Giles Slade
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Giles Slade is an American freelance writer and author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America.
He was educated at the University of Southern California and later worked for Harlequin Enterprises, writing adventure novels.
His 2006 book, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, documents the history of the planned obsolescence phenomenon in America.
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- Slade, Giles (2006), Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-02203-4
Giles Slade is a freelance writer and author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America.
He was educated at the University of Southern California and later followed Margaret Atwood and Brian Moore to Harlequin Enterprises, where he trained writing action-adventure novels.
His 2006 book, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, documents the history of disposability (including the phenomenon of planned obsolescence) in America.
Made To Break won the International Publisher's [IPPY] Gold Medal for best environmental book of 2007 and was released in a paperback edition in October 2007.
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