Download or read book Biotechnology of Silk written by Tetsuo Asakura and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a snapshot of the current state of the art of research and development on the properties and characteristics of silk and their use in medicine and industry. The field encompasses backyard silk production from ancient time to industrial methods in the modern era and includes an example of efforts to maintain silk production on Madagascar. Once revered as worth its weight in gold, silk has captured the imagination from its mythical origins onwards. The latest methods in molecular biology have opened new descriptions of the underlying properties of silk. Advances in technological innovation have created silk production by microbes as the latest breakthrough in the saga of silk research and development. The application of silk to biomaterials is now very active on the basis of excellent properties of silks including recombinant silks for biomaterials and the accumulated structural information.
Download or read book Silk Scholar written by Cassandra Dean and published by Cassandra Dean. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Award Winning Author Cassandra Dean comes the fourth in her Silk Series and winner of the coveted Romance Writers of Australia Ruby Award where a passionate firebrand and a lackadaisical lord clash in a battle of the sexes... Most ladies dream of finding a husband, but Etta Wilding-Marsh dreams of the law. Establishing a law school for women is the determined firebrand’s dearest ambition and she has no time for distraction—and certainly no time for the wickedly handsome antagonist from her youth. After years of annoying her from afar, Lord Christopher Hiddleston leaps at the chance to return to Cambridge and the fiery girl he has never forgotten. Now a successful Gothic novelist, Christopher will use his notoriety to support the school…and drive Etta wild. A chance meeting leads to another, and then the firebrand and the antagonist find a passion of a different sort. But can a woman who dreams too much and a man who never does truly find a happily ever after? Previously published, Silk & Scholar is perfect for fans of Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn, and Lisa Kleypas.
Download or read book Silk written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris written by Sharon Farmer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian silk industry? How did it get there? And what do the answers to these questions tell us? According to Sharon Farmer, the key to the manufacture of silk lies not just with the availability and importation of raw materials but with the importation of labor as well. Farmer demonstrates the essential role that skilled Mediterranean immigrants played in the formation of Paris's population and in its emergence as a major center of luxury production. She highlights the unique opportunities that silk production offered to women and the rise of women entrepreneurs in Paris to the very pinnacles of their profession. The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris illuminates aspects of intercultural and interreligious interactions that took place in silk workshops and in the homes and businesses of Jewish and Italian pawnbrokers. Drawing on the evidence of tax assessments, aristocratic account books, and guild statutes, Farmer explores the economic and technological contributions that Mediterranean immigrants made to Parisian society, adding new perspectives to our understanding of medieval French history, luxury trade, and gendered work.
Download or read book Scholar s Sweetheart written by Jia Yi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His parents had died long ago, leaving his two younger brothers behind. Once she transmigrated and became the eldest sister, it meant that pressure was power. Song Xintong met with a car accident on his way out of the city. The original owner was also called Song Xintong. He was fourteen this year and would be fifteen in three months. He was the eldest sister at home and had taken responsibility for the care of the twins ever since his father died of illness a year ago. It was difficult to live like a wooden house with firewood.
Download or read book The American Silk Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early days or The Wesleyan scholar s guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calendar written by University of Cape Town and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Beginnings Book one written by Suzanne Peat and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A local history booklet on the village of Galgate from the 12th Century to 1890. The early beginnings of a hamlet growing into a village with silk mill and cotton mill, canal, railway, new road, schools, farms, shops, public houses and new people from all over coming to work at Galgate.
Download or read book Faust written by E. A. Bucchianeri and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of Dr. Faust, the man who sold his soul to the devil, and those who lived to tell his tale. Volume I includes: New insights into the life and times of the historical Dr. Faustus, the notorious occultist and charlatan who reputedly declared the devil was his brother-in-law. A detailed study of the first Faust books and the popular Faustian folk tales. Original discussions on Christopher Marlowes famous drama and his atheistic rendition of the Faustian myth, including a unique and controversial analysis of the A and B texts. The days of the Faust puppet plays. Gotthold Ephraim Lessings unfinished Faust drama. Volume II features: A unique, in-depth account of Johann Wolfgang von Goethes masterpiece, Faust, Parts One and Two. An examination of the early sketches of his classic drama. Includes detailed explanations of Goethes hidden symbolism in the text, his interest in history and science, the occult, alchemy, Freemasonry and his warnings to future generations.
Download or read book The scholar s manual of geography written by Allman and sons and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silk Slaves and Stupas written by Susan Whitfield and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antique and medieval worlds.
Download or read book Studies on the History and Culture Along the Continental Silk Road written by Xiao Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents outstanding articles addressing various aspects related to the ancient Silk Road, in particular the cultural, political, and economic interactions that took place among the civilizations and cultures on the Eurasian continent. In addition, the articles help to reveal the hallmark features of cultural communication in Inner Asia in different historical periods. The book develops a new approach to studying the civilizations of the Silk Road, promotes interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional research, sets a new direction for Chinese ancient classics and western sinology, and presents the latest discoveries, including both archaeological finds and historical documents.
Download or read book The Calendar written by University of the Cape of Good Hope and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The young scholar s companion or A selection of reading lessons written by Robert Connel and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silk Road A Very Short Introduction written by James A. Millward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction is a new look at an ancient subject: the silk road that linked China, India, Persia and the Mediterranean across the expanses of Central Asia. James A. Millward highlights unusual but important biological, technological and cultural exchanges over the silk roads that stimulated development across Eurasia and underpin civilization in our modern, globalized world.
Download or read book A Korean Scholar s Rude Awakening in Qing China written by Pak Chega and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years after Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega’s (1750–1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. Both books presented notions of wealth and the economy for critical review: the former caused a stir across Europe, the latter influenced only a modest group of Chosŏn (1392–1897) Korea scholars and other intellectuals. Nevertheless, the ideas of both thinkers closely reflected the spirit of their times and helped define certain schools of thought—in the case of Pak, Northern Learning (Pukhak), which disparaged the Chosŏn Neo-Confucian state ideology as inert and ineffective. Years of humiliation and resentment against the conquering Manchus blinded many Korean elites to the scientific and technological advances made in Qing China (1644–1911). They despised its rulers as barbarians and begrudged Qing China’s status as their suzerain state. But Pak saw Korea’s northern neighbor as a model of economic and social reform. He and like-minded progressives discussed and corroborated views about the superiority of China’s civilization. After traveling to Beijing in 1776, Pak wrote Discourse on Northern Learning, in which he favorably introduced many aspects of China’s economy and culture. By comparison, he argued, Korea’s economy was depressed, the result of inadequate government policies and the selfishness of a privileged upper class. He called for drastic reforms in agriculture and industry and for opening the country to international trade. In a series of short essays, Pak gives us rare insights into life on the ground in late eighteenth-century Korea, and in the many details he supplies on Chinese farming, trade, and other commercial activities, his work provides a window onto everyday life in Qing China. Students and specialists of Korean history, particularly social reform movements, and Chosŏn-Qing relations will welcome this new translation.
