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 in Iraq. He was travelling into the city of Mosul when he came to realize that the idea of a bulletproof vest is more effective than...
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