Yet, as The Elements of Power reveals, it is a combination of shaky supply chains and shady practices that fuels our hi-tech world.
Writing and research manuals such as "The Elements of Style," "The Craft of Research," and Turabian offer a vision of our best selves.
Perhaps people will learn what she and the other Taoist devotees view as the elements of a harmonious life: self-discipline, kindness and the pursuit of simplicity.
As the elements of the scene come into view, you can make out the figures of dogs picking over the carcasses of fallen horses.
But even as the elements of that constitution come under sharp dispute, union leaders and other Europeans talk about expanding their club even further, which could make consensus even more difficult.
The standards and technology institute's work has also propelled the vision of quantum computing, in which ions — electrically charged atoms suspended in space — serve as the elements of the computation, the qubits.
Another Shaiva doctrine posits eight "embodiments" of Shiva as the elements of nature ether, wind, fire, water, earth and the Sun, the Moon, and the sacrificer, or consecrated worshiper (also called atman).
Along the same lines, fragments of text taken from the past and placed in the charged field of the historical present are capable of behaving much as the elements of a surrealist image do, interacting spontaneously to give off political energy.
As M John Harrison sees it, Empire of the Sun "handles the images of his early life as the elements of autobiographical fiction; books like Crash or a short story such as 'You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe' manipulate the same sorts of images and experiences into a personal poetics or mythology".
