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The allure of color is time honored and undeniable, but its inspired use in product design is a relatively new development.
More than a century ago the Bauhaus movement changed the use of color in design. After World War II, pigment-imbued molded fiberglass Eames chairs allowed buyers to express their individuality through colorful seating, altering the way we think about furniture. The Eames chairs of the 1950s symbolize the cultural intersection of design, technology, and color that continues to influence designers to this day.
From the pale blue Anglepoise lamp to Marimekko's hot-red poppy print and the wine-red Bookworm Bookshelf, this book includes classics, future classics, and equally exciting contemporary pieces. A Century of Color in Design delivers a snapshot of twentieth-century history through the lens of design, exploring the origins and rationale behind the design and colorization of some of the century's most iconic furniture and objects.
Anyone from the Northern Hemisphere who is the least bit interested in birds cannot help but notice the bold quirkiness of Australian avian fauna. Where else can one have a flock of feathered rainbows (lorikeets) perch all over your head and body while feeding on honeyed bread from your hand? In which other capital city do cyclists and joggers wear spiked helmets in spring to ward off attacks by magpies? Also, if eating al fresco, watch out for a giant thieving kingfisher: the kookaburra just does not give a damn. It would indeed take psychoanalysis to begin to understand these 'birds with attitude'.
The first part of this little book sets out to explore, in poetry and drawings, the eccentric foibles of some common Australian birds, from the gorgeous tiny blue wren through the beautiful, brash parrots to the intimidating emu, while reflecting on the wonderful generosity of Australian avian fauna.
The second part of the book continues the theme of the somewhat unnerving strangeness of Australian parrots in the mystery novelette, 'Parrotnoia'. When the Dreamtime world of Down Under - in the form of a large black cockatoo - makes a visitation to a private school in England that harbours delusions of academic grandeur, things take a sinister turn.
Finally! A book for the corporate newbie that sheds light on the strange and mysterious world of Corporate America...
Often the difference between the hot-shot brand builders who rise to corporate success and the brand burners who crash and burn early in their careers is seldom about intelligence or even hard work. That would be too straightforward.
Corporate survival and ultimate success are more often about who understands the Unwritten Rules of Corporate America. Who knows--
With 70+ years of combined corporate experience, Harrison and Heart share their stories of success and failure in order for the rest of us--corporate newbies and anyone who could use a primer on corporate culture--to best navigate around the common pitfalls and stumbling blocks of the early corporate years.
This book is a compilation of all my best articles that I have written over the history of Freemasonry for the past twenty years. They have appeared in Masonic magazines such as Freemasonry Today, The Square, The Ashlar, MQ and many more, and I have presented these articles as papers to various lodges all over the world. For the first time they are collected here together in a paperback volume, re-edited, with new additional footnotes and a bibliography, including some never before published material. The book includes historical topics such as the Hell Fire Club, the Freemasons of the French and American revolutions, the Masonic members of the Lunar Society, and the mysterious Williamson's Tunnels that lie beneath the city of Liverpool. The collection also examines Freemasons such as Edward Jenner, Viscount Combermere and takes a look at men who have been associated with Freemasonry such as Thomas Paine and Lord Byron. I hope you enjoy reading this collection as much as I have enjoyed writing it.
Workshop Machining is a comprehensive textbook that explains the fundamental principles of manually operating machinery to form shapes in a variety of materials. It bridges the gap between people who have traditional toolmaking skills and those who have been trained in programming and operation of CNC machines in a focused production environment, rather than general machine shop.
Using a subject-based approach, David Harrison intuitively guides readers and supplies practical skills. The chapters cover everything from the basic machine controls to advanced cutting operations using a wide range of tooling and work-holding devices. Theory and practice are shown via a mixture of diagrams, text and illustrated worked examples, as well as through exercises.
The book is ideal for students and lecturing staff who participate in, or lead, practical machining sessions, and for those who wish to further develop their machining skills. It also serves as an excellent reference to understand the principles and limitations of producing shapes with cutters that move in a limited combination of linear and radial paths.
Finally A book for the corporate newbie that sheds light on the strange and mysterious world of Corporate America...
Often the difference between the hot-shot brand builders who rise to corporate success and the brand burners who crash and burn early in their careers is seldom about intelligence or even hard work. That would be too straightforward.
Corporate survival and ultimate success are more often about who understands the Unwritten Rules of Corporate America. Who knows--
With 70+ years of combined corporate experience, Harrison and Heart share their stories of success and failure in order for the rest of us--corporate newbies and anyone who could use a primer on corporate culture--to best navigate around the common pitfalls and stumbling blocks of the early corporate years.
Why are financial prices so much more crisis-prone and unstable than real economy prices? Because they are doing different things. Unlike real economy prices, rooted in the real goods and services produced and exchanged, financial prices attempt to value future income flows from financial and capital assets. These valuations fluctuate erratically because expectations of the future fluctuate - and large liquid financial markets can amplify, rather than correct, these effects. The book builds on the insights of economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes, that uncertainty of the future is essential to understand the processes of economic production and capital investment, and adds to this Karl Popper's general explanation of how expectations of an uncertain future are formed and tested through a trial and error process. Rather than relying on fluctuating financial prices to provide a guide to an uncertain future, it suggests a better approach would be to adopt the methods common to other branches of science, and create testable (falsifiable) theories allowing reasonable predictions to be made. In finance, the elements of one such theory could be based on the concept of forecasting yield from capital assets, which is a measurable phenomenon tending towards aggregate and long-term stability, and where there is a plentiful supply of historic data. By methods like this, financial economics could become a branch of science like any other. To buttress this approach, the widely accepted public policy objective of promoting real economy price stability could be widened to include financial price stability.
An eclectic collection of poems written over the last fifteen years, representing a journey from an early childhood in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, to emerging adulthood in London suburbia, through life in Kent to a voluntary 'exile' in New South Wales. A journey that took me from accepting Sunday school Christianity, through scepticism and atheism to faith. A journey in which I was accompanied and encouraged for the last fifty-one years by the remarkably lovely June.
