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Why Things Break

Author : Mark Eberhart
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307422690
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Why Things Break written by Mark Eberhart and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know— • It took more than an iceberg to sink the Titanic. • The Challenger disaster was predicted. • Unbreakable glass dinnerware had its origin in railroad lanterns. • A football team cannot lose momentum. • Mercury thermometers are prohibited on airplanes for a crucial reason. • Kryptonite bicycle locks are easily broken. “Things fall apart” is more than a poetic insight—it is a fundamental property of the physical world. Why Things Break explores the fascinating question of what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. When Mark Eberhart was growing up in the 1960s, he learned that splitting an atom leads to a terrible explosion—which prompted him to worry that when he cut into a stick of butter, he would inadvertently unleash a nuclear cataclysm. Years later, as a chemistry professor, he remembered this childhood fear when he began to ponder the fact that we know more about how to split an atom than we do about how a pane of glass breaks. In Why Things Break, Eberhart leads us on a remarkable and entertaining exploration of all the cracks, clefts, fissures, and faults examined in the field of materials science and the many astonishing discoveries that have been made about everything from the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger to the crashing of your hard drive. Understanding why things break is crucial to modern life on every level, from personal safety to macroeconomics, but as Eberhart reveals here, it is also an area of cutting-edge science that is as provocative as it is illuminating.

Things to Make and Break

Author : May-Lan Tan
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895359
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Things to Make and Break written by May-Lan Tan and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eleven short fictions evoke the microcosmic worlds every human relationship contains. A woman is captivated by the stories her boyfriend tells about his exes. A faltering artist goes on a date with a married couple. Twin brothers work out their rivalry via the girl next door. In every one of these tales, we meet indelibly real and unforgettable people, a cast of rebels and dreamers trying to transform themselves, forge new destinies, or simply make the moment last.

Move Fast and Break Things

Author : Jonathan Taplin
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316275743
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Move Fast and Break Things written by Jonathan Taplin and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that started the Techlash. A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age. Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms -- Facebook, Amazon, and Google -- that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries. Jonathan Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page: overlooking piracy of books, music, and film while hiding behind opaque business practices and subordinating the privacy of individual users in order to create the surveillance-marketing monoculture in which we now live. The enormous profits that have come with this concentration of power tell their own story. Since 2001, newspaper and music revenues have fallen by 70 percent; book publishing, film, and television profits have also fallen dramatically. Revenues at Google in this same period grew from $400 million to $74.5 billion. Today, Google's YouTube controls 60 percent of all streaming-audio business but pay for only 11 percent of the total streaming-audio revenues artists receive. More creative content is being consumed than ever before, but less revenue is flowing to the creators and owners of that content. The stakes here go far beyond the livelihood of any one musician or journalist. As Taplin observes, the fact that more and more Americans receive their news, as well as music and other forms of entertainment, from a small group of companies poses a real threat to democracy. Move Fast and Break Things offers a vital, forward-thinking prescription for how artists can reclaim their audiences using knowledge of the past and a determination to work together. Using his own half-century career as a music and film producer and early pioneer of streaming video online, Taplin offers new ways to think about the design of the World Wide Web and specifically the way we live with the firms that dominate it.

Why Do Things Break?

Author : R.A. Goodrich
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527534766
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Why Do Things Break? written by R.A. Goodrich and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study interrogates the breakages that occur in peoples’ lives such as psychological breakdowns, political ruptures, and the effects of history evolving ideologically such that the axioms of the past are overturned and people subsequently lose their sense of identity or purpose. The book combines creative writing pieces in which writers draw from personal experiences to demonstrate the impact of breakages with more discursive essays that question artificial breakdowns between disciplines and the imperative that underpins all knowledge: its provisional nature in conflict with the human need to categorize and define. It focuses on the psychologies that haunt creative autobiographical pieces, as well as the plight of broken minds and bodies in the face of trauma, historical change and political events. It also looks directly at the ideas of thinkers and artists from the past and the impact their work may still have despite shifting paradigms, ruptures and re-formations. Furthermore, it queries new formations by directly asking: why did former ideas break and why the need for salvaging the past (or authenticating the present) by identifying precursors?

Things That Break

Author : Sherry Kramer
Publisher : Broadway Play Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780881458022
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Things That Break written by Sherry Kramer and published by Broadway Play Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you make glass for a living, your body breaks. Victor, the last in a long line of glassmakers, lies under the knife on the operating table for heart and lung surgery, while his family waits to know if he will live or die. An inside-out surrealist ride on the wishes and fears of a family as they wait in a hospital waiting room, where every thought and terror becomes manifest. It is a play about the end of the American manufacturing era, a postmodern history of glass making, and a tale about the need we have to turn the story of our breakable lives into an unbreakable story. "Sherry Kramer's THINGS THAT BREAK is a terribly difficult, painfully beautiful play in which everything is broken. The storytelling is jagged, taking surreal twists as it shifts back and forth between the worried wife of a man having heart surgery and her grown son and daughter... This is a wildly imaginative piece of work... ...listening to Miss Kramer's kaleidoscopic language...is like being under some hallucinogenic anesthetic..." Nelson Pressley, The Washington Times "You may have heard that playwright Sherry Kramer is biting off more than she can chew in THINGS THAT BREAK, her free-form comedy about sibling rivalry, heart surgery, and the American dream. Don't believe it. The lady chews like a champion. Chomps, actually, greedily bobbling up insights that would surely escape lesser writers, just as she did when introducing the metaphysics-obsessed lesbian lovers of DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH..." Bob Mondello, CityPaper

Take a Break Before You Break

Author : Breeda Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943043590
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Take a Break Before You Break written by Breeda Miller and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a Break Before You Break52 Practical Self-Care Tips

How Things Break

Author : Kerala Goodkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Things Break written by Kerala Goodkin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. HOW THINGS BREAK by Kerala Goodkin is the winner of the Elixir Press Inaugural Fiction Award. It tells the story of Nat, a young woman who can't sit still. As the world she knows begins to crumble, mimicking the slow disintegration of the house she illegally occupies, she explores the limitations of her personal relationships, her ambition, and the small town she calls home. Kerala Goodkin began writing HOW THINGS BREAK at age 21, during her senior year at Brown University. While in college, she cofounded The Glimpse Foundation and currently serves as Editor-In-Chief of Glimpse Magazine, as well as contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler on Campus. Kerala also volunteers as the Translator and PR Coordinator for the Committee of Immigrants in Action.

Break the Wheel

Author : Jay Acunzo
Publisher : Unthinkable Media
ISBN 13 : 9781544501055
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Break the Wheel written by Jay Acunzo and published by Unthinkable Media. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world is flooded by advice, ideas, and experts, but we shouldn

The Far Shore

Author : Paul T. Scheuring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998450209
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Far Shore written by Paul T. Scheuring and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gone for Lunch

Author : Laura Archer
Publisher : Quadrille Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781849499910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Gone for Lunch written by Laura Archer and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the pleasure of taking a real lunch break, and improve your health, happiness, and productivity. Statistics show that only one-third of American workers leave their desk to take a lunch break, which has a negative effect on productivity, creativity, and innovation. Gone for Lunch is a friendly, fun, and inspirational book that offers readers ideas for how they can reclaim their lunch break! With a challenge included for every week of the year, each activity is designed to be suitable for anyone anywhere—at home or at work, in the city or the countryside. Drawing buildings, trying yoga, volunteering, going for bike rides, handwriting letters: her challenges range from indoor to outdoor, active to sedentary, and the health benefits are endless.

Things Don't Break

Author : Richard Rosenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988040196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Things Don't Break written by Richard Rosenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Short fiction collection ranging from the literary to the speculative."--

New Scientist

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book New Scientist written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Management and Administration in Manufacturing Industries

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Management and Administration in Manufacturing Industries written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The National Civic Federation Review

Author : Ralph Montgomery Easley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The National Civic Federation Review written by Ralph Montgomery Easley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catholic World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Catholic World written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Town Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Town Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Everybody's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Everybody's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: