a master historian and the elegance of a novelist, he presents what amounts to a history of the modern world told through the multiple lives of rubber.
Author : Markus Motum
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536227862
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans written by Markus Motum and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco facts come to light as a plastic duck narrates this beautifully illustrated true story of thousands of bath toys that were lost at sea and swept to the four corners of the Pacific. If a shipping container filled with 28,000 plastic ducks spilled into the Pacific Ocean, where would all those ducks go? Inspired by a real incident, this captivating and innovative look at the pollution crisis in our oceans follows one of the ducks as it is washed away on ocean currents, encountering plastic-endangered whales and sea turtles and passing through the giant floating island of marine debris known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. From the author-illustrator of the acclaimed Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover comes a highly accessible and graphically stylish picture book with an ultimately hopeful message about environmental issues and the state of our oceans. An end map documents the widely scattered journey of the real-life plastic ducks, showing where they have been found, as well as facts about the ways plastic is affecting various parts of the world.
Author : Donovan Hohn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110147596X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Moby-Duck written by Donovan Hohn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn heard of the mysterious loss of thousands of bath toys at sea, he figured he would interview a few oceanographers, talk to a few beachcombers, and read up on Arctic science and geography. But questions can be like ocean currents: wade in too far, and they carry you away. Hohn's accidental odyssey pulls him into the secretive world of shipping conglomerates, the daring work of Arctic researchers, the lunatic risks of maverick sailors, and the shadowy world of Chinese toy factories. Moby-Duck is a journey into the heart of the sea and an adventure through science, myth, the global economy, and some of the worst weather imaginable. With each new discovery, Hohn learns of another loose thread, and with each successive chase, he comes closer to understanding where his castaway quarry comes from and where it goes. In the grand tradition of Tony Horwitz and David Quammen, Moby-Duck is a compulsively readable narrative of whimsy and curiosity.
Author : Christin Ditchfield
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432954415
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind Plastic written by Christin Ditchfield and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, uses, and manufacture of plastics.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432954385
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind Paper written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses paper's history, its manufacture, and its uses in the world today.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432954431
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind Maps written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of maps, examines some commonly used maps, and describes how to use them.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432954342
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind Coal written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what coal is, what its uses are, how it is obtained, and the environmental challenges it causes.
Author : Greg Kihn
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 149763752X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Rubber Soul written by Greg Kihn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1980s rock icon Greg Kihn spins a magical mystery tour headlined by the Beatles, who find themselves in jeopardy when murder rocks their world. For Bob “Dust Bin” Dingle, R&B is a passion his roughneck brothers don’t understand. But when a mop-haired group of Liverpudlians named John, Paul, George, and Ringo stumble into Dust Bin Bob’s secondhand shop on Penny Lane and gawk at his sparkling collection of 45s, everyone’s in perfect harmony. Stirred by the thumping backbeats of Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Bo Diddley, the Fab Four rocket to stardom. As Beatlemania catapults them from the Cavern Club to The Ed Sullivan Show in record time, the lads show they’ve also got a talent for getting into trouble. Fortunately, Dust Bin Bob has a way of showing up just in time to lend them a hand. But when the world tour for Rubber Soul lands in the Philippines, trouble turns deadly. Exhausted from an eight-days-a-week schedule, the fab four snub a personal invite from Imelda Marcos, who just won’t let it be. Suddenly, thousands of fans turn menacing, and murder is in the air. It’s up to Dust Bin Bob to sort out the mess if they to get back on the plane alive . . .
Author : Eric Carle
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006196428X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book 10 Little Rubber Ducks Board Book written by Eric Carle and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 little rubber ducks overboard! Get swept away on a high-seas voyage of discovery with 10 little rubber ducks as they float to every part of the world. They all find adventure, but one duck finds something very special!
Author : John Kruth
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1617136425
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (171 download)
Download or read book This Bird Has Flown written by John Kruth and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). The Beatles' sixth studio album, Rubber Soul , was a game changer. By December 1965, when the album was released, the Beatles had played the first arena rock show at Shea Stadium for 55,000 delirious fans, been awarded MBE (Member of British Empire) medals, and were indisputably the greatest musical phenomenon since Elvis Presley. With their first film, A Hard Day's Night , John, Paul, George, and Ringo laid down the blueprint for everyone who ever wanted to form a group. The movie, entertaining as it was, became an instruction manual for aspiring pop stars of the day on how to play, dress, and act. Richard Lester's 1964 comedy turned out to be the touchstone for every music video that followed. Then, with the release of Rubber Soul , the Beatles created an artistic benchmark to which their peers measured their craft and creativity. Touring the world over two years, the band had grown up fast. Both musically and lyrically their new album represented a major leap. Upon hearing Rubber Soul , Bob Dylan allegedly remarked, "I get it, you're not cute anymore." Newsweek hailed the Beatles as "the Bards of Pop," while critic Greil Marcus claimed Rubber Soul was "the best album they would ever make." For Traffic's Steve Winwood, the album "broke everything open. It crossed music into a whole new dimension and was responsible for kicking off the sixties rock era." In This Bird Has Flown , John Kruth not only analyzes the songs and making of Rubber Soul , putting the album in context of the turbulent times in which it was created, but captures the spirit of musical innovation and poetry that makes the record a standout in the Beatle's canon.
Author : Gilbert Gottfried
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429978562
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Rubber Balls and Liquor written by Gilbert Gottfried and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More than a national treasure, he’s a secret weapon. If we had had Gilbert Gottfried in World War II, Hitler would have given up in 1942.” —Stephen King In the early 1970s, as our nation’s youth railed against every conceivable societal norm, a funny-looking teenage Jew started turning up at open mike nights in various New York City comedy clubs. Surprisingly, he didn’t suck. That funny-looking teenage Jew is now the even funnier-looking middle-aged comedian Gilbert Gottfried, who despite his transparent shortcomings has managed to carve out a hardly-respectable career—and a reputation for shock and awe unrivaled outside the Bush administration. With this scathingly funny book of rants and musings, Gottfried sullies an entirely new medium with his dysfunctional worldview. Hilarious highlights include: Gut-wrenching stories from his bizarre childhood A list of celebrities Gilbert would like to have sex with A somewhat shorter list of celebrities who would like to have sex with Gilbert An even shorter list of Gilbert’s comely co-stars who have been forced to have sex with him on-screen Side-splitting tales of the worst gigs he’s ever performed Incredibly awkward encounters with famous people from Gilbert’s years as a celebrity (of sorts), including Harrison Ford, Kiefer Sutherland, Hugh Hefner and one wildly offensive exchange with Marlee Matlin that left the actress speechless Signature takes on timeless jokes, presented in a clip ‘n’ save format so humorless readers can commit them to memory or tear them from the book’s spine and carry them around in their wallets to amuse their friends The story behind Gilbert’s infamous retelling of the classic “Aristocrats” routine that defined the most recent phase of his career And much more!
Author : Edmund Dene Morel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Red Rubber written by Edmund Dene Morel and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregg Mitman
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973782
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Empire of Rubber written by Gregg Mitman and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1432954377
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind Glass written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history, use, and manufacture of glass.
Author : Jessica Borge
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228004268
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Protective Practices written by Jessica Borge and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble beginnings wholesaling at a small tobacconist-hairdresser shop in 1915, the London Rubber Company rapidly became the UK's biggest postwar producer and exporter of disposable rubber condoms. A first-mover and innovator, the company's continuous product development and strong brands (including Durex) allowed it to dominate supply to the retail trade and family planning clinics, leading it to intercede in the burgeoning women's market. When oral contraceptives came along, however, the company was caught in a bind between defending condoms against the pill and claiming a segment of the new birth control market for itself. In this first major study on the company, Jessica Borge shows how, despite the "unmentionable" status of condoms that inhibited advertising in the early twentieth century, aggressive business practices were successfully deployed to protect the monopoly and squash competition. Through close, evidence-based examination of LRC's first fifty years, encompassing its most challenging decades, the 1950s and 1960s, as well as an overview of later years including the AIDS crisis, Borge argues that the story of the modern disposable condom in Britain is really the story of the London Rubber Company, the circumstances that befell it, the struggles that beset it, the causes that opposed it, and the opportunities it created for itself. LRC's historic intervention in and contribution to female contraceptive practices sits uneasily with existing narratives centred on women's control of reproduction, but the time has come, Borge argues, for the condom to find its way back to the centre of these debates. Protective Practices thereby re-examines a key transitional moment in social and cultural history through the lens of this unusual case study.
Author : Emily Prokop
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 163353829X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)
Download or read book The Story Behind written by Emily Prokop and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising history of ordinary things Learn the fascinating history and trivia you never knew about things we use daily from the host of The Story Behind podcast. Everyday objects and major events in history: Every single thing that surrounds us has a story behind it. Many of us learn the history of humans and the major inventions that shaped our world. But what you may not have learned is the history of objects we surround ourselves with every day. You might not even know how the major events in history (World Wars, ancient civilizations, revolutions, etc.) influenced the inventions of things we use today. The history and science behind the ordinary: From the creator of The Story Behind podcast comes this revelatory new book. The Story Behind will give insight into everyday objects we don’t think much about when we use them. Topics covered in the podcast will be examined in more detail along with many new fascinating topics. Learn how lollipops got started in Ancient Egypt, how podcasts were invented, and why Comic Sans was created. Learn the torture device origins of certain exercise equipment and the espionage beginnings of certain musical instruments. Ordinary things from science to art, food to sports, customs to fashion, and more are explored. Readers will: • Understand the wonders behind everyday objects • Learn truly obscure history and fun facts that will change the way they see the world • Learn how major historic events still affect us today through seemingly mundane things • Become formidable trivia masters
