The Dome

Author : Jean-Jacques Degroof
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262366991
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Basement to the Dome written by Jean-Jacques Degroof and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a bottom-up problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset has nurtured entrepreneurship at MIT. MIT is world-famous as a launching pad for entrepreneurs. MIT alumni have founded at least 30,000 active companies, employing an estimated 4.6 million people, with revenues of approximately $1.9 trillion. In the 2010s, twenty to thirty ventures were spun off each year to commercialize technologies developed in MIT labs (with intellectual property licensed by MIT to these companies); in the same decade, MIT graduates started an estimated 100 firms per year. How has MIT become such a hotbed of entrepreneurship? In From the Basement to the Dome, Jean-Jacques Degroof describes how MIT's problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset nurture entrepreneurship. Degroof explains that, at first, the culture of entrepreneurship sprang from such extracurricular activities as forums, clubs, and competitions. Eventually, the Institute formally supported these activities, offering courses in entrepreneurship. Degroof describes why entrepreneurship is so uniquely aligned with MIT's culture: a history of bottom-up decision-making, a tradition of academic excellence, a keen interest in problem-solving, a belief in experimentation, and a tolerance for failure on the way to success. Entrepreneurship is the logical outcome of MIT's motto, Mens et Manus (mind and hand) ), translating theories and scientific discoveries into products and businesses--many of which have the goal of solving some of the world's most pressing problems. Degroof maps MIT's current entrepreneurial ecosystem of students, faculty, and researchers; considers the effectiveness of teaching entrepreneurship; and outlines ways that the MIT story could inspire conversations in other institutions about promoting entrepreneurship.

Author : Kosoko Jackson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728239095
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survive the Dome written by Kosoko Jackson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hate U Give meets Internment in this pulse-pounding thriller about an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out during a city-wide protest. Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs up his camera and heads to Baltimore to document a rally protesting police brutality after another Black man is murdered. But before it even really begins, the city implements a new safety protocol...the Dome. The Dome surrounds the city, forcing those within to subscribe to a total militarized shutdown. No one can get in, and no one can get out. Alone in a strange place, Jamal doesn't know where to turn...until he meets hacker Marco, who knows more than he lets on, and Catherine, an AWOL basic-training-graduate, whose parents helped build the initial plans for the Dome. As unrest inside of Baltimore grows throughout the days-long lockdown, Marco, Catherine, and Jamal take the fight directly to the chief of police. But the city is corrupt from the inside out, and it's going to take everything they have to survive.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476767270
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Dome: Part 1 written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling everything within the Dome.

Author : Earl Baldwin Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788182902916
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dome written by Earl Baldwin Smith and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amy Klobuchar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncovering the Dome written by Amy Klobuchar and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476743940
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Dome written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

Author : Nichole Haines
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138778210X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dome City written by Nichole Haines and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BEST SCI-FI BOOK OF 2018! A BOOK YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO BUY. THIRTEEN DIFFERENT STORIES 262 PAGES Ron was able to leave his prison vehicle for the first time as it landed at the futuristic looking airport. He saw planes arriving and taking off and while he was watching he noticed that a black plane came out of the sky entering the Dome planet through what looked like a square hologram or portal between the clouds. He observed another plane taking off and flying into the square opening in the sky, this seemed to happen at regular intervals. Ron supposed that the holographic opening in between the clouds was a portal connecting this world of artificial intelligence and evil with the world made by Satan. As he entered the airport, he saw people sitting in waiting rooms looking trance like

Author : Theresa Rebeck
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573626036
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book View of the Dome written by Theresa Rebeck and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This humor-filled tale of political corruption, ingratitude, and revenge concerns an idealistic young Washington attorney who persuades her former law professor, a man of lofty rhetoric, to run for Congress. Ideals shrivel in the Washington air as the professor is swept into an insider's circle that includes a leering, power-drunk senator and a slinky, Southern power broker. When the heroine is snubbed by the politically powerful at a fancy restaurant, her hurt feelings precipitate an all-out war. She promotes a sex scandal that unexpectedly makes her the darling of the religious right.

Author : Nova Sparks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The DOME written by Nova Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being rescued moments before Earth is destroyed, Sam and his daughter Emma are shipped away to planet Syri, where they now reside in a dome with thousands of other human survivors. Complete with welcome mats, mailboxes, and breakfast cereal, the dome is a suburban paradise made to emulate Earth in every way... But something feels wrong. Why did the aliens save them? How did they know about Earth's fate? And exactly what are they hiding?The mystery intensifies as Emma forms an unexplainable bond with one of the Syrions; a bond that quickly has Emma sliding deeper into a dangerous attraction. As Sam and Emma search for answers on their own, Emma wonders if she can trust her heart while Sam questions how he'll be able to protect his family from the very aliens humanity depends on for survival. the DOME is part 1 of a 3 part series. This book has a cliffhanger ending.

Author : Syeus Mottel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877494904
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charas, the Improbable Dome Builders written by Syeus Mottel and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pioneer Works Press, in partnership with The Song Cave, is pleased to present the release of CHARAS: The Improbable Dome Builders, by Syeus Mottel (2017), a fascinating account of six ex-gang members who broke ground to construct a geodesic dome on a vacant lot in the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge after a 1970 meeting with the celebrated and revolutionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller, also known as Bucky. Originally published in 1973, this republication speaks to the issues at the heart of the CHARAS project as gentrification seems to multiply faster than communities can work to preserve themselves against it. The book acts as a record to highlight ways people have united to activate empty spaces before gentrification. As a group, CHARAS was interested in physically altering the housing conditions in their immediate neighborhood, the Lower East Side. Influenced by Bucky's teachings, the young men of CHARAS began a period of devoted study to solid geometry, spherical trigonometry, and the principles of dome building. Following this period, CHARAS developed a program that encouraged community autonomy and the reclaiming public space. More than simply a documentation of the project, the book offers stories, profiles, interviews, and images, and the group's process from their intensive study to the obstacles they faced while physically constructing domes."--pioneerworks.org