Essential Vectorworks Skills for Scenic and Production Designers is an accessible textbook that covers the digital skills of 2D drawing, 3D modeling, rendering, drafting, and design presentation, providing aspiring designers with an invaluable toolkit to quickly and efficiently hone their craft. Modeled after learner-centered teaching practice and based on USITT drafting standards, this book is structured around six carefully selected core projects. It introduces key terms and commands, tools, techniques, and procedures for drawing, modeling, rendering, drafting, and design presentation with Vectorworks. Each chapter begins with key commands and a set of learning objectives that will be explored. The design exercises and projects that follow invite the reader's active participation in the learning process. Along with step-by-step instructions, 240 illustrations (including student work samples), and three insightful interviews with professional designers, this book also contains open-ended projects that encourage the reader to explore new ways of scenographic expression and creatively apply commands and techniques to solve example design problems. This textbook is for use in scenic design, drafting, model making, and rendering courses in university theatre and media programs, and may be of interest to emerging professional scenic designers or scenographers for theatre, opera, and concert performances, production designers or art directors in film and television industries, themed exhibition designers, and theme park designers. Essential Vectorworks Skills for Scenic and Production Designers includes access to a wealth of online resources, including 15 videos with step-by-step instruction, six files of vwx or PDF formats for additional exercises and projects, and a video of student work samples.

Essential Vectorworks Skills for Scenic and Production Designers: Drawing, Rendering, Modeling, Drafting, and Presenting

Computers & Technology

Chen, Ming

Software

Focal Press

Tired of receiving boring hand-me-down shoes, Sassparilla imagines herself in more exciting footwear, from platform shoes to ice skates.

Sassparilla's New Shoes

Children's Books

Chen, Wah

Science Fiction & Fantasy

E M Pr

CLING. Don't let go. Hold tight. Never give up. FLY. Rev up. Lift off. Soar. PEDAL. Set off. Cycle. Pedal for your life. Throughout history, ordinary people have been forced to leave their families and homes because of war, famine, slavery, intolerance, economic and political upheaval, or climate change. These remarkable true stories of escape show how courageous people all around the world have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their flight to freedom. "An arresting collection of deep, accessible stories of people on the move"--Kirkus Reviews, STARRED "A remarkable and beautifully illustrated book which helps children understand what it's like to be in someone else shoes. The extraordinary achievement is that it is still such a delight to read"--Emily Maitlis, BBC newsreader "A compelling and inspiring book that contains an array of personal accounts of heroic value, many of which aren't included in elementary school textbooks. This will undoubtedly be an invaluable resource for educators and students alike"--Manhattan Book Review, 5 STARS "Highly recommended for ages 9 to 80!"--Reading Pebbles "Both inspirational and moving. The outcome of each story is full of hope with a focus on positive achievements and outcomes without making light of the difficulties faced"--North Somerset Teachers' Book Awards

Escape: One Day We Had to Run . . .

Biographies

Lantana Publishing

This book introduces the unusual shock-related mineralogical features of the shocked Suizhou L6 (S5) meteorite. The olivine and pyroxene in Suizhou display a mosaic shock feature, while most of plagioclase grains have transformed to glassy maskelynite. A few of the shock-induced melt veins in the meteorite are the simplest, straightest and thinnest ones among all shock-vein-bearing meteorites, and contain the most abundant high-pressure mineral species. Among the 11 identified species, tuite, xieite, and the post-spinel CF-phase of chromite are new minerals. The meteorite experienced a peak shock pressure up to 24 GPa and temperatures of up to 1000° C. Locally developed shock veins were formed at the same pressure, but at an elevated temperature of about 2000° C that was produced by localized shear-friction stress. The rapid cooling of the extremely thin shock veins is the main reason why 11 shock-induced high-pressure mineral phases could be preserved in them so well. This book offers a helpful guide for meteoritics researchers and mineralogists and invaluable resource for specialists working in high-pressure and high-temperature mineralophysics.

Suizhou Meteorite: Mineralogy and Shock Metamorphism (Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy)

Science & Math

Xie, Xiande

Astronomy & Space Science

Springer

Colleges and universities teaching computer education Twelfth Five Year Plan : Introduction to Computer Science Network(Chinese Edition)

China Railway Press

Designed as an entry level text on classical Chinese medicine, this book combines the essential passages of the ancient texts with interpretive information from TCM professors across China, with respect to international student needs.

Chinese Medical Classics: Selected Readings

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Paul, Ryan

Alternative Medicine

People's Medical Publishing House

Liudu Zhou typhoid Clinical simply more (paperback )(Chinese Edition)

Academy; 1 (February 1. 2002)

This book, particularly intended for the CFL (Chinese as a Foreign Language) learners, aims to help the learners fully master the 1000 basic Chinese characters. Most selected characters are in Level 1 of The Syllabus for Chinese Proficiency Vocabulary and Graded Chinese Characters. The common meanings and examples are provided for each character. Chinese pinyin and English translation are provided for example words and sentences. Meanwhile, this book covers knowledge on each character concerning its strokes, order of strokes, structure, original complicated form and its form in ancient writing system. Knowledge on Chinese strokes, structures, order of strokes and radicals are in the appendix. Many indexing methods based on phonetics, strokes and radicals are provided in this book.

1000 Frequently Used Chinese Characters (English and Chinese Edition)

Reference

Beijing Language and Culture University Press

Yanzhuang Meteorite: Mineralogy and Shock Metamorphism

This book investigates the mineralogy and shock effects of Yanzhuang chondrite, using modern micro-mineralogical experimental techniques, including SEM, TEM, EPMA, Raman microprobe spectroscopy, instrumental neutron activation analysis, X-ray micro-diffraction analysis, micro-PIXE analysis and laser ablation ICP-MS. The micro-structural and micro-morphological characteristics as well as chemical composition of minerals were studied in details. Based on the studies in the shock effects of rocks and minerals, and the detailed study in the shock-produced melt, the book concludes that Yanzhuang chondrite is the most heavily shocked ordinary H group chondrite ever found and that it contains the most abundant shock induced melt among all known shock-melt-bearing chondritic meteorites.

About the Author\nProfessor Xiande Xie is a well-known mineralogist. He has been engaged in the study of mineralogy of borates and sulfates, mineralogy of mantle rocks, mineralogy of many Chinese meteorites, such as H-group chondrites Anlong, Jilin, and Yanzhuang, L-group chondrites Renxiu, Sixiangkou, and Suizhou, and E-group chondrite Qingzhen, and shock metamorphism and phase transformation of minerals in heavily shocked chondrites, especially the high-pressure mineralogy of the melt veins in naturally shocked chondrites.Professor Xie is the winner of two China National Natural Science Awards and 13 Awards for Advancement of Science and Technology given by Chinese Academy of Sciences or related Provincial Governments. The book entitled “Mineralogical Approaches to Geological Investigations” written by Edward C. T. Chao and Xiande Xie was awarded the Branch Best Paper of Geological Division, US Geological Survey, in 1990. 
He was the President of International Mineralogical Association for 1990 to 1994. His honorary titles also include: Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1994), Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (since 2001), Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Russia (since 1991), Honorary Member of the Romanian Association of Scientists (since 1992) and Honorary President of Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology (since 2002). 
Professor Ming Chen has been working at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1993, his research area covers cosmic mineralogy, high pressure mineralogy, shock metamorphism, meteorite craters and so on. He is the discoverer of Xiuyan impact crater, the first meteorite impact crater ever found in China, as well as the discoverer of shock-produced new high-pressure minerals tuite, xieite, maohekite, and the CF-phase. Professor Chen was awarded the Wuyi Labor Medal of Guangdong Province in 2004, National Excellent Science and Technology Workers by China Association for Science and Technology in 2010. He is also the winner of three first-grade Science and Technology Awards given by Guangdong Provincial Government in 1995, 2002, and 2017.\nThis book investigates the mineralogy and shock effects of Yanzhuang chondrite, using modern micro-mineralogical experimental techniques, including SEM, TEM, EPMA, Raman microprobe spectroscopy, instrumental neutron activation analysis, X-ray micro-diffraction analysis, micro-PIXE analysis and laser ablation ICP-MS. The micro-structural and micro-morphological characteristics as well as chemical composition of minerals were studied in details. Based on the studies in the shock effects of rocks and minerals, and the detailed study in the shock-produced melt, the book concludes that Yanzhuang chondrite is the most heavily shocked ordinary H group chondrite ever found and that it contains the most abundant shock induced melt among all known shock-melt-bearing chondritic meteorites.\nFrom the Back Cover\nThis book investigates the mineralogy and shock effects of Yanzhuang chondrite, using modern micro-mineralogical experimental techniques, including SEM, TEM, EPMA, Raman microprobe spectroscopy, instrumental neutron activation analysis, X-ray micro-diffraction analysis, micro-PIXE analysis and laser ablation ICP-MS. The micro-structural and micro-morphological characteristics as well as chemical composition of minerals were studied in details. Based on the studies in the shock effects of rocks and minerals, and the detailed study in the shock-produced melt, the book concludes that Yanzhuang chondrite is the most heavily shocked ordinary H group chondrite ever found and that it contains the most abundant shock induced melt among all known shock-melt-bearing chondritic meteorites.

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