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Автор: Rosen Kenneth R.
Название: Bulletproof Vest
ISBN: 9781501353024
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

Теория литературы

Философия: Логика

Культурология

Текстильное и волоконное производства

ISBN-10: 1501353020
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 144
Вес: 0.12 кг.
Дата издания: 16.04.2020
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 159 x 235 x 18
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Cultural studies,Literary theory,Philosophy: aesthetics,Textile & fibre technology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory,PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A WIRED 2020 Book of the YearObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothings bulletproof, the salesman said. The things only bullet resistant. The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on assignment. He was travelling into Mosul, Iraq, when he realized that the idea of a bulletproof vest is more effective than the vest itself. From its very inception, poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, or Kevlar, was meant for tires. Its humble roots and mundane applications are often lost, as it is now synonymous with body armor, war zones, and domestic terrorism. What Rosen learned through intimate use of his vest was that it acts as a metaphor for all the precautions we take toward digital, physical, and social security. Bulletproof Vest is at once an introspective journey into the properties and precisions of a bulletproof vest on a molecular level and on the world stage. Its also an ode to living precariously, an open letter that defends the notion that life is worth the risk.A portion of the author’s proceeds will be donated to RISC, a nonprofit that provides emergency medical training to freelance conflict journalists. For more information, go to www.risctraining.org.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Bulletproof Vest, Rosen Kenneth R.