Why Things Break

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.

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?

Download or read book Things Don't Break on Their Own written by Sarah Easter Collins and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the one: the next must-read, must-recommend, must-discuss, must-re-read novel. A miraculous literary thriller, shocking, daring, moving, haunting, infinitely rewarding— as though Kate Atkinson and Ruth Rendell had joined forces.”—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window and End of Story ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S 12 THRILLERS TO READ THIS SUMMER • ONE OF BLOOMBERG’S TOP NEW BOOKS FOR YOUR SUMMER READING LIST A heart-wrenching mystery about sisters, lovers, and a dinner party gone wrong. Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. But one of them arrived, and one of them didn’t. Her sister’s disappearance has defined Willa’s life. Everyone thinks her sister is dead, but Willa knows she isn’t. Because there are some things that only sisters know about each other—and some bonds only sisters can break. Willa sees fragments of her sister everywhere — the way that woman on the train turns her head, the gait of that woman in Paris. If there’s the slightest resemblance, Willa drops everything, and everyone, and tries to see if it is her. When Willa is invited to a dinner party thrown by her first love, she has no reason to expect it will be anything other than an ordinary evening. Both of them have moved on, ancient history. But nothing about Willa’s life has been ordinary since the day her sister disappeared, and that’s not about to change tonight. Sarah Easter Collins has written an extraordinary novel about memory, lost love, and long-buried secrets that sometimes see the light of day.

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Download or read book Be That Mom written by Tina O'Connor and published by Be That Books Inc. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Be That Mom™’ (Ignite your passions, Organize your Life & Embrace your Family) is an instructional and inspirational book designed to help moms of any age relax and enjoy their time more. From communication to discipline to loving yourself, Be That Mom is a fun read that motivates moms to have a bit more fun (with and without their kids)! ‘Be That Mom™’ is a step-by-step, easy to follow system designed to help you embrace a more relaxed, joyous lifestyle as a mom. Filled with incredible advice and simple instructions, Be That Mom™ will inspire you to have more fun with, and without, your kids and will help you create well-being and happiness for you and your family. So come on Mom, what are you waiting for? You ARE ready to Be That Mom! With ‘Be That Mom’ – Be Ready to Get your house organized (and get the kids to help too). Feel calmer, more relaxed and happier. Add fun into your life as a family! Get your family unit working together to accomplish huge goals. Be Healthy and go ‘natural’ as a Family! Be more successful in all areas of your life! Add more love and passion to your life! Learn simple techniques to bring out the best MOM, and GIRL, in you! Manifest the Mom you’ve always wanted to be – NOW! Praise for Be That Mom™! “The Be That Mom™ method is simple and inspiring! Tina writes with such clarity and passion that any mom will want to step-up their game plan, to forge ahead into their future with less stress and more time for family.” Sandi Richard, international best selling author of the Cooking for the Rushed series and star of Food Network’s Fixing Dinner “Moms really devote themselves to their families, often thinking of themselves last. Tina inspires moms to lessen the stress and rediscover life as a mom in this easy to read, well laid out approach.” Robert G. Allen International Multi-Bestselling Author Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income, Multiple Streams of Internet Income, Nothing Down, Nothing Down for Women, The One Minute Millionaire, Cracking the Millionaire Code, and Cash In A Flash. “Are you Ready to Be That Mom™? If you screamed YES!, this book is for you!”

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:

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