Fearless Flourishing: A Step-by-Step Workbook for Embellishing Your Hand Lettering with Swirls, Swoops, Swashes and More

Fluid Power Circuits and Controls: Fundamentals and Applications (Mechanical Engineering Series)

CRC Press, 2001

Engineers not only need to understand the basics of how fluid power components work, but they must also be able to design these components into systems and analyze or model fluid power systems and circuits. There has long been a need for a comprehensive text on fluid power systems, written from an engineering perspective, which is suitable for an...

Interactive Curve Modeling: with Applications to Computer Graphics, Vision and Image Processing

Springer, 2007

Interactive curve modeling techniques and their applications are extremely useful in a number of academic and industrial settings, and specifically play a significant role in multidisciplinary problem solving, such as in font design, designing objects, CAD/CAM, medical operations, scientific data visualization, virtual reality, character...

Understand Body Language (Teach Yourself)

Hodder Education, 2011

Now updated for the 21st century with the very latest on NLP and other cutting-edge research

Not restricted to the workplace, but covering every social and domestic situation, this guide offers readers the knowledge and understanding to be able to use and interpret body language...

Chemical testing of textiles (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles)

Woodhead Publishing, 2005

It has long been my desire to contribute to a textbook that is solely devoted to the chemical analysis of textiles. Thus, when Woodhead Publishing contacted me about editing this book, I enthusiastically accepted the offer. Now, with the hard work of a team of contributors who are professors, material researchers and textile analysts from...

Expert Oracle Database Architecture: 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions

Apress, 2005

The inspiration for the material contained in this book comes from my experiences developing
Oracle software, and from working with fellow Oracle developers and helping them build
reliable and robust applications based on the Oracle database. The book is basically a reflection
of what I do every day and of the issues I see people...

Reciprocal Frame Architecture

Architectural Press, 2008

Simple and beautifully illustrated introduction to the use of reciprocal frame structures in architecture

In structural terms reciprocal frame structures are 'three dimensional assemblies of mutually supporting beams'. But behind this definition lie some breathtakingly beautiful and complex structures at the heart of...