F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

An interesting if unusual book

self-sufficiency: noun: the quality or state of being able to provide everything you need, especially food, without the help of other people or countries:

One way to increase food self-sufficiency is to buy local, whether it is in a farmer’s market or in a store.

After decades of self-sufficiency, domestic oil production could no longer satisfy demand. :the quality of being able to take care of yourself, to be happy, or to deal with problems, without help from other people: She encouraged self-sufficiency in her daughters.

Technological self-efficacy (TSE) is “the belief in one’s ability to successfully perform a technologically sophisticated new task”. TSE does not highlight specific technological tasks; instead, it is purposely vague. This is a specific application of the broader and more general construct of self-efficacy, which is defined as the belief in one’s ability to engage in specific actions that result in desired outcomes. Self-efficacy does not focus on the skills one has, but rather the judgments of what one can do with his or her skills. Traditionally, a distinguishing feature of self-efficacy is its domain-specificity. In other words, judgments are limited to certain types of performances as compared to an overall evaluation of his or her potential. Typically, these constructs refer to specific types of technology; for example, computer self-efficacy, or internet self-efficacy and information technology self-efficacy. In order to organize this literature, technology specific self-efficacies (e.g., computer and internet) that technology specific self-efficacies can be considered sub-dimensions under the larger construct of technological self-efficacy.