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Islamic art spots [videorecording] / by Ruggles, D. Fairchild.; Weihe, Jefferey.; Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies.; American Library Association.(CARDINAL)142523; Carnegie Corporation of New York.(CARDINAL)151962; Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.(CARDINAL)782888; National Endowment for the Humanities.(CARDINAL)147407; Twin Cities Public Television (Saint Paul, Minn.);
Calligraphy -- Mosques and religious architecture -- Travel and communication -- Islamic gardens -- Islamic textiles -- Geometry -- Art of the book and painting -- Detailed image credits (PDF, computer viewing only).Writer and presenter, Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles."Islamic art spots are seven visual essays, written, developed and presented by Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles and produced by Twin Cities Public Television as part of the Bridging cultures bookshelf: Muslim journeys project of the National Endowment for the Humanities."--Container.DVD, widescreen.PDF of detailed image credits requires the use of a computer.
Subjects: Educational films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Islamic art.; Islamic architecture.;
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Principles of computer-aided design / by Crelin, Joy,editor.(CARDINAL)885824; Salem Press,issuing body.(CARDINAL)521037;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Aeronautics and Aviation -- Aerospace Design -- Algorithm -- Applied Mathematics -- Applied Physics -- Archaeology -- Architecture and Architectural Engineering -- Architecture Software -- Artificial Organs -- Audiology and Hearing Aids -- AutoCAD -- Automated Processes and Servomechanisms -- Avionics and Aircraft Instrumentation -- Biomechanical Engineering -- Bridge Design and Barodynamics -- Building Information Modeling (BIM) -- CATIA -- Cell and Tissue Engineering -- Civil Engineering -- Communications Satellite Technology -- Computer-aided Design (CAD) in Education -- CAD Research and Theory -- Computer-aided Engineering (CAE) -- Computer-aided Mechanical Design (CAM) -- CAD/CAM, Popularization of -- CAD/CAM Software, Overview of -- Computer Animation -- Computer Languages, Compilers, and Tools -- Computer Memory and Storage -- Computer Modeling -- Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Milling -- Computer Simulation -- Contract Manufacturing -- Control of Manufacturing Systems -- DAC-1 -- Deep Submergence Vehicle Design -- Dentistry -- Design -- Design for Manufacturability -- Design Thinking -- Ecodesign -- Electric Automobile Technology -- Electrical Engineering -- Electronic Design Automation (EDA) -- Electronics and Electronic Engineering -- Engineering Design -- Engineering Tolerances -- Environmental Engineering -- Epoxies and Resin Technologies -- Ergonomics -- Fossil Fuel Power Plants -- Fuel Cell Technologies -- Functional Design -- Game Programming -- Gas Turbine Technology -- Generative Design -- Geometry -- Graphical User Interface (GUI) -- Graphics Formats -- Graphics Technologies -- Heat-Exchanger Technologies -- Hybrid Vehicle Technologies -- Hydraulic Engineering -- Hydroponics -- Integrated-Circuit Design -- International System of Units -- Isometric Drawing -- Jet Engine Technology -- Just-In-Time Manufacturing -- Kinematics -- Lean Manufacturing -- Manufacturing, Energy Use in -- Manufacturing Processes -- Manufacturing Strategies -- Manufacturing Systems Design -- Measurement and Units -- Microscale 3D Printing -- Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering -- NX -- Open-Source CAD Software -- Optics -- Plastics Engineering -- Polymer Science -- Process Management for Manufacturing -- Product Design -- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) -- Propulsion Technologies -- Prosthetics -- Prototyping -- Quality Control -- Random-Access Memory (RAM) -- Reconfigurable Agile Manufacturing -- Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems -- Robotics -- Roller-Coaster Design -- Douglas T. Ross -- Scandinavian Design -- Sketchpad -- Solar Panel Design -- SolidWorks -- Spacecraft Engineering -- Sports Engineering -- Submarine Engineering -- Technical Drawing -- 3D Printing -- UNISURF -- Urban Planning and Engineering -- Vectors -- Web Graphic Design -- Wireframes.Explores the use of computers in the design process of many products and applications. Initially used by only a small number of industries, CAD in the twenty-first century has become a part of nearly every facet of modern life. It is a valuable tool not only for engineers but also for artists, doctors, and entertainers. This volume includes 110 entries arranged in A to Z order to help make finding a topic of interest easy. Entries related to basic principles and concepts include a list of the fields of study covered by the article; an abstract that provides a brief, concrete summary of the topic and its significance; a list of key concepts with definitions, important to a proper understanding of the topic; a detailed essay that provides extensive background on the topic and explores its significance to the field of computer-aided design; and a list of further reading for those who wish to pursue the topic in more depth. --
Subjects: Computer-aided design.; Computer-aided engineering.;
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Track design handbook for light rail transit / by United States.Federal Transit Administration.(CARDINAL)217229; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287; Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas.(CARDINAL)134198; Transit Cooperative Research Program.(CARDINAL)307612; Transit Development Corporation.(CARDINAL)307611;
Includes bibliographical references.General introduction -- Light rail transit vehicles -- Light rail transit track geometry -- Track structure design -- Track components and materials -- Special trackwork -- Structures and bridges -- Corrosion control -- Noise and vibration control -- Transit signal work -- Transit traction power -- LRT track in mixed traffic -- LRT track construction -- LRT track and trackway maintenance.TCRP report 155 provides guidelines and descriptions for the design of various common types of light rail transit (LRT) track. The track structure types include ballasted track, direct fixation ("ballastless") track, and embedded track. The report considers the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, tracks and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli. The report includes chapters on vehicles, alignment, track structures, track components, special track work, aerial structures/bridges, corrosion control, noise and vibration, signals, traction power, and the integration of LRT track into urban streets.Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Technical reports.; Street-railroad tracks.; Street-railroad tracks; Railroad tracks; Street-railroad tracks; Street-railroads;
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Solving Stonehenge : the new key to an ancient enigma / by Johnson, Anthony(Anthony Edward)(CARDINAL)557847;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-283) and index.From the Publisher: A completely new and convincing solution to the key puzzles of Stonehenge. As Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book, patient detective work and detailed computer analysis of clues hidden within this famous monument can be made to yield remarkable new insights into how the earthwork and stone circle were conceived and laid out. The story begins with a reappraisal of over 250 years of fieldwork, excavation, and speculation, including John Wood's highly accurate but often overlooked survey of 1740. It is the most important record of Stonehenge ever made, and the only reliable plan of the monument before the fall of several major stones and their subsequent re-erection in the twentieth century. The prehistoric engineering skills involved in the construction of Stonehenge have long been recognized, but Johnson presents for the first time tangible evidence to show that locked within the symmetry of the stones are precise formulae that determined their numbers, spacing, and relationships. He explains how the Neolithic surveyors set out the fifty-six Aubrey Holes, four Station Stones, and the thirty stones in the Sarsen Circle; and the significance of the horseshoe arrangement of massive trilithons at the heart of the monument. The implications are far reaching, demonstrating that the people who designed Stonehenge in all its phases of construction, spanning over 1,000 years, employed simple and elegant geometric rules. Elaborate sightline theories, alignments, and astronomical computations are questioned, allowing the rationale behind Stonehenge and other prehistoric sites, some of which conformed to the same model, to be reassessed. 135 illustrations, 35 in color.
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology);
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Inventor of the future : the visionary life of Buckminster Fuller / by Nevala-Lee, Alec,author.(CARDINAL)601716;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: geodesic man -- Part one: origins (1895-1927) -- New England (1895-1915) -- In love and war (1915-1922) -- Stockade (1922-1927) -- Part two: the Dymaxion age (1927-1947) -- The fourth dimension (1927-1933) -- Streamlines (1933-1942) -- The dwelling machine (1942-1947) -- Part three: great circles (1947-1967) -- Geodesics (1947-1953) -- Continuous tension (1953-1959) -- Invisible architecture (1960-1967) -- Part four: world game (1967-1983) -- Whole earth (1967-1973) -- Synergy (1973-1977) -- Equilibrium (1977-1983) -- Epilogue: tetrahedron discovers itself and universe."From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America's idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he enthralled a vast popular audience, inspired devotion from both the counterculture and the establishment, and was praised as a modern Leonardo da Vinci. To his admirers, he exemplified what one man could accomplish by approaching urgent design problems using a radically unconventional set of strategies, which he based on a mystical conception of the universe's geometry. His views on sustainability, as embodied in the image of Spaceship Earth, convinced him that it was possible to provide for all humanity through the efficient use of planetary resources. From Epcot Center to the molecule named in his honor as the buckyball, Fuller's legacy endures to this day, and his belief in the transformative potential of technology profoundly influenced the founders of Silicon Valley. Inventor of the Future is the first authoritative biography to cover all aspects of Fuller's career. Drawing on meticulous research, dozens of interviews, and thousands of unpublished documents, Nevala-Lee has produced a riveting portrait that transcends the myth of Fuller as an otherworldly generalist. It reconstructs the true origins of his most famous inventions, including the Dymaxion Car, the Wichita House, and the dome itself; his fraught relationships with his students and collaborators; his interactions with Frank Lloyd Wright, Isamu Noguchi, Clare Boothe Luce, John Cage, Steve Jobs, and many others; and his tumultuous private life, in which his determination to succeed on his own terms came at an immense personal cost. In an era of accelerating change, Fuller's example remains enormously relevant, and his lessons for designers, activists, and innovators are as powerful and essential as ever"--Prologue: Geodesic man -- Part one: Origins (1895-1927) -- Part two: The Dymaxion age (1927-1947) -- Part three: Great circles (1947-1967) -- Part four: World game (1967-1983) -- Epilogue: Tetrahedron discovers itself and Universe.
Subjects: Biographies.; Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983.; Engineers; Architects; Inventors;
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Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi, Sean Scully / by Rajaratnam, Sukanya,curator.(CARDINAL)782757; Guston, Philip,1913-1980,artist.(CARDINAL)149045; Morandi, Giorgio,1890-1964,artist.(CARDINAL)142197; Scully, Sean,1945-artist.(CARDINAL)179443; Bui, Phong,1964-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)856520; Mnuchin Gallery,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)342307;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Guston, Philip, 1913-1980; Morandi, Giorgio, 1890-1964; Scully, Sean, 1945-; Art, Modern;
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Tree houses : escape to the canopy / by Eising, Peter,writer of introduction.;
Introduction -- Suspended disbelief : The 7th Room (Snøhetta), Harads, Sweden -- Embedded in nature : Aces Treehouse (Charles Cunniffe Architects), Aspen, CO, United States -- Arctic experience : Arctic Treehouse Hotel (Studio Puisto Architects Ltd.), Rovaniemi, Finland -- Common dream : Baumhaus Halden (Baumraum), Halden, Switzerland -- Lofty escape : Bergaliv Loft House (Hanna Michelson), Orbaden, Sweden -- Tuscan delight : Black Cabin (La Cabane Perchée), Tuscany, Italy -- Chapel on the river : Chappelle (Treehouse Utopia), Utopia, TX, United States -- Treetop castles : Châteaux dans les Arbres (Nid Perché), Domaine de Puybeton, France -- Inspired geometry : Constantia Treehouse (Malan Vorster Architecture Interior Design), South Africa -- Jungle living : Costa Rica Treehouse (Olson Kundig), Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica -- Designer hideout : Crump Treehouse (Crump Architects), Hobart, Tas, Australia -- Across the canopy : Dômes de Charlevoix (Bourgeois / Lechasseur Architectes), Quebec, Canada -- Woodland wonder : Evans Tree House (Modus Studio), Hot Springs, AR, United States -- Connected to nature : Floating House (Talleresque), Mexico City, Mexico -- Patchwork of glass : Glasshouse Treehouse (Eleventwoeleven Design), Catskills Mountains, NY, United States -- Lakeside living : Inhabit (Antony Gibbon Designs), Woodstock, NY, United States -- Lavender fields : La Suite Bleue (La Cabane Perchée), Tuscany, Italy -- Simple pleasures : Lesom (Sozonych), Kostroma, Russia -- Uplifting experiment : Lift Bali (Alexis Dornier), Ubud, Bali, Indonesia -- Cozy tranquility : Lovtag (Sigurd Larsen), Als Odde, Denmark -- Reflective ambitions : Mirrorcube (Tham & Vidgård Arkitekter), Harads, Sweden -- Pinecone peek-a-boo : Pigna (Architetto Beltrame Claudio), Malborghetto, Italy -- Summer garden retreat : Pool View Treehouse (Blue Forest), Surrey, United Kingdom -- Building on traditions : Tree Houses@Acre (Fabrik°G), San Jose del Cabo, Mexico -- Thermal motivation : Tree Snake House (Luis Rebelo de Andrade), Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Portugal -- Playing with the aspect : Treehouse (Atelier Victoria Migliore), Fréhel, France -- Pine design : Tree House (Madeiguincho), Melides, Portugal -- Backyard beauty : Treehouse for Grandchildren (Madeiguincho), Cascais, Portugal -- Counting on the view : Treehouse Hotel Luetetsburg (Baumraum), Luetetsburg, Germany -- Out of this world : Treehouse in Qiyun Mountain (Atelier Design Continuum), Xiuning, China -- Over the water : Treehouse Solling (Baumraum), Uslar, Germany -- Urban double act : Urban Treehouse (Baumraum), Berlin, Germany -- Magic in the woods : Woodsman's Treehouse (Guy Mallinson and Keith Brownlie), Dorset, United Kingdom -- Diner's delight : Yellow Treehouse Restaurant (Peter Eising), Auckland, New Zealand -- Rain and shine : Yoki Treehouse (Artistree), Austin, TX, United States -- Project credits.Treehouses have come a long way since our collective childhoods. The very definition of a treehouse has broadened to now include anything from a hotel room where star gazing is a must to exceptional viewing platforms and, of course, not forgetting a treehouse for kids such as exists only in their dreams. This carefully compiled list provides an overview of striking treehouse design across the globe, with designs that are truly beautiful. An inspiring collection, the reader will wonder in amazement at the exquisite and whimsical constructions dreamed up by modern architects. This beautiful edition is lavishly illustrated with evocative full-colour images of arboreal architecture, with a focus on the verdant treetop canopies. This book will not only appeal to your inner child, but provide a welcome respite from the stress of modern living on a pleasurable visit to the green world of treehouses.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Architecture; Tree houses; Tree houses;
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The big book of small house designs : 75 award-winning plans for houses 1,250 square feet or less / by Metz, Don.(CARDINAL)161221; Tredway, Catherine.(CARDINAL)661050; Tremblay, Kenneth R.(CARDINAL)513955;
Subjects: Architectural drawings.; Small houses; Architecture, Domestic;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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The joy of mathematics : discovering mathematics all around you / by Pappas, Theoni.(CARDINAL)517220;
Subjects: Mathematics;
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100 diagrams that changed the world : from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation of the iPod / by Christianson, Scott.(CARDINAL)163678;
Chauvet cave drawings (c. 30,000 BC) -- Triple spiral (c. 3200 BC) -- Marshall Islands stick navigation charts (c. 2000-500 BC) -- Babylonian "Pythagoras theorem" (c. 1900-1700 BC) -- Phaistos disc (c. 1700 BC) -- Egyptian Book of the Dead (c. 1550-50 BC) -- Sheet music (c. 1400 BC) -- Battering ram (c. 865-860 BC) -- Babylonian map of the world (c. 600 BC) -- Classical orders of architecture (c. 600-100 BC) -- Acupuncture points (c. 305-204 BC) -- Elements of geometry, Euclid (c. 300 BC) -- Rosetta stone (196 BC) -- The Ptolemaic system, Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 140-150) -- Ptolemy's World map, Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 150) -- Porphyrian tree, Porphyry of Tyre (c. AD 300) -- Nazca lines (c. AD 400-650) -- Dunhuang star map (c. AD 649-684) -- Lunar eclipse, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (1019) -- Heraldry (1127) -- Compendium of the genealogy of Christ, Peter of Poitiers (c. 1230) -- Carta Pisana (chart of Pisa) (c. 1275-1300) -- Optics, Roger Bacon (c. 1267-69) -- Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1308-21) -- Windmill-powered "car"/submarine, Guido da Vigevano (1328) -- Astrarium, Giovanni de 'Dondi (1364) -- The Voynich manuscript (c. 1404-38) -- The castle of perseverance (c. 1405-25) -- Exploded-view diagram, Mariano Taccola (c. 1450) -- Aztec calendar (1479) -- Vitruvian man, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1487) -- Helicopter and flying machine, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1493-1505) -- Foetus in the womb, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1510) -- Triangulation, Regnier Gemma Frisius (1533) -- Astronomicum Caesareum, Petrus Apianus (1540) -- Human body, Andreas Vesalius (1543) -- Heliocentric universe, Nicolas Copernicus (1543) -- Camera obscura, Regnier Gemma Frisius (1544) -- The Four Books of Architecture, Andrea Palladio (1570) -- Flush toilet, John Harington (1596) -- Kepler's law of planetary motion, Johannes Kepler (1609) -- Telescope, Galileo Galilei (1610) -- Moon drawings, Galileo Galilei (1610) -- Movement of objects, René Descartes (1644) -- Pendulum clock, Christiaan Huygens (1657) -- Micrographia, Robert Hooke (1665) -- Prism "crucial experiment", Isaac Newton (1666-72) -- Bacteria, Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1683) -- Steam engine, Thomas Newcomen (1708-12) -- Machine gun, James Puckle (1718) -- Color wheel, Moses Harris (1766) -- A new chart of history, Joseph Priestly (1769) -- Bifocals, Benjamin Franklin (1784) -- Bar chart, William Playfair (1786) -- Line graph, William Playfair (1786) -- Brooks slave ship, Thomas Clarkson (1788) -- Cotton gin, Eli Whitney (1794) -- Phrenology, Franz Joseph Gall (1796) -- Electrical circuit diagram, Alessandro Volta (1800) -- Steam locomotive, George Stephenson (1815) -- Clifton suspension bridge, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1830) -- Evolutionary tree, Charles Darwin (1837) -- Morse code, Samuel Morse (1840) -- Dinosaur (Megalosaurus), Richard Owen (1854) -- Rose (or polar area) diagram, Florence Nightingale (1858) -- Graded sewing patterns, Ebenezer Butterick (1863) -- Pedal bicycle, Pierre Lallement (1866) -- Periodic table, Dmitri Mendeleev (1869) -- Weather map, Francis Galton (1875) -- Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (1876) -- Light bulb, Thomas Edison (1880) -- Venn diagrams, John Venn (1880) -- Emoticons, Puck Magazine (1881) -- Treasure Island map, Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) -- Pictogram graphs, Michael George Mulhall (1884) -- Car, Karl Benz (1886) -- Right-hand rule, John Ambrose Fleming (c. 1890) -- Powered plane, Wright Brothers (1903) -- London underground map (1908) -- Spacetime diagrams, Hermann Minkowski (1908) -- Flow chart, Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1921) -- Id, ego, super-ego, Sigmund Freud (1921-23) -- Television, John Logie Baird (1926) -- Nazi propaganda map, Rupert von Schumacher (1934) -- London A-Z, Phyllis Pearsall (1936) -- Cubism and abstract art, Alfred Barr (1936) -- V2 rocket, German Armed Forces (1942) -- Feynman diagrams, Richard Feynman (1949) -- DNA double helix, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Odile Crick (1953) -- Flat-pack furniture, Gillis Lundgren, IKEA (1956) -- Vostok 1, Sergei Korolev (1961) -- Cuban Missile Crisis, Central Intelligence Agency (1962) -- ARPANET, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (1969) -- Intel 4004 CPU, Ted Hoff, Stanley Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Frederico Faggin, Philip Tai, and Wayne Pickette (1971) -- Pioneer plaque, Carl Sagan, Frank Drake, and Linda Salzman Sagan (1972) -- Mobile phone, Martin Cooper/Motorola (1973) -- Apple Computer, Steve Jobs (1980) -- Chernobyl radioactive fallout map (1986) -- World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (1989) -- iPod, Steve Jobs (2001).From primitive cave paintings to deciphering the DNA helix, this chronological guide describes the important sketches, plans, and drawings that had profound and dramatic effects on history and the way people viewed the world.
Subjects: Chronologies.; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Visual communication in science; Visual communication;
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