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Book In the Bubble

Download or read book In the Bubble written by John Thackara and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.

Book The Bubble Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Ember
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-29
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book The Bubble Book written by Elizabeth Ember and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bubble Book was written to introduce and excite my preschool classroom about Belly Breaths through a fun, interactive experience. We use these Belly Breaths as a tool to get our bodies calm and settled after a rough moment on the playground, before nap time, or just to get feeling good again. Belly Breaths are an important first step towards emotion regulation and mindfulness. They bring more oxygen to the brain so we can process what is happening and think more clearly. I use this book to simply introduce the term "Belly Breaths" to my kiddos in a fun and engaging activity. Then, when the time comes, I can say, "Remember the Belly Breaths? Let's give them a try!"

Book Bubble

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stewart Foster
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-05-02
  • ISBN : 1481487426
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Bubble written by Stewart Foster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2016 in Great Britain as The bubble boy.

Book A Bubble

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  • Author : Geneviève Castrée
  • Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
  • Release : 2018-06-26
  • ISBN : 1770463216
  • Pages : 20 pages

Download or read book A Bubble written by Geneviève Castrée and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover title.

Book The Unbelievable Bubble Book

Download or read book The Unbelievable Bubble Book written by John Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how soap bubbles are formed and what can be done with them.

Book China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Orlik
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0190877405
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book China written by Thomas Orlik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative perspective on the fragile fundamentals, and forces for resilience, in the Chinese economy, and a forecast for the future on alternate scenarios of collapse and ascendance.

Book Bubble

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jordan Morris
  • Publisher : First Second
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 9781250245557
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Bubble written by Jordan Morris and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the smash-hit audio serial, Bubble is a hilarious high-energy graphic novel with a satirical take on the “gig economy.” Built and maintained by corporate benevolence, the city of Fairhaven is a literal bubble of safety and order (and amazing coffee) in the midst of the Brush, a harsh alien wilderness ruled by monstrous Imps and rogue bands of humans. Humans like Morgan, who’s Brush-born and Bubble-raised and fully capable of fending off an Imp attack during her morning jog. She’s got a great routine going—she has a chill day job, she recreationally kills the occasional Imp, then she takes that Imp home for her roommate and BFF, Annie, to transform into drugs as a side hustle. But cracks appear in her tidy life when one of those Imps nearly murders a delivery guy in her apartment, accidentally transforming him into a Brush-powered mutant in the process. And when Morgan’s company launches Huntr, a gig economy app for Imp extermination, she finds herself press-ganged into kicking her stabby side job up to the next level as she battles a parade of monsters and monstrously Brush-turned citizens, from a living hipster beard to a book club hive mind.

Book Bursting the Bubble

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Ada Murphy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-02-22
  • ISBN : 9780578717227
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Bursting the Bubble written by Mary Ada Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was known around the world as the "Bubble Boy". Now told for the first time by the person who was his caretaker and confidant, Bursting the Bubble is the heart-rending story of the life and death of David Vetter. Due to the scientific zeal of doctors and religious authorities, and the compliance of his trusting family, he lived his life in a sterile chamber bereft of human touch from birth until a few days before his death at age 12 and a half. Mary Ada Murphy, Ph.D., was a child psychologist on staff at St. Luke's-Texas Children's Hospital throughout David Vetter's life and became his closest friend and confidant. She was with him when he died. She received the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award in 1985 in recognition of her outstanding achievement in the psychological support of David Vetter and his family. Raymond J. Lawrence, whom Murphy entrusted with the Bursting the Bubble manuscript and writes an introduction to it, was the hospital chaplain in place during David's early years, and who convened the only formal ethics consultation on the Vetter case.

Book Bubble Bubble

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mercer Mayer
  • Publisher : School Specialty Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781577683483
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bubble Bubble written by Mercer Mayer and published by School Specialty Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy creates all sorts of fantastic animals with his magic bubble maker.

Book The Bubble who Would Not Pop

Download or read book The Bubble who Would Not Pop written by Shelly Roark and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Bubble is ready to burst! The excitement of finally being out of his bottle on a beautiful, sunny day is everything he's hoped for. But someone else has bigger plans for Billy. The green-eyed girl with the bubble wand has a special message that needs to get to heaven pronto. Billy's secret mission through the dangers of the sky - pointy branches, bird beaks, oh my! - will bring him before God, where he'll learn an important lesson about God's love and compassion. Join Billy Bubble on his journey of faith, and discover the power of prayer for yourself using the helpful prayer journal in the back of this book! Keep track of your prayers and see how God answers each of them as we live our lives for Him. Our Heavenly Father knows every hair on our heads, every bubble in the sky, and every prayer we offer with a sincere heart.

Book The Bubble Wrap Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joey Green
  • Publisher : Harper Perennial
  • Release : 1998-02-17
  • ISBN : 9780060952747
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Bubble Wrap Book written by Joey Green and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1998-02-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, the Spam Guy and the Duct Tape Guy have teamed up to bring the world the ultimate bubble wrap bible. Here, in one comprehensive compendium are oodles of quirky and innovative uses for everybody's favorite wrap 'n' pack -- Bubble Wrap. Plus: Great Moments in Bubble Wrap History That Trademark Bubble Wrap Sound Stress Therapy -- Pop Psychology and You How to Get Free Bubble Wrap Wacky Bubble Wrap Substitutes

Book The Budget of the Bubble Family

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  • Author : afterwards BULWER LYTTON BULWER (Baroness Lytton., Rosina Doyle)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1840
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Budget of the Bubble Family written by afterwards BULWER LYTTON BULWER (Baroness Lytton., Rosina Doyle) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bubble Star

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lesley-Anne Bourne
  • Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780889841994
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Bubble Star written by Lesley-Anne Bourne and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters, setting and atmosphere of "The Bubble Star" are both rural (northern Ontario) and urban (Toronto). The novel focuses primarily on women -- three sisters -- and their relationships with each other and with men. We have marriage, we have affairs, we have a bit of sex, including a scene in an upscale bamboo furniture boutique. One of the secondary characters is a gay male. A lesbian couple appears, and one of the women is married to a professor who is having an affair with one of the sisters working in retail. When asked by Dale Zieroth (editor of "Event" magazine) what she feared most about the publication of "The Bubble Star," Lesley replied, That people will read it and think it's a sitcom.' When Zieroth asked her what she hoped for the most from this novel, she answered That people will read it and think it's a sitcom.' Bourne goes on to say that she expects her audience will be anyone who reads "The New Yorker," anyone who works in retail (because the novel has central characters who work in retail), or anyone who watches the Shopping Channel.

Book The Budget of the Bubble Family

Download or read book The Budget of the Bubble Family written by Lytton Bulwer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Book The Budget of the Bubble Family

Download or read book The Budget of the Bubble Family written by Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Acoustic Bubble

    Book Details:
  • Author : T Leighton
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780124419209
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Acoustic Bubble written by T Leighton and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1994 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the interaction of acoustic fields with bubbles in liquids. The principles of cavitation (generation of bubbles in liquids by rapid changes as those introduced by ultrasound) are expounded. When cavity bubbles implode they produce shock waves in the liquid. Components can be damaged by cavitation if it is induced by turbulent flow. These phenomena have important implications, particularly in underwater acoustics (the fastest growing field in acoustics research).

Book Don t Pop the Bubble Ball

Download or read book Don t Pop the Bubble Ball written by Cora Reef and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon tries out to be on a bubble ball team with his sister in this third book in The Not-So-Tiny Tales of Simon Seahorse chapter book series. Bubble ball is the most popular sport in Coral Grove. And Simon’s oldest sister, Kya, is really good at it. One day, she announces that all the bubble ball teams are holding tryouts. Simon knows that whatever happens, he’s bound to get a good story out of it, so he decides to take a swing at the sport! It sounds fun, plus Kya can help him practice! So when Simon is offered a spot on a bubble ball team, both he and Kya are super excited. There’s just one problem: he’s not on Kya’s team, he’s on the opposing team. Which means…they’ll be playing against each other! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Not-So-Tiny Tales of Simon Seahorse chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.