British Architects & Craftsmen: a Survey of Taste, Design, and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830

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British Architects & Craftsmen: a Survey of Taste, Design, and Style During Three Centuries 1600 to 1830
Sacheverell Sitwell
Manufacturer: Charles Scribners Sons
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ASIN: B000M1LQ9G

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BRITISH ARCHITECTS AND CRAFTSMEN, A SURVEY OF TASTE, DESIGN AND STYLE DURING THREE CENTURIES 1600-1830.
SAcheverell and Bamford, Francis Sitwell
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VG9ZIG

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British architects and craftsmen,: A survey of taste, design, and style during three centuries, 1600 to 1830,
Sacheverell Sitwell
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ASIN: B0007DVLOO

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BRITISH ARCHITECTS AND CRAFTSMEN: A SURVEY OF TASTE, DESIGN, AND STYLE DURING THREE CENTURIES 1600 TO 1830.

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British architects and craftsmen: A survey of taste, design and style during three centuries, 1600 to 1830
Sacheverell Sitwell
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OUJY58

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Surfaces is a great book.......2007-09-02

This is an excellent book for artists fo all kinds. Our company has a library we make available to Production Designers - this is a great addition.

Luscious reference photographs .......2007-05-13

A luscious collection of photographs of beautiful colors and textures to inspire any artist/designer and be used as reference again and again.

Good choice of samples.......2006-11-10

There are nice collection of the samples.You can enjoy to look through them.

Amazing as always.......2005-08-19

This book is one of the best references for any designer and painter in the industry. Color Photos are amazing and complete. I have been wanting to purchase it for years now and am very glad to add it to my collection. All of her books are worth having in any artists library.

Additional Note.......2004-01-12

I think I was a little hard on Judy Juracek with reference to the included CD. What Ms. Juracek has done in the way of cataloguing is nothing short of miraculous and one should not expect that every image on the CD would be photographed dead on and shadow-perfect. I was just really irked by the image quality of a CD I had such high hopes for. I purchased this book when it first came out for a Hundred Dollars retail but the price I now see listed online seems almost a steal for the treasure trove contained within.

In any case, A recent search reveals that even more books in the series have been written by the author and I'm excited to purchase these as well--let's hope the image quality has improved on the included CDs for the new millenium we're in. I guess you could still expect "middlin'" quality for an image CD produced back in the "stoneage" of the 90's. The book is GREAT!

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Soft Surfaces: Visual Research for Artists, Architects, and Designers
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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1,200 high-quality color images of traditional and innovative textiles, in print and on CD-ROM. Modeled on the successful Surfaces (1996), this new collection of photographs catalogs how hundreds of varieties of textiles, grouped by structure and surface treatment, look up close and in interior and exterior applications such as window treatments, upholstery, awnings, tents, and floor coverings. Like Surfaces, the book is tailored to research needs in scope and focus, offering examples for architects, interior designers, theatrical and film designers, illustrators, and graphic designers. Interviews with professionals describe how they use visual research in their work.

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Eye Inspiration.......2000-11-14

I have both of the "surface" books by Ms. Juracek. I have looked through them again and again as a child would with a picture book! These are the kind of photos I often take, to capture the beautiful surfaces that the world has to offer. The images are inspirational starting points for creating my own art work.

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As a computer artist, I have found both of Juracek's books to be extremely useful in creating photorealistic textures. Her samples are colorful, varied, and highly recommended.

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1,200 high-quality color images of landscape and garden elements, in print and on CD-ROM (runs on Windows and Macintosh platforms). Third in the Surfaces series, this collection of photographs catalogs elements of the natural world: trees, shrubs, flowers, foliage, grass, fruits and vegetables, stone and sand, water and sky. The photographs catalog images of nature used in art and design, with detailed views of natural elements, plant portraits, and pictures of landscape installations, gardens, and scenic vistas. Horticultural pictures are captioned as to botanical and common names. Images are coded and cross-referenced in the index and on the CD-ROM, making the book a compact picture file for illustrators, landscape architects, designers, and graphic artists. With an illustrated glossary, resource sections, and interviews with professionals in landscape design and botanical illustration, this is a great book for students.

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Great Resource Book.......2007-01-05

I bought this book as a resource for Theatre Design and it has proven to be a valuable asset. I can look through the photos in the book while researching and use the CD to put together presentations. The book's overall content is wide ranging and detailed, and is organized well. I would recommend this book to anyone in the arts, even if you don't use it for research, it's cool to look though.

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Soft Surfaces: visual research for artists, architects, and designers

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Slightly biased, but still very good photographs and info!.......2003-12-23

This is good primer for those that know little to nothing about the brutal and chaotic history of Nicaragua. Pictures really do say a 1,000 words!

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Considerably out of date but still can be useful.......2002-08-09

This book was first published in 1959, and as such does not reflect the large number of significant results in game theory that have taken place since then. At the time of publication, the theory of Nash equilibria was known but had not yet taken hold, the role of artificial intelligence in the theory of games was yet to unfold, and computer simulations were just beginning to be used to understand optimal strategies in games. These concepts and the computer now play a major role in game theory, and a modern book would reflect these developments more than this one.

That being said, one still might peruse this book to get an idea of the history of game theory and possibly to appreciate the conceptual situation that existed at the time of publication. Frequently older books in mathematics stress more of the underlying intuition behind a subject than modern ones. Thus one could justify a reading of this book with this in mind, and possibly use it also as a reference and as a source of problem sets for those individuals teaching game theory in the classroom.

The book treats what is now called "classical" game theory, which is taken to be the time before the contributions of John Nash circa 1950-1953. The research in game theory in the classical period was dominated by the results of J. Von Neumann, O. Morgenstern, H.Kuhn, A. Tucker, and many researchers in the Rand Corporation. The mathematical techniques used were primarily drawn from linear algebra, analysis, and linear and nonlinear programming. Economic modeling, military strategies, and management problems provided the stimulus to this research. Indeed, mathematical economics has one of its roots in game theory. The very early work in game theory by James Waldegrave in the 1700s and Augustin Cournot in the 1800s is not discussed by the author. The work by Cournot on duopolies could be considered to be a version of Nash equilibrium.

The book is divided into two parts, with the first one treating matrix games, linear and nonlinear programming and mathematical economics, and the second the theory of infinite games. My interest in the book stemmed from being asked to look at a mathematical formulation of poker. The game of poker is considered by the author in a few places in the book, both in the context of discrete games and in infinite games. The case of infinite games is particularly interesting in that it involves the use of integral equations and fixed-point theorems.

Some of the more esoteric techniques from mathematics used in the book include a few from algebraic topology: the Brouwer and Kakutani fixed-point theorems; from real analysis: the Haar measure, which comes into play when considering the invariance of optimal strategies under the action of a compact transformation group (the idea of weak* convergence also is used here), and the Fourier transform, which appears in the consideration of bell-shaped kernels for infinite games.

Some of the major results in classical game theory that are proved in the book are: the Kuhn-Tucker theorem of nonlinear (concave) programming (and an example dealing with portfolio selection), the duality theorem for both linear and nonlinear programming (a connection with the law of supply and demand is discussed), the von Neumann model of an expanding economy (this gives an excellent introduction to dynamical modeling in economics),and a fairly lengthy overview of equilibrium in economics and its stability. In modern treatments this is best done using the techniques of differential topology. The author's treatment can be viewed as an elementary introduction to the more modern treatments.

Down to the Bone........2000-04-04

I found this an excellent book in helping me deal with some of the more obscure problems that pop up in my software projects. For anybody truly seeking to write a playable game and not just one that looks and sounds good, then this book can help. It gives information that goes right to the bone, helping to build an intelligent framework that will keep your customers playing and happy - (and comming back for more). On the down side, in some places the writing is a little stilted and the theory requires a good understanding of math. Over all I'd say an excellent resource esp. for the person who is serious in becoming an adept programmer and willing to work and learn to get there.

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Raise your right hand and ..............2005-08-03

Place your left on this bible! This is what I consider to be my very own bible and it was introduced to me by Kathleen Scokzen in a class called Global Women's Issues. This woman (well, maria and Kathleen!) is right on point and brilliant if you ask me. Her explanation of the Object/Relations theory is probably one of my favorite sections. Anyway, everyone should own this book! Amen

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