1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0114969

Autore

Sellitto, Antonio

Titolo

Mesoscopic theories of heat transport in nanosystems / Antonio Sellitto, Vito Antonio Cimmelli,  David Jou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

XIX, 170 p., : ill. ; 24 cm

Edizione

[Cham : Springer, 2016]

Descrizione fisica

Pubblicazione in formato elettronico

Altri autori (Persone)

Jou, David

Cimmelli, Vito Antonio

Soggetti

80-XX - Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer [MSC 2020]

00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020]

80A17 - Thermodynamics of continua [MSC 2020]

74F05 - Thermal effects in solid mechanics [MSC 2020]

80A19 - Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow [MSC 2020]

82D80 - Statistical mechanical studies of nanostructures and nanoparticles [MSC 2020]

80A21 - Radiative heat transfer [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458683403321

Autore

Butler Kiera <1980->

Titolo

Raise : what 4-H teaches seven million kids and how its lessons could change food and farming forever / / Kiera Butler ; with photographs by Rafael Roy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95898-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

630.71/1

Soggetti

4-H clubs - United States

Agricultural education - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- A Note about Reporting -- Introduction -- 1. "I Wanted to Be a Cowgirl" -- 2. Learning by Doing -- 3. "I Do Sheep the Way Other Kids Do Soccer" -- 4. Bringing Up Baby -- 5. The Big Business of 4-H -- 6. "We Are Praying That DuPont Will Continue to Provide for Us" -- 7. Winning Champions Love Root Beer -- 8. Grow 'Em Big -- 9. The Contra Costa County Fair -- 10. The Alameda County Fair -- 11. "It's in My Blood" -- Conclusion: After the Fairs -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes

Sommario/riassunto

When city-dwelling journalist Kiera Butler visits a county fair for the first time, she is captivated by the white-uniformed members of the 4-H club and their perfectly groomed animals. She sets off on a search for a "real" 4-H'er, a hypothetical wholesome youth whom she imagines wearing cowboy boots and living on a ranch. Along the way, she meets five teenage 4-H'ers from diverse backgrounds and gets to know them as they prepare to compete at the fair. Butler's on-the-ground account of the teens' concerns with their goats, pigs, sheep, proms, and SAT scores is interwoven with a fascinating history of the century-old 4-H club as it solicits corporate donations from top agribusiness firms such as DuPont, Monsanto, and Cargill. Her quest takes her from California's



cities and suburbs all the way to Ghana, where she investigates 4-H's unprecedented push to expand its programs in the developing world-and the corporate partnership that is supporting this expansion. Raise masterfully combines vivid accounts from a little-known subculture with a broader analysis of agriculture education today, using 4-H as a lens through which to view the changing landscape of farming in America and the rest of the world. Lively, deeply informed, and perceptive in its analysis, Raise provides answers to complex questions about our collective concern over the future of food. Photographs by Rafael Roy.