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Bulletproof Vest

English

By (author): Kenneth R. Rosen

A WIRED 2020 Book of the Year Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothing's bulletproof, the salesman said. The thing's only bullet resistant. The New York Times journalist Kenneth R. Rosen had just purchased his first bulletproof vest and was headed off on assignment. He was travelling into Mosul, Iraq, when he realized that the idea of a bulletproof vest is more effective than the vest itself. From its very inception, poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, or Kevlar, was meant for tires. Its humble roots and mundane applications are often lost, as it is now synonymous with body armor, war zones, and domestic terrorism. What Rosen learned through intimate use of his vest was that it acts as a metaphor for all the precautions we take toward digital, physical, and social security. Bulletproof Vest is at once an introspective journey into the properties and precisions of a bulletproof vest on a molecular level and on the world stage. It's also an ode to living precariously, an open letter that defends the notion that life is worth the risk. A portion of the authors proceeds will be donated to RISC, a nonprofit that provides emergency medical training to freelance conflict journalists. For more information, go to www.risctraining.org. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 130g
  • Dimensions: 121 x 165mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Apr 2020
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781501353024

About Kenneth R. Rosen

Kenneth R. Rosen a journalist at The New York Times and a contributing writer at WIRED received the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents in 2018 and was a finalist in 2019 for his reporting from Syria and Iraq.

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