Describes how cotton is grown, and how that cotton is processed, spun into thread, woven into cloth, cut and sewn to make a t-shirt.

"In From Cotton to T-Shirt, early fluent readers learn how a T-shirt is made, from cotton harvesting to producing fabric to consumers picking a shirt out in a store. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this item gets to their closets. An infographic illustrates the cycle with real photos and descriptions. Children can learn more about T-shirts using our safe search engine that provides...

Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly fruit of a Christmas...

This is the story of a revolution--the factors influencing management's decision to sell, the extent of the sales, procedures followed in the various sales, psychological effects upon the worker, effects upon labor-management relations, the reaction of the union, and the changes in mill village life resulting from the sales. Originally published in 1949.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology...

"In From Sand to Glass, early fluent readers learn how glass is made, from melting sand to pouring molten glass into molds to give it shape. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this item gets to be the glass that we use in many everyday items. An infographic illustrates the cycle with real photos and descriptions. Children can learn more about glass using our safe search engine that...

Walkers and Tyrrells both make the same basic thing - crisps - but in very different ways. Walkers is the biggest crisp-maker in the country. Tyrrells is tiny by comparison. But success for both depend on how their crisps are made - on what happens inside the factory. Raw materials: Crisp-making at Tyrrells starts with its raw materials - the potatoes grown in fields near its factory. Tyrrells make much of their crisps being hand-made but they're...

Nearly all glass makers (unless they are blowing glass) need moulds which can go in the kiln, as part of the process of creating their work. This text will introduce all the mould-making techniques for casting glass, with detailed information on materials, recipes for mould mixes, methods and applications

One month after the end of WWII, Asher, a former assassin in the Resistance burdened by grief and guilt, arrives at le Château Guerin, where he discovers the redemptive power of art as he helps create glass windows for the bombed cathedrals of France.

First published by UNC Press in 1972, Sugar and Slaves presents a vivid portrait of English life in the Caribbean more than three centuries ago. Using a host of contemporary primary sources, Richard Dunn traces the development of plantation slave society in the region. He examines sugar production techniques, the vicious character of the slave trade, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics, and the appalling mortality rates for both blacks...