The Way Things Are

Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781328663108

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The Way Things Work Now by David Macaulay Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller Explainer-in-Chief David Macaulay updates the worldwide bestseller The New Way Things Work to capture the latest developments in the technology that most impacts our lives. Famously packed with information on the inner workings of everything from windmills to Wi-Fi, this extraordinary and humorous book both guides readers through the fundamental principles of machines, and shows how the developments of the past are building the world of tomorrow. This sweepingly revised edition embraces all of the latest developments, from touchscreens to 3D printer. Each scientific principle is brilliantly explained--with the help of a charming, if rather slow-witted, woolly mammoth. An illustrated survey of significant inventions closes the book, along with a glossary of technical terms, and an index. What possible link could there be between zippers and plows, dentist drills and windmills? Parking meters and meat grinders, jumbo jets and jackhammers, remote control and rockets, electric guitars and egg beaters? Macaulay explains them all.

Author : Aatish Taseer
Publisher : Dylan Fazel
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Delhi (India)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Way Things Were. by Aatish Taseer Pdf

When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around the world and deep within three generations of his family, whose fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to elude. Both an intimate portrait of a marriage and its aftershocks, and a panoramic vision of India's half-century - in which a rapacious new energy supplants an ineffectual elite - 'The way things were' is an epic novel about the pressures of history upon the present moment. It is also a meditation on the stories we tell and the stories we forget; their tenderness and violence in forging bonds and in breaking them apart. Set in modern Delhi and at flashpoints from the past four decades, fusing private and political, classical and contemporary to thrilling effect, this book confirms Aatish Taseer as one of the most arresting voices of his generation.

Author : Rush H. Limbaugh
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social problems
ISBN : 0671751506

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The Way Things Ought to be by Rush H. Limbaugh Pdf

Limbaugh delivers his spirited defense of conservative values in blunt talk, with scathing wit. Includes new material on the Clinton administration, plus a teaser from Limbaugh's new hardcover, See, I Told You So, to be published in November.

Author : Lucretius
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781625581556

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The Way Things Are by Lucretius Pdf

De rerum natura (The Way Things Are) is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance," and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.

Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-30T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781774647189

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The Way Things Are by E. M. Delafield Pdf

First published in 1928. Laura Temple faces the predicaments of many British middle-class wives and mothers living in country villages between the World Wars. Her too-large house, inherited by her husband Alfred, requires three servants to keep it running: generally unsatisfactory servants whom she is perpetually concerned will leave her employ for greener pastures, which they inevitably do. Her modest success as a short story writer helps augment their income but still, there is never enough money. She is a devoted mother to her two sons, although she shamelessly prefers one over the other. And she is deeply unhappy. But her malaise disappears when, on a trip to London in search of yet another domestic replacement, she and Duke Ayland, a friend of her sister, fall in love. Laura has never been in love before—although she is very fond of Alfred. And she could never leave her children. At least, one of them. Written several years before E.M. Delafield’s witty The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Laura is unquestionably a precursor to that famous lady. And although her dilemmas are more serious, the author’s sardonic humor shines through in the antics and personalities of Laura’s group of eccentric friends and neighbors.

Author : Liz Torlée
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1927882559

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The Way Things Fall by Liz Torlée Pdf

A love triangle spanning the ages, sweeping across Egypt, Italy and Canada.

Author : C. Van Amerongen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Technology
ISBN : LCCN:67027972

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The Way Things Work by C. Van Amerongen Pdf

How are matches made? Why is dry cleaning called dry? How does a speedometer work? Why can the heat of an iron be regulated? What makes a ship float? Why does a zipper zip? Diagrams and drawings accompany a page of explanatory text for each of the 1071 entries which explain the principles of why things work. Many of the explanations are beyond the understanding of elementary school students, but the answers to many of their inquiries as to how things work are to be found easily by the curious boy or girl. Much more comprehensive in scope than Mann's How Things Work (Crowell, 1960) but not as useful for the general reader.

Author : Jeremy Millar
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781846380358

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Fischli and Weiss by Jeremy Millar Pdf

An illustrated discussion of Fischli and Weiss's famous film The Way Things Go, marking the twentieth anniversary of its first screening, explores why this captivating work continues to fascinate viewers. The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is a thirty-minute film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss featuring a series of chain reactions involving ordinary objects. It is also one of the truly amazing works of art produced in the late twentieth century. Admired, even loved, by members of the public as much as it is praised by the more specialist audience of artists, critics, and curators, The Way Things Go was perhaps the most popular work shown at Documenta 8, Kassel, in 1987. The work embodies many of the qualities that make Fischli and Weiss's work among the most captivating in the world today: slapstick humor and profound insight; a forensic attention to detail; a sense of illusion and transformation; and the dynamic exchange between states of order and chaos. In discussing what makes The Way Things Go utterly compelling to its viewers—whether they have seen it one time or many times—Jeremy Millar leaves no doubt as to why this film was chosen for the One Works series. As everyday objects crash, scrape, slide, or fly into one another with devastating, impossible, and persuasive effect, viewers find themselves witnessing a spectacle that seems at once prehistoric and postapocalyptic. Millar tells us why this extraordinary film speaks to us at the beginning of the twenty-first century. If history is “just one thing after another,” then The Way Things Go is truly a historic work. Jeremy Millar is an artist. He is the author of Place (with Tacita Dean) and has contributed to many artist's monographs. He has also curated many solo and group exhibitions internationally. Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss received Europe's most coveted art prize, the Roswitha Haftmann Prize, in November 2006. A major retrospective of their work, “Flowers and Questions,” originating at the Tate, London, travels to Zurich and Hamburg in 2007 and 2008.

Author : Huston Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520938816

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The Way Things Are by Huston Smith Pdf

"Where can we find what is ultimately meaningful? How can we discover what is truly worth knowing?" In one form or another Huston Smith has been posing these questions to himself—and the world—all his life. In the course of seeking answers, he has become one of the most interesting, enlightening, and celebrated voices on the subject of religion and spirituality throughout the world. The twenty-three interviews and essays in this volume, edited by cultural historian and filmmaker Phil Cousineau, offer a uniquely personal perspective on Smith's own personal journey, as well as wide-ranging reflection on the nature and importance of the religious quest. In The Way Things Are, readers will find Smith in conversation with some of the world's most influential personalities and religious leaders, from journalist Bill Moyers to religion scholar Philip Novak, and recounting his personal experiences with such luminaries as Joseph Campbell, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, Daisetz Suzuki, Ram Dass, and the Dalai Lama. Throughout these engaging exchanges Smith speaks with passion and humor of his upbringing as the son of missionary parents in China, of the inspiring and colorful individuals he has known, and of his impressions of the different religious and philosophical traditions he has encountered. A fascinating view of the state of world religion and religious leadership over the past fifty years, the book also looks to the future with a final interview on the vital importance of the transcendent message of religion for the post-9/11 world. Readers will find The Way Things Are to be Huston Smith's most and accessible book to date.

Author : AJ Cooke-Bennier
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781477166079

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Just the Way Things Are by AJ Cooke-Bennier Pdf

Andrea J Cooke-Bennier lives on a farming property in rural Western Australia where she and her husband are raising their three children. A qualified teacher, Andrea J Cooke-Bennier has spent much of her life working with children at a small public school. She now runs the farming household which provides a perfect setting for her three young children to chase the chooks, bounce on the trampoline, feed the lambs, walk to the creek and explore their world.

Author : Lama Ole Nydahl
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780998459

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The Way Things Are by Lama Ole Nydahl Pdf

This seminal work offers the liberating and powerful methods of Diamond Way Buddhism for readers seeking to incorporate Buddhist practice into their daily lives.

Author : David Macaulay,David Eckold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Educational toys
ISBN : 0751358614

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The Way Things Work Kit by David Macaulay,David Eckold Pdf

'The way things work guidebook' shows you how and why the amazing models you make actually work. Leonard and Mammoth take you through the fundamental principles. Simple explanations make you realize how incredible science really is. From levers and pulleys to pneumatics and robots. A hands-on fully interactive kit plus Pinball Science CD-ROM, a booklet, and activity cards. Construct 12 fantastic working models to bring David Macaulay's remarkable book to life.

Author : Aaron Jaffe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452943930

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The Way Things Go by Aaron Jaffe Pdf

Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings and cascading side effects, The Way Things Go offers a thesis demonstrated via a century-long countdown of stuff. Modernist critical theory and aesthetic method, it argues, are bound up with the inhuman fate of things as novelty becoming waste. Things are seldom at rest. Far more often they are going their own ways, entering and exiting our zones of attention, interest, and affection. Aaron Jaffe is concerned less with a humanist story of such things—offering anthropomorphizing narratives about recouping the items we use—as he is with the seemingly inscrutable, inhuman capacities of things for coarticulation and coherence. He examines the tension between this inscrutability on the one hand, and the ways things seem ready-made for understanding on the other hand, by means of exposition, thing-and-word-play, conceptual art, essayism, autopoesis, and prop comedy. Among other novelties and detritus, The Way Things Go delves into books, can openers, roller skates, fat, felt, soap, joy buzzers, hobbyhorses, felt erasers, sleds, magic rabbits, and urinals. But it stands apart from the recent flood of thing-talk, rebuking the romantic tendencies caught up in the pathetic nature of debris defining the conversation. Jaffe demonstrates that literary criticism is the one mode of analysis that can unpack the many things that, at first glance, seem so nonliterary.

Author : Roger McGough
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015048576071

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The Way Things are by Roger McGough Pdf

A collection of poems by the Liverpool born poet, Roger McGough.

Author : Lama Ole Nydahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0975295411

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Fearless Death by Lama Ole Nydahl Pdf