Rust

Jonathan Waldman makes corrosion education into much more of an adventure than I ever thought it could be. From the restoration of the Statue of Liberty to rust inspired art and Can School, Waldman explores all sides of the issues of preservation and corruption. His narrative style is very engaging an......more

Rust can be gorgeous: (Photos from noted rust photographer Alyssha Csuk) And rust can be deadly: No matter how you look at this, rust is going to affect you, whether you like it or not. It is the persistent and pernicious peril that threatens nearly every aspect of modern society: bridges, pipes, c......more

This book explores a problem that has cursed civilization since the end of the stone age, corrosion. All common metals are vulnerable to corrosion unless protected in some way from oxygen atoms and other want-to-be anions. That's the reason one doesn't find pure iron in nature (except in some meteor......more

"Only entropy comes easy" - Anton Chekhov With that quote, so begins Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman, a thoroughly researched, but unfortunately not so captivating work of nonfiction. I love nonfiction, from heart-rendering memoirs like Lying A Metaphorical Memoir, Because I Remember Terror......more

I seen this book randomly in Barnes and Noble, picked it up just to read the synopsis, and I ended up reading the whole book. I stood in the aisle, reading this book. This is not a book I would ever normally read and I don't really have an opinion on it but I did read the whole thing in one sitting,......more