Understanding Textiles or Microeconomics and Behavior

Understanding Textiles

Author: Phyllis Tortora

This book helps readers understand how the components of textiles—fiber, yarn, fabric, dye, and finish—contribute to the performance of products for specific end uses. With a focus on the why behind the material, it encourages students to understand and predict textile properties and performance. This edition emphasizes the global environment and offers separate chapters in fiber properties; fabrics and structures; and nonwoven fabrics. Finishes are now separated into two chapters (physical/mechanical finishes and chemical finishes) and Take a Closer look sections bring an in-depth perspective to select chapter topics.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

 1.   Introduction

2.   Textile Fibers

3.   Fiber Properties

4.   Natural Cellulosic Fibers

5.   Protein Fibers

6.   Manufactured Cellulosic Fibers

7.   Nylon and Aramid Fibers

8.   Polyester Fibers

9.   Acrylic and Modacrylic Fibers

10.  Olefin Fibers

11.  Elastomeric Fibers

12.  High-Performance and Specialty Fibers

13.  Yarn Structures

14.  Manufacturing Yarns

15.  Fabrics and Related Structures

16.  Woven Fabrics

17.  The Weaves

18.  Knitted Fabrics

19.  Nonwoven Fabrics

20.  Other Fabric Construction Methods

21.  Introduction to Textile Wet Processing: Preparation of Fabrics for Dyeing and Finishing

22.  Adding Color to Textiles

23.  Textile Printing and Design

24.  P hysical/Mechanical Finishes

25.  Chemical Finishes

26.  The Care of Textile Products

27.  Textiles and the Environment, Health and Safety

28.  Textile Product Development Performance

APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY

APPENDIX B: SUMMARY OF REGULATORY LEGISLATION APPLIED TO TEXTILES

INDEX

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Microeconomics and Behavior

Author: Robert H Frank

Robert Frank’s Microeconomics and Behavior covers the essential topics of microeconomics while exploring the relationship between economics analysis and human behavior. The book’s clear narrative appeals to students, and its numerous examples help students develop economic intuition. This book introduces modern topics not often found in intermediate textbooks. Its focus throughout is to develop a student’s capacity to "think like an economist."

Table of Contents:

Microeconomics and Behavior, 7e
Robert Frank

Part 1: Introduction

1. Thinking Like an Economist

2. Supply and Demand

Appendix: How Do Taxes Affect Equilibrium Prices and Quantities?

Part 2: The Theory of Consumer Behavior

3. Rational Consumer Choice Appendix: The Utility Function Approach to the Consumer Budgeting Problem

4. Individual and Market Demand

Appendix: Additional Topics in Demand Theory

5. Applications of Rational Choice and Demand Theories

6. The Economics of Information and Choice Under Uncertainty

Appendix: Search Theory and the Winner’s Curse

7. Explaining Tastes: The Importance of Altruism and Other Nonegoistic Behavior

8. Cognitive Limitations and Consumer Behavior

Part 3: The Theory of the Firm and Market Structure

9. Production Appendix: Mathematical Extensions of Production Theory

10. Costs

Append ix: Mathematical Extensions of the Theory of Costs

11. Perfect Competition

12. Monopoly

13. Imperfect Competition: A Game-Theoretic Approach

Part 4: Factor Markets

14. Labor

Appendix: The Economics of Workplace Safety

15. Capital

Appendix: A More Detailed Look at Exhaustible Resource Allocation

Part 5: Welfare Economics

16. Externalities, Property Rights, and the Coase Theorem

17. Government

18W. General Equilibrium and Market Efficiency (online only)