Inventology

Author : Pagan Kennedy
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544324013
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventology written by Pagan Kennedy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out where great ideas come from in this “delightful account of how inventors do what they do” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A father cleans up after his toddler and imagines a cup that won’t spill. An engineer watches people using walkie-talkies and has an idea. A doctor figures out how to deliver patients to the operating room before they die. By studying inventions like these—the sippy cup, the cell phone, and an ingenious hospital bed —we can learn how people imagine their way around “impossible” problems to discover groundbreaking answers. Pagan Kennedy reports on how these enduring methods can be adapted to the twenty-first century, as millions of us deploy tools like crowdfunding, big data, and 3-D printing to find hidden opportunities. Inventology uses the stories of inventors and surprising research to reveal the steps that produce innovation. Recent advances in technology and communication have placed us at the cusp of a golden age; it’s now more possible than ever before to transform ideas into actuality. Inventology is a must-read for designers, artists, makers—and anyone else who is curious about creativity. By identifying the steps of the invention process, Kennedy reveals the imaginative tools required to solve our most challenging problems. “There’s ample interest here even for readers who aren’t actively inventing anything.” —The Boston Globe

Author : QuickRead
Publisher : QuickRead.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventology by Pagan Kennedy (Summary) written by QuickRead and published by QuickRead.com. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want more free book summaires like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. Find out the science behind invention and how we have dreamed up inventions that have changed the world. When people think of inventors, many might conjure up images of mad scientists mixing chemicals in laboratories, creating dangerous concoctions, wearing white coats with bloodshot eyes from working hours into the night. In reality, many of the most successful inventors simply brought their ideas to life in their homes, probably wearing pajamas! Take Jake Stap, for example, who in the late 1960s worked as a tennis coach in Wisconsin. His problem? His back ached from stooping down to retrieve hundreds of balls a day. Surely there was a better way. One day, he discovered that the ball could squeeze through metal bars and take a one-way trip into a wire bin. After fooling around at home with various baskets and wires, he created what he called a “ball hopper.” Soon, everyone wanted one. People see the invention today and say, “I could’ve thought of that.” Yet, it took nearly a century of tennis-playing for someone to create a seemingly obvious invention. So what does this invention have in common with others? As you read, you’ll discover the common denominator that many inventions have, how lucky people are more likely to create something, and how the Wayne Gretzky Game can help you invent something revolutionary.

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ISBN 13 : 9781680659122
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Author : Samuel Cord Stier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393713784
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Education for the Next Generation: A Nature-Inspired Approach written by Samuel Cord Stier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide your students through the fascinating world of engineering, and how to draw inspiration from Nature’s genius to create, make, and innovate a better human-built world. Studded with more than 150 illustrations of natural phenomena and engineering concepts, this fascinating and practical book clearly demonstrates how engineering design is broadly relevant for all students, not just those who may become scientists or engineers. Mr. Stier describes clever, engaging activities for students at every grade level to grasp engineering concepts by exploring the everyday design genius of the natural world around us. Students will love learning about structural engineering while standing on eggs; investigating concepts in sustainable design by manufacturing cement out of car exhaust; and coming to understand how ant behavior has revolutionized the way computer programs, robots, movies, and video games are designed today. You will come away with an understanding of engineering and Nature unlike any you’ve had before, while taking your ability to engage students to a whole new level. Engineering Education for the Next Generation is a wonderful introduction to the topic for any teacher who wants to understand more about engineering design in particular, its relation to the larger subjects of STEM/STEAM, and how to engage students from all backgrounds in a way that meaningfully transforms their outlook on the world and their own creativity in a lifelong way. · Fun to read, comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge approaches to K-12 engineering education · Detailed descriptions and explanations to help teachers create activities and lessons · An emphasis on engaging students with broad and diverse interests and backgrounds · Insights from a leading, award-winning K-12 engineering curriculum that has reached thousands of teachers and students in the U.S. and beyond · Additional support website (www.LearningWithNature.org) providing more background, videos, curricula, slide decks, and other supplemental materials

Author : Meredith Small
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643135392
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing the World written by Meredith Small and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions—from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency—shaped modernity. How did a small, isolated city—with a population that never exceeded 100,000, even in its heyday—come to transform western civilization? Acclaimed anthropologist Meredith Small, the author of the groundbreaking Our Babies, Ourselves examines the the unique Venetian social structure that was key to their explosion of creativity and invention that ranged from the material to social. Whether it was boats or money, medicine or face cream, opera, semicolons, tiramisu or child-labor laws, these all originated in Venice and have shaped contemporary notions of institutions and conventions ever since. The foundation of how we now think about community, health care, money, consumerism, and globalization all sprung forth from the Laguna Veneta. But Venice is far from a historic relic or a life-sized museum. It is a living city that still embraces its innovative roots. As climate change effects sea-level rises, Venice is on the front lines of preserving its legacy and cultural history to inspire a new generation of innovators.

Author : John Seabrook
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312535728
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flash of Genius written by John Seabrook and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays explore inspiration and entrepreneurship in everyday Americans, including the story of Bob Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.

Author : Jennifer Block
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781250110053
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Below the Waist written by Jennifer Block and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening, investigative account of the dismal state of women's healthcare in the U.S. American women visit more doctors, have more surgery, and fill more prescriptions than men. In Everything Below the Waist, Jennifer Block asks: Why is the life expectancy of women today declining relative to women in other high-income countries, and even relative to the generation before them? Block examines several staples of modern women's health care, from fertility technology to contraception to pelvic surgery to miscarriage treatment, and finds that while overdiagnosis and overtreatment persist in medicine writ large, they are particularly acute for women. One third of mothers give birth by major surgery; roughly half of women lose their uterus to hysterectomy. Feminism turned the world upside down, yet to a large extent the doctors' office has remained stuck in time. Block returns to the 1970s women's health movement to understand how in today's supposed age of empowerment, women's bodies are still so vulnerable to medical control—particularly their sex organs, and as result, their sex lives. In this urgent book, Block tells the stories of patients, clinicians, and reformers, uncovering history and science that could revolutionize the standard of care, and change the way women think about their health. Everything Below the Waist challenges all people to take back control of their bodies.

Author : Dave Crenshaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470893486
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Multitasking written by Dave Crenshaw and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a compelling business fable, The Myth of Multitasking confronts a popular idea that has come to define our hectic, work-a-day world. This simple yet powerful book shows clearly why multitasking is, in fact, a lie that wastes time and costs money. Far from being efficient, multitasking actually damages productivity and relationships at work and at home.

Author : Jason Karlawish
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250218748
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Alzheimer's written by Jason Karlawish and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and compelling book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses. In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more than half a million died because of the disease and its devastating complications. 16 million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their seventies and eighties, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2050. Part case studies, part meditation on the past, present and future of the disease, The Problem of Alzheimer's traces Alzheimer’s from its beginnings to its recognition as a crisis. While it is an unambiguous account of decades of missed opportunities and our health care systems’ failures to take action, it tells the story of the biomedical breakthroughs that may allow Alzheimer’s to finally be prevented and treated by medicine and also presents an argument for how we can live with dementia: the ways patients can reclaim their autonomy and redefine their sense of self, how families can support their loved ones, and the innovative reforms we can make as a society that would give caregivers and patients better quality of life. Rich in science, history, and characters, The Problem of Alzheimer's takes us inside laboratories, patients' homes, caregivers’ support groups, progressive care communities, and Jason Karlawish's own practice at the Penn Memory Center.

Author : Carl Reader
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1789666422
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boss It written by Carl Reader and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - Business: Entrepreneurship & Small Business HIGHLY COMMENDED: Business Book Awards 2021 - Start up/Scale up Do you dream of ditching the day job, doing your own thing and being your own boss? Are you ready to Boss It? In this invigorating and highly practical book, serial entrepreneur Carl Reader provides exactly the fire and guidance you need to get started. Designed to cut through the business jargon, this handy guide will take you through everything you need to establish and run your own business - from the mindset it takes to turn a dream into a plan, to the need-to-know practical stuff for running and growing a business. Featuring case studies, templates and exercises to help you put what you read into action, and turn that dream into a reality, this motivational book will enable you to be your own boss, to take control of your income, your time and your life... and Boss It.