Wild Designs

Wild Designs
Author: Katie Fforde
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312190323
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Althea Farraday is a thirty-eight-year-old divorced mother of three who's got a teenage son who's a Buddhist, a hypercritical sister who knows how to push all her buttons, a job on the endangered species list, and a love life to match. Just as she's settling in to a comfortable level of chaos, a near-perfect man enters her life. Equipped to steal her heart and help turn her passion for designing gardens into a new career, Patrick Donahugh may be too good to be true. Amid wild roses, California poppies, scarlet flax, sweet rocket, love-in-mist, and, of course, plenty of dirt, Wild Designs is a refreshingly honest and funny read that celebrates the almost-ready-to-bloom aspect of all our lives.

Wild Design

Wild Design
Author: Alan Marshall
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2009-07-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1556437900
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In Wild Design, environmental designer and scientist Alan Marshall presents a manifesto on nature-inspired designs, including visionary concepts as well as exhibits of actual products, landscapes, and artwork from around the world. With elegant photographs and drawings, the book incorporates the ethos of sustainability by documenting many of the results of the Ecomimicry Project, an international experiment in ecodesign that marries the skills of local artists and ecologists from Western Australia and the Carpathian mountains in Eastern Europe. All the designs treat nature as an inspiration for ecofriendly innovations. Among the fascinating possibilities: a bike helmet based on the crustacean exoskeleton, a heliotropic house, and a car fueled by algae. Marshall argues that design should be the responsibility of all, not just a technological elite, and it is in this spirit that he offers this timely, important book.

Empire Building

Empire Building
Author: Mark Crinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136181156
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The colonial architecture of the nineteenth century has much to tell us of the history of colonialism and cultural exchange. Yet, these buildings can be read in many ways. Do they stand as witnesses to the rapacity and self-delusion of empire? Are they monuments to a world of lost glory and forgotten convictions? Do they reveal battles won by indigenous cultures and styles? Or do they simply represent an architectural style made absurdly incongruous in relocation? Empire Building is a study of how and why Western architecture was exported to the Middle East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West. The book explores how far racial theory and political and religious agendas guided British architects (and how such ideas were resisted when applied), and how Eastern ideas came to influence the West, through writers such as Ruskin and buildings such as the Crystal Palace. Beautifully written and lavishly illustrated, Empire Building takes the reader on an extraordinary postcolonial journey, backwards and forwards, into the heart and to the edge of empire.

Ducted Fan Design: Volume 1 - Propulsion Physics and Design of Fans and Long-Chord Ducts

Ducted Fan Design: Volume 1 - Propulsion Physics and Design of Fans and Long-Chord Ducts
Author: Marc de Piolenc
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2018-09-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0359104908
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Presents a simplified method of designing ducted fans for light aircraft propulsion. Includes a survey of ducted-fan-powered aircraft, ranging from amateur-built airplanes to military models and prototypes. Detailed discussion of engines and list of suitable powerplants drawn from automobiles, ATVs and personal watercraft. Extensive technical bibliography and list of sources.

Interaction Design

Interaction Design
Author: Jennifer Preece
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1119020751
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A new edition of the #1 text in the Human Computer Interaction field! Hugely popular with students and professionals alike, Interaction Design is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human–computer interaction, information design, web design and ubiquitous computing. This text offers a cross-disciplinary, practical and process-oriented introduction to the field, showing not just what principles ought to apply to interaction design, but crucially how they can be applied. An accompanying website contains extensive additional teaching and learning material including slides for each chapter, comments on chapter activities and a number of in-depth case studies written by researchers and designers.

Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 3491
Release: 2013-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1909496715
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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Henry Fielding, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Fielding's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL the novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * The complete 26 extant plays, for the first time in digital publishing history * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works such as TOM JONES are illustrated with their original artwork * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Includes a thorough selection of Fielding's non-fiction * Features two biographies, including Sir Walter's Scott's scarce study of the author's life - explore Fielding's literary world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles Contents: The Novels An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The History of Amelia The Plays Love in Several Masques The Temple Beau The Author's Farce; And the Pleasures of the Town Tom Thumb: A Tragedy Rape Upon Rape The Letter-Writers The Grub Street Opera The Lottery The Modern Husband The Covent-Garden Tragedy The Old Debauchees The Mock Doctor The Miser The Intriguing Chambermaid Don Quixote in England An Old Man Taught Wisdom The Universal Gallant, or the Different Husbands Pasquin, a Dramatick Satire on the Times Tumble-down Dick Eurydice, a Farce The Historical Register for the Year 1736 Eurydice Hiss'd Miss Lucy in Town Plutus, the God of Riches The Wedding-Day The Fathers, or the Good-Natur'd Man The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon A Journey from This World to the Next An Essay on Conversation. An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men An Essay on Nothing The Opposition: A Vision The True Patriot A Selection from the Covent-Garden Journal The Female Husband Familiar Letters. The Biographies The Life of Henry Fielding by Sir Walter Scott Fielding by Austin Dobson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles