Jonathan Waldman
Autore di Rust : the longest war
Sull'Autore
Jonathan Waldman studied writing at Dartmouth and Boston University's Knight Center for Science journalism and worked in print, radio, and TV before landing in books. His first book, Rust: The Longest War, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of a Colorado Book Award. He mostra altro has been a Ted Scripps Fellow and an Alicia Patterson Fellow. His writing has otherwise appeared in the New York Times and McSweeney's. mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Waldman, Jonny
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Istruzione
- Dartmouth (writing)
Boston University Knight Center for Science Journalism
University of Colorado (Ted Scripps Fellow, environmental journalism) - Attività lavorative
- Journalist
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Ted Scripps Fellow
- Agente
- Richard Morris (Janklow & Nesbit)
- Breve biografia
- Jonathan Waldman has written for Outside, The Washington Post, and McSweeney's, and has also worked as a forklift driver, arborist, summer camp director, sticker salesman, and cook. He grew up in Washington, DC, studied writing at Dartmouth and Boston University's Knight Center for Science and Journalism, and was recently a Ted Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado. [from Rust, 2015]
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Very interesting. For the most part, a breezy overview of rust and why we should care. The Alaskan pipeline chapters were the most in depth and made me think a lot more about Alaska and how dependent the entire state is on oil. Funny here and there and interesting throughout
I've got to find more books by this guy. He made rust interesting.
This is a wonderful book! You don't need a science background to enjoy this look at rust. The author takes a number of different viewpoints on it and all were fascinating!
The first chapter covers the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and I were creating a course pack for a general chemistry class that including electrochemistry, I would want to include this chapter. Electrochemistry is one of my weakest areas as a general chemistry instructor and the author presented it in an easy-to-read and understand way that I found to be very useful.
Another chapter covered cans- primarily aluminum cans. I learned that creating aluminum cans is an extremely engineered process. Heck, there's even a can school! How cool is that?
Another chapter looks at rust from an artist's viewpoint.
Anyway, read this book.… (altro)
The first chapter covers the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and I were creating a course pack for a general chemistry class that including electrochemistry, I would want to include this chapter. Electrochemistry is one of my weakest areas as a general chemistry instructor and the author presented it in an easy-to-read and understand way that I found to be very useful.
Another chapter covered cans- primarily aluminum cans. I learned that creating aluminum cans is an extremely engineered process. Heck, there's even a can school! How cool is that?
Another chapter looks at rust from an artist's viewpoint.
Anyway, read this book.… (altro)
Liste
Simon & Schuster (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 273
- Popolarità
- #84,854
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 16
I would have liked to hear more about rust. Seems like an odd request for a book about rust, but mostly it's about the periphery of rust— the people involved and the effects of it. There is a little bit about rust and corrosion.
One minor annoyance. The author uses a lot of introductory clauses that impede the flow of paragraphs.
It's an interesting book. It's okay to skim through the boring bits. I wish I had.… (altro)