The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

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John Wooden Biography and Interview". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement. February 27, 1996. The flagship leadership development program of Wooden's fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, is named "The John and Nellie Wooden Institute for Men of Principle" after Coach Wooden and his wife, Nellie. [75] Coach Wooden's maxims and creed are central to the teaching of leadership development at the institute. Senior Steve Patterson scored 29 points in the championship game against Villanova and Howard Porter as UCLA won its fifth in a row. In its regional final, UCLA overcame an 11-point deficit to defeat Long Beach State 57–55. [49] Patterson's portrait was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated with the headline "Unexpected Hero". [51] Wooden released from hospital". Associated Press. April 16, 2007. Archived from the original on November 15, 2007 . Retrieved February 7, 2010.

The Wooden Artefacts of the Bronze Age Lakeshore Dwellings of Ledro Belonging to Italian Museum Collections.Beth Harris (June 4, 2010). "UCLA: John Wooden suffering from dehydration". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2010 . Retrieved June 4, 2010. The manufacture of bronze is one of the first recognisable industrial processes, as it required systematic procedures: the separate mining and smelting of tin, which is then added to molten copper. As copper and tin ores are rarely found together (the exception being in Cornwall), early trade infrastructures in raw materials developed, with Cornish tin being exported as far as Phoenicia in the eastern Mediterranean. Wooden's Legacy, a 2012 public artwork statue by Jeffrey Rouse, is exhibited in Indianapolis, Indiana. We have a long history of providing excellent customer service and high quality childrens toys. Since opening in 1999, BrightMinds has helped parents and carers up and down the country find the perfect wooden toys for toddlers and many other age groups. John Wooden won his first national title in his sixteenth season at UCLA. Senior Walt Hazzard starred for UCLA as the Bruins made a 16–0 run late in the first half to beat Duke and its All-American Jeff Mullins. [49] Hazzard was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated driving through the Duke players. [50]

The core of The Wood Age is an environmental history as you might expect it, charting our use of wood through time, though it is driven by an interesting and, to me, novel argument: "technological advances in other materials helped people make far better use of the material they had always exploited: wood" (p. 78). In Tree Story, Trouet made a similar argument, writing that "human civilization as we know it is founded on trees" (p. 201). Ennos argues that the importance of stone tools has long been overemphasized. Many of them were probably accessories to create better wooden tools. It is an attractive idea, though somewhat tenuous given wood's tendency to not be conserved in the archaeological record. With later technological progress, however, this argument starts to look more and more convincing. In spite of these achievements, Wooden reportedly did not initially enjoy his position, and his wife did not favor living in Los Angeles. When Mel Taube left Purdue in 1950, Wooden's inclination was to return to West Lafayette and finally accept the head coaching job there. He was ultimately dissuaded when UCLA officials reminded him that it was he who had insisted upon a three-year commitment during negotiations in 1948. Wooden felt that leaving UCLA prior to the expiration of his contract would be tantamount to breaking his word, even though Purdue offered more money, a car and housing. [32] At the other end, the penultimate chapter takes aim at what Ennos calls deforestation myths. A superficial reading suggests he is contradicting himself as he next outlines how much impact we have had. However, what he takes issue with is the narrative told by the likes of Jared Diamond that deforestation led to environmental catastrophe and eventual civilizational collapse. The idea that felling trees results in catastrophic soil erosion is based on modern industrial forestry practices, he claims, "our impressions exaggerate the historical extent of the problem" (p. 246). Ennos in no way suggests that deforestation itself is somehow a myth: "environmental historians are This was when geographically wide-ranging commercial networks started to form, leading to the spread of the technology across Ancient Egypt, Asia and Europe. Both iron and copper smelting appeared in Africa, although there is no evidence to show it either spontaneously evolving or being introduced. a b c Jelenko, Jane; Marshall, Susan (2007). Changing Lanes: Road Maps to Midlife Renewal. Random Press. pp.37–9. ISBN 9780979599002 . Retrieved May 31, 2015.Looking ahead, high-tech uses of wood have the potential to replace steel and concrete though I appreciated Ennos’s scepticism. Such wood products are energy-consuming to fabricate, while technofixes “ continue to move our juggernaut economy even further along the path of unlimited economic growth” (p. 272). Instead, he has several suggestions by which we could make trees part of our lives again and so undo the disconnect that has grown between people and forests.

Before plastic became the mainstream material for toys, wood was the norm. In the past, they were often handcrafted; although this isn’t so much the case nowadays, it’s undeniable that wooden toys are always going to be of a higher quality — simply because wood itself is a stronger material than plastic. Pace, Frank (March 30, 2003). "Commentary: Dinner reunites, sparks memories". The Florida Times-Union. Archived from the original on June 21, 2015. This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided bya b c d John Wooden; Steve Jamison (April 2004). My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-143792-4 . Retrieved January 29, 2010.