Manufacturing Industries

In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create n...

The bottled water industry is the second largest commercial beverage category by volume in the U.S. Nearly all bottled water sold in the US is sour...

Seafood and related products have an important place in the human diet; it provides for the protein needed and has a nutritional composition that h...

Beer is defined as a fermented alcoholic beverage made of malted cereals, water, hops, and yeast. This alcoholic beverage has been consumed for tho...

The best way to avoid food-borne illnesses is to prevent contaminants from getting into food. Public health is a constant concern for world health ...

This book presents a collection of studies that gather the leading researches and trends concerning the binomial bread-health. Topics discussed inc...

Global demand for and consumption of olive oil has increased significantly since the 1990s. While the United States and other New World players, ...

Food fraud, or the act of defrauding buyers of food or ingredients for economic gain -- whether they be consumers or food manufacturers, retailers,...

This seminal text demystifies all the terminology around working with textiles today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, and...

'A gripping blockbuster... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' TELEGRAPH. Fashionopolis is the definitive ...

When the future of his family''s rope business in Liverpool was threatened at the end of the 1920s Eric Rigby-Jones had to leave his wife and young...

The Definitive, Fully Updated Guide to Solving Real-World Chemical Reaction Engineering Problems   For decades, H. Scott Foglers Elements of Ch...

The Merchant of Syria tells the life of Abu Chaker, a cloth merchant from Homs who lived from 1921 to 2013. Barely literate, he nevertheless built ...

This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework kn...

Did Saskatchewan give away the goose that laid the golden egg? When it comes to potash, John Burton claims we did. And he asks, where is the money ...

In 1863, Stockport warehouseman William John Battersby refused to change the date of his wedding, a decision that ultimately cost him his job. He c...

In Search of the World's Finest Wools is a photographic search around the world to find the finest wools available and to meet the dedicated people...