Author: Joaquim Chavarria
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: class, ceramics, techniques, building, hand
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0823005917
ISBN-13: 9780823005918

This volume begins with the modeling of cubes, cones, spheres, and other basic volumes. Students then learn coiling, pinching, using strips, slabs, and lumps and how to apply them to bowls, bottles, cups, boxes, and sculpture, with information on kilns, firing, and finishing processes included.

Author: Joaquim Chavarria
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: class, ceramics, techniques, glazing
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0823005925
ISBN-13: 9780823005925

This book gives both a broad overview of glazes and details specifics about them. It discusses preparation, adapting glazes to ceramic mixtures, firing, cooling, glazing with a brush, with a spraygun, handling defects and corrections, finishing processes, and using a crucible and kiln. The glazes reviewed included crystalline, raku, salt, and crackle.

Author: Joaquin Chavarria
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: class, ceramics, techniques, decorating
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0823005941
ISBN-13: 9780823005949

Starting with an introduction to materials and tools, this idea-packed book then shows arts and crafters myriad techniques for transforming standard ceramic pieces into beautifully ornamented, one-of-a-kind treasures for personal or gift use. The book is divided into five sections, each devoted to techniques designed for the category of ceramic to be decorated: damp and unfired ware; leather-hard ware; dry ware; dry bisque-fired ware; and glazed ware. Explained and shown in detail are decoration methods such as incising, carving, casting, sgraffito, engobes, colored pastes, fillette

Author: Daniel Chavarria
Publisher: Akashic Books
Keywords: torturer, tango
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1933354194
ISBN-13: 9781933354194

Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, where he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotels. Bianchi soon discovers via his liaison with Bini that his nemesis, the Uruguayan military torturer Alberto Ríos, is living under a false identity in Cuba. Putting his tropical holiday on hold, Bianchi goes on the hunt for his sadistic enemy. Daniel Chavarría authentically portrays the sensuousness and skullduggery of contemporary Havana, a city that offers erotic thrills to pleasure-seeking tourists, even

Authors:Becky Chavarria-Chairez, Julia Mercedes Castilla,
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Keywords: magda, tortillas, las
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2000-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1558852867
ISBN-13: 9781558852860

Author: Joaquim P. Marques de Sá
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: statistica, matlab, spss, using, statistics, applied
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2003-08-05
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540011560
ISBN-13: 9783540011569

Aimed at students, professionals and research workers who need to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of practical problems using SPSS, MATLAB and STATISTICA, this text provides a comprehensive coverage of the main statistical analysis topics important for practical applications such as data description, statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, survival data and directional statistics. The relevant notions and methods are explained concisely, illustrated with practical examples using real data, presented with the distinct intention of clarifying sensible

Author: Joaquim P. Marques de Sá
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: life, game, amp, games, chance
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 3540744169
ISBN-13: 9783540744160

With its many easy-to-follow mathematical examples, this book takes the reader on an almost chronological trip through the fascinating and amazing laws of chance, omnipresent in the natural world and in our daily lives. Along the route many fascinating topics are discussed, such as: challenging probability paradoxes; "paranormal" coincidences; game odds; causes and effects; interpretation of opinion polls; winning chances as a game proceeds; the nature of randomness; entropy and randomness; randomness in life; algorithmic complexity and the undecidability of randomness; possibilities and limit