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Author : R. Gell (Compiler of Directories.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019675987
Author : James COX (Superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions at Antigua.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022991510
Author : John Thackara
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262250375
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Committee on Understanding the Global Public Health Implications of Substandard, Falsified, and Counterfeit Medical Products
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309269391
The adulteration and fraudulent manufacture of medicines is an old problem, vastly aggravated by modern manufacturing and trade. In the last decade, impotent antimicrobial drugs have compromised the treatment of many deadly diseases in poor countries. More recently, negligent production at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy sickened hundreds of Americans. While the national drugs regulatory authority (hereafter, the regulatory authority) is responsible for the safety of a country's drug supply, no single country can entirely guarantee this today. The once common use of the term counterfeit to describe any drug that is not what it claims to be is at the heart of the argument. In a narrow, legal sense a counterfeit drug is one that infringes on a registered trademark. The lay meaning is much broader, including any drug made with intentional deceit. Some generic drug companies and civil society groups object to calling bad medicines counterfeit, seeing it as the deliberate conflation of public health and intellectual property concerns. Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs accepts the narrow meaning of counterfeit, and, because the nuances of trademark infringement must be dealt with by courts, case by case, the report does not discuss the problem of counterfeit medicines.
Author : Thomas C. Jester
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606063255
Over the concluding decades of the twentieth century, the historic preservation community increasingly turned its attention to modern buildings, including bungalows from the 1930s, gas stations and diners from the 1940s, and office buildings and architectural homes from the 1950s. Conservation efforts, however, were often hampered by a lack of technical information about the products used in these structures, and to fill this gap Twentieth-Century Building Materials was developed by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and first published in 1995. Now, this invaluable guide is being reissued—with a new preface by the book’s original editor. With more than 250 illustrations, including a full-color photographic essay, the volume remains an indispensable reference on the history and conservation of modern building materials. Thirty-seven essays written by leading experts offer insights into the history, manufacturing processes, and uses of a wide range of materials, including glass block, aluminum, plywood, linoleum, and gypsum board. Readers will also learn about how these materials perform over time and discover valuable conservation and repair techniques. Bibliographies and sources for further research complete the volume. The book is intended for a wide range of conservation professionals including architects, engineers, conservators, and material scientists engaged in the conservation of modern buildings, as well as scholars in related disciplines.
Author : John Bickerdyke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Ale
ISBN : PRNC:32101068975208
Author : Peter Smithurst
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cutlery trade
ISBN : 0852638701
The name of Sheffield has become so indelibly linked with the cutlery industry that it is difficult to imagine that it was ever otherwise. But, although Sheffield can claim to be the home of the industry, it was not its birthplace. This book follows the development of the cutlery industry from thirteenth-century London to present-day Sheffield. The rise of Sheffield was a relatively late development and the reasons for this ascendancy are explained. An important part of this history was the skills of the craftsmen upon which the industry depended and this aspect is also covered. Although it is impossible to know exactly how the craftsmen worked in the past, the records which have been made of practices since the 1930's and the work of the few handcraftsmen still at work today are not very different from the methods and equipment used over the centuries. There are sufficient items from the seventeenth century onwards to support this view, and the author uses such records to explain techniques and working conditions.
Author : Alison Gwilt,Timo Rissanen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136454455
The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile designers are becoming keen to employ more sustainable strategies in their work. This book provides a practical guide to the ways in which designers are creating fashion with less waste and greater durability. Based on the results of extensive research into lifecycle approaches to sustainable fashion, the book is divided into four sections: source: explores the motivations for the selection of materials for fashion garments and suggests that garments can be made from materials that also assist in the management of textile waste make: discusses the differing approaches to the design and manufacture of sustainable fashion garments that can also provide the opportunity for waste control and minimization use: explores schemes that encourage the consumer to engage in slow fashion consumption last: examines alternative solutions to the predictable fate of most garments – landfill. Illustrated throughout with case studies of best practice from international designers and fashion labels and written in a practical, accessible style, this is a must-have guide for fashion and textile designers and students in their areas.
Author : Georges Lefebvre
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : France
ISBN : 0231023421
Author : Jan E. Leestma,Sanford Bon
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781420008685
Over the past 30 years, as both forensic pathology and neuropathology have grown in sophistication, the two specialties have forged a heightened level of interaction. Reflecting the vast increase in knowledge and scientific progress in the past two decades, Forensic Neuropathology, Second Edition examines the new developments that have arisen since
Author : Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher : Tarcher
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers and civilization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114306421
The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years, and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one political analyst foresaw the dark side of the technological revolution and understood its implications for global employment: Jeremy Rifkin. The End of Workis Jeremy Rifkin's most influential and important book. Now nearly ten years old, it has been updated for a new, post-New Economy era. Statistics and figures have been revised to take new trends into account. Rifkin offers a tough, compelling critique of the flaws in the techniques the government uses to compile employment statistics. The End of Workis the book our candidates and our country need to understand the employment challenges-and the hopes-facing us in the century ahead.
Author : Anthony J. Nocella II,Deric Shannon,John Asimakopoulos
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849350952
The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists for a first-of-its-kind study of anarchist economics. The editors aren't trying to subvert the notion of economics—they accept the standard definition, but reject the notion that capitalism or central planning are acceptable ways to organize economic life. Contributors include Robin Hahnel, Iain McKay, Marie Trigona, Chris Spannos, Ernesto Aguilar, Uri Gordon, and more.
Author : Peter Earle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520068262
This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.
Author : Hannah Barker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198786023
Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain; this monograph examines the economic, social, and cultural history of some of these forgotten businesses and the men and women who worked in them and ran them.
Author : J. M. Sanderson (of the Franklin House.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Baking
ISBN : UCD:31175035227530