About this product: The history of the most important design association in the world and its members: AGI.
AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) was founded in 1951 by a small, select group of French and Swiss graphic designers. Since then AGI has invited some 600 designers from more than thirty countries to join its ranks.
Together the members of AGI have written a significant part of the history of graphic design since the mid-twentieth century. This book tells the story of their accomplishments through a series of richly illustrated biographies, plus essays by prominent AGI members on past and present developments in visual communication.
The designers featured here include Alan Fletcher, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Roman Cieslewicz, Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar, Seymour Chwast, April Greiman, Yusaku Kamakura, Milton Glaser, Adrian Frutiger, Tibor Kalman, and hundreds more. 2000+ color illustrations.
About this product: One of the best-kept secrets in geology is this handy compilation of geological information. The essential reference for geoscientists in the field, office, or lab, The Geoscience Handbook provides quick reference for the key metrics and concepts, as well as short tutorials on subjects that may not be familiar to all geoscientists. The Handbook covers diverse subjects, from geophysics to geologic map symbols to GPS usage, and everything in between! Newly updated for 2006, The Geoscience Handbook is now a larger, but still portable, format for easier reading. Also now in full color, the Handbook uses color photos when possible to better illustrate geology in the real world.
About this product: One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the lives and memories of Holocaust survivors, "Reflections" is the result of a 25-year conversation between Auschwitz survivor Agi Rubin, and psychologist Henry Greenspan. This volume looks not only at the memories of the events themselves, but also how those memories have grown, faded, and been "edited" over an entire lifetime. Greenspan's indepth probing of the testimonies presented here are pioneering, penetrating, and unsurpassed in their eloquent treatment of the horrors of the Holocaust.
About this product: One of the best-kept secrets in geology is this handy compilation of geological information. The essential reference for geoscientists in the field, office, or lab, The Geoscience Handbook provides quick reference for the key metrics and concepts, as well as short tutorials on subjects that may not be familiar to all geoscientists. The Handbook covers diverse subjects, from geophysics to geologic map symbols to GPS usage, and everything in between! Now in full color, the Handbook uses color photos when possible to better illustrate geology in the real world. New to this printing is the new and revised 2009 Geologic Timescale published by the Geological Society of America!!!!
About this product: All the expert guidance you need to understand, build, and operate GPS receivers
The Second Edition of this acclaimed publication enables readers to understand and apply the complex operation principles of global positioning system (GPS) receivers. Although GPS receivers are widely used in everyday life to aid in positioning and navigation, this is the only text that is devoted to complete coverage of their operation principles. The author, one of the foremost authorities in the GPS field, presents the material from a software receiver viewpoint, an approach that helps readers better understand operation and that reflects the forecasted integration of GPS receivers into such everyday devices as cellular telephones. Concentrating on civilian C/A code, the book provides the tools and information needed to understand and exploit all aspects of receiver technology as well as relevant navigation schemes: * Overview of GPS basics and the constellation of satellites that comprise the GPS system * Detailed examination of GPS signal structure, acquisition, and tracking * Step-by-step presentation of the mathematical formulas for calculating a user's position * Demonstration of the use of computer programs to run key equations * Instructions for developing hardware to collect digitized data for a software GPS receiver * Complete chapter demonstrating a GPS receiver following a signal flow to determine a user's position
The Second Edition of this highly acclaimed text has been greatly expanded, including three new chapters: * Acquisition of weak signals * Tracking of weak signals * GPS receiver related subjects
Following the author's expert guidance and easy-to-follow style, engineers and scientists learn all that is needed to understand, build, and operate GPS receivers. The book's logical flow from basic concepts to applications makes it an excellent textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, wireless communications, and computer science.
About this product: Coal is the world’s most abundant fossil (hydrocarbon) fuel, occurring in 37 of the 50 U.S. states. Today, 90 percent of the 1.1 billion short tons of coal produced in the United States each year are used for electricity generation; contributing 51 percent of U.S. electrical energy needs. Coal resources are also essential in the production of steel and other heavy industrial processes, such as the production of cement. The United States has more coal reserves than any other country, about 30 percent of the world’s total known coal reserves. U.S. reserve estimates exceed 500 billion tons of which 275 billion tons are economically recoverable using existing technologies. The demand for coal resources is growing, and U.S. coal consumption is expected to increase from 1.1 billion tons per year in 2000 to 1.5 billion tons in 2020. Coal and the Environment explains the uses and importance of coal, the environmental concerns associated with its mining and use, and how technological advances are making coal an environmentally cleaner fuel. Because coal is such an abundant, low-cost source of needed energy, developing even more environmentally sound ways to use coal in the future is very important. Includes a full-color poster with an investigative activity for students on back.
Bring the classroom to your home with this training DVD and full-color instructional book!
Windows 7 is the much-anticipated new operating system from Microsoft and is packed with new features and capabilities. With this book-and-DVD combination, you can learn essential skills and explore all the exciting new possibilities that Windows 7 has to offer. Fifteen self-paced lessons allow you to move at a speed that is comfortable for your learning style. Step-by-step instructions, lesson files, and video tutorials complement each topic covered.
You'll investigate the new interface and functionality and learn how to customize settings, work with Internet Explorer, and maintain and troubleshoot issues. Packed with helpful information, this book encourages you to confidently get the most out of the new features of Windows 7. *
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Windows 7 Digital Classroom is like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace.
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.
Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about 60 in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics and religion.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Lives is in eleven volumes.
About this product: The booklet, Metal Mining and the Environment, and the colorful companion poster offer new tools for raising awareness and understanding of the impact and issues surrounding metal mining and the environment. The 64-page full-color booklet contains a copy of the poster which includes a student activity on the back. This booklet and poster can help you: illustrate the importance of our natural and environmental resources; provide a geoscience perspective on metal mining and the environment; improve Earth science literacy; and increase student understandings of Earth resources and systems.
About this product: This book is designed to help you understand our aggregate resources—their importance, where they come from, how they are processed for our use, the environmental concerns related to their mining and processing, how those concerns are addressed, and the policies and regulations designed to safeguard workers, neighbors, and the environment from the negative impacts of aggregate mining. We hope this understanding will help prepare you to be involved in decisions that need to be made—individually and as a society—to be good stewards of our aggregate resources and our living planet.
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