Manufacturing industries Books

Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain''s largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider fortunes of this vital part of the manufacturing sector. Taking a chronological approach, the book explores how during the late nineteenth century the industry developed a reputation for excellence throughout the world, before the challenges of two world wars necessitated drastic changes and reorganisations. Despite meeting these challenges and emerging with confidence into the post-war market place, the British machine tool industry never regained its pre-eminent position, and increasingly lost ground to foreign competition. By using the example of Alfred Herbert Ltd to illuminate the broader economic and business history of the British machine tool industry, this study not only provides a Trade Review’The twentieth-century machine tool industry remains little explored by historians of technology, despite being central to modern production... Now we have a valuable addition to the literature with Roger Lloyd-Jones and M.J. Lewis's detailed, chronological history of Alfred Herbert Ltd. and the British machine tool industry. Their careful economic analysis raises many tantalizing historical questions about the complex relationships between technological capability, innovation, and economic success... One of the outstanding features of this study is the importance that the authors accord to understanding firms within the 'market-cum-technological environment'.’ Technology and Culture ’... this book is a welcome addition to the literature and we should be grateful to Lloyd-Jones and Lewis for their hard slog in the archives.’ Business History ’The authors' thorough investigation of primary sources and secondary literature has resulted in a valuable addition to the scholarship on the machine-tool industry.’ Business History Review ’As the authors of this important study point out, the British machine tool industry was the rock on which other industries rested. Yet publications on it are sparse. ...the book will nevertheless stand alongside other key publications in economic history that tell the story of a British industry in authoritative detail. In a period in which academic publication is increasingly influenced by the idiocies of university research assessment exercises, it is encouraging that such scholarly books are still being written.’ Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Technological and business development: British machine tools and the American challenge, 1890-1914; 'A war of machinery': the British machine tool industry, 1914-18; Meeting the challenge: Alfred Herbert and the British machine tool industry, 1918-34; A call to arms: the British machine tool industry, 1935-40; The Second World War and the British machine tool industry; The changing 'game': the British machine tool industry, 1945-60; Responding to the 'game': modernisation and the British machine tool industry in the 1960s; Business strategy and business structure: Alfred Herbert 1950-70; The 'end game': the British machine tool industry in the 1970s, and the fall of Alfred Herbert; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisExplores ultrasonic metal welding (USMW), particularly for the manufacturing of lithium-ion (li-ion) battery cells, modules, and packs as used in electric vehicles. The book focuses mainly on two-layer and multi-layer aluminum (with and without anodizing) and copper (with and without nickel coating) welding configurations.

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Book SynopsisBeautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret were it not for The September Issue, the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace’s palpable engagement with her work brought a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the magazine’s most memorable shoots.   With the witty, forthright voice that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than forty years, Grace now creatively directs the reader through the storied narrative of her life so far. Evoking the time when models had to tote their own bags and props to shoots, Grace describes her early career as a model, working with such world-class photographers as Da

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Book SynopsisThis second volume of Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity follows on directly from the successes of the first volume published last year. This series disseminates important data pertaining to food and nutrition safety and toxicology that is relevant to humans. Chapters in this series extend from the introduction of toxins in the manufacture or production of artificial food substances, to the ingestion of microbial contaminants or toxins and the cellular or physiological changes that arise.The present volume has a broad range chapters reviewing contaminants in beer, the effects of alcohol on the intestine, ciguatera fish poisoning, hepatitis A, beta-nitropropionic acid, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, bacterial toxins, pesticide toxicity, polyhalogenated and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and a survey of contamination episodes.Each chapter is written by experts with supportive tables and figures. These concise and informative articles should stimulate a scientific dialogueTable of ContentsBacterial Contaminants and Mycotoxins in Beer and Control Strategies. Alcohol and Intestinal Permeability: Implications for Human Toxicology. Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Features, Tissue, and Body Effects. Hepatitis A: Sources in Food and Risk for Health. b-Nitropropionic Acid in the Diet: Toxicity Aspects. Vibrio parahaemolyticus Infections: Causes, Effects, and the Role of the Food Chain. Cellular Effects of Bacterial Toxins: Implications for Foodborne Illness. Pesticide Toxicology: Mode of Action, Residues in Fruit Crops, and Risk Assessment. Behavior of Polyhalogenated and Policyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Food-Producing Animals. A Survey of Three PCB and Dioxin Contamination Episodes: From Contamination of Food Items to Body Burdens.

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Book SynopsisUnique and informative, Water Properties of Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Materials is based on lectures and papers given by leading international researchers at the 9th International Symposium of the Properties of Water in Foods (ISOPOW 9) that took place in September 2004. Each chapter presents an authoritative account of the latest research on the physical and chemical properties of water in relation to the stability of food, pharmaceutical, and biological materials.The first part of the text focuses on presentations given by invited speakers, whereas the second part is dedicated to oral presentations and discussions. Topics include the role of water in structural and functional properties, preserving biomolecule functionality in restricted water environments, and micro- and nano- techniques used for assessing water-solid interactions in food and drug development. This book is an invaluable resource that synthesizes cutting-edge information with innovaTable of ContentsOverview of Water Science. Dynamics and Relaxation in Amorphous Aqueous Systems. Advances in Assessing Water-Solid Interactions in Food and Drug Development. Role of Water in Structural and Functional Properties. Water and Structure and Stability of Microdisperse Systems. Responses to Water Stress in Living Organisms. Preserving Biomolecule Functionality in Restricted Water Environments. Overlapping Food, Pharmaceutical and Material Sciences for the Improvement of Quality Products.

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Book SynopsisThe assessment of bioequivalence is an important process whereby the bioavailability of a generic drug product is compared with its brand-name counterpart. Generic pharmaceutical products must be approved as therapeutic equivalents to the brand name alternative in order to be interchangeable. The demonstration of bioequivalence is an important component of therapeutic equivalence. Bioequivalence studies are very expensive, time consuming and always have the possibility of failure. The objective of this textbook is to describe some of those specific bioequivalence issues which need to be considered for the design and conduct of bioequivalence studies. By exploring scientific, legal, and international regulatory challenges, Generic Drug Development, discusses the use of alternative approaches to the measurement of plasma drug concentrations for the demonstration of bioequivalence, and covers bioequivalence procedures for drug products that are not easily assessed - based upon the physicaTable of ContentsIntroduction - Bioequivalence Issues. Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (Orange Book). Pharmaceutical Alternatives: Considerations for Generic Substitution. Pharmacodynamic Measurements for Determination of Bioequivalence. Bioequivalence Using Clinical Endpoint Studies. Evaluation of Bioequivalence of Highly-Variable Drug Products. Statistical Considerations: Alternate Designs And Approaches For Bioequivalence Assessments. Population Pharmacokinetic Approaches for Assessing Bioequivalence. Role of Metabolites in Bioequivalence Assessment. Implications of Chirality for the Assessment of Bioequivalence. Effect of Food on Bioavailability and the Assessment of Bioequivalence. Bioequivalence Assessment of Endogenous Drug Substances : Pharmacokinetics and Statistical Evaluation.

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Book SynopsisTracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging.From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and stretch-wrap, Murcott shows the importance of food packaging for global food systems. As a pioneering excursion into the many aspects of the history of food packaging, the book examines shifts from domestic to commercial production, the emergence of associated technologies, changes in retailing, implications for policy and practice, along with current concerns about overpackaging.Taking a wide historical and geographical angle, Murcott draws on sources such as trade magazines, manufacturers' archives, company histories, packaging textbooks, histories of international trade and interviews with key industry insiders'.Written by a leading figure in the field, this book will benefit students of social studies of fooTrade ReviewSurely the most comprehensive study of food packaging ever written, this book takes us on a breathtaking journey through the history of the most powerful yet neglected marketing device. By paying close attention to the development of an incredible range of technologies - glass, carton, metal and plastic containers; jars, bottles, cans, canisters, and even modified atmosphere packaging - she reveals the incredible depth - material, cultural, sociological - of the most tangible, yet often unseen, market surface, and thus helps us better address the underlying challenges. * Franck Cochoy, Professor of Sociology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France *Food packaging is so easily overlooked, yet ubiquitous and essential. Anne Murcott shows that the global industrial food system could not exist and could not have emerged without a parallel technology made of glass, paper, wood, metal and plastic. Anne Murcott moves fluently through disciplines and around the globe, taking us on a fascinating trip through an unfamiliar circuit of inventors, designers, chemists, drivers, bureaucrats and even freezers. * Richard R. Wilk, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Indiana University, USA *Scholars and activists, concerned about urgent issues from environment to health, are discovering packaging matters. The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging provides a rich and timely exploration into how packages assemble markets and shape our relationship to food. Murcott skillfully blends history, sociology, and STS to unpack both the material and symbolic worlds of our modern packaging landscapes. * Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History, Auburn University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Part One: Putting Food Packaging Centre Stage 1. Ubiquity and (in)visibility 2.Food Packaging: a Technology Part Two: How Did it Get Like This? Early Precursors 3. Bags, Sacks and a lot of Paper 4.Barrels, Casks and Tea Chests 5. Bottles, Jars and Gallons of Milk 6. Canisters, Cans and Canning Part Three: How Did it Get Like This? Industrialised Packaging 7. Tomato Ketchup and Transparent Bottles 8.Ready Meals, Microwaves and Plastic Trays 9. Salad Leaves and Protective Atmospheres Part Four: Where Now? 10. Food Packaging - A Trio of Futures and a Provisional Ending References Index

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Book SynopsisAisling McKeefry is Head of Design at online retail giant ASOS.com, where she oversees the design of all ASOS branded footwear, bags, accessories, and jewellery. With more than a decade of fashion design experience, she has collaborated with such notable designers as Matthew Williamson, Julian McDonald, Jasper Conran, Henry Holland, and Ben de Lisi.Table of ContentsIntroduction Core Skills 1. Design 2. Illustration 3. Understanding Fabric 4. Garment Construction 5. Selling Yourself, Your Brand, Your Product 6. Careers and Professional Skills Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisHere to bring back the pride, confidence, and jobs that Made in the U.S.A. once generatedKeeping Your Business in the U.S.A.: Profit Globally While Operating Locally shows American enterprises how to survive and prosper while keeping their manufacturing base within the United States. It tells the stories of three manufacturing companies that have been able to buck the outsourcing trend and achieve overwhelming success while keeping jobs in the States.Using case studies, the book illustrates each company's story from the day it started. It examines the successes, failures, lessons learned, and methods used by each company to achieve and sustain success. The authors integrate nearly a century of combined experience to compare the different business strategies, make key observations, and provide helpful tips for duplicating the recipes that led to these companies' overwhelming success.Debunking the myth that U.S. manufacturers can't compete with cheap lTrade ReviewKeeping Your Business in the U.S.A. finally gives us true insight on why American businesses find it so hard to compete in the global market and inspirational guidance from companies that refuse to believe Made in USA is a thing of the past.—Earl Gregorich, Certified Business Advisor, Ohio SBDCWhat I really like about Keeping Your Business in the U.S.A. is the way it is written. It is easy to understand, easy to know what to do, and, most importantly, will give you a leg up on keeping your jobs in America.—Dan Foley, Commissioner, Montgomery County, OhioA book … a cookbook that brings two pragmatic authors’ findings into a simple-to-read book allowing the reader to relate, understand, and duplicate successful American businesses’ recipes into their own companies. The authors debunk the notion that American companies have to outsource manufacturing to remain competitive in the global marketplace. The three case studies provide evidence that with the right leadership, companies can increase quality, market share, and profits without shipping jobs overseas. A must read for executives and managers wrestling with outsourcing decisions.—Timothy C. Krehbiel, Professor of Management and Senior Associate Dean, Farmer School of Business, Miami University (Ohio)The book, Keeping Your Business in the U.S.A., is based on the authors’ research into how companies are successfully keeping their manufacturing operations in America, and uses three stories plus analytical tools to show the reader by example what and how they are doing. It could become a recipe for American manufacturing companies.—Basil Zabek, Retired Dayton Development, Coalition and EntrepreneurInnovation is what drove manufacturing growth in America in the past and will drive it in the future. This book outlines how a few have used innovation in technology, processes, and/or marketing to be successful.—Harold Linville, Chief Business Development, Officer/Chairman of the BoardIf there is one thing I’ve learned in the past 28 years in business, it is that there is no one right answer for improvement. Surviving as a manufacturer in the U.S. is anything but easy. Yet there are clearly some ways to be successful, and this book highlights actual stories of companies making it happen. Odds are, there will be at least a few ideas that resonate in your own business.—Dave Lippert, President, Hamilton Caster & Mfg. Co.Read it, discuss it, digest it, and live it. The ingredients are here for how you can run a successful business in America.—Bob Lammers, Marketing Manager (Ret.), Midmark Corp.The backbone of America, our security and financial strength have been borne of our ability as a pioneering people to manufacture and create a strong industrial base for providing innovation coupled with jobs, which in turn drives the flywheel of a strong economic society—without manufacturing in America, we lose our nation’s strength, jeopardize our security, weaken overall finances, and quench the hope of strong jobs for our children.—Marc Wolfrum, VP and General Manager, Cincinnati Sub-Zero Medical DivisionKeeping Your Business in the U.S.A. comes at a time when America is searching for how to create and retain jobs.—Joseph Patten, President, MainStream ManagementTable of ContentsSTORIES OF SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES. Company Story 1—Small Manufacturer. Company Story 2—Medium Manufacturer. Company Story 3—Large Manufacturer. RECIPES FOR SUCCESS. Selecting the Companies for Our Stories. How We Developed the Recipes. Identifying the Seven Common Recipes. About the Ingredients. Personal Self-Assessment. Personal Insights and Thoughts. Next Steps. Index.

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Book SynopsisForeseeing and planning for all of the possibilities and pitfalls involved in bringing a biotechnology innovation from inception to widespread therapeutic use takes strong managerial skills and a solid grounding in biopharmaceutical research and development procedures. Unfortunately there has been a dearth of resources for this aspect of the field. Until now. Focusing on the management of healthcare-related biotech, from conception through the product's regulatory approval and entire life cycle, Healthcare Biotechnology: A Practical Guide provides a practical, applicable resource to assist all health-care related biotech professionals in their day-to-day activities from the lab to the boardroom.Divided into six sections, the book begins with current systems and recent progress and controversy, major players and products, and a comparison with the pharmaceutical industry. It covers intellectual property protection and management, the innovation cycle,Trade Review"... The section on marketing is also particularly strong and well thought through. ... provides insight into the biotechnology business sector." -British Journal of Biomedical ScienceTable of ContentsThe Healthcare Biotechnology Industry: Bioeconomy. Intellectual Property: Intellectual Property Management. Biolicensing. Funding: Biofinance. Biopartnering. New Product Development: Biodrug Research. Biomanufacturing. Marketing: Biomarketing planning. Biopromotion. Biopricing. Biosupply Chain. Product Life Cycle Management. Running the Business: Biobusiness models. Biosimilars Model. Biocompany Life Cycle.

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Book SynopsisNearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation. Researchers have identified additional problems resulting from these trends, including negative impacts on the environment, human health, and communities. This book reveals the dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, and the extent of their control over markets. It also analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trendTrade ReviewThe book is fun to read . . . and, obviously, well illustrated. If you want to know how current-day food markets really work, this is the place to start. -- Marion Nestle, NYU…this book is an excellent introductory text to food systems…Everything from the language and quotes Howard uses to the diversity of examples discussed makes Concentration and Power in the Food System an intense yet enjoyable read. Overall, this short book is packed with so much information and different points of discussion that it not only leaves readers impassioned, but also hungry for more. -- Kathleen Chiappetta * LSE Review of Books *This will clearly be a major touchstone in the critical food studies field...One of the great contributions of this book is that, in synthesizing the field so effectively, it sets into relief some of the most salient questions in food systems scholarship today. -- Amy Guptill, State University of New York, co-author of Food and Society[Concentration and Power in the Food System] is accessible to any reader interested in learning how political economy can help us understand who really does control what we eat. And as the food industry continues to consolidate, Howard’s work will become increasingly vital to imagining an economy with open, competitive markets for farmers and eaters alike. -- Leah Douglas * Washington Monthly *Howard provides an excellent introduction to the alarming lack of competition in today’s food production system. The fact that much of this food system concentration is intentionally behind the scenes—only a few companies own many brand names and operate through multiple subsidiaries—often renders the public unaware of this monopoly. The book begins with retailers and moves down through the food chain, with chapters devoted to distributors, processors, and finally, the farm. Additional chapters cover agricultural inputs such as seeds and pesticides, commodity pricing, and organic food production. Written in an academic yet eminently accessible style, the text is well researched and documented. Chapter references and a comprehensive index are at the end of the work. Points are illustrated with clear graphics and comprehensible tables. Current examples featuring larger, well-known corporations add to the text’s relevance and readability. Non-polemical and jargon-free, this is a concise and concerning look at the ever-increasing food system concentration in the US and the global food supply chain. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *In a systematic and sophisticated manner grounded in political economy Concentration and Power in the Food System pulls back the curtain on the often hidden processes by which agribusiness employs its economic power to influence the state apparatus and thereby secure and advance its agenda to enhance market share and suppress resistance. … The book deftly documents how the processes of vertical, horizontal, and concentric integration expand the breadth and depth of agribusiness consolidation. -- Douglas H. Constance * Rural Sociology *The accessibility of the language, paired with rigorous analysis and sturdy methodology make Concentration and Power in the Food System a must-read for those who seek a better understanding of how corporations consolidate power in the food system. -- Lisa F. Clark * Cuizine *Howard has written an excellent book that is very informative. It is relevant also for the European reader, at least as a possible future scenario for the European agri-foodsystem. * Radix *Concentration and Power in the Food System challenges us to think about the broader consequences of corporate control over the food we eat ... excellent and engaging. * Global Environmental Politics *Table of Contents1. Food System Concentration: A Political Economy Perspective 2. Reinterpreting Antitrust: Retailing 3. Structuring Dependency: Distribution 4. Engineering Consumption: Packaged Foods and Beverages 5. Manipulating Prices: Commodity Processing 6. Subsidizing the Treadmill: Farming and Ranching 7. Enforcing the New Enclosures: Agricultural Inputs 8. Standardizing Resistance: The Organic Food Chain 9. Endgame? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses summarizes two decades of research, teaching, and practice on lean thinking.Based on quantitative analysis of 100 cases of Lean transformations and 20 in-depth case studies of successfully transformed SMEs, it explains how to undertake lean transformations that lead to operational and financial performance improvement, and uses the Lean Transformation Framework --conceptualized by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Instituteas a practical approach to design and de-risk the transformation process.SMEs' leaders wishing to undertake and sustain a lean transformation must: Make a serious and lasting commitment to transform, avoiding the temptation to change course of action; Choose accurately the value streams that require improvement as defined by strategy deployment; Build capabilities to sustain the transformation; <Trade Review"This book summarises the lessons that can be learnt from big and small companies in Italy that used lean to help them survive and grow in difficult economic times. Read it to follow their example." -Daniel T Jones, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Academy, UK and Author The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation "What does the experience of Italian SMEs have to say about your enterprise transformation? Everything! In Lean Transformations for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons Learned from Italian Businesses, author Arnaldo Camuffo provides analysis with usefulness that transcends national borders. In a detailed and comprehensive examination of the success and failure modes of companies going through a lean transformation, Camuffo extrapolates lessons that managers, investors, academicians, and policy makers in any country will find interesting and useful. " -John Shook, Chairman and CEO, Lean Enterprise Institute Chairman, Lean Global Network "Lean Transformations in Small and Medium Enterprises addresses the relatively neglected world of lean in smaller companies—representing an enormous swath of the economy in the industrialized world. Using a wealth of data and case studies Camuffo’s book tells a compelling story of what works and doesn’t work in transforming SMEs and brilliantly translates it into practical terms." -Peter T. Ward, Professor, Ross Chair in Management, and Director, Center for Operational Excellence, Max M. Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University. "A fantastic read. You'll find vivid, real-life illustrations of the Lean Transformation Framework in dynamic businesses and garner new insights into lean thinking in this remarkable book about lean - with Italian style." -Michael Ballé, co-author of The Gold Mine trilogy and co-founder of the Institut Lean France "In Lean Transformations for SMEs, Arnaldo Camuffo vividly depicts how lean is transforming the heart of the Italian and of the global economy. Over 95% of OECD firms are SMEs, contributing to over 60% of employment. Many of them –in Italy and elsewhere- are Genba-people-oriented and community-embedded. With evidence coming from a wealth of cases and data, Camuffo provides a roadmap to successful lean transformations, particularly when economic conditions are unstable." -Takahiro Fujimoto, Professor, Faculty of Economics, and Executive Director, Manufacturing Management Research Center, The University of Tokyo "This book is full of wisdom and insight into Lean ideas, principles, and practices seen through the lens of the Italian experience. It distills years of scholarship and practical involvement with Lean implementations into a valuable guide for managers and entrepreneurs beginning their own "lean journey" and scholars interested in strategic renewal, organizational learning, and intertwined change in technical and human systems. The rich case studies, covering success stories, incomplete "journeys", and implementation failures, are unusually probing and make the Italian story of Lean both utterly distinctive and universal. Enjoy!" -John Paul MacDuffie, The Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: Little Big Lean Champions Chapter 2: Understanding the Italian Context Chapter 3: How to Transform SMEs Chapter 4: The Transformation Paths of Italian SMEs Chapter 5: Leading Successful Lean Transformations in SMEs Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFeaturing detailed profiles of the Chinese tech companies making waves, the tech sectors that matter most in China's grab for super power status, and predictions for China's tech dominance in just 10 years.The rise of China's tech companies and intense competition from the sector is just beginning. This will present an ongoing management and strategy challenge for companies for many years to come. Tech Titans of China is the go-to-guide for companies (and those interested in competition from China) seeking to understand China's grand tech ambitions, who the players are and what their strategy is. Fannin, a leading expert on the Chinese tech sector, is an internationally-recognized journalist, author and speaker. Through her company, Silicon Dragon, Fannin hosts 12 live events annually for business leaders, venture capitalists, start-up founders, and others impacted by or interested in the Chinese tech industry.

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Book SynopsisThis new volume reviews recent academic and technological developments behind new engineered modified nanotextile materials. The developments in textiles using nanotechnology give ordinary materials improved properties, such as better water resistance, enhanced moisture and odor reduction, increased strength and elasticity, and resistance to bacteria, among other improvements. The research reported in this book presents state-of-the-art technology in modern materials with an emphasis on the rapidly growing technologies in textile engineering. Several innovative applications for different materials are described in considerable detail with emphasis on the experimental data that supports these new applications. From nano-fibers to chemical materials, creative modifications concerning new nanocomposites are described that could one day become commonplace. The book covers a host of topics in this area, including the design of new textile products, moisture and heat transfer in clothing, developments in electrospinning, new applications, nanotextile and tissue engineering from a biological perspective, and more. The book is intended for researchers and those interested in future developments in mechanical and physicochemical characteristics of modified nanotextile materials and polymer blends. The book will also be a useful tool for students and researchers, providing helpful insights into new evolving research areas in nanostructured polymer blends and composites in textiles.Table of ContentsPreface. Engineering Nanotextiles: Design of Textile Products. Modern Applications of Nanotechnology in Textiles. Nanofiber Membranes: A Practical Guide. Nanotextile and Tissue Engineering from a Biological Perspective. Heat and Moisture Transfer in Clothing System. Electrospinning of nanofibers and Porosity. Synthesize of Nanocomposites: New Achievements. Updates on Polymerization Techniques. Updates on Particulate-Filled Polymer Nanocomposites. The Reinforcement of Particulate-Filled Polymer Nanocomposites. A Study on Electrospun Nanofiber Mats. Index.

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Book SynopsisRolls-Royce is one of Britain’s legendary car brands, representing the pinnacle of engineering quality and luxury like no other manufacturer. Since 1904, when Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce began their collaboration, the Rolls-Royce name has earned respect and admiration the world over. This is the full story of Britain’s premier luxury car-maker, from the early experimental models through the 40/50 Silver Ghost, the Twenty, the Phantoms, the Wraiths and their post-1945 successors, with evocative names such as Silver Shadow and Silver Seraph. It celebrates more than 110 years of car manufacture under the Rolls-Royce brand, revealing how careful management and simple dedication have ensured that the Rolls-Royce name remains a byword for the best of the best.Table of ContentsEarly Days and the Silver Ghost Twenties and Phantoms Transition Clouds and Phantoms Shadows, Spirits and Seraphs German Ownership Further Reading Places to Visit Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a series of essays which unfold and illuminate the history of the Irish flour milling industry from the medieval period to the present day. Milling was one of Ireland’s foremost industries, playing a critically important role in the local economy of many districts, servicing farmers needs and processing some of the key components in the Irish food supply. Despite being the most widely dispersed industry in the country, with bread and other milling components playing a central role in the Irish diet, the topic has not received the attention it deserves from social or economic historians, who’ve focused more on the potato. This book addresses that lacunae and incorporates a range of new research to form a compre-hensive overview. Attractively illustrated by a large collection of photographs and drawings, Irish Flour milling will be of particular interest to social, economic and local historians, industrial archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists, and the many people with family connections to the industry: Bolands, Hallinans and Hughes; Pollexfens, Russells, Odlums and Shackletons. Contributors include: Dr Colin Rynne (NUI, Cork), on the industrial archaeology of Irish flour milling from the medieval period to 1880; Professor Louis Cullen (Trinity College, Dublin), on eighteenth-century flour milling; Dr Andy Bielenberg (NUI, Cork), on flour milling during the Union; Dr Richard Harrison (historian), on the Quakers and Irish flour milling 1790-1930; Glynn Jones (author of The Millers), on the introduction of rollers into flour milling 1880-1925; Dr Akihiro Takei (Osaka Gakuin University), on the political economy of Irish flour milling 1922-45; and Norman Campion (milling consultant), on Irish milling since the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisThis is the inside story of the workings of the MG Design and Development Office in Abingdon, from 1956 until MG's closure in 1980, as told by Chief Design & Development Engineer, Don Hayter. This book explains how the various models were conceived, drawn, planned and developed by a small team of engineers. It also shows how the constant evolution of BMC, including the Triumph-Austin merger, frequently changed input to, and control of, the department. Safety legislation, mainly imposed by the United States, could have killed MG, but detailed here are the design changes that allowed the MGB, and other models, to survive. Trying to remain as individual as possible, MG developed record-breakers and a unique Competition Department during the period covered by this book. Special cars were built and tested, and prototypes for the MGB replacement, using engines from any part of the group, were drawn up. The continuing support of the American market was essential and much valued, but holding company, British Leyland, prioritised the TR7 – a decision that, ultimately, led to the closure of a successful, happy MG company.

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Book SynopsisOh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you re wearing out, But human creatures lives! Stitch stitch stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. --from The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (1843) Labour in Bangladesh flows like its rivers -- in excess of what is required. Often, both take a huge toll. Labour that costs $1.66 an hour in China and 52 cents in India can be had for a song in Bangladesh -- 18 cents. It is mostly women and children working in fragile, flammable buildings who bring in 70 per cent of the country s foreign exchange. Bangladesh today does not clothe the nakedness of the world, but provides it with limitless cheap garments -- through Primark, Walmart, Benetton, Gap. In elegiac prose, Jeremy Seabrook dwells upon the disproportionate sacrifices demanded by the manufacture of such throwaway items as baseball caps. He shows us how Bengal and Lancashire offer mirror images of impoverishment and affluence. In the eighteenth century, the people of Bengal were dispossessed of ancient skills and the workers of Lancashire forced into labour settlements.In a ghostly replay of traffic in the other direction, the decline of the British textile industry coincided with Bangladesh becoming one of the world s major clothing exporters. With capital becoming more protean than ever, it wouldn t be long before the global imperium readies to shift its sites of exploitation in its nomadic cultivation of profit.Trade Review'Few writers are at once as lyrical or as precise about the living conditions of peasants and indigents. Seabrook's clear-eyed accounts of the immiseration as well as the dreams of young Bangladeshis are informed by extended conversations with scholars and activists, as well as historical research. ... What makes The Song of the Shirt especially important is its historical consciousness. ... Seabrook draws out the social, economic and imaginative parallels that connected, across decades and continents, Europe's and Asia s poor. ... Seabrook has established himself as perhaps Britain's finest anatomist of class, deindustrialisation, migration and the spiritual consequences of neoliberalism. The Song of the Shirt may well be his masterpiece.' * The Guardian *'Stitches together history, folklore and hundreds of encounters with individual Bangladeshis to give a thorough picture of the structural injustices that have led to the present situation.' * The New Statesman *'The sweat and blood of Bangladeshi garment workers is woven into the very fabric of our daily lives. Seabrook, as he always has, delivers a brilliantly written jeremiad with an urgent moral message.' * Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums *'At once illuminating, deeply absorbing, and sobering, this is an ode to the rags of humanity the labourers, young and old who sometimes perish in order to create our fashionably casual clothes. It's written by one who has long been intimate with this part of the world and its anonymous dwellers, and who has responded always with passion and eloquence.' * Amit Chaudhuri, author of Calcutta: Two Years in the City *

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Book Synopsis"The Millers" describes not only the changes in machinery and processing and the effects on the traditional industry, but also the personalities who shaped the trade, the companies they ran, and the myths and legends which have surrounded them.

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Book SynopsisPreston was no ordinary town during the nineteenth century. While king cotton reigned supreme throughout Lancashire, the underlying ills associated with this industry were very often highlighted particularly starkly there. Child labour, shocking working conditions with appallingly long hours and pitifully low wages, as well as the constant risk of suffering horrific accidents in the cotton mills, all fostered a deep sense of hostility among the operatives towards the employers. Overcrowded and insanitary housing, disease, poverty and awful wretchedness were often to be witnessed in the fast-growing working-class districts of Preston.Against this backdrop the nascent trade unions and political and social reformers began to challenge the unbridled mastery of the millowners. Trade disputes, confrontations, lockouts, strikes and tragic episodes of violence were the inevitable consequence of this lethal mix of hardship and employer intransigence, and dominated affairs in the town for many years. This book by local author J.S. Leigh is a powerful indictment of the industrial system that caused such suffering to Preston's cotton 'martyrs'.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 The early years 3 2 The quest for reform 14 3 Combination and radicalism 24 4 The Spinners' Strike of 1836A-1837 33 5 Chartism and the tragedy of 1842 44 6 Recession and the Ten Per Cent question 51 7 The great Preston Lockout of 1853A-1854 59 8 Strikebreakers 70 9 The Cotton Famine 80 Sources and bibliography 104

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Book SynopsisMichael Brown, a young travel writer, received a call from a friend urging him to come down to the West Country to see the elver harvest. It changed the course of his life completely. He became fascinated by eels, quit his job, and started to make a living out of catching, exporting, smoking and curing eels. An inspiring, heart-warming memoir.

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Book SynopsisTesla is the most exciting car company in a generation . . . but can it live up to the hype?Tesla Motors and CEO Elon Musk have become household names, shaking up the staid auto industry by creating a set of innovative electric vehicles that have wowed the marketplace and defied conventional wisdom. The company's market valuation now rivals that of long-established automakers, and, to many industry observers, Tesla is defining the future of the industry. But behind the hype, Tesla has some serious deficiencies that raise questions about its sky-high valuation, and even its ultimate survival. Tesla's commitment to innovation has led it to reject the careful, zero-defects approach of other car manufacturers, even as it struggles to mass-produce cars reliably, and with minimal defects. While most car manufacturers struggle with the razor-thin margins of mid-priced sedans, Tesla's strategy requires that the Model 3 finally bring it to profitability, even as the high-priced Roadster and Model S both lost money. And Tesla's approach of continually focusing on the future, even as commitments and deadlines are repeatedly missed, may ultimately test the patience of all but its most devoted fans. In Ludicrous, journalist and auto industry analyst Edward Niedermeyer lays bare the disconnect between the popular perception of Tesla and the day-to-day realities of the company—and the cars it produces. Blending original reporting and never-before-published insider accounts with savvy industry analysis, Niedermeyer tells the story of Tesla as it's never been told before—with clear eyes, objectivity and insight.Trade Review"Whether Tesla succeeds or fails, whether Musk ends up regarded as a hero or a clown, Ludicrous does a fine job of documenting the company’s story and setting the stage for what comes next."—Los Angeles Times"Exceptionally well written, impressively informative, and ... extraordinary." —Midwest Book Review "Fascinating and frustrating at the same time . . . Edward Niedermeyer has really worked hard in researching this well-balanced book." —Washington Book Review "Ludicrous is a revealing look at Tesla's tumultuous history from the internet's leading Tesla skeptic." —Timothy Lee, reporter at Ars Technica "Ed Niedermeyer's deep dive into Tesla reveals the complex, fascinating, and often frustrating world of a company that has achieved great heights and is at risk of an even bigger fall. This isn't a book for the faint of heart. It lays bare all of Tesla—including the flaws and scar tissue—giving an unadulterated view of an enigmatic company and its rise from unknown upstart to a high-profile global automaker." —Kirsten Korosec, senior reporter at TechCrunch "The Tesla book we need, but don't deserve." —Alex Roy, founder of the Human Driving Association and author of The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World "Ed Niedermeyer has taken on the challenge of chronicling a company that prefers to only be discussed by its fans in an even-handed way that covers what went right and what failed. It's a fascinating read." —Sam Abuelsamid, principal mobility research analyst at Navigant ResearchTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1 The Survivor 2 The Top Secret Master Plan3 The Accidental Automaker 4 The Startup Trap 5 Making Cars Is Hard 6 Bailout 7 Zero to Sixty Billion 8 The Lovers and the Haters 9 Solar, Superchargers, and Swap 10 The Autopilot Pivot 11 X Marks the Spot 12 Defects, Disclosure, and Drama 13 The Remastered Plan 14 The Machine That Builds the Machine 15 The Empire Strikes Back 16 Ludicrous Mode 17Where the Rubber Meets the Road Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume demonstrates show cost analysis can be adapted to MEMS, taking into account the wide range of processes and equipment, the major differences with the established semiconductor industry, and the presence of both large-scale, product-orientated manufacturers and small- and medium-scale foundries. The content examines the processes and equipment sufficiently for the reader to appreciate how costs arise. It examines representative costs are examined in sufficient detail and accuracy for specific equipment, processes, products, or foundries to show how financial models can be introduced to estimate the cost and price for a MEMS product.Table of ContentsThe World of MEMS; Chapter 2: Basic Fabrication Processes; Chapter 3: Surface Microengineering. High Aspect Ratio Microengineering; Chapter 5: MEMS Testing; Chapter 6: MEMS Packaging. Clean Rooms, Buildings and Plant; Chapter 8: The MEMSCOST Spreadsheet; Chapter 9: Product Costs – Accelerometers. Product Costs – Microphones. MEMS Foundries. Financial Reporting and Analysis. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisAlfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and his insights into the new consumer economy he and GM helped to produce. Bill Gates has said that Sloan's 1964 management tome, My Years with General Motors, is probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business. And if you want to read only one book about Sloan, that book should be historian David Farber's Sloan Rules. Here, for the first time, is a study of both the difficult man and the pathbreaking executive. Sloan Rules reveals the GM genius as not only a driven manager of men, machines, money, and markets but also a passionate and not always wise participant in the great events of his day. Sloan, for example, reviled Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal; he firmly believed that politicians, government bureaucrats, and union leaders knew next to nothing about the workings of the new consumer economy, and he did his best to stop them from intervening in the private enterprise system. He was instrumental in transforming GM from the country's largest producer of cars into the mainstay of America's Arsenal of Democracy during World War II; after the war, he bet GM's future on renewed American prosperity and helped lead the country into a period of economic abundance. Through his business genius, his sometimes myopic social vision, and his vast fortune, Sloan was an architect of the corporate-dominated global society we live in today. David Farber's story of America's first corporate genius is biography of the highest order, a portrait of an extraordinarily compelling and skillful man who shaped his era and ours.

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Book Synopsis"A number of maps included throughout this book refer readers to https://purefood.lafayette.edu/. The maps included here are static versions of a larger series of dynamic maps tracing changes in various features of the three main cases in this book between the 1870s and 1910s. Readers should refer to that site for further maps and images from the

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Book SynopsisThe coveted Made in Italy label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as ElizabethL. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing Made in Italy labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industryall the while adding new patterns to the social fabric of Italy's iconic industry. Krause offers a revelatory look into how families involved in the fashion industry are coping with globalization based on longterm research in Prato, the historic hub of textile productionin the heart of metropolitan Tuscany. She brings to the fore the tensionsover value, money, beauty, family, care, and belongingthat are reaching a boiling point as the country struggles to deal with the same migration pressures that are triggering backlash all over Europe and North America. Tight Knit tells a fascinating story about the heterogeneity of

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A remarkable sweeping overview and evaluation of food safety practices that well serves both experts working in the field and members of the general public interested in the problem of food safety. Lytton shows how major outbreaks have prompted a variety of changes to reduce the risk of foodborne illness. Yet, as he argues persuasively, we don't have firm scientific knowledge as to the degree to which--if at all--most of these measures have actually achieved their goal."-- (01/02/2019) "From swill milk to HACCP to FSMA to Blockchain, Lytton weaves a compelling biological story of how we feed ourselves and the interplay between the supply chain, regulation, media, and civil litigation."--William D. Marler, Esq., The Food Safety Law Firm "In Outbreak, Lytton gives us a legal scholar's superb analysis of how government, lawyers, and civil society are struggling to prevent the tragic and unnecessary illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths caused by microbial food contaminants. Foodborne illness may seem like an intractable problem, but Lytton's suggestions for dealing with it are well worth attention, as is everything else in this beautifully written, thoughtful, and readable account. I couldn't put it down." -- (01/02/2019)

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Elegant and insightful. . . . What is stunning is how pertinent the book is to our own times. You will find here a rehearsal for everything we are facing today—the fads, the fears, the government interventions that are either too late or too rushed, and the nagging sense that the food that most delights the eye may not always be the food that serves us best." * Times Literary Supplement *"Cobbold has produced a fascinating account and analysis of how these dyes were introduced, contested, and ultimately legitimized in an emerging globalized industrial food system. . . . What Cobbold draws our attention to is the inevitable negotiation around expertise and the permitted uses of novel chemical additives. In doing so, she enters a larger discussion about how novel scientific objects and processes evade control once they emerge from the laboratory and enter the world where they are unexpectedly transformed and used. More broadly, this book helps historicize the public construction of trust in science and chemistry." * Scientia Canadensis *"There are many reasons that Cobbold’s story is compelling. Her research is detailed and extensive, using many archival sources along with other primary and secondary ones. She also makes good use of the scientific and mainstream press, juxtaposing the opinions of chemists, government policymakers, and consumers. Lengthy excerpts from press articles, in particular, convey the flavor of shifting public discourse. A Rainbow Palate is also compelling due to Cobbold’s clear writing, accessible to those with little background in chemical history; the book is punctuated by helpful signposts summarizing and linking sections together. . . . Cobbold’s insights about the 19th century help us to understand why this system of trust has become frayed in the 21st century." * H-Soz-Kult *"A pioneering work of food science, this compact, well-referenced book captures the rise and fall of the use of synthetic chemicals—particularly coal tar dyes—which were employed in food coloring in the US and Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. . . . The book would be a good acquisition for academic and special collections that support food history, food science, and history of chemistry programs. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"A Rainbow Palate fits into a growing body of literature that attempts to bridge the history of modern chemistry to that of food consumption. . . . Cobbold's distinctive contributions to this scholarship become apparent from her deep research into the history of coal tar dyes, revealing the ways in which a profit-driven commitment to the discovery of new synthetic chemicals and their corresponding consumer markets encouraged the inclusion of textile dyes in food." * Technology and Culture *"[Cobbold] highlights a dichotomy between the intimacy we have with our diet and the gulf that often separates us from the understanding of where our ingredients come from." * Nature Reviews Chemistry *"If you thought food coloring was not a serious subject in the history of science, this engaging and accessible book will show you very quickly just how wrong you were. Cobbold tells a wonderful story of complex and fascinating mutual interactions of science, commerce, industry, government, journalism, and law, about how powerful interests jostled around the use and regulation of potentially hazardous synthetic chemical dyes in food. This is a neglected aspect of the celebrated developments in organic chemistry and the dyestuffs industry in the late nineteenth century. In Cobbold’s detailed account, reaching across several countries, we witness how political and legal systems were at a loss to know how to manage and regulate the impact of a formidable and fast-moving field of science, while scientific experts found themselves unable to control the use of their creations or the narratives told about them. A Rainbow Palate is an illuminating cautionary tale of how an important unintended consequence of cutting-edge science can work itself into the very fabric of our daily lives without a clear plan on anyone’s part." -- Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge"In this timely book, Cobbold tells the remarkable story of how the first industrially produced chemical food dyes were created and adjudicated as legitimate additives to food. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century chemists, manufacturers, legislators, and the public all wrestled with questions around food additives still highly relevant today, concerning risk, health, public safety, regulation, testing, and the environment. Were food colorings brilliant instances of scientific and industrial progress or toxic and unnatural artifices? How could dangers be detected and who could keep the public safe? Faced with uncertainty, how should people trust what they ate? Lively and significant, A Rainbow Palate will be indispensable for anyone interested in the difficult process by which societies manage, and fail to manage, radical new technoscientific entities." -- Simon Werrett, author of Thrifty ScienceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Food adulteration and the rise of the food chemist 2 The wonder of coal tar dyes 3 From dye manufacturer to food manufacturer 4 The struggle to devise tests to detect dyes and assess their toxicity 5 The appointment of public food analysts in Britain 6 How British food chemists responded to the use of coal tar dyes 7 French and German chemists seek to arbitrate the use of synthetic chemicals in food 8 The US government acts against chemical dyes in food Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review “Herzberg traces historical shifts from medicalization to criminalization and back. He carefully outlines the multiple factors that led to reckless opioid prescribing around the turn of the millennium and . . . argues effectively for policies to limit the distorting effect of profit-motivated drug provision. This could include everything from decriminalizing illicit drugs to nationalizing Big Pharma: turning drug companies into public utilities.” * Globe and Mail *“Herzberg traces historical shifts from medicalization to criminalization and back. He carefully outlines the multiple factors that led to reckless opioid prescribing around the turn of the millennium and . . . argues effectively for policies to limit the distorting effect of profit-motivated drug provision. This could include everything from decriminalizing illicit drugs to nationalizing Big Pharma: turning drug companies into public utilities.” * The Globe and Mail *“At the start of White Market Drugs, Herzberg laments that ‘pharmaceutical opioids do not yet have their historian.’ They do now. He has presented a careful and comprehensive chronicle spanning more than a century.” * Wall Street Journal * “In the style of a classic work of alternative history, Herzberg’s White Markets reminds us that over the last 150 years, pharmaceutical boom and bust cycles have continually hit small towns and communities across America.” * New Republic *“An important book for casting a well-studied slice of history in a new light. . . . highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of drugs, crime and incarceration, and the American administrative state." -- Nicolas Rasmussen, American Historical Review“White Market Drugs examin[es] the troubled history of psychoactive drugs in America. Herzberg considers licit and illicit drugs together, arguing that the marketing of medicine relies on the stigmatization and criminalization of those who consume drugs outside the medical system; the development of America’s gargantuan pharmaceutical markets must be understood alongside the growth of the illicit drug market. His choice of the phrase ‘white market’ to describe pharmaceuticals reflects the racial bias that has been baked into this system from the start.” * Dissent *"Herzberg argues that the vast majority of American experiences with drugs and addiction have taken place within what he calls “white markets,” where legal drugs—i.e., medicine—are sold to a largely white clientele. He advocates for a consumer protection approach that regulates all drug markets while caring for people with addiction by ensuring they have safe, reliable access to medication-assisted treatment. Accomplishing this, Herzberg explains, would require rethinking a racially segregated drug/medicine divide." * Publishers Weekly *“White Market Drugs provides essential backstory for a string of Pharma-stoked drug crises. Reading Herzberg, you can see the prescription opioid addiction epidemic coming from a mile away. This book is a powerful prequel to the body of investigative reporting on what now seems like the worst scandal in US medical history.” -- David T. Courtwright, author of Dark Paradise and The Age of Addiction“David Herzberg’s White Market Drugs is a fantastic book that tells the history of addictive pharmaceuticals in the United States since the late 19th century through the current ‘twin crises’ of opioid addiction and mass incarceration of racial minorities. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of addictive pharmaceuticals and show how imbricated that history is within the broader history of addiction, drug policy, and health care in America.” -- Dominique Tobbell, author of Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences"In this sweeping analysis of a century of US drug policy, Herzberg asks why our clinical, carceral, public health, and police responses to addictive substances have hinged on the false dichotomy between dangerous drugs and legitimate pharmaceuticals—and shows how this distinction has always had more to do with the politics of respectability than any underlying principles of pharmacology. Meticulously researched and clearly written, White Market Drugs provides not only an indictment of the failures of the present but also a roadmap for reducing harm in the future: a must-read for all concerned with the human toll of America’s long and costly wars on drugs." -- Jeremy Greene, author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine“[Herzberg has a] fantastic eye for politically led motives. . . [he] provides brilliant lessons on white-market policy.” * The British Journal for the History of Science *“Herzberg understands markets.” * Regulation *“What Herzberg does best is put flesh on the bones of drug consumers on both sides of the great divide—teaching us that the vast majority of drug users are white, middle-class consumers in the midst of the ‘white market apocalypse. * Journal of Social History *Herzberg’s masterful book . . . brings together novel theoretical framing, profound policy analysis, and attention to the narratives of those most intimately affected by these policies. He offers a promising framework to address the many challenges in our current drug policies. Policymakers would be well served to take notice of this book." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *The William J. Rorabaugh Book Prize * The Alcohol and Drug History Society *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe First Crisis 1 Drug wars and white markets 2 “Legitimate addicts” in the first drug war 3 Preventing blockbuster opioidsThe Second Crisis 4 Opioids out, barbiturates in 5 A new crisis and a new response 6 White markets, under controlThe Third Crisis 7 White market apocalypse Conclusion: Learning from the past Appendix: White market sales and overdose rates, 1870–2015 Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAppetite for Innovation offers a backstage view of one of the world's most interesting restaurants, its remarkable laboratory, and the foundation that was created after Ferran Adrià made the unusual decision to close his hugely successful restaurant. M. Pilar Opazo was afforded unusually close access, and her insider account is rich and intriguing. The processual view of innovation is useful, as it highlights the many elements that are needed to be galvanized in support of an expansive vision. -- Walter W. Powell, Stanford UniversityOpazo gives us the inside story of elBulli, a restaurant whose climb to global influence mirrors the culture of today's innovation economy, and its charismatic chef Ferran Adrià, whose passion for creating a new cuisine is driven as much by science as by art. This book will fascinate all kinds of innovators and entrepreneurs—and those who want to understand how a creative organization works. -- Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban PlacesItself an exemplar of creativity and innovation, Appetite for Innovation opens elBulli to reveal the systematic structures and practices that brought world renown to a small restaurant in the mountains of Spain. A beautifully written, analytically sharp ethnography, Opazo's book is a must-read for organizations of all kinds, scholars, chefs, entrepreneurs, culture specialists, and foodies everywhere. -- Diane Vaughan, Columbia UniversityThe tendency when discussing the success of elBulli has been simply to proclaim the genius of chef Ferran Adrià, but Opazo shows that genius is not enough. To have an impact beyond a narrow coterie requires a disciplined and organized inventory of accomplishments and the ability to win over adherents. She thus reveals the infrastructure of success and the paradoxical relationship between willingness to destroy previous accomplishments and practices to push forward an unstable creativity. -- Paul Freedman, Yale UniversityInnovation? Creativity? Opazo poses the perennially vexatious question of their relationship. The answers that this illuminating study suggests bear both on the sociology of organizations and the organization of creativity. In an ethnographic investigation of Ferran Adriá's celebrated restaurant, Opazo brings to bear the sociologist's attention to social structure, the historian's understanding of archives, and the journalist's feel for the striking detail. Appetite for Innovation is as great a pleasure to read as it is profitable to contemplate. -- Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Columbia UniversityWorking at the creative intersection of organizational sociology, and sociology of knowledge and culture, Opazo provides a sharp framing of the routinization of innovation and charisma at elBulli, the highest ranked restaurant in the over-heated world of haute cuisine. In the process she pushes the ethnography of the commercial kitchen towards the study of scientific laboratories and art worlds, investigating their epistemic practices, organizational innovations and creative rhetorics. Appetite for Innovation is a terrific book to study and teach organizational innovation and field transformation. -- Krishnendu Ray, New York University, president of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and author of The Ethnic RestaurateurOpazo has written a fascinating organizational and business analysis of the restaurant and, in the process, produced an insightful account of how a culture of innovation can be achieved and sustained. * Forbes.com *Opazo examines elBulli with a sharp sociological eye, creating a detailed case study in what she calls the 'production of innovation.' -- Theodore Kinni * strategy+business *Opazo's investigation will engage anyone interested in the intersection of business, creativity and organizational behaviour. -- Sarah Murdoch * The Toronto Star *Appetite for Innovation is a well-written, organizational study about the factory of innovation that elBulli was and the foundation it became; certainly a fascinating read for academics, innovators, and chefs alike. * Food, Culture, and Society *Lays bare the creative process in more detail than almost anything I've read and enriches the debate about where true creativity comes from. -- Brayden King * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Context and Vision2. From Chaos to Order: ElBulli's System of Continuous Innovation3. Diffusion and Institutionalization of Innovation4. The Bittersweet Taste of Relentless Innovation5. Cooking Up a New OrganizationConclusionNotesReferencesAppendixIndex

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Book SynopsisJohn Hoenig explores the path by which the tomato went from a rare seasonal crop to America’s favorite vegetable. Garden Variety illuminates American culinary culture from 1800 to the present, challenging a simple story of mass-produced homogeneity and demonstrating the persistence of diverse food cultures throughout modern America.Trade ReviewA well-written book that demonstrates that the story of industrial food may not be nearly as linear or as top-down as we have thought. -- James McWilliams, Texas State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Early American Tomato2. The Tomato on the Farm: Culinary and Agricultural Advancements, 1820–19003. A Tomato for All Seasons: The Development of the Twelve-Month Fresh and Processed Tomato Industries, 1880–19454. Consuming Tomatoes: Culinary Creativity and Expansion in the Age of Industrialization5. “A Poor Tomato Is Better Than No Tomato”: The Harvester and the Commodification of the Tomato6. Meet the Farmer or Become One: Challenging Commercial Food CultureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book is an essential introduction to biotechnology law for scientists and other nonattorneys with biotech backgrounds. Biotechnology Law is a clear, concise, and entirely practical primer on the topic, replete with straightforward, real-world examples to illustrate each key concept.Trade ReviewBrilliant inventors often create incredible products but struggle at the complex legal processes involved. In this educational read, patent lawyer Alan Morrison takes the reader through three main legal concepts encountered by every inventor: patent law, regulatory law, and contract law. The clear and succinct way Morrison describes these legal processes makes his book essential for every inventor, biotech company, and technology commercialization office, not only to understand the process but also to avoid making common costly mistakes. -- Jahanara Ali, director of the BioVenture eLab, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityThis is an up-to-date, well-organized volume on biotechnology law suitable for scientific and business audiences. Alan J. Morrison walks biotechnology scientists through the legal issues they will confront during the natural process of planning, researching, developing, testing, and protecting their inventions. -- Aaron Fellmeth, Dennis S. Karjala Professor of Law, Science, and Technology, Sandra Day O'Connor College of LawThis book provides an approachable overview of three complicated areas of law that are relevant to biotechnology: patent law, regulatory approval for drugs and biologics, and contract law. Aimed at scientists unfamiliar with the law and at others in the biotechnology industry, this book makes legal matters more accessible by using helpful examples and by covering the main points of the law without getting too bogged down in the details. -- W. Nicholson Price II, University of Michigan Law SchoolTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionSection I: Patent Law1. The Patent as a Negative Right and the Claim as Its Business End2. Construing the Patent Claim3. The Patentable Invention4. The Patent Document’s Role in Supporting a Claimed Invention5. The Long Road to Getting a Patent6. Lengthening and Shortening a Patent’s Term7. Continuing-Application Practice and the Making of a Patent Family8. The Murky World of Inventorship9. Patent Infringement and Its Variations10. Defenses and Preemptive Challenges11. Patent Opinions12. The Patent Portfolio13. The Interplay Between Trade Secrets and PatentsSection II: Regulatory Law14. The Innovator Drug: From Development to Approval15. Generic Drugs16. BiosimilarsSection III: Contract Law17. The Contract: An Enforceable Promise18. Biotechnology AgreementsAcknowledgmentsFurther ReadingGlossary of Legal Acronyms and AbbreviationsIndex

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Book SynopsisManufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on—and perpetuated—Rust Belt cities’ misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.Trade ReviewManufacturing Decline is a sobering yet essential read for anyone who is interested in the fate of America’s inner cities. This recovery of the politics behind—and, indeed, that created—the devastating decline of key cities such as Detroit is deeply unsettling but ultimately uplifting. As Jason Hackworth makes clear, just as America’s inner cities can be deliberately unmade to serve the political agenda of conservatives, so might they be remade in ways that could actually benefit all citizens equally. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyManufacturing Decline implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and the social sciences. -- Michael Leo Owens, author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black AmericaManufacturing Decline convincingly argues that, while the disappearance of manufacturing jobs affected Rust Belt cities, their decline was not inevitable. Jason Hackworth provides a marvelous exposition of how this decline was largely produced by the rise of neoliberal policies emphasizing free markets while deliberately overlooking the region’s long history of racial disparities. -- Reynolds Farley, coauthor of Detroit DividedTimely reading for troubled times...a sturdy exploration of a continuing problem. * Kirkus Reviews *Throughout Manufacturing Decline, he demonstrates how even the most well-meaning plans maintain the austerity structures that became prevalent in the last half-century. These have immediate and long-lasting effects on the black populations of Rust Belt cities. * Cleveland Review of Books *In this well-researched, data-driven book, Jason Hackworth makes a persuasive case that the devastating demographic and fiscal declines that have turned once-thriving rust-belt cities into quasi-wastelands were not simply the resultof impersonal market forces or the supposedly spendthrift policies of left-wing mayors, but were the predictable, if not always intended, result of neoliberal nostrums such as ‘right-sizing.' * Survival *When you put this book down, you leave with a powerful understanding of the forces and whose choices made the Rust Belt what it is today. * Metropole *Manufacturing Decline is an invitation to a long overdue discussion, and I hope that urban sociologist, urban geographers,scholars of race, students of American political development, and others show up. * American Journal of Sociology *A valuable addition to the shrinking cities literature and should be required reading for anyone interested in the forces that contributed to, and continue to perpetuate, decline across the American Rust Belt. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Organized Deprivation in the American Rust BeltPart I. Othering the Deprived City1. Racial Threat and Urban Decline2. Urban Decline as Conservative Bonding Capital 3. The Conservative Myth of DetroitPart II. Depriving the Othered City4. Conservative City Limits 5. Land-Market Fundamentalism6. Demolition as Urban Policy7. Saving the City to Kill ItConclusion: Urban Decline Was PlannedNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisManufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on—and perpetuated—Rust Belt cities’ misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.Trade ReviewManufacturing Decline is a sobering yet essential read for anyone who is interested in the fate of America’s inner cities. This recovery of the politics behind—and, indeed, that created—the devastating decline of key cities such as Detroit is deeply unsettling but ultimately uplifting. As Jason Hackworth makes clear, just as America’s inner cities can be deliberately unmade to serve the political agenda of conservatives, so might they be remade in ways that could actually benefit all citizens equally. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyManufacturing Decline implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and the social sciences. -- Michael Leo Owens, author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black AmericaManufacturing Decline convincingly argues that, while the disappearance of manufacturing jobs affected Rust Belt cities, their decline was not inevitable. Jason Hackworth provides a marvelous exposition of how this decline was largely produced by the rise of neoliberal policies emphasizing free markets while deliberately overlooking the region’s long history of racial disparities. -- Reynolds Farley, coauthor of Detroit DividedTimely reading for troubled times...a sturdy exploration of a continuing problem. * Kirkus Reviews *Throughout Manufacturing Decline, he demonstrates how even the most well-meaning plans maintain the austerity structures that became prevalent in the last half-century. These have immediate and long-lasting effects on the black populations of Rust Belt cities. * Cleveland Review of Books *In this well-researched, data-driven book, Jason Hackworth makes a persuasive case that the devastating demographic and fiscal declines that have turned once-thriving rust-belt cities into quasi-wastelands were not simply the resultof impersonal market forces or the supposedly spendthrift policies of left-wing mayors, but were the predictable, if not always intended, result of neoliberal nostrums such as ‘right-sizing.' * Survival *When you put this book down, you leave with a powerful understanding of the forces and whose choices made the Rust Belt what it is today. * Metropole *Manufacturing Decline is an invitation to a long overdue discussion, and I hope that urban sociologist, urban geographers,scholars of race, students of American political development, and others show up. * American Journal of Sociology *A valuable addition to the shrinking cities literature and should be required reading for anyone interested in the forces that contributed to, and continue to perpetuate, decline across the American Rust Belt. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Organized Deprivation in the American Rust BeltPart I. Othering the Deprived City1. Racial Threat and Urban Decline2. Urban Decline as Conservative Bonding Capital 3. The Conservative Myth of DetroitPart II. Depriving the Othered City4. Conservative City Limits 5. Land-Market Fundamentalism6. Demolition as Urban Policy7. Saving the City to Kill ItConclusion: Urban Decline Was PlannedNotesBibliographyIndex

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