Author: Caroline Baillie
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 0081008007
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Green Composites: Waste-based Materials for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition presents exciting new developments on waste-based composites. New, additional, or replacement chapters focus on these elements, reflecting on developments over the past ten years. Authors of existing chapters have brought these themes into their work wherever possible, and case study chapters that connect materials engineering to the topic's social context are included in this revised edition. Professor Baillie believes that the new 'green' is the "what and who" composites are being designed for, "what" material needs we have, and "what" access different groups have to the technical knowledge required, etc. Industry is now showing concerns for corporate social responsibility and social impact. Recent conversations with prestigious materials institutions have indicated a growing interest in moving into areas of research that relate their work to beneficial social impacts. The book's example of Waste for Life demonstrates the genre proposed for the case study chapters. Waste for Life adopts scientific knowledge and low-threshold/high-impact technologies. - Provides insights into the changes in the Industry, including a greater understanding of noticing that the bottom line is influenced by poor social relations and negative social impact - Presents tactics any industry should consider to make engineering part of the solution instead of the problem - Includes case study chapters that connect materials engineering in a social context - Covers waste green composites, fueling a new direction of research for many Universities
Green Composites
Author: Caroline Baillie
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 0081008007
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Green Composites: Waste-based Materials for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition presents exciting new developments on waste-based composites. New, additional, or replacement chapters focus on these elements, reflecting on developments over the past ten years. Authors of existing chapters have brought these themes into their work wherever possible, and case study chapters that connect materials engineering to the topic's social context are included in this revised edition. Professor Baillie believes that the new 'green' is the "what and who" composites are being designed for, "what" material needs we have, and "what" access different groups have to the technical knowledge required, etc. Industry is now showing concerns for corporate social responsibility and social impact. Recent conversations with prestigious materials institutions have indicated a growing interest in moving into areas of research that relate their work to beneficial social impacts. The book's example of Waste for Life demonstrates the genre proposed for the case study chapters. Waste for Life adopts scientific knowledge and low-threshold/high-impact technologies. - Provides insights into the changes in the Industry, including a greater understanding of noticing that the bottom line is influenced by poor social relations and negative social impact - Presents tactics any industry should consider to make engineering part of the solution instead of the problem - Includes case study chapters that connect materials engineering in a social context - Covers waste green composites, fueling a new direction of research for many Universities
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 0081008007
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Green Composites: Waste-based Materials for a Sustainable Future, Second Edition presents exciting new developments on waste-based composites. New, additional, or replacement chapters focus on these elements, reflecting on developments over the past ten years. Authors of existing chapters have brought these themes into their work wherever possible, and case study chapters that connect materials engineering to the topic's social context are included in this revised edition. Professor Baillie believes that the new 'green' is the "what and who" composites are being designed for, "what" material needs we have, and "what" access different groups have to the technical knowledge required, etc. Industry is now showing concerns for corporate social responsibility and social impact. Recent conversations with prestigious materials institutions have indicated a growing interest in moving into areas of research that relate their work to beneficial social impacts. The book's example of Waste for Life demonstrates the genre proposed for the case study chapters. Waste for Life adopts scientific knowledge and low-threshold/high-impact technologies. - Provides insights into the changes in the Industry, including a greater understanding of noticing that the bottom line is influenced by poor social relations and negative social impact - Presents tactics any industry should consider to make engineering part of the solution instead of the problem - Includes case study chapters that connect materials engineering in a social context - Covers waste green composites, fueling a new direction of research for many Universities
Spinifex and Sand
Author: David Wynford Carnegie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coolgardie Region (W.A.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Pt. 2, p.35-36; Near Mount Quinn, brush fences set up to trap wallabies, native grave described; p.47-53; Water holes at Mount Luck, native camps; Pt. 5; Notes on previous explorers in the interior; employment of natives by expeditions; Native taken prisoner to act as guide to find water (Victoria Desert); Empress Spring - native camps, native cairns, 8 words listed with meanings; native well near Browne Range; Camp - implements - bark coolamons, wells, wind-breaks, camp lay-out, grindstones, yam sticks, plant foods; kurdaitcha shoes found; physical appearance of natives; method of cooking kangaroo rats, lizards; pearl shell pubic covering traded from coast 500 miles distant, firesticks carried, sporrans or tassels made of various materials; Chap. 11; Natives encountered at Wilsons Cliffs, searching for water, manufacture of chewing ball - native tobacoo; Helena Spring, 7 native words with meanings; Chap. 13; Shelter described, native with scarifications and painted body; native wells; spears, wommeras, shields and short throwing sticks carried by natives (near Southesk Tablelands); native village near Mount Ernest, wurlies, pronounced Jewish features of Aborigines, hair style; Chap. 17; Creek Aborigines treatment of prisoners - chains used; description od corroboree (Emu), body decoration; Appendix to pt. 5; Diagrams and description of weapons; Spears Kimberley and Desert - method of throwing; wommera; tomahawks - Desert; boomerangs; clubs and throwing sticks; shields, quartz knife, ceremonial sticks; rain-making boards, message sticks; brief notes on marriage laws (with tables); p.372; Method of catching ducks; p.374; 12 words with meanings from Sturt Creek area; p.380-411; Encounters with natives west of Mount Webb - wells, notes on trading.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coolgardie Region (W.A.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Pt. 2, p.35-36; Near Mount Quinn, brush fences set up to trap wallabies, native grave described; p.47-53; Water holes at Mount Luck, native camps; Pt. 5; Notes on previous explorers in the interior; employment of natives by expeditions; Native taken prisoner to act as guide to find water (Victoria Desert); Empress Spring - native camps, native cairns, 8 words listed with meanings; native well near Browne Range; Camp - implements - bark coolamons, wells, wind-breaks, camp lay-out, grindstones, yam sticks, plant foods; kurdaitcha shoes found; physical appearance of natives; method of cooking kangaroo rats, lizards; pearl shell pubic covering traded from coast 500 miles distant, firesticks carried, sporrans or tassels made of various materials; Chap. 11; Natives encountered at Wilsons Cliffs, searching for water, manufacture of chewing ball - native tobacoo; Helena Spring, 7 native words with meanings; Chap. 13; Shelter described, native with scarifications and painted body; native wells; spears, wommeras, shields and short throwing sticks carried by natives (near Southesk Tablelands); native village near Mount Ernest, wurlies, pronounced Jewish features of Aborigines, hair style; Chap. 17; Creek Aborigines treatment of prisoners - chains used; description od corroboree (Emu), body decoration; Appendix to pt. 5; Diagrams and description of weapons; Spears Kimberley and Desert - method of throwing; wommera; tomahawks - Desert; boomerangs; clubs and throwing sticks; shields, quartz knife, ceremonial sticks; rain-making boards, message sticks; brief notes on marriage laws (with tables); p.372; Method of catching ducks; p.374; 12 words with meanings from Sturt Creek area; p.380-411; Encounters with natives west of Mount Webb - wells, notes on trading.
First Knowledges Country
Author: Bruce Pascoe
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Australia
ISBN: 1760762156
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Australia
ISBN: 1760762156
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.
Why Does the World Stay Green?
Author: TCR White
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099816
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Nearly every form of life has the capacity to multiply and increase at a really astonishing rate. Think of plagues of locusts or mice. Clearly, for the vast majority of animals this does not happen, otherwise they would swamp the world and destroy all the plants. So why doesn’t it happen, and why does the world stay green? The concept explored in this book contends that animals are not controlled through predation but because plants have outwitted them, they cannot obtain enough of the food they must have to reproduce and grow. Why Does the World Stay Green? explains, in simple terms, how this comes about in nature and describes some of the many fascinating ways in which animals have evolved to cope with this usually chronic shortage of an essential resource. It is fascinating and easy-reading for anyone interested in natural history. The author, TCR White, has acted as a strong influence for the last 40 years on the ecological community, presenting confronting and at times controversial theories on the limiting role that nitrogen plays in the evolution of life. Why Does the World Stay Green? reveals this fascinating and important ecological theory.
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099816
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Nearly every form of life has the capacity to multiply and increase at a really astonishing rate. Think of plagues of locusts or mice. Clearly, for the vast majority of animals this does not happen, otherwise they would swamp the world and destroy all the plants. So why doesn’t it happen, and why does the world stay green? The concept explored in this book contends that animals are not controlled through predation but because plants have outwitted them, they cannot obtain enough of the food they must have to reproduce and grow. Why Does the World Stay Green? explains, in simple terms, how this comes about in nature and describes some of the many fascinating ways in which animals have evolved to cope with this usually chronic shortage of an essential resource. It is fascinating and easy-reading for anyone interested in natural history. The author, TCR White, has acted as a strong influence for the last 40 years on the ecological community, presenting confronting and at times controversial theories on the limiting role that nitrogen plays in the evolution of life. Why Does the World Stay Green? reveals this fascinating and important ecological theory.
The Pastoral Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Excel Basic Skills Comprehension and Written Expression
Author: Alan Horsfield
Publisher: Pascal Press
ISBN: 9781864412802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 5 is essential for an y student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It allows stude nts to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolati ng relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and usi ng tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find information. The extracts are from a wide variety of genres to allow students to gain co nfidence in reading different materials. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises an d extracts a wide variety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and sentence completion extracts from many different literary and factual text types a lift-out answer section
Publisher: Pascal Press
ISBN: 9781864412802
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Excel Comprehension and Written Expression Year 5 is essential for an y student wishing to improve their comprehension skills. It allows stude nts to practice skills such as finding facts, making references, isolati ng relevant information, understanding questions and paragraphs, and usi ng tables of contents, indexes, maps and graphs to find information. The extracts are from a wide variety of genres to allow students to gain co nfidence in reading different materials. In this book your child will find: over 60 graded units of stimulating exercises an d extracts a wide variety of questions including true or false, multiple choice, short answer and sentence completion extracts from many different literary and factual text types a lift-out answer section
The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Under the Mulga
Author: Jim Gasteen
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
With a knack for storytelling, the author recounts tales of outback life: the bullockies, governesses, and swaggies; the shearing, horse breaking, and fencing. His reminiscences tell of colourful characters, an interesting landscape, and a sense of community and camaraderie that makes Australian bush life special.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
With a knack for storytelling, the author recounts tales of outback life: the bullockies, governesses, and swaggies; the shearing, horse breaking, and fencing. His reminiscences tell of colourful characters, an interesting landscape, and a sense of community and camaraderie that makes Australian bush life special.
Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society
Author: Natural History and Science Society of Western Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description