New Millennium Fibers
Title | New Millennium Fibers PDF eBook |
Author | Tatsuya Hongu |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2005-07-11 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780849325984 |
Looking forward to the future it is clear that today's narrow concept of fiber as a basic element for textiles, ropes and nets will become an outmoded notion. The emphasis will instead shift to new and exciting developments in fiber technology and their applications, exploring such fields as biomimetics, nanotechnology and biodegradability. ??New millennium fibers describes and identifies the scope of high-tech fibers. The present status and prospects of the fiber/textile technology are discussed and the high performance fibers are reviewed from origin to future applications, including carbon fiber. The themes of the book are summarised with a discussion on health care and the environment. ?? As the 21st century progresses fibers will enter into more novel and unexpected applications. We are approaching the age of the wearable computer and organic electroluminescence wearable displays. New potential is open in the fields of car and aerospace industry, civil engineering, separation membranes using hollow fibers for artificial organs, biodegradable fiber for ecological conservation and fibers with biological functions. ? ?New millennium fibers explores the exciting roles that fibers will play in the future and will be an essential book for all of those in the textile and fashion industry involved in fiber development or use.
WAC for the New Millennium
Title | WAC for the New Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | Susan H. McLeod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780814156483 |
Higher education is facing a number of challenges in this new millennium; one well-known management guru has predicted the demise of university education as we know it. Yet the writing-across-the-curriculum movement, now more than twenty-five years old, has remained a stable part of the educational landscape, outlasting other educational innovations by adapting to new educational initiatives. How has WAC transformed itself, and what can WAC directors learn from those who are leading continuing WAC programs? This collections of essays describing how WAC programs have adapted and continue to adapt to meet new challenges is a must-read for everyone concerned with the quality of writing in higher education. Respected WAC advocates and WAC educators explain strategies for continuing WAC programs in an atmosphere of change; explore new avenues of collaboration, such as service learning and the linked-course curricula of learning communities, and predict areas into which WAC programs need to move; and suggest new directions for research on writing across the curriculum. -- From publisher's description.
Materials for the New Millennium
Title | Materials for the New Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Pin Chong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1494 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Composite materials |
ISBN |
Materials for the New Millennium
Title | Materials for the New Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | National Science Foundation (U.S.). Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (Program) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Materials |
ISBN |
New Thinking for the New Millennium
Title | New Thinking for the New Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | Edward De Bono |
Publisher | Penguin Books, Limited (UK) |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Creative thinking |
ISBN | 9780140287769 |
The last millennium has not been a great success. We have advanced in science and technology, but not much in human behaviour. Is it possible that this has been due to poor thinking? Edward de Bono maintains that the thinking of the last millennium has been concerned with WHAT IS. This is the thinking of analysis, criticism and argument. What we have not sufficiently developed is the thinking concerned with WHAT CAN BE. This is thinking that is creative and constructive, and which seeks to solve conflicts and problems by designing a way forward. The emphasis of his proposed new thinking is on design and not judgement.
Buckminster Fuller
Title | Buckminster Fuller PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas T. K. Zung |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2002-03-20 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780312288907 |
Buckminster Fuller, inventor, thinker and architect, was one of the best known Americans of the twentieth century. Often compared to Leonardo da Vinci and called "the planet's friendly genius," he was the inventor of the geodesic dome, the man who coined the term "spaceship earth," and an educator without parallel. Yet, most of his books are out of print today. To remedy this situation, his longtime friend and architectural partner, Thomas Zung, has compiled a Bucky Fuller reader. This anthology consists of chapters selected from twenty of Bucky's many books, each with a new Introduction by such notables as Arthur C. Clarke, Steve Forbes, Calvin Tomkins, Dr. Martin Meyerson, Sir Harold W. Kroto, Arthur L. Loeb, E. J. Applewhite, and others. Altogether, this book provides an overview of a remarkable intellectual career and the best possible introduction to the man and his thought. Bucky Fuller was one of the most original thinkers and builders that America has ever produced, and this book makes his work available to a new generation at the beginning of a new millennium.
Children of the New Millennium
Title | Children of the New Millennium PDF eBook |
Author | P. M. H. Atwater |
Publisher | Three Rivers Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1998-12-31 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780609803097 |
An internationally renowned expert on near-death experiences (NDEs) presents her discovery of "millennial children"--and their insightful message of hope. Line drawings.