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Things Fall Together

A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

By: Skylar Tibbits

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Things Fall Together

A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

By: Skylar Tibbits

From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materials Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future. Compelling and beautifully designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider's perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular possibilities for designing active materials that can self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on their own.

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224

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Princeton University Press

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ISBN 10

0691189714

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9780691189710

Norse Fairy & Folk Tales

By: George Webbe Dasent,Charles John Tibbits,Various Authors

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Norse Fairy & Folk Tales

By: George Webbe Dasent,Charles John Tibbits,Various Authors

Meet gullible trolls, enterprising princesses and nefarious wizards in this treasury of 25 Norse fairy tales. Collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in the 19th century, these Norwegian stories are described by Jacob Grimm as "surpassing nearly all others." They include such well-loved tales as 'The Three Billy Goat's Gruff' and 'Taming the Shrew' and open a window into the beautiful landscapes of Norway. These funny and fantastical stories will delight the young and old.

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276

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Arcturus Publishing

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1398807478

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9781398807471

Self-Assembly Lab

Experiments in Programming Matter

By: Skylar Tibbits

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Self-Assembly Lab

Experiments in Programming Matter

By: Skylar Tibbits

What if structures could build themselves or adapt to fluctuating environments? Skylar Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab in the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA, crosses the boundaries between architecture, biology, materials science and the arts, to envision a world where material components can self-assemble to provide adapting structures and optimized fabrication solutions. The book examines the three main ingredients for self-assembly, includes interviews with practitioners involved in the work and presents research projects related to these topics to provide a complete first look at exciting future technologies in construction and self-transforming material products.

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205

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Taylor & Francis

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1317437020

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9781317437024

Forgive to Live Devotional

56 Spiritual Insights on Forgiveness That Could Save Your Life

By: Dick Tibbits

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Forgive to Live Devotional

56 Spiritual Insights on Forgiveness That Could Save Your Life

By: Dick Tibbits

When Life's Not Fair¿What Can You Do? Usually, you have three choices: 1. Complain to the people around you 2. Appeal to the person who harmed you 3. Find a solution that can heal you. In his powerful new devotional Dr. Dick Tibbits reveals the secret to forgiveness. More than a learned behavior or a thought process¿it s a life-transforming experience. Drawing on recent research and years of study, Dr. Tibbits discloses why so many of us struggle to forgive those who hurt us or disappoint us. The journey is essential. Written from three unique perspectives of counseling, medicine, and faith this passionate and compassionate devotional is a stirring look at the true meaning of forgiveness. Each of the 56 spiritual insights includes motivational Scripture, an inspirational prayer, and two thought-provoking questions. The insights are designed to encourage your journey as you begin to Forgive to Live.

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Florida Hospital Publishing

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097190748X

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9780971907485

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