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Book Review of Why Things Break : Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart

Why Things Break : Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart
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Until now I thought statistical mechanics meant getting three estimates to have your car repaired. This book explains WHY things break rather than WHEN.

(Reviewed for the Charleston, SC POST AND COURIER newspaper in 2004).