Intermediate technology books

124 books were found.

Rural Building Course Volume 4: Drawing Book

Rural Building Course Volume 4: Drawing Book

Author: TOOL
ISBN: 9781853393259
Format: Paperback
$38.68

A training book for drawing techniques related to the subjects covered in the other volumes of the Rural Building...  Read More >>

The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale Oil Extraction

The Manual Screw Press for Small-Scale Oil Extraction...

Author: Kathryn Potts ,  Keith Machell
ISBN: 9781853391989
Format: Paperback
$25.75

Manual oil extraction from peanuts or other soft oil-seeds can be a viable enterprise for small businesses. This...  Read More >>

Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT): A manual

Appropriate Paper-based Technology (APT): A manual

Author: Bevill Packer
ISBN: 9781853392689
Format: Paperback
$46.45

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Do It Herself: Women and technical innovation

Do It Herself: Women and technical innovation

Author: Helen Appleton
ISBN: 9781853392870
Format: Paperback
$64.56

Although women are the majority of small-scale technology users, their technical knowledge and understanding has...  Read More >>

Low-Cost Load-Carrying Devices: The design and manufacture of some basic means of transport

Low-Cost Load-Carrying Devices: The design and manufacture...

Author: Ron Dennis ,  Alan Smith
ISBN: 9781853392658
Format: Paperback
$46.45

The major transport task facing most poor people is to move relatively small loads over short distances, usually...  Read More >>

Power and Participatory Development: Theory and practice

Power and Participatory Development: Theory and practice...

Author: Nici Nelson ,  Susan Wright
ISBN: 9781853392412
Format: Paperback
$51.62

This book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research, and examines what shifts in power...  Read More >>

Benevolent Conspiracies: The Role of Enabling Technologies in the Welfare of Nations. The Cases of SDI, Sematech, and Eureka

Benevolent Conspiracies: The Role of Enabling Technologies...

Author: Helmut Willke ,  Carsten P. Krück
ISBN: 9783110144857
Format: Hardback
$340.56

"No detailed description available for ""Benevolent Conspiracies""."  Read More >>

Power Guide: An international catalogue of small-scale energy equipment

Power Guide: An international catalogue of small-scale...

Author: Peter Fraenkel ,  Wim Hulscher
ISBN: 9781853391927
Format: Paperback
$64.56

The Power Guide will facilitate decision making by providing guidelines most appropriate renewable energy source...  Read More >>

Making Wheels: A technical manual on wheel manufacture

Making Wheels: A technical manual on wheel manufacture...

Author: Ron Dennis
ISBN: 9781853391415
Format: Paperback
$51.62

A low-cost technology which will enable workshops to set up their own facilities and manufacture a range of wheels...  Read More >>

Small-scale Milling: A guide for development workers

Small-scale Milling: A guide for development workers...

Author: Lars-Ove Jonsson ,  D. Dandy
ISBN: 9781853392191
Format: Paperback
$38.68

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Traditional Beancurd Manufacture

Traditional Beancurd Manufacture

Author: Natasha Johnson
ISBN: 9781853392702
Format: Paperback
$20.57

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Medical and Hygiene Textile Production: A handbook

Medical and Hygiene Textile Production: A handbook

Author: Allison Mathews ,  Martin Hardingham
ISBN: 9781853392115
Format: Paperback
$25.75

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Beyond Farmer First: Rural People's Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice

Beyond Farmer First: Rural People's Knowledge, Agricultural...

Author: Ian Scoones ,  John Thompson
ISBN: 9781853392375
Format: Hardback
$52.67

The purpose of this book is to reveal how agricultural research and extension, far from being discrete, rational...  Read More >>

Crop Protection Strategies for Subsistence Farmers

Crop Protection Strategies for Subsistence Farmers

Author: Miguel A Altieri
ISBN: 9781853392054
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Windpumps: A guide for development workers

Windpumps: A guide for development workers

Author: Peter Fraenkel ,  Peter Fraenkel
ISBN: 9781853391262
Format: Paperback
$46.45

This guide aims to assist development workers in assessing their needs and choosing and implementing an appropriate...  Read More >>

Made in Africa: Learning from carpentry hand-tool projects

Made in Africa: Learning from carpentry hand-tool projects...

Author: Janet Leek ,  Andrew Scott
ISBN: 9781853392092
Format: Paperback
$33.51

This book examines the pros and cons of the local production of carpentry hand-tools as opposed to their importation....  Read More >>

National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technology for Scientific Research

National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technology...

Author: National Research Council ,  Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
ISBN: 9780309048484
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Addresses technical, scientific, and social aspects of fostering scientific collaboration using information technology....  Read More >>

Tools for Agriculture: A guide to appropriate equipment for smallholder farmers

Tools for Agriculture: A guide to appropriate equipment...

Author: Ian Carruthers ,  John Boyd
ISBN: 9781853391002
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Tools for Agriculture is a guide to small-scale farming equipment which offers information to smallholder farmers,...  Read More >>

Small and Medium Enterprises: Technology policies and options

Small and Medium Enterprises: Technology policies and...

Author: A S Bhalla ,  Sergio C. Trindade
ISBN: 9781853391293
Format: Paperback
$64.56

Technological issues and options facing small/medium enterprises in urban and rural settings in developing and advanced...  Read More >>

Chenkumbi Lime: Fuel-efficient high quality production

Chenkumbi Lime: Fuel-efficient high quality production...

Author: John Spiropoulos
ISBN: 9781853391446
Format: Paperback
$25.75

The experience at Chenkumbi in central Malawi has demonstrated that vertical shaft kiln technology (VSK) can be...  Read More >>

Development Dialogue: Rainwater harvesting in Turkana

Development Dialogue: Rainwater harvesting in Turkana...

Author: Adrian Cullis ,  Arnold Pacey
ISBN: 9781853391040
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Written and designed for development workers, farmers and agricultural fieldworkers, researchers and extensionists,...  Read More >>

Development Dialogue: Rainwater harvesting in Turkana

Development Dialogue: Rainwater harvesting in Turkana...

Author: Adrian Cullis ,  Arnold Pacey
ISBN: 9781853391163
Format: Hardback
$103.37

Describes the Turkana rainwater harvesting project, a water-conservation technology based on priorities identified...  Read More >>

Water Sellers: A co-operative venture by the rural poor

Water Sellers: A co-operative venture by the rural poor...

Author: Geof D. Wood ,  Richard Palmer Jones
ISBN: 9781853390845
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Analyses an innovation in rural development, whereby groups of landless labourers are helped to invest in irrigation...  Read More >>

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