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Why Things Break
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Author : Mark Eberhart
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Why Things Break written by Mark Eberhart and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Science categories.
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.
Why Things Break
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Author : Mark Eberhart
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2004-09-28
Why Things Break written by Mark Eberhart and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-28 with Science categories.
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. “An engaging personal account not just of the physics and chemistry of materials but of the ethics, economics, and politics of innovation, with delightful bonuses on topics from the origins of ‘ghostly’ noises in old houses to the amazing coevolution of armor and armor-piercing projectiles. If it ain’t broke, Mark Eberhart can tell you why—and explain equally well why a shatterproof world remains beyond our reach.” —Edward Tenner, author of Our Own Devices and Why Things Bite Back “I don’t remember a book that has taught me so much, nor previously encountering a teacher like the marvelous Mark Eberhart, who in Why Things Break provides enlightening and thoroughly captivating scientific explanations of subjects ranging from the structural failures leading to the sinking of the Titanic to everyday, no-less-fascinating topics such as the reason why, even at the same temperature, winter days always seem so much colder in Boston than in Denver.”—Richard Restak, M.D., author of Mozart’s Brain and The Fighter Pilot “Eberhart brings his insights to the reader by weaving personal anecdotes—from his childhood fear that cutting a stick of butter would release the energy of the atoms within to his arrival in Boston for an interview with MIT without a suitable winter coat—into a fascinating discussion of the forces that hold atoms and molecules together. A lively, unvarnished look at chemistry on the cutting edge.” —Kirkus Reviews
Things To Make And Break
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Author : May-Lan Tan
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-06-28
Things To Make And Break written by May-Lan Tan and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-28 with Fiction categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 'Quite dazzling.' TLS 'Plenty of darkness and a sprinkling of magic' Guardian Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. Things to Make and Break is the work of a stylish, exuberant new voice in modern fiction. A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend's desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelgänger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms. 'Mind-blowingly good' PANK 'A visceral collection ' AnOther Magazine
Move Fast And Break Things
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Author : Jonathan Taplin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-04-18
Move Fast And Break Things written by Jonathan Taplin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Seven Things That Make Or Break A Relationship
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Author : Paul McKenna
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-02-13
Seven Things That Make Or Break A Relationship written by Paul McKenna and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-13 with Family & Relationships categories.
***FEATURED ON THE ONE SHOW*** Do you want a happy, fulfilling relationship? Do you want a wonderful future with your partner? Do you want to use the proven scientific principles that make relationships work? Over the past thirty years, Paul McKenna PhD has worked with people facing the biggest challenges in life and some of the most successful people in the world. Now, in this new book, he is turning to one of the most important subjects of all - relationships. Drawn from decades of scientific research, the system in this book includes downloadable audio and video techniques. Everything that Paul McKenna would do in personal session with you on relationships is in this system. The powerful processes provide the answers for anyone who wishes they could make their relationships last, and wants them to get better and better. It provides practical solutions and techniques for personal change that open the way to a stronger, loving future. Sometimes just one significant change can transform a relationship. Here, you can learn all Seven Things that Make or Break a Relationship. *Includes FREE audio and video downloads. IMPORTANT: Before purchasing, please be aware that you will need to use a computer to download this content*
Why Do Things Break
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Author : R.A. Goodrich
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-05-16
Why Do Things Break written by R.A. Goodrich and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-16 with Psychology categories.
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
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Author : Sherry Kramer
language : en
Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
Release Date : 2019-03-04
Things That Break written by Sherry Kramer and has been published by Broadway Play Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-04 with Drama categories.
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
Break The Mould
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Author : Sinéad Burke
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-10-15
Break The Mould written by Sinéad Burke and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS - CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR* 'A lovely lesson in humanity for eager young humans' - Chris O'Dowd. 'This book made me feel proud to be different' - Rosie Jones. Break the Mould with Sinéad Burke - teacher, activist, author and little person. Sometimes we can feel like we are not good enough. That we don't belong. Or that we want to be more like our friends. In this empowering guide, Sinéad Burke draws on her own experiences and encourages young readers to believe in themselves, have pride in who they are and use their voice to make the world a fairer, more inclusive place. From the power of being different, to celebrating the things you love about yourself and helping others do the same, this is a brilliantly inspirational handbook for breaking the mould and finding your place in the world. 'A very important book encouraging us all to celebrate the uniqueness and gift of our own and others' differences, while recognising all of that which we share in common.' - Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
How Things Break
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Author : Kerala Goodkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
How Things Break written by Kerala Goodkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Families categories.
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
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Author : Florian Ledoux
language : fr
Publisher: Steinkis BD
Release Date : 2019-06-11T00:00:00+02:00
Break written by Florian Ledoux and has been published by Steinkis BD this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-11T00:00:00+02:00 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Une histoire du Hip-Hop « Et une fois qu’ils avaient entendu ça, c'était plié, impossible de revenir en arrière. Ils voulaient constamment entendre break sur break. » DJ Kool Herc Fin des années 60, South Bronx, New York, un quartier et des familles laissés à l’abandon. Marcus et Aaron, deux frères, grandissent dans un climat de violence sociale. En pleine guerre des gangs, chacun va chercher dans la rue, à sa manière, comment survivre. Marcus est de toutes les blocks parties et s’embarque corps et âme dans la danse. Aaron quant à lui trouve refuge dans le graffiti. Entre fiction et récit historique documenté, on (re)découvre, à travers les yeux de Marcus et Aaron, comment l’énergie créatrice de jeunes du Bronx a donné naissance au DJing, au rap, au breakdance ou encore au graffiti. Quelques années plus tard, ces disciplines artistiques constitueront un mouvement culturel majeur et international : le Hip Hop. En 1979 sortait le morceau Rapper’s Delight. Une offense pour les fondateurs du mouvement, une explosion commerciale pour le hip hop. BREAK est le résultat d’un véritable travail à quatre mains, celles de Florian LEDOUX et Cédric LIANO, aussi bien pour l’écriture du scénario que pour la réalisation des planches.