Video Course Manual : Digital Signal Processing

ALAN V. OPPENHEIM

Science in History: Volume 2 the Scientific and industrial Revolutions

Science & Math

J. D. Bernal

History & Philosophy

Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) has long been considered the finest of English wood engravers. No one has ever better expressed the feeling of the English landscape and its homely incident than Bewick in his meticulously rendered scenes of countryside and wildlife. His innovations transformed the medium of engraving for a hundred years, and first distinguished the technique as an art. John James Audubon pronounced him the greatest delineator of nature of his time. This natural focus on Bewick the engraver has overshadowed his accomplishments as a watercolourist and draftsman of major rank. Over a thousand of his drawings and watercolours survive, but until the publication of these volumes only a handful have ever appeared in print before, and none in modern times. They are reproduced here in accordance with the most exacting standards. The first volume presents an illustrated biographical account of Bewick and explains his working methods in metal engraving and in the transfer of drawings to the wood block. It also discusses the organization of his workshop and ascribes to the hands of apprentices through stylistic exegesis a number of works previously believed to be Bewick's own. A catalog of 200 monochrome subjects drawn from the Quadrupeds, British Birds, Fables of Aesop and the unpublished Fishes is followed by appendices recording collections now holding Bewick's drawings. The second volume contains the watercolours and drawings alongside the engravings for which they were prepared, in addition to major watercolours for which there are no extant engravings. Over 200 color subjects are presented in this volume, together with a further 192 drawings and engravings. A production note: the slipcases containing the two volumes were handmade, and the paper, Bewick Cartridge, was especially made for these books. They were designed by Peter Guy and printed by the Westerham Press in England. The MIT Press is offering a limited edition of 500 sets to American readers and collectors. Iain Bain is publisher at the Tate Gallery, London, and an authority on the history of book production and hand presses as well as on the work of Thomas Bewick. He personally oversaw the production of these volumes.

Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and His Workshop Apprentices (2 Volumes)

Arts & Photography

BAIN, Iain ed.

Graphic Design

Karl Gerstner is one of Switzerland's—and therefore the world's—best and best-known graphic and typographic designers. His high ambition in this book, first published in German in 1972, is to provide a complete and systematic taxonomy of writing, a programmed investigation into the underlying structure of script and type; Gerstner writes that his book is meant to "encompass the aspects and possibilities of the alphabet in their totality." It is this systematic and programmatic approach that sets the book apart. Most studies of typography and its larger graphic setting and context are concerned with the history of the development of writing and printing, or are collections of typographic models or typical examples, or are textbooks on layout and design. This one is organized into five sections that take up, in turn, Script and Speech—the relation between writing and language, different alphabets, reading directions (the eye follows directions and moves in a direction), style; Manual Graphics or craft—materials, tools, methods, procedures, reproductive techniques; Images—letter pictures, word pictures, sentence pictures, handwriting, size, proportion, type weight, form, harmony, texture, brightness, color; Function—as effected through dimensioning, spacing, grouping, layout, integration; and Expression—as achieved through coordination, articulation, emphasis, diversion, and the spirit of play. As a physical object, the book is more than a passive repository of examples of typographic display. It makes a dynamic and integrated typographic statement of its own and as a whole as it progresses and develops in accordance with its internal program. The book is nearly square and opens vertically rather than horizontally. Type is printed on only one side of the sheets, which are folded back on themselves along the outer edge to form double leaves, so that there is no distracting show-through "noise." There are words printed in blind embossing and stencil cutouts. And color is used with an elegant restraint, appearing only at the book's mid-section climax—its very sparseness amid the prevailing sharp black and white contributes a luxurious effect.

Compendium for Literates

History

GERSTNER, Karl

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Managing the Sense of a Region

Octavo, PP.221, Roger Martin Copy, Former Chairman And Founder Of The Landscape Architecture Department University Of Minnesota

Managing the sense of a region

Lynch, Kevin

Architecture

Elements of System Dynamics Method

This classic study provides an extensive analysis of the major economic attributes of the performing arts: audience composition, costs, income, organizational structure and remuneration of performers. The authors cleady demonstrate why the cost per performance and per attendance has always risen faster than the economy's rate of inflation, and indicate this situation is unlikely to change in the future. The book concludes with a summary discussion of general policy implications.

Performing Arts - The Economic Dilemma

Business & Money

Baumol, William J.

Bowen, William G.

Economics

"Paul Frankl was, as Professor James S. Ackerman notes in his short but excellent introduction to this volume, one of the last survivors of the golden age of German art history. This book makes available in translation one of the most important of his works, a volume first published in 1914 and hitherto rather inaccessible to American scholars. A major reason for this inaccessibility&mdash;Frankl's difficult and often private language&mdash;has been eliminated by the superb translation of Professor James F. O'Gorman, who has also supplied a helpful set of notes. The book will be a welcome addition to any architectural library." &mdash;Leonard K. Eaton, Isis

Principles of Architectural History

Frankl, Paul

The studies show how military strategy, planned forces, and the age of systems in the current inventory affect the domestic demand for new production; how the recent drop in domestic demand affects arms industries; and the extent to which governments and firms in the arms-producing nations are turning to exports to sustain the industries.

The Arms Production Dilemma: Contraction and Restraint in the World Combat Aircraft Industry (BCSIA Studies in International Security)

Theory and Practice of Recursive Identification

Lennart Ljung

Torsten Söderström

Mathematics

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