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  • Designing through Planetary Breakdown

    Locating Material Knowledge and Practical Skill

    In an era of profound environmental and geopolitical uncertainty, Designing through Planetary Breakdown offers fresh perspectives on design’s evolving role in the face of planetary change. This unique collection emphasises practices and perspectives at the edges of conventional design, encompassing craft, material knowledge, repair, manual skills, creative practice and non-professional design, to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Working Through Planetary Breakdown

    Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate.It is innovative in its grounding of such discussions in the everyday realities of workers’ experiences with an empirical focus on skill, occupational shifts and technological change at the ... Read more

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  • Industrial Craft in Australia

    Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival

    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as Australia. Providing an alternative to the nostalgic trope of the redundant factory ‘craftsman’, this book introduces the intriguing and little-known trade of engineering patternmaking, where objects are brought to life through the handmade ‘originals’ required for ... Read more

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  • Nanotechnology

    Understanding Small Systems, Third Edition

    Series series Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Series
    An Accessible, Scientifically Rigorous Presentation That Helps Your Students Learn the Real StuffWinner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award 2011"� takes the revolutionary concepts and techniques that have traditionally been fodder for graduate study and makes them accessible for all. � outstanding introduction to the broad field of nanotech ... Read more

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  • Nanotechnology

    The Whole Story

    Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE MagazineTransistors using one electron at a time. Seemingly transparent sunscreens made with titanium dioxide particles that block harmful UV rays. Nanometer-sized specks of gold that change color to red and melt at 750 C instead of 1,064 C. Nanotechnology finds the unique properties of thin ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Hot metal

    Material culture and tangible labour

    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
    The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were finally made obsolete with the introduction of computerised technologies. This multidisciplinary history provides an evocative rendering of design ... Read more

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  • THE FIRST UNDERGROUND

    “I want to thank you for your clarity as a writer about other intelligences and dimensions interacting with Earth life as humans are beginning to knock more loudly to open extraterrestrial doors. Your keen intelligence and vivid descriptions are needed in this complex evolutionary time to penetrate and better understand this universe's physics of infinity.” – Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award winning ... Read more

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  • The First Underground

    Series series
    Alien ships are leaving Earth. The hybridization program, to lift humanity to a higher consciousness, is under threat. Something is wrong with Earth's timeline. A human-alien hybrid and a Grey alien set out across time to find out why.From Machu Picchu at the time of the Inca, to thousands of years earlier at its construction by aliens. From Japan's Yonaguni monument, alive with aliens networking ... Read more

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  • THE FIRST UNDERGROUND

    "I want to thank you for your clarity as a writer about other intelligences and dimensions interacting with Earth life as humans are beginning to knock more loudly to open extraterrestrial doors. Your keen intelligence and vivid descriptions are needed in this complex evolutionary time to penetrate and better understand this universe's physics of infinity." - Linda Moulton HoweSomething is wrong ... Read more

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  • Economies of Design

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    How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of design?Historically, design has been promoted for its for its capacity to add value to products and services. In contemporary capitalism, however, it assumes a more central and more complex role. Design today is both influenced by, and actively ... Read more

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  • Eco-Homes

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