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Maintenance of Everything Part One | 56.91 MB
Title: Maintenance of Everything
Author: Stewart Brand
Category: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Automotive, Repair & Maintenance, Motorcycles, Business & Finance, Management & Leadership, Decision Making & Problem Solving
Language: English | 230 Pages | ISBN: 0241458609
Description:
The first in-depth exploration of maintenance-and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance-from the author of How Buildings Learn and creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.
Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It's what keeps life going. Yet it's also easy to shirk or defer-until the thing breaks, the system falters, and everything stops. The apparent paradox is profound: Maintenance is absolutely necessary and maintenance is optional.
The first in a multi-volume work, Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One offers a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance. The book begins with a dramatic contest of maintenance styles under life-critical conditions: the Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race of 1968. It goes on to explore the insights that can be gleaned from vehicle maintenance, from the zeal of motorcycle maintainers to the maintenance philosophies that fought for dominance...
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