Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One

By Stewart Brand

Categories: Engineering & Transportation, History

Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One is the first volume of Stewart Brand's history of keeping things working, published by Stripe Press. Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, argues that maintenance is one of the most important and overlooked parts of human life. Through stories of sailors, mechanics, soldiers and engineers, he looks at how people care for boats, vehicles, weapons and other machines, and what their approaches teach about responsibility, craft and making things last.

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