Robert Crawford Boeken

This book presents in a single volume the basic essentials of the properties and processing behaviour of plastics and composites. The aim is to give engineers and technologists a sound understanding of basic principles without the introduction of unduly complex levels of mathematics or chemistry and thereby set plastics in their proper context as engineering materials. This textbook pioneered the approach whereby both properties and processing of reinforced and unreinforced plastics are covered in a single volume. It assumes no prior knowledge of plastics, and emphasises the practical aspects of the subject. In this third edition over half the book has been re-written and the remainder has been updated and re-organised. Early chapters give an introduction to the types of plastics which are currently available and describe how a designer goes about the selection of a plastic for a particular application. Later chapters lead the reader into more advanced aspects of mechanical design and analysis of polymer melt flow. All techniques developed are illustrated by numerous worked examples, and problems are given at the end of each chapter - the solutions to which form one of the appendices.

Presents the glories of 15 centuries of Scottish literature. This book traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writings discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and full quotations in their own language.

"The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources. In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet, Robert Crawford completes the story he began in Young Eliot. Drawing on extensive new sources and letters, this is the first full-scale biography to make use of Eliot's most significant surviving correspondence, including the archive of letters (unsealed for the first time in 2020) detailing his decades-long love affair with Emily Hale. This long-awaited second volume, Eliot After 'The Waste Land', tells the story of the mature Eliot, his years as a world-renowned writer and intellectual, and his troubled interior life. From his time as an exhausted bank employee after the publication of The Waste Land, through the emotional turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s, and his years as a firewatcher in bombed wartime London, Crawford reveals the public and personal experiences that helped generate some of Eliot's masterpieces. He explores the poet's religious conversion, his editorship at Faber and Faber, his separation from Vivien Haigh-Wood and happy second marriage to Valerie Fletcher, and his great work Four Quartets. Robert Crawford presents this complex and remarkable man not as a literary monument but as a human being: as a husband, lover and widower, as a banker, editor, playwright and publisher, but most of all as an epoch-shaping poet struggling to make art among personal disasters."

"The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945 is the first major anthology to survey the poetry from Britain and Ireland published in the half-century after the Second World War. This book presents poems of consistent quality and surprise from a period whose immense political, social and scientific changes have altered both poetry and its readership." "Wider in its franchise, sometimes less formal in structure and often more attuned to vernacular cultures, here is some of the best poetry written by men and women in the post-war era. Fuelled by Butler's Education Act, by immense technological change and social mobility, and by the increasing position of English as the core language for so many cultural and racial groups, these are the poems of the democratic voice." "In their long essay which prefaces this anthology, Simon Armitage and Robert Crawford - both poets and critics in their thirties - describe and explain the excitement and diversity of the poetry of the period. Their choice of poets (which ranges from Edwin Muir, born in 1887, to Kate Clanchy, born in 1965) reflects the changes they describe."--Jacket

This volume is the first anthology to offer a view over the entire history of Scottish poetry, extending from the sixth to the end of the 20th century, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve.

First book of poems by a young Scots academic. It builds, through its control of an encyclopaedic range of reference, into a portrait of his nation and an argument for a sort of nationalism. His book "The Savage and the City in the Work of T.S. Eliot" was awarded the E.C. Gregory Award.

Did you know the Battle of Bannockburn had its own poet-in-residence? Starting in 1314 and coming right up to the present day, the author examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. It also includes the most detailed consideration of what independence meant to Robert Burns.

Questions the manner in which, since the 18th century, a supposed English cultural centre has controlled the way we read. The author interrogates the Anglocentricity of the subject "English literature", demonstrating how it has governed our reading of "unEnglish" and "provincial" texts.

Life cycle assessment has become crucial for professionals in the built environment, driven by stricter environmental standards and heightened client awareness. The book outlines a comprehensive framework for conducting life cycle assessments and provides practical examples to illustrate its application. It emphasizes the significance of evaluating the environmental impact of building materials and processes, ultimately guiding readers toward more sustainable practices in their projects.