25 new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America. Why cant we build them? 50 patent owners are blocking a major drug maker from creating a cancer cure. Why wont they get out of the way? 90% of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service lags far behind Japans and Koreas. Why are we wasting our airwaves? 98 ...
The fourth instalment in the "Looking Closer" series of titles picks up where the second volume left off (after the third volume's reprise of historical commentaries) by offering astute critical discussions on the issues and objects of contemporary graphic design. This collection of essays assembles the critical commentary published in the ...
This new volume in the acclaimed series offers astute and frequently controversial discussions on contemporary graphic design from 2001 to 2005. "Looking Closer 5" is a collection of essays that takes stock of the quality and profundity of graphic design writing published in professional journals, general interest magazines and on the internet. ...
What is the true nature of space and time? These concepts are at the heart of science, but they remain deeply wrapped in enigma. Their structure at both the smallest pre-subatomic and the largest cosmological levels continues to defy modern physics and may require revolutionary new ideas for which science is still grasping. This unique volume ...
Java is an object-oriented, cross-platform development language for the Internet. Sun Microsystems have designed a Java Certification Exam for Programmers, which has two levels: a programmer certification and a developer certification. This study guide covers the objectives of the Java 1.2 version.
With the same wit and rich visual flair as the authors' Wedding Bell Blues and Teenage Confidential, Red Scared! takes on the tense decades of Soviet/American adversity. Michael Barson and Steven Heller plunge into the power of anti-Communist propaganda, and into the effectiveness of the mass media to which much of the West succumbed. In hundreds ...
Bargain Books are non-returnable. Love and marriage, horse and carriage, they may go together in that old classic croon... But in twentieth-century America-hang on tight-the horses have run wild and it's one bumpy ride! Welcome to the world of "Wedding Bell Blues, a romp through our endless fascination with that most august of domestic ...
When did those awkward, tormented creatures known as teenagers first crawl out of the primordial ooze and into American culture? In the forties, fifties, and sixties a new breed of youth known as the juvenile delinquent evolved. In TEENAGE CONFIDENTIAL, the authors conduct a guided tour through three decades of teen angst, displayed in shocking ...
This book discusses the new generation of integrated microfabricated devices, including DNA chips, Lab-on-a-Chip, microcapillary electrophoresis systems, biosensors, and microanalytical systems. It traces their development with the established and evolving technologies such as microlithography, micromachining, microelectromechanical systems, ...
This new, one-of-a-kind primer gives readers the background they need to use ultrasound most effectively in critical situations. It explains basic principles, primary and secondary applications, and interpretation in simple, unassuming terms - so all members of the ED team can review ultrasounds with confidence and accuracy.
Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, its texts and traditions. Recalling his family's origins in Bialystok as well as his own childhood in Brooklyn and Miami Beach, poet and essayist Michael Heller constructs a rich mosaic of reflections on his past, his origins, and the entanglements ...
Magnetism is important in environmental studies for several reasons, the two most fundamental being that most substances exhibit some form of magnetic behavior, and that iron is one of the most common elements in the Earth's crust. Once sequestered in a suitable material, magnetic particles constitute a natural archive of conditions existing in ...
This provocative anthology provides inspiration on how to teach, think, and talk about comic art in the classroom and beyond. Featuring essays, interviews, visual material, and syllabi by more than 60 teachers, professionals, and leaders from the field, the book provides an in-depth view of the art, business, education, and history of cornic art. ...
Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried to understand the world with the help of reason ...
"Stanzas on Mount Elbert" - Where we climbed in the berserk air Of trails, sharp spiky views And dizzying vertigo. I watched Marmot and pika dart Among lichen covered rocks Envying not their agility But that they survive On such apparent bleakness. Then, seeing you on the path above, Aspen crook in hand, orange poncho Bannered to the wind, the ...
"Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms" explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform. To date, most sophisticated theoretical work on corporate governance has focused on advanced market economies. In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have often ...
Volume 2 of the multi-volume reference, "BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology", includes contributions reporting on fundamental and applied investigations of the material science, biochemistry, and physics of biomedical microdevices with applications to Genomics and Proteomics. Topics include gene expression profiling utilizing microarray ...
This is a comprehensive examination of the offerings from 45 of the leading undergraduate and graduate programmes devoted to design, illustration, animation, and computer art."Teaching Motion Design" presents detailed information on all the current principles and practices of 3-D computer animation, character animation, pictorial background ...
A collection essays on the interplay of science and religion from a prominent Polish philosopher and Roman Catholic priest with a special emphasis on physics, cosmology, and astronomy.
This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and Oppen and of more contemporary poets and poetry in the modernist and post-modernist lineage of Pound and Williams, the essays explore the work of these ...
New Mexican furniture, distinguished by unique details and embellishments, is one of the most popular furniture styles in this country today. Presently, little exists to give the woodworker inspiration in this classic style. This book begins by teaching woodworkers exactly how to re-create the details that distinguish this unique style and ...
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