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“francisca e silva”

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  • Needlework in Africa

    Stitching identities and histories

    Edited by Annie Devenish, Sophie Dulucq, Marie Opplert, Brenda Schmahmann, Jonathan Botes, Linda Chernis, Francisca Gigante Godinho da Silva, Laurence Douny, Patricia Gérimont, Philippa Hobbs, Rachel Dixon Kabukala, Nessa Leibhammer, Fatima Leveque, Myriem Naji, Shonisani Netshia, Line Relisieux, Christopher Richards, Elisha Renne, Salif Sawadogo, Bonke Sonjani, Natalie Swanepoel, Vanessa Tembane ...
    This beautifully crafted book explores needlework; encompassing sewing, embroidery, weaving, quilting, tattooing and more; as a lens for understanding gendered and marginalised histories and identities. Through case studies from across Africa, it highlights the work of fashion designers, weavers, seamstresses, LGBTQI+ activists and artists. Their work reveals how needlework shapes and challenges ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Waste Valorisation Using Ionic Liquids

    by Francisca e Silva, Ana Sousa, Mara Freire, João Coutinho ...
    Series series
    Modern societies produce large amounts of waste of many different types. This presents a problem in terms of management or disposal to prevent harm to human health and the environment. Additionally it represents a loss of potentially useful resources. In the circular economy concept nothing would ever become waste because everything would be re-usable or its components recoverable. Ionic liquids ... Read more

    $227.99 CAD

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    A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need

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    From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, a fascinating account of Peter Singer’s controversial “drowning child” thought experiment—and how it changed the way people think about charitable givingImagine this: You’re walking past a shallow pond and spot a toddler thrashing around in the water, in obvious danger of drowning. You look around for her parents, but nobody is there. You’re ... Read more

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  • Biofuels from Algae

    Edited by Ashok Pandey, Duu-Jong Lee, Yusuf Chisti, Carlos R. Soccol ...
    This book provides in-depth information on basic and applied aspects of biofuels production from algae. It begins with an introduction to the topic, and follows with the basic scientific aspects of algal cultivation and its use for biofuels production, such as photo bioreactor engineering for microalgae production, open culture systems for biomass production and the economics of biomass production ... Read more

    $159.19 CAD

  • The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present

    Edited by Veronique Pouillard, Vincent Dubé-Senécal ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The time span covered by The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress starts in the nineteenth century, with the aftermath of the consumers’ revolution, and reaches all the way to the present. The fashion and garment industries have been international from the beginning and, as such, this volume looks at the history of fashion and dress through the lenses of both international and global history. ... Read more

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  • Bio-Based Plastics

    Materials and Applications

    by Christian V. Stevens ...
    Series series Wiley Series in Renewable Resource
    The field of bio-based plastics has developed significantly in the last 10 years and there is increasing pressure on industries to shift existing materials production from petrochemicals to renewables.Bio-based Plastics presents an up-to-date overview of the basic and applied aspects of bioplastics, focusing primarily on thermoplastic polymers for material use. Emphasizing materials currently in ... Read more

    $195.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Catalytic Process Development for Renewable Materials

    Edited by Pieter Imhof, Jan Cornelis van der Waal ...
    Green, clean and renewable are the hottest keywords for catalysis and industry. This handbook and ready reference is the first to combine the fields of advanced experimentation and catalytic process development for biobased materials in industry. It describes the entire workflow from idea, approach, research, and process development, right up to commercialization. A large part of the book is ... Read more

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  • Green Extraction of Natural Products

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Farid Chemat, Jochen Strube ...
    Extraction processes are essential steps in numerous industrial applications from perfume over pharmaceutical to fine chemical industry. Nowadays, there are three key aspects in industrial extraction processes: economy and quality, as well as environmental considerations. This book presents a complete picture of current knowledge on green extraction in terms of innovative processes, original ... Read more

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  • Johannesburg

    The Elusive Metropolis

    by AbdouMaliq Simone ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to ... Read more

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  • Metal Recovery from Electronic Waste: Biological Versus Chemical Leaching for Recovery of Copper and Gold

    by Arda Işildar ...
    Series series IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
    Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) generation is a global problem. Despite the growing awareness and deterring legislation, most of the WEEE is disposed improperly, i.e. landfilled or otherwise shipped overseas, and treated in sub-standard conditions. Informal recycling of WEEE has catastrophic effects on humans and the environment. WEEE contains considerable quantities of valuable ... Read more

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  • To Exist is to Resist

    Black Feminism in Europe

    Edited by Akwugo Emejulu, Francesca Sobande ...
    This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and how they organise and mobilise to imagine a Black feminist Europe.Deeply aware that they are constructed as 'Others' living in a racialised and hierarchical continent, the ... Read more

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