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9781605296470

On the Grid

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  • ISBN13:

    9781605296470

  • ISBN10:

    1605296473

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-05-11
  • Publisher: Rodale Books
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Summary

"On the Grid" brings infrastructure to life and details the ins and outs of our civilization with fascinating, back-to-basics information about the systems we all depend on.

Author Biography

SCOTT HULER is the author of six books including Defining the Wind and No-Man’s Lands. Widely published in newspapers nationwide, he has also won awards for his work on NPR. He lives in Raleigh, NC.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Raleigh versus the Garbage Disposalp. 1
The Lay of the Landp. 11
The Pig and the Crabp. 29
A Chess Game You Never Winp. 51
What a River Would Dop. 73
The Asphalt Balletp. 95
The Blue Glowp. 117
The Big Raviolip. 147
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, All the Timep. 167
Annihilating Both Time and Spacep. 193
The Virtue of Necessityp. 215
Bibliographyp. 227
Acknowledgmentsp. 235
Indexp. 237
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