Authors:O. Thomas Holland, Patrick Marchand,
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: graphics, matlab, guis, amp, third
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2002-11-25
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 1584883200
ISBN-13: 9781584883203

MATLAB®, now the industry-standard engineering language for computation, analysis, and visualization, continues to evolve in its capabilities. Version 6.x incorporated several major improvements, including significant enhancements to its graphics features, such as transparencies, increased 3-D visualization, and an improved rendering engine.The bestselling Graphics and GUIs with MATLAB has been fully revised to reflect MATLAB version 6. The third edition also features a number of improvements in both content and organization that ensure its readers get the optimum level of detail and best pos

Author: Peter Marchand
Publisher: Destiny Books
Keywords: rasa, sadhana, practice, tantric, nine, emotions, yoga
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-04-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1594770948
ISBN-13: 9781594770944

A guide to changing negative emotions and promoting happiness using traditional Tantric and Ayurvedic practices• Details the 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions• Offers emotional fasting exercises and daily routines for emotional well-being• Shows how Rasa Sadhana can be integrated with other yoga practices• Based on the teachings of Harish JohariRasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. The Tantric tradition recognizes 9 Rasas that represent our basic emotions: love, humor, wonder, courage, calmness, anger, sadness, fear, and disgust. Those

Author: Renaud Marchand
Publisher: Taschen
Keywords: yourself
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 3822856282
ISBN-13: 9783822856284

Shoot yourself: Sexy self-portraits by everyday women Inspired by a babysitter he surprised in front of the bathroom mirror shooting pictures of herself with his Polaroid, photographer Uwe Ommer decided to put together a book of erotic self-portraits by inexperienced photographers. Arming participants with cameras and basic technical instructions, Ommer asked them to photograph themselves in any way they pleased--liberated, so to speak, from the voyeuristic eye of the photographer. Some chose to use mirrors as they captured their portraits, while others braved the camera without the help of

Author: Philip Marchand
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: messenger, medium, mcluhan, marshall
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1998-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0262631865
ISBN-13: 9780262631860

with a new foreword by Neil Postman "The best--I might say the only good--précis of McLuhan’s thought I have ever read." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Beautifully written. . . . brings instant recognition of that weird, exhilarating vortex of ideas that McLuhan meant to us. . ." -- Globe and Mail When communications thinker Marshall McLuhan gave us the phrases "the medium is the message" and "global village," he was ahead of his time. Now, in the age of the digital revolution McLuhan and his work cannot be ignored by any student of culture and technology. Interest in

Author: Trevor Marchand
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: yemen, apprenticeship, building, minaret
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2001-04-27
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0700715118
ISBN-13: 9780700715114

Through a combination of rich architectural and ethnographic description, this study of apprenticeship and human spatial cognition provides a fascinating insight into the daily lives and activities of a professional class of craftsmen, and investigates the unique teaching-learning processes that distinguish their trade and mould both their professional and social characters.

Authors:J. Marchand, Ivan Odler, Jan P. Skalny,
Publisher: Spon Press
Keywords: concrete, technology, modern, sulfate, attack
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2001-12-07
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0419245502
ISBN-13: 9780419245506

Sulfate attack is one of several mechanisms of concrete deterioration. This book provides a comprehensive reference to this important subject, covering: a short history of concrete deterioration due to sulfate attack, the origin of sulfates in concrete, the importance of appropriate concrete processing, forms and physical-chemical mechanisms of concrete deterioration due to sulfates, preventative measures, standardization and numerous case histories.

Authors:Jacques Lucan, Bruno Marchand,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: forte, forme, steinmann, martin
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-10-24
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 3764367938
ISBN-13: 9783764367930

For three decades Martin Steinmann has been observing the much acclaimed architectural scene in Switzerland, commenting on it critically and sensitively. This volume is a collection of Steinmann’s most important essays, accompanied by a large number of illustrations. It contains text contributions on Burkhalter & Sumi, Diener & Diener, Herzog & de Meuron, Peter Märkli, Miller & Maranta, Aldo Rossi, Hans Schmidt, and Peter Zumthor amongst others.