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by Scott Huler

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Turn on a switch and from the nearest bulb out pours light from...somewhere; turn on a faucet and water appears. Wires, pipes, and roads support the lives we lead, but the average person doesn't know where they go or even how they work. 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. Each chapter follows one element of infrastructure back to its source. Huler visits power plants, watches new asphalt pavement being laid, and traces a drop of water backward from the faucet to the Gulf of Mexico. He reaches out to guides along the way, both the workers who operate these systems and the people who plan them. On the Grid brings infrastructure to life and details the ins and outs of our civilization with fascinating, back-to-basics information about the systems we all depend on.

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  • Title On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
  • Author Scott Huler
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 258
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
  • Publication date 2011-04-26
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781609611385 / 1609611381
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.57 x 0.68 in (21.54 x 14.15 x 1.73 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Infrastructure (Economics) - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010007835
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.609

About the author

Scott Huler is the author of six books including Defining the Wind and No Man's Lands. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, and other newspapers nationwide. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence; they have a son and another child on the way.
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