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Renzo Piano, winner of the 1998 Pritzker Prize, is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be so excitingly innovative as to capture the imagination of his admirers. One of the very few architects across the world to be intimately involved in each stage of a building's development - from its concept and masterplan to its construction and detailing - R...

Fixtures are an essential part of manufacturing production. This book covers computer-aided fixture design, fixture clamping synthesis and optimisation, workpiece-fixture interaction, intelligent fixture designed to integrate with processing equipment or machine tools so as to improve productivity and product quality, Internet-enabled fixture design and modular fixture database management. These are the emerging issues central to the developme...

Ein Mann, der ist ein leidenschaftlicher Segler und ein schrulliger Alter, der hat einen Trödelladen. Beide suchen in den Aufzeichnungen eines weisen Mannes, der ein geheimnisvolles Buch hinterlassen die Geschichte einer verschwundenen Insel zu enträtseln. Die ist in einer alten Seekarte eingezeichnet, die von einem gewissen Cobar stammt. Sie stoßen auf die Geschichte einer Liebe, die nicht zu sich finden konnte und die dennoch über die Zeiten...

Auch in seinem zweiten Band schildert Eduard Breimann mit grosser Intensität Probleme, die uns allen geläufig sind und auf eine zu Herzen gehende Weise dargestellt und vertieft werden. Hier geht es um eine SS-Vergangenheit, die Folgen falschen Handelns, Erziehungsprobleme, die längst der Vergangenheit angehören sollten, um die Ausgestossenen unserer Gesellschaft, seien es Penner oder HIV-Infizierte. Es sind wieder meisterhaft behandelte Themen...

Eduard Breimann erzählt uns von Mördern, Asylanten, Scheinheiligen, und Folterern, aber auch von alltäglichen Beziehungen, alten und jungen Menschen, wie du und ich, immer mit einem Realismus der unter die Haut geht. Diese, beste Gegenwartsliteratur spiegelt die Welt in der wir heute leben schattenlos wieder, und nimmt uns mit rührender, intensiver Wehmut gefangen.

In The Ego and the Id Freud argued that a cogent thought process, to say nothing of conscious intellectual work, could not exist amidst the unruliness of visual experience. Over the last half century in a sequence of landmark books, Rudolf Arnheim has not only shown us how wrong that is, he has parsed the grammar of form with uncanny acuity and taught us how to read it."—Jonathan Fineberg, author of Art since 1940: Strategies of Being "It is a...

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Links constructive software development to traditional problem-solving methods Not dependent on any particular specification language, but is based instead on their common core

Do you seek creativity? Do you crave answers? Is this the right relationship? Is this the best job? Nothing is certain, everything changes, and the only way to find answers is to stop analyzing things and do! The cut-to-the-chase, jargon-free perfect sequel to "Be, " A. C. Ping's "Do" is packed full with big ideas, straight-talking wit and wisdom, and illuminating advice. But whereas "Be" is about contemplation, "Do" encourages action. It is a...

Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, is not a biblical figure. She first appears in a second-century apocryphal infancy gospel as part of the story of the savior's birth and maternal ancestry. Over the ensuing centuries, Anne's story circulated throughout eastern and western Christendom, but it was not until the late Middle Ages that a cult of Saint Anne gained a firm footing in Europe. Mary's Mother is about the remarkable rise of Anne as a figure...

This book is the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of the connection between civil society and political change in Asia--change toward open, participatory, and accountable politics. Its findings suggest that the link between a vibrant civil society and democracy is indeterminate: Certain types of civil society organizations support democracy, but others have the potential to undermine it.

This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being or semblance, but with a concept of "appearing." Seel examines the existential and cultural meaning of aesthetic experience. In doing so, he brings aesthetics and philosophy of art together again, which in continental as well as analytical thinking have been more and more separated in the recent decades.

This practical guide to achieving conscious out-of-body experiences is based upon the author's extensive knowledge of astral projection. Presented in an easy-to-follow workbook format, the 13-week program introduces astral project methods and provides daily preparatory exercises. Includes a CD-ROM.