SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries
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Designing and Producing Artwork
This book deals with the design and production of artwork. 'Camera-ready' artwork means the material you want printed -completed text and illustrations pasted in position, ready for the printer to make a printing plate. Design and production can involve a wide range of choices and techniques. You as...
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How to Make a Folding Machine for Sheet Metal Work
Gives full details on how to build and use a versatile machine for working sheet metal
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How to Make a Rolling Machine for Sheet Metal Work
This manual describes how to build a machine for rolling sheet metal into curves and cylinders and gives full dimensions and assembly instructions.
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The Stove Project Manual
S Joseph, Y Shanahan, W Stewart
Detailed guidelines for project managers interested or involved in stoves programs
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Upgrading Micro Hydro in Sri Lanka
This book is a case study in technology transfer and demonstration, although it also reviews the implications for possible village use and for the country as a whole.
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Wood Stove Dissemination
A collection of papers from an international workshop on the dissemination of improved stoves. The papers are presented in three sections: Part 1 - considers issues involved in wood-stove dissemination, Part 2 - contains eight case studies of projects in Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Africa and Part 3 -...
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The AT Reader
Bringing together a wealth of material, The AT Reader explains the idea, history, development, and practical application of appropriate technologies through a wide range of contexts.
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Peru: Paths to Poverty
Peru has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. Industrialisation has further marginalised the Andean peasantry from national life but provided minimal gains for the millions of newly-urbanised poor. The country's economy, historically disadvantaged in the world market, has entered into a...
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Animal Draught Technology
An important and useful guide to the widely scattered literature on a subject of increasing importance - over 300 annotated items.
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Blacksmith, Baker, Roofing-sheet Maker
Using over 50 case studies from 22 countries which show how unconventional projects have developed women's earning power, this book is a source of ideas for all those helping to develop cash-producing work for women in developing countries.