The Chip

Author: T.R. Reid
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307432033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Barely fifty years ago a computer was a gargantuan, vastly expensive thing that only a handful of scientists had ever seen. The world’s brightest engineers were stymied in their quest to make these machines small and affordable until the solution finally came from two ingenious young Americans. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the stunning discovery that would make possible the silicon microchip, a work that would ultimately earn Kilby the Nobel Prize for physics in 2000. In this completely revised and updated edition of The Chip, T.R. Reid tells the gripping adventure story of their invention and of its growth into a global information industry. This is the story of how the digital age began.

Chip Kidd: Book Two

Author: Chip Kidd
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0789339838
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Chip Kidd is recognized worldwide as one of the best graphic designers working today, especially in book design. This is a much anticipated follow-up to Chip Kidd: Book One, where he not only showcases his most recent work, but demonstrates the relationship he has with some of the world's most influential authors and sheds light into his passion for the art of book-making and most recent expansion to other media design like film posters, magazine covers, and artist collaborations. This book is a must-have for designers and all book-lovers interested in the man responsible for some of the most recognizable book covers in the world. CHIP KIDD, BOOK TWO is a work of art itself, a book on a designer described as "a design demigod," and "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design. The book will feature all of Kidd's book designs from the years 2007 to 2017, including book cover designs for best-selling authors Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Orhan Pamuk, Augusten Burroughs, and David Sedaris, each whom share insight on Kidd's creative process and the importance his designs have had on their work.

Challenging the Chip

Author: Ted Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Challenging the Chip is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of electronics manufacturing on workers and local environments around the world. The essays in this volume contribute to a collaborative international discourse of citizens, workers, health professionals, academics, labour leaders, environmental activists, and others with the common goal of developing alternative visions for the regulation and sustainable development of manufacturing, assembly/disassembly, and waste disposal in the global electronics industry. Contributors from Asia, North America, Europe, and Latin America provide multidimensional perspectives on the science and the politics of environmental and social justice, documenting the efforts of community and labour activists, government agencies, and others in introducing more sustainable systems of production to one of the world's largest manufacturing industries.

Leon and the Champion Chip

Author: Allen Kurzweil
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062033964
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Leon's back. Having survived the sweatshop methods of Miss Hagmeyer, his needle-wielding fourth grade teacher at the Classical School, Leon braces himself for fifth grade. He arrives armed with a backpack full of pens and pencils, binders and notebooks . . . plus a rag doll that's the spitting image of Henry Lumpkin, the bully who has Leon in his sights. If the doll works the way it's supposed to, Leon (and his buddies P.W. and Lily-Matisse) won't have to worry about Lumpkin the Pumpkin! Better still, Leon has a fabulous new teacher, Mr. Sparks, who conducts science experiments using that most miraculous of research materials -- the potato chip. And a good thing, too. Mr. Sparks's lab work will come in handy when Leon is forced to take on Alphonse "The Chippopotamus" Cipollini at the annual Chipapalooza! Chip-Off. Once you've sunk your teeth into Leon and the Champion Chip, the hilarious sequel to Leon and the Spitting Image, you'll never eat potato chips the same way again!

Crunch!

Author: Dirk Burhans
Publisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 0299227731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
The potato chip has been one of America's favorite snacks since its accidental origin in a nineteenth-century kitchen. Crunch! A History of the Great American Potato Chip tells the story of this crispy, salty treat, from the early sales of locally made chips at corner groceries, county fairs, and cafes to the mass marketing and corporate consolidation of the modern snack food industry. Crunch! also uncovers a dark side of potato chip history, including a federal investigation of the snack food industry in the 1990s following widespread allegations of antitrust activity, illegal buyouts, and predatory pricing. In the wake of these "Great Potato Chip Wars," corporate snack divisions closed and dozens of family-owned companies went bankrupt. Yet, despite consolidation, many small chippers persist into the twenty-first century, as mom-and-pop companies and upstart "boutique" businesses serve both new consumers and markets with strong regional loyalties. Illustrated with images of early snack food paraphernalia and clever packaging from the glory days of American advertising art, Crunch! is an informative tour of large and small business in America and the vicissitudes of popular tastes.

The Organ Thieves

Author: Chip Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982107545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).

The Complete Guide to Chip Carving

Author: Wayne Barton
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402741289
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Full-color, illustrated instructions for learning chip carving, showing how to create borders, rosettes, and lettering.

The Chip

Author: George Jack
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1684563941
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
A society plagued by terrorism and the sinister hunt for an innocent boy intensifies. The agents Dr. Warren hired to track down Stanley Ross was relentless in their pursuit. Unbeknown to Warren, these agents hold some unworldly secrets of their own. Like all real villains of our world, if you had a conversation with Dr. Warren, you would meet a man who believes everything he's done has been in the right and thus operates in the open, hiding in plain sight. After the transformation of Stanley into The Chip, some new challenges come as he tirelessly fights villains in the real and virtual world. Aside from fighting off Warren's minions, he also confronts a monster fit for destruction, created at the hands of a madman, battles the beautiful but the deadly Virus, and protects our world made vulnerable by technology. Aided by his uncle's years of cybernetics research, Stanley Ross, aka The Chip, has a good chance of bringing order to a society in chaos. The dramatic explosions of events will leave you mesmerized as the plots unfold. Author George Jack have once again met the expectations for action and adventure.

God and the Chip

Author: William A. Stahl
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 155458793X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged mysticism, an implicit religion. By not acknowledging this mysticism, we have become critically short of ethical and intellectual resources with which to understand and confront changes brought on by technology.

Potato Chip Science

Author: Allen Kurzweil
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761148256
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Provides experiments associated with a bag of potato chips: bags, chips, lids, spuds, and tubes.