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Cover of Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual 2014
by Federal Aviation Administration
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

If you’re an aviator or aviation enthusiast, you cannot be caught with an out-of-date edition of the FAR/AIM. In today’s environment, there is no excuse for ignorance of the rules of the US airspace system. In the newest edition of the FAR/AIM, all regulations, procedures, and illustrations are...
Cover of Flight MH370 - The Mystery
by Nigel Cawthorne, Cawthorne Nigel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

IN A WORLD WHERE WE CAN BE TRACKED BY OUR MOBILE PHONES, CCTV AND SPY SATELLITES, THINGS DO NOT JUST DISAPPEAR. ESPECIALLY NOT A BIG THING LIKE A JUMBO JET. BUT MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FIGHT MH370 DID.A wide-bodied Boeing 777 is so large that you could barely park it on a football field. But soon after...
Cover of Vancouver's Expo '86
by Bill Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009

To mark the 100th anniversary of the city's founding and the arrival of the first trans-Canada train, Vancouver's political and business leaders invited the whole world to participate in the festivities. The result was Expo '86, and more than 22 million people came for the party. It took eight years...
Cover of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair
by Bill Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010

When the United States entered the 1960s, the nation was swept up in the Space Race as the United States and the Soviet Union competed for supremacy in rocket and satellite technologies. Cities across the country hoped to attract new aerospace companies, but the city leaders of Seattle launched the most...
Cover of Knoxville's 1982 World's Fair
by Martha Rose Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009

From May 1 through October 31, 1982, Knoxville hosted the world�s fair based on the theme �Energy Turns the World.� Expo �82 was the first world�s fair to be held in the southeastern United States in 97 years, hosting 22 countries and more than 11 million people. Once referred to as the �scruffy...
Cover of The Pocket Universal Principles of Design

The Pocket Universal Principles of Design

150 Essential Tools for Architects, Artists, Designers, Developers, Engineers, Inventors, and Makers

by William Lidwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Whether a website, marketing campaign, museum exhibit, a video game or a complex control system, the design we see is the culmination of many concepts and practices brought together from a variety of disciplines. Now, there's a handy travel companion for any designer, so that you always have the essentials...
Cover of Festival Architecture
by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods...
Cover of 1000 Monuments of Genius
by Christopher E.M. Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014

Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for centuries demonstrated his force by raising structures for purposes both religious and profane. As international...
Cover of Architecture In Minutes
by Susie Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016

In this hyper-compact, fully illustrated guide to architecture, Susie Hodge outlines the history and theory of architecture from the earliest structures to the cutting-edge concepts of the present day. Along the way she profiles 200 key buildings, historic styles, architectural movements and celebrated...
Cover of Teaching Motion Design

Teaching Motion Design

Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010

How motion design is taught in more than 45 leading programs. * Detailed syllabi and descriptions of class projects and assignments * Go-to guide for professors and teachers planning their courses * Course plans from School of Visual Arts, Ohio State, Rochester Institute of Technology, many other...
Cover of Charleston's Historic Cemeteries
by Frank Karpiel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013

When Charleston�s founders moved their settlement across the Ashley River to the peninsula in 1680, they hoped for protection from pirate and Native American attacks, as well as increased trade and healthier living conditions. Their first three wishes came true, but not the final one. Life in colonial...
Cover of Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South
by J. Frazer Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

Profusely illustrated survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Detailed drawings, including 36 floor plans, depict such venerable residences as The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's homestead, the Gothic chapel of Old Jefferson College, many more. Rich commentary, with...
Cover of Philadelphia Architecture
by Thom Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005

Philadelphia is a city of Colonial and ghostly architecture with narrow historic streets that open up onto vistas of bold, towering skyscrapers. It is a city of Greek Revival banks, Italian Renaissance, and Second Empire buildings, a city of Beaux-Arts hotels, Byzantine and Gothic churches, and International-style...
Cover of Forest Hills Cemetery
by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009

Laid out in 1848 as a rural garden cemetery by Henry A. S. Dearborn, Forest Hills Cemetery celebrates its 160th anniversary in 2008 as Boston's premier arboretum cemetery. Since the mid-19th century, its 250 magnificent acres have been the resting place of people of all walks of life, ethnicities, religions,...
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