This is a pocket atlas flexibook. Complex processes are well-illustrated in clear images, that are not burdened with unnecessary details. Following an introductory part and a section on laboratory methods in immunology, the bulk of the book concentrates on the manifestations of immunological diseases in the human body, providing comprehensive capsule descriptions of all common immmune diseases

A male homicide victim with a shotgun blast to the chest. A female drug addict who has overdosed on crack cocaine. An elderly woman with deep stab wounds to the neck. A two-year-old motor vehicle accident victim with blunt head trauma. For forensic pathologists, police detectives, and crime scene investigators, dealing with death and injury is a daily routine. But even after investigating thousands of drownings, shootings, stabbings, electrocutions, overdoses, and traffic accidents, most professionals in the investigative fields still haven't seen it all. Originally published on CD-ROM, the Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology addresses much of the basic information which forensic pathologists and other investigators deal with on a day to day basis. Packed with 780 full-color, captioned photographs, this atlas examines everything from time of death and decomposition, to identification, to causes of death from blunt trauma, firearm injuries, asphyxia, cutting and stabbing injuries, and more. The atlas shows the various causes of death and injury with case -- "visuals" to help investigators understand the work they perform. Indeed, with its exhaustive coverage, the Color Atlas of Forensic Pathology will provide investigators with valuable insight into the many different causes of death and injury they must deal with and how the manners of death are diagnosed.

The information age has created unparalleled opportunities for graphic designers to showcase their work across a variety of media. However, digital technology has often denied access to the deep color expertise that has been developed by generations of artists and designers working with physical media. Color Management is a unique, one-stop resource for designers and graphic artists in every field of visual communication, whether they are working in print, interactive, environmental, or web-based design. The book explains all the technical issues that are relevant to communicating with color, in two-dimensional and three-dimensional environments, and in still and moving images.

This book is the only account of what the bee, as an example of an insect, actually detects with its eyes. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, and certainly they do not recognize “things” by their shapes. Yet they clearly see well enough to fly and find food with a minute brain. Bee vision is therefore relevant to the construction of simple artificial visual systems, for example for mobile robots. The surprising conclusion is that bee vision is adapted to the recognition of places, not things. In this volume, Adrian Horridge also sets out the curious and contentious history of how bee vision came to be understood, with an account of a century of neglect of old experimental results, errors of interpretation, sharp disagreements, and failures of the scientific method. The design of the experiments and the methods of making inferences from observations are also critically examined, with the conclusion that scientists are often hesitant, imperfect and misleading, ignore the work of others, and fail to consider alternative explanations. The erratic path to understanding makes interesting reading for anyone with an analytical mind who thinks about the methods of science or the engineering of seeing machines.

Справочник с цветными иллюстрациями по униформе противоборствующих сторон в период гражданской войны в Испании 1936-1939 гг..

Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications deals with color vision and visual computing. This book provides an overview of the human visual system with an emphasis on color vision and perception. The book then goes on to discuss how human color vision and perception are applied in several applications using computer-generated displays, such as computer graphics and information and data visualization. Color Theory and Modeling for Computer Graphics, Visualization, and Multimedia Applications is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on computer graphics, computer imaging, or multimedia computing and as a reference for researchers and practitioners developing computer graphics and multimedia applications.

Architectural Acoustics presents a comprehensive technical overview of the field at a level suitable for working practitioners as well as advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate architecture or engineering course. The book is structured as a logical progression through acoustic interactions. Beginning with an architectural history, it reviews the fundamentals of acoustics, human perception and reaction to sound, acoustic noise measurements and noise metrics, and environmental noise. It then moves into wave acoustics, sound and solid surfaces, sound in enclosed spaces, sound transmission loss, sound transmission in buildings, vibration and vibration isolation, noise transmission in floor systems, noise in mechanical systems, and sound attenuation in ducts. Chapters on specific design problems follow including treatment of multifamily dwellings, office buildings, rooms for speech, sound reinforcement systems, rooms for music, multipurpose rooms, auditoriums, sanctuaries, and studios and listening rooms. While providing a thorough overview of acoustics, it also includes the theory of loudspeaker systems and sound system modeling as well as an in-depth presentation of computer modeling, ray tracing and auralization. It will be particularly beneficial for architects and engineers working in fields where speech intelligibility, music appreciation, and noise isolation are critical.

This book began at Stanford University and I wish to express my gratitude to Sepp Gumbrecht, who first encouraged me to embark on this project, for his continuing advice, support and enthusiasm. I also wish to thank Jean-Marie Apostolidès and acknowledge the late Richard Rorty, both of whom provided useful guidance at an early stage of this project. At a crucial point in my thinking on this topic, Thomas Pavel gave me excellent suggestions that I have tried to follow. I would also like to thank Criscillia Benford, Marilynn Desmond, Emma Gilligan, Jan Goldstein, Tamara Griggs, Rebecca Lemon, Ellen McClure, Robert Morrissey, Larry Norman, Catriona Seth, Chenxi Tang, Caroline Warman and the participants of the Early Modern France workshop at the University of Chicago, all of whom have read or commented on parts of the manuscript. I owe a special debt of gratitude to my wonderful colleagues at King’s College London who have made teaching and working such a pleasure, in particular to Simon Gaunt, Nicholas Harrison and Jo Malt for their invaluable advice and generosity. Two anonymous readers for the Press made excellent suggestions for improving the manuscript. Any remaining errors in these pages are, of course, entirely my own. Anne-Célia Feutrie provided much appreciated help in the final stages of editing. Matthew Shaw generously shared his own research on the Republican calendar with me. A Geballe Dissertation Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Centre provided financial support in the earlier stages of this project, and I would like to thank King’s College London for help with the cost of illustrations. I would also like to acknowledge the Musée de la Révolution française de Vizille, and especially Annick Le Gall, for a very hospitable stay during my preliminary research on this project. This book has benefitted from being presented at numerous conferences, in particular the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies where the opportunity to present the Haydn Mason lecture helped revise my thinking on the topic. Some of the material in Chapter 1 was published in my The French Republican Calendar: Time, History and the Revolutionary Event’, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, 35 (2012):1–16. Chapter 4 is a modified version of ‘Death by Volcano: Revolutionary Theatre and Marie- Antoinette’, French Studies (forthcoming). Chapter 5 is adapted from ‘The Goddesses of Reason: Incorporating Real and Metaphorical Bodies in Year II ’, in The Body and Its Images: Health, Humours, Illnesses, eds. Sabine Arnaud and Helge Jordheim (Paris: Honoré Champion, forthcoming). I thank Wiley Publications, Oxford Journals and Slatkine Press for permission to reuse this material. Last but hardly least, my deepest thanks go to my parents for everything and more. This book is dedicated with much love to Dimitris, who has lived with it far longer than anyone should, but always with good humour and patience.

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The opening of the former Soviet Union to the West over the past three years has made accessible, for the first time, much new material on the Red Army of the Great Patriotic War - the huge and varied forces which won some of the greatest battles of World War II against the German invasion. This book contains a range of rare, authentic uniforms modelled and photographed in Moscow: tank commanders and generals, assault infantry and women medics, pilots and NKVD security officers, artillerymen, camouflaged scouts, and many more. The photographs are backed-up by close-ups of insignia and personal equipment.

Tibetan Buddhist writings frequently state that many of the things we perceive in the world are in fact illusory, as illusory as echoes or mirages. In Twelve Examples of Illusion, Jan Westerhoff offers an engaging look at a dozen illusions--including magic tricks, dreams, rainbows, and reflections in a mirror--showing how these phenomena can give us insight into reality. For instance, he offers a fascinating discussion of optical illusions, such as the wheel of fire (the "wheel" seen when a torch is swung rapidly in a circle), discussing Tibetan explanations of this phenomenon as well as the findings of modern psychology, and significantly clarifying the idea that most phenomena--from chairs to trees--are similar illusions. The book uses a variety of crystal-clear examples drawn from a wide variety of fields, including contemporary philosophy and cognitive science, as well as the history of science, optics, artificial intelligence, geometry, economics, and literary theory. Throughout, Westerhoff makes both Buddhist philosophical ideas and the latest theories of mind and brain come alive for the general reader.

Книга пропонує цікаві й захопливі оповіді про найславетніші й найкрасивіші храми в Україні. Деякі з цих об`єктів занесені до Списку всесвітньої спадщини ЮНЕСКО. Ви дізнаєтеся про історію створення 100 храмів, їх засновників, архітекторів, художників. Детально описується значення цих витворів людського генія в історії регіону. Унікальні оповіді й відомості супроводжуються кольоровими фотографіями храмів — як зовнішнього вигляду, так і оздоблення всередині. На вас чекає незабутня мандрівка Софійським собором у Києві, собором Святого Юра у Львові, караїмськими кенафами у Євпаторії, Почаївською Лаврою. А ще ви побачите Велику ханську мечеть у Бахчисараї, Успенський собор старообрядців у Білій Криниці і багато інших неповторних у своїй красі та величі храмів.

Це книга про чоловіків і жінок, про звірят і птахів, а також про рослини, вітер, кольори, звуки, запахи та інші Господні дари. Коротше, – про ТАКЕ.

Т. 1. - 2006. - 800 с.

Взагалі книжка подана в яскравому світлі. Великі, броскі іллюстрації, вірші легко запам`ятовуються , в кінці книжки яскравий англійський алфавіт. Багатоманітність кольорів, незнайомі тваринки обов’язково cподобаються малюку. Та й подарунок це чудовий, особливо якщо це буде перша абетка в житті! Ця книга здобула ряд перемог на престижних книжкових конкурсах: "Найкраще дитяче видання 1999 р." на конкурсі "Книга року"; ґран-прі Івана Федорова конкурсу "Мистецтво книги"; 1-шу премію Форуму видавців України (1999) та ін. Проілюстрував книгу Кость Лавро - один із найталановитіших українських книжкових графіків.

Третья ступень обучения по программе "Ультра-рапид".Цель программы "Ультра-рапид"-сверхбыстрое чтение при устойчивом состоянии внимания, со скоростью до 20000 зн./мин.

Книга «Вступ до філософії» написана з метою первинної, пропедевтичної підготовки студентів та учнів загальноосвітніх навчальних закладів до сприйняття філософської мудрості тисячоліть. Книга є корисною для кожного. Адже кожен має право і бажає знати: із чого складається Світ і якими засобами його можна осягнути, яке місце та роль в ньому належать Людині, що таке «добро» і «зло», краса і справедливість і як їх втілити в конкретно-історичному просторі й часі в систему людських відносин.