Fabrication: The Designer's Guide
Elsevier/Architectural Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0750665580 | 196 pages | PDF | 103 MB
The authors provide readers with a greater ability to employ material processes for their own designs. Packed with stunning images, Fabrication is an ideal reference for designers who wish to learn more about contemporary technology and design inspiration in abundance.
The Best of Lofts
H Kliczkowski | ISBN: 9509575844 | 1998 | PDF | 85 pages | 32 MB
Compendio de lofts con croquis de desarrollo o idea del proyecto en una explicacion breve por parte de sus autores. Compendium of lofts with sketches of the proposed development or idea in a brief explanation from the authors.
Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form
Oxford University Press | 1991 | 231 Pages | ISBN: 0195052064 | DJVU | 70 MB
Eliot Goldfinger, a realistic sculptor and instructor of human and animal anatomy, has designed and written a reference work for artists and art students on the visual and descriptive components of human anatomy. The format is simple and accessible; all information about one aspect of a topic is set forth on facing pages. For example, the anterior leg muscle is illustrated in a series of precise anatomical drawings and well-lit photos, with text on origin, insertion, action, structure, and how it relates to creating surface form directly opposite the pictures. Unique to this book are photographs of a series of sculptures which show the basic volumes of the figure, revealing the basic principle of the dynamic between the form units of the body. No other artistic anatomy book is so well organized, detailed, and clearly rendered, and its illustrations are of exceptional quality.
City streets abound with billboards, posters, and corporate advertising that almost invite a subversive response and increasingly are getting one. Many of today's graffiti artists have adopted the stencil and spray can, and are using the street as a giant creative forum for their arresting artwork. The image, says San Diego artist Shepard Fairey, is integrated with the texture of the street. This book showcases the work of the originators, the innovators, and the new generation who, as UK artist Nylon puts it, are breathing life into derelict spaces. Stencil graffiti is beginning to filter off the street too, as artists are inspired to use stencils on canvas, clothing, and metal. Tristan Manco has chosen over 400 of the most visually exuberant, subtle, and creative examples of the genre from cities all over the world. With subject matter ranging from the political to the poetic, from the funky to the frankly curious, stencil graffiti is graphic innovation on an international scale. Inspirational in form and content, this book is an essential record for everyone with an interest in design or in contemporary urban culture. 405 illustrations, 400 in color.
Thanksgiving Crafts: Projects to Give, Decorate and Entertain
Prime Publishing LLC | ISBN: N\A | edition 2009 | PDF | 51 pages | 14 MB
Thanksgiving is a special holiday during which we Americans gather with our loved ones, share a feast and most importantly, remember the good things in our lives. Thanksgiving reminds us to be thankful for these good things, value others and to share what we can, just as the Native American did with the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving feast. With such a wonderful message, let’s honor Thanksgiving with the same excitement as the other end‐of‐year holidays.
Adobe Illustrator CS Classroom in a Book
Adobe Press | ISBN: 0321193806 | edition 2003 | PDF | 403 pages | 21 MB
How often have you wished you had access to the team behind your favorite softwarein this case, Adobe Illustratorso that you could really pick their brains about all of its coolest features? With this book, you do. In these pages the Adobe Creative Team gives you a guided tour of the graphics powerhouse, Illustrator CS. Best of all, it does so at your pace. Whether your beautifully designed graphics end up in print, the Web, broadcast video, or even cell phone displays, this book shows you how to get them thereeasily, elegantly, and efficiently. You'll find step-by-step, project-based lessons in all of Illustrator's key features, including those that are new to CS: powerful new type tools, the Scribble Effect, hundreds of professionally designed templates, support for 3D graphics, and more.
Test and Diagnosis of Analogue, Mixed-Signal and RF Integrated Circuits: The system on chip approach
IET | English | 2007-01-01 | ISBN: 0863417450 | 416 pages | PDF | 3.3 MB
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of automatic testing, diagnosis and tuning of analogue, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits and systems in a single source. The book contains eleven chapters written by leading researchers world-wide. As well as fundamental concepts and techniques, the book reports systematically the state of the arts and future research directions of these areas. A complete range of circuit components are covered and test issues are also addressed from the SoC perspective. A must-have reference companion to researchers and engineers in mixed-signal testing, the book can also be used as a text for postgraduate and senior undergraduate students.
UML for Systems Engineering: watching the wheels, Second Edition
English | 2004-09-10 | ISBN: 0863413544 | 376 pages | PDF | 3.7 MB
Up until a few years ago there were over 150 different modelling languages available to software developers. This vast array of choice however, only served to severely hinder effective communication. Therefore, to combat this, every methodologist and many companies agreed to speak the same language, hence the birth of the unified modelling language (UML). The UML offers a means to communicate complex information in a simple way using visual modelling; i.e. drawing diagrams to create a model of a system. This fully revised edition, based on a training course given by the author, coincides with the release of UML version 2 by the standard body, the Object Management Group, and covers the significant changes that have occurred since its release. It also includes material on life cycle management, examining the way the UML can be used to control and manage projects and the UML systems engineering profile.
Embedded Generation
English | 2000-06-26 | ISBN: 0852967748 | 292 pages | PDF | 2,3 MB
Demand for on-site and alternative power generation is growing, fueled by government and public pressure to increase generation from renewable sources and energy efficient plant, and by the potential economic benefits resulting from privatization and deregulation of the supply sector. This book is a practical, course-derived guide that covers all aspects of embedded (or dispersed) generation, from prime mover characteristics to network reliability modelling. Topics include power quality, protection, reliability and economics. It is essential reading for practicing engineers responsible for planning, designing or specifying embedded generation solutions.
Mobile and Wireless Communications: Key Technologies and Future Applications
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0863413684 | 392 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Two of the fastest growing sectors of communications today are mobile and Internet, both of which have had a profound effect on people's lives. The convergence between these two sectors not only presents great opportunities for the future of 'unplugged' telecommunications, but also great challenges in understanding the relative position of different technologies in this future. This book reviews the contribution of different wireless access technologies to that future and looks at the opportunities of opening up access to telecommunications systems, via application programming interfaces (APIs). The economic and regulatory issues associated with wireless communications are also discussed, with a look at the history and potential future of mobility from a user perspective.
Windows Server 2008 How-To
Sams | ISBN: 067233075X | Jul 2009 | PDF | 312 pages | 8.9Mb
Need fast, reliable, easy-to-implement solutions for Microsoft Windows Server 2008? This book delivers exactly what you’re looking for. You’ll find tested, step-by-step procedures for every facet of Windows Server 2008 planning, deployment, configuration, security, and day-to-day administration. This book includes special sections looking forward to the new R2 release and fully reflects all major enhancements built into Windows Server 2008–including Hyper-V virtualization, Server Core, major Terminal Services improvements, and many more changes that make older administration guides obsolete. When time is of the essence, turn here first: get answers you can trust–and use–right now!
Character Modeling with Maya and ZBrush: Professional polygonal modeling techniques
Focal Press | ISBN:0240520343 | English | January 14, 2008 | PDF | 408 pages | 52Mb
Create believable CG character models with this unique book and DVD package. The stunning color images show just what you can achieve, and the detailed step-by-step tutorials show exactly how to achieve them.
Modern American Literature, Fifth Edition
St. James Press | ISBN: 1558623795 | edition 1998 | PDF | 1574 pages | 13,6 MB
This work consists of short excerpts of criticism of 20th-century American authors by important critics writing in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books. The excerpts (ranging in length from one or two paragraphs to two columns) are allowed to stand on their own without separate plot synopses, summaries, or background information on the authors. The original words of the critics (often great writers themselves with their own entries) are arranged chronologically to paint a picture of the critical reception of an author over time. Although this work can be viewed as an abbreviated or minimalist version of Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, it is easier to use because all authors are arranged in simple alphabetical order in three volumes. Because it shuns summaries, commentary, and other student-centered features of the Gale products, however, it will be less helpful to high school students and undergraduates than those works. This new fifth edition consolidates earlier editions (1960, 1976, 1985, 1997) and adds 70 new entries, bringing the total number of authors covered to 489. For public and academic libraries.AMarc Meola, Temple Univ. Lib., Philadelphia
Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications
Prentice Hall PTR | ISBN: 0132242060 | edition 2007 | PDF | 490 pages | 14.4 MB
Writing for enterprise developers, architects, and user interface specialists, the authors explain why AJAX offers such great promise in large-scale development. Next, they systematically introduce today’s key AJAX techniques and components.
Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World
English | ISBN: 0954381122 | edition 2004 | PDF | 577 pages | 10,6 MB
A reference tool for understanding the sources of political instability and terrorism throughout the world. Compiled by some 80 contributors from around the world, this 4th edition covers all significant organizations that operate outside the permitted sphere of political activity. These range from violent terrorist units in democratic societies to dissident groups operating in authoritarian states. The book covers every country in the world plus an international section on groups operating beyond the boundaries of the nation state. Entries on organisations describe their leadership, goals, support, history and impact.
