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Monograph- a detailed written study of a single specialized subject or an aspect of it.
Book binding techniques
Perfect Binding - This bookbinding technique is most commonly used in commercial books and magazine bindings. Perfect binding is one of the easiest and fastest methods of binding books.Perfect Binding uses adhesive to hold individual book pages (or folded book signatures) together.
The adhesive is placed on the book spine, producing a flat spine.
Coptic Binding - Coptic binding is characterized by having sections of book pages being joined together via a single stitch.
Japanese Stab Binding - this form of bookbinding requires you to stab holes on your book in order to bind your book. Similar to Coptic Binding, the Japanese Stab Binding has evolved over the years and has many variations.
Saddle Stitch Bookbinding - Saddle Stitch is often done using staple bullets to hold the book together at its folded spine
Long Stitch Book Binding- This stitching method involves sewing book signatures directly onto the book cover. Hence. no gluing will be required in this technique.
Case Bound Bookbinding - Case binding involves several techniques; the sewing techniques that allows you to stitch the book signatures together as well as creating a book case (or book cover) for the book.
Otabind Book Binding - The focus of this form of book binding is in the creation of its book cover and spine which allows the book to be laid flat on a surface. The book signatures or sections can be held together either with glue (as in perfect binding) or sewn together.
Perfect Binding - This bookbinding technique is most commonly used in commercial books and magazine bindings. Perfect binding is one of the easiest and fastest methods of binding books.Perfect Binding uses adhesive to hold individual book pages (or folded book signatures) together.
The adhesive is placed on the book spine, producing a flat spine.
Coptic Binding - Coptic binding is characterized by having sections of book pages being joined together via a single stitch.
Japanese Stab Binding - this form of bookbinding requires you to stab holes on your book in order to bind your book. Similar to Coptic Binding, the Japanese Stab Binding has evolved over the years and has many variations.
Saddle Stitch Bookbinding - Saddle Stitch is often done using staple bullets to hold the book together at its folded spine
Long Stitch Book Binding- This stitching method involves sewing book signatures directly onto the book cover. Hence. no gluing will be required in this technique.
Case Bound Bookbinding - Case binding involves several techniques; the sewing techniques that allows you to stitch the book signatures together as well as creating a book case (or book cover) for the book.
Otabind Book Binding - The focus of this form of book binding is in the creation of its book cover and spine which allows the book to be laid flat on a surface. The book signatures or sections can be held together either with glue (as in perfect binding) or sewn together.
Monograph examples
Malika Favre
Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living, parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts. Biotic factors include plants, animals, and other organisms. Abiotic factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity.
In a tropical ecosystem, we can find a large variety of vegetation as compared to another terrestrial ecosystem; This is the reason that you will always find tropical regions loaded with lush green landscapes.
- Rain-forest Ecosystem
- Desert Ecosystem
- Forest Ecosystem
In a tropical ecosystem, we can find a large variety of vegetation as compared to another terrestrial ecosystem; This is the reason that you will always find tropical regions loaded with lush green landscapes.
- Tundra Ecosystem
- Savanna Ecosystem
- Grassland Ecosystem
- Mountain Ecosystem
Rainforest
A rainforest is an area of tall, mostly evergreen trees and a high amount of rainfall.
Rainforests are Earth’s oldest living ecosystems, with some surviving in their present form for at least 70 million years. They are incredibly diverse and complex, home to more than half of the world’s plant and animal species—even though they cover just 6% of Earth’s surface. This makes rainforests astoundingly dense with flora and fauna; a 10 square kilometre (4-square-mile) patch can contain as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies.
Rainforests thrive on every continent except Antarctica. The largest rainforests on Earth surround the Amazon River in South America and the Congo River in Africa. The tropical islands of Southeast Asia and parts of Australia support dense rainforest habitats. Even the cool evergreen forests of North America’s Pacific Northwest and Northern Europe are a type of rainforest.
Rainforests’ rich biodiversity is incredibly important to our well-being and the well-being of our planet. Rainforests help regulate our climate and provide us with everyday products.
Unsustainable industrial and agricultural development, however, has severely degraded the health of the world’s rainforests. Citizens, governments, intergovernmental organisations, and conservation groups are working together to protect these invaluable but fragile ecosystems.
Human Well-Being
Rainforests provide us with many products that we use every day. Tropical woods such as teak, balsa, rosewood, and mahogany are used in flooring, doors, windows, boatbuilding, and cabinetry. Fibres such as raffia, bamboo, kapok, and rattan are used to make furniture, baskets, insulation, and cord. Cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, and ginger are just a few spices of the rainforest. The ecosystem supports fruits including bananas, papayas, mangos, cocoa and coffee beans.
Rainforests also provide us with many medicinal products. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, 70% of plants useful in the treatment of cancer are found only in rainforests. Rainforest plants are also used in the creation of muscle relaxants, steroids, and insecticides. They are used to treat asthma, arthritis, malaria, heart disease, and pneumonia. The importance of rainforest species in public health is even more incredible considering that less than one percent of rainforest species have been analysed for their medicinal value.
Threats
Rainforests are Earth’s oldest living ecosystems, with some surviving in their present form for at least 70 million years. They are incredibly diverse and complex, home to more than half of the world’s plant and animal species—even though they cover just 6% of Earth’s surface. This makes rainforests astoundingly dense with flora and fauna; a 10 square kilometre (4-square-mile) patch can contain as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies.
Rainforests thrive on every continent except Antarctica. The largest rainforests on Earth surround the Amazon River in South America and the Congo River in Africa. The tropical islands of Southeast Asia and parts of Australia support dense rainforest habitats. Even the cool evergreen forests of North America’s Pacific Northwest and Northern Europe are a type of rainforest.
Rainforests’ rich biodiversity is incredibly important to our well-being and the well-being of our planet. Rainforests help regulate our climate and provide us with everyday products.
Unsustainable industrial and agricultural development, however, has severely degraded the health of the world’s rainforests. Citizens, governments, intergovernmental organisations, and conservation groups are working together to protect these invaluable but fragile ecosystems.
Human Well-Being
Rainforests provide us with many products that we use every day. Tropical woods such as teak, balsa, rosewood, and mahogany are used in flooring, doors, windows, boatbuilding, and cabinetry. Fibres such as raffia, bamboo, kapok, and rattan are used to make furniture, baskets, insulation, and cord. Cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, and ginger are just a few spices of the rainforest. The ecosystem supports fruits including bananas, papayas, mangos, cocoa and coffee beans.
Rainforests also provide us with many medicinal products. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, 70% of plants useful in the treatment of cancer are found only in rainforests. Rainforest plants are also used in the creation of muscle relaxants, steroids, and insecticides. They are used to treat asthma, arthritis, malaria, heart disease, and pneumonia. The importance of rainforest species in public health is even more incredible considering that less than one percent of rainforest species have been analysed for their medicinal value.
Threats
- Logging interests cut down rain forest trees for timber used in flooring, furniture, and other items.
- Power plants and other industries cut and burn trees to generate electricity.
- The paper industry turns huge tracts of rain forest trees into pulp.
- The cattle industry uses slash-and-burn techniques to clear ranch land.
- Agricultural interests, particularly the soy industry, clear forests for cropland.
- Subsistence farmers slash-and-burn rain forest for firewood and to make room for crops and grazing lands.
- Mining operations clear forest to build roads and dig mines.
- Governments and industry clear-cut forests to make way for service and transit roads.
- Hydroelectric projects flood acres of rain forest.
Book research
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