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First Review of
Monday, May 10, 2010
 The first review of On the Grid came out in the News & Observer on May 9, and I was very gratified to see it receive not only a good review but a good review from a trustworthy source: physical chemist and book reviewer Phillip Manning, whose scibooks.org is a trusted source of information on books about science. With the piece on Saturday's op-ed page about the communications grid and Mother's Day, I'm hoping Triangle readers are waking up to the miracle of the grid surrounding them. If not, I'll keep trying.
By the way, don't forget -- reading Wednesday night, May 12, at Regulator Bookshop in Durham. Hope to see you there!
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Wires, pipes, roads, and water support the lives we lead, but the average person doesn't know where they go or even how they work. Our systems of infrastructure are not only shrouded in mystery, many are woefully out of date. In On the Grid, Scott Huler takes the time to understand the systems that sustain our way of life, starting from his own quarter of an acre in North Carolina and traveling as far as Ancient Rome.
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