About this product: Beginning bluegrass banjo instruction. The first true beginner's book revealing the secrets of 3 finger Earl Scruggs type banjo picking. Clearly illustrated with over 40 photographs, it includes basic rolls, exciting and easy to play song arrangements, and up the neck breaks. The companion audio CD includes Boil Them Cabbage Down, Cripple Creek, John Hardy, Black Mountain Rag, Little Maggie, and Kicking Mule. All songs are played at 2 to 3 speeds.
About this product: For beginning and intermediate typography courses. Practical and hands-on in approach, this text/exercise manual speaks clearly to beginning students of graphic design about the complex meeting of message, image, and history that is typography. Focused on intent and content, not affect or style, it makes informed distinctions between what is appropriate and what is merely show. Filled with examples, exercises, and background information--and designed itself to reflect good typographic design--it guides students systematically to the point where they can not only understand but demonstrate basic principles of typography, and thereby strengthen their own typographic instincts.
About this product: Muscle is built with weights, food, rest and sweat. All bodybuilders create their bodies with these four elements ... in the beginning. But there comes a time when the muscle gains slow down. This is when they need to increase their body's anabolic, or muscle-building, capacity. Increasing the body's anabolic capacity is what Anabolic Primer is all about. Every bodybuilder is inundated with ads that this or that supplement will bring him to the next bodybuilding realm. But what's the truth? Anabolic Primer wades through the scientific data and gives you the real lowdown-- information worth its weight in gold.
About this product: Originally published in 1975, Primer Of Towing by professional mariner George H. Reid has been thoroughly revised and deftly updated in a new second edition packed from cover to cover with the latest information on towing marine craft for modern times. A straightforward manual to the skill of towing ships and tugboat seamanship, Primer Of Towing capably addresses barge configuration and handling, salvage and emergency situations, structural considerations, and much, much more. Highly recommended for anyone involved in this respected and necessary duty of nautical tradition, Primer Of Towing is as informed and informative as it is accessible and "user friendly".
About this product: A concise introduction to epidemiology. Covers all the basics: methods of study, how to conduct a study, and multivariate analysis. Features updated case studies, which make the critical link between epidemiology, clinical research, and patient care.
About this product: In April 1943, a young physicist named Robert Serber stood up before a small group of fellow scientists in a laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and, as one attendee later recalled, began to speak in "a hazy, uncertain voice" about the project on which they would all be working. "The object," he said, "is to produce a practical military weapon in the form of a bomb in which the energy is released by a fast neutron chain reaction in one or more of the materials known to show nuclear fission." That mechanism, of course, was the atomic bomb, which a little more than two years later would be used against Japan.
In the following weeks, Serber touched on many themes, racing to an array of chalkboards to scribble complex formulas and equations. Among other things, he addressed how big a bomb would need to be in order to achieve critical mass--between 13.5 centimeters and 9 centimeters, he calculated--and what the probability of premature detonation might be. (It was, he concluded, always a danger.) At the end of the series, his lecture notes, classified as top secret, were gathered and printed for distribution to later cadres of scientists who came to work at Los Alamos. Years after the war they were declassified, and Serber, who died in May of 1997, took the opportunity to reflect on his work and the strange culture of the laboratory, adding postscripts and other commentary reproduced in the present edition.
Serber's book is an important document in the history of science, and remains one of the most accessible introductions to nuclear physics ever written. (On that note, those who worry that it is all too easy to find bomb-building instructions in the library or on the Web should rest assured: these lectures were tough for the greatest theoretical physicists of the time to follow.) It all makes for provocative reading. --Gregory McNamee
The design bar is at an all-time high for those brave enough to participate in the industry. Today's designers must be clear on all the steps necessary to create work that stands out in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, most design books only focus on type, color, and layout issues. The Design Matters series takes a more in-depth approach, allowing designers to learn not only how to create work that is aesthetically appealing, but also strategy-driven and smart.
This book focuses on developing, creating and implementing package designs, while others in the series dissect brochures, logos, publications, and letterhead systems. Each book offers all the essential information needed to execute strong designs in concert with beautiful and well-crafted examples, so readers can successfully hit the mark every time.
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