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2nd Edition - Design of Mixed-Flow Pumps and Fans - Characteristics of real fluids; Mixed flow pumps/fans;In-flow; Impeller;... 2nd Edition - Design of Mixed-Flow Pumps and Fans - Characteristics of real fluids; Mixed flow pumps/fans;In-flow; Impeller; Flow through guide-vanes; Cavitation in pumps;Calculation of fan characteristics; Fan basic control; Operation of fan group. (Paperback)
M. A. Zaher
R2,975 Discovery Miles 29 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The second edition of this book deals with theoretical foundation and principles of design of mixed-flow pumps and fans. There is a detailed discussion and information of the principles of design which shows an increasingly wider application. New methods of impeller design are included and to date literature was covered. Modern theories of cavitation concepts are introduction to complete method of calculating developed cavitation. A major application of bleeding system is given illustrating useful utilization to overcome cavitation during pumping process. It also gives information on pump design and the effect of blade setting angle has on cavitation calculation of Fan characteristics its ways of regulation/control, Fan group operation with means to avoid problems on blade erosion and fan noise conclude this edition. This book is offered to students, engineers and their associates who are concerned with the construction and use of mixed-flow pumps/fans. The book can be used as a reference in mechanical faculties and research institutions. It can also fit as supplementary courses for young engineers working as pump/fan designers. Pump/Fan manufacturers will find it very useful.

Prototype - Design and Craft in the 21st Century (Paperback, New): Louise Valentine Prototype - Design and Craft in the 21st Century (Paperback, New)
Louise Valentine
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Design in the 21st century has become increasingly more embedded in a complex system of disciplines (software and digital design, graphic design, architecture, construction, medical practices, business design and management, technology, graphic design, product design, etc.) and as a result, the intricacies of designing a product have increased. How can NASA test products for alien environments on Earth? How can a designer successfully test a digital program for a space that is not tangible? It is these problems that this collection responds to, allowing the reader to understand the significance of the prototype in modern design, and how designers must use this process to predict the potential future of their product. Prototype enables design students and professionals to explore the significance of the prototype and its influence and bearing on the future of design. As the prototype is a model of something not yet built, a kind of future in the present, its importance in the development of the finished product cannot be ignored. It allows designers to understand what needs to be changed and what needs to be manipulated in order to create a product that successfully understands and navigates all the complexities of the modern world. In this way, the book allows us to rethink the nature of the prototype for the 21st century and beyond.

The Jamestown Furniture Industry - History in Wood, 1816-1920 (Hardcover): Clarence C. Carlson The Jamestown Furniture Industry - History in Wood, 1816-1920 (Hardcover)
Clarence C. Carlson
R722 R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Entwurf hydraulischer Maschinen - Modellbildung, Stabilitatsanalyse und Simulation hydrostatischer Antriebe und Steuerungen... Entwurf hydraulischer Maschinen - Modellbildung, Stabilitatsanalyse und Simulation hydrostatischer Antriebe und Steuerungen (German, Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)
Peter Beater
R3,005 R2,541 Discovery Miles 25 410 Save R464 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dieses Buch behandelt die Anwendung der modernen Systemtheorie und den Einsatz von Digitalrechnern bei der Entwicklung hydrostatischer Antriebe und Steuerungen. Ausgangspunkt ist die Modellbildung, d. h. die Beschreibung des Antriebs durch Gleichungen. Diese werden bei der Stabilitatsanalyse untersucht, um ein stabiles, schwingungsfreies Arbeiten des Systems zu erreichen. Anschliessend erfolgt die Simualtion des Betriebsverhaltens mit Hilfe eines Digitalrechners, um anhand von errechneten Zeitsignalen bereits vor dem Bau eines Prototypen die Konstruktion optimieren zu konnen. Zahlreiche Beispiele, denen industrielle Aufgabenstellungen zugrunde liegen, veranschaulichen die im Buch erlauterte Theorie."

Manual on Road Construction - For Resident Engineers and Inspectors (Paperback): B H Piepmeier Manual on Road Construction - For Resident Engineers and Inspectors (Paperback)
B H Piepmeier
R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Manual on Road Construction for Resident Engineers and Inspectors
By B.H. Piepmeier
Contents
I-Organization
II-Duties of resident engineers and inspectors
III-Daily routine of engineers in charge of road construction
IV-Reports
V-Water supply
VI-Road bed
VII-Laying pavement
VIII-Cement
IX-Materials
X-Central mixing plants
XI-Finishing concrete pavements
XII-Special sections
XIII-Curing
XIV-Bituminous filled brick construction
XV-Bituminous concrete pavements
XVI-Gravel roads
XVII-Macadam roads
XVIII-Bituminous macadam roads
XIX-Earth roads
XX-Oiled earth roads
XXI-Shoulders and side ditches
XXII-Acceptance of work
XXIII-Payment estimates
XXIV-Detour and barricade signs
Preface
The purpose of this bulletin is to set forth briefly the requirements of the Department of Public Works and Buildings, in the construction of various types of roads. It must be understood that all preliminary work in the location of right-of-way, surveys, plans and specifications, regardless of the time or talent employed in the preparation of the work, may be useless if the construction is not intelligently and fairly executed. During the next ten years it is estimated that one hundred million dollars will be spent for road improvement in Illinois. It is very important, therefore, that all work be done in accordance with approved principles and under intelligent supervision in order that the burden imposed by future maintenance may be reduced to a minimum.
No set of rules and no set of specifications can be written to cover completely all conditions which may arise. Experience, judgment, and integrity in carrying out the requirements of the specifications must dictate the answer to many doubtful questions that may arise in the construction of the work.
It is hoped, therefore, that this bulletin may offer suggestions that will aid both the engineer and the contractor in the successful completion of his work.
The purpose of the revised road and bridge law is to provide a competent organization for the efficient handling of all road and bridge work in the State. Under the Civil Administrative Code the Director of the Department of Public Works and Buildings directs the work of the Division of Highways. The Superintendent and Chief Highway Engineer of the Division of Highways in conjunction with the Director and the Board of Highway Advisors determine the location and direct the design, construction, and maintenance of all State road and bridge work.
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This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making.
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How to Build and Operate a Sawmill - With Three Loose Charts of Sawmill Lay-Outs (Paperback): Leonard L Shertzer How to Build and Operate a Sawmill - With Three Loose Charts of Sawmill Lay-Outs (Paperback)
Leonard L Shertzer
R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How to Build and Operate a Sawmill: with Three Loose Charts of Sawmill Lay-outs
By Leonard L. Shertzer
Contents
-Timber Supply
-Logging
-Building the Sawmill
-Sawing for Grade
-Yard and Piling
-Selling the Output
-Key to Plates
Foreword
It is not my purpose to write a prolix and technical treatise nor to act as advertising agent for any particular brand of machinery. That I write at all is because of my observation that many men who build sawmills do not know how to build them, either for efficiency or for economy, and certainly many men who operate them are squandering both their own and their country's resources.
I recently read in the American Lumberman a query as to whether there were any textbooks to be had on how to build and operate a sawmill. The answer was: "There is none." Prof. C. A. Schenck, formerly of the Biltmore Forest School, compiled a book on ''Lumbering and Lodging" to be used as a textbook in the school. It is a valuable work but it does not contain any practical suggestions that help the average sawmill man. It is too technical and anybody that knows the sawmill man knows he will not read a technical book. I do not assume fully to supply this need but simply to offer some practical suggestions, gleaned from experience and observation, that may help some others to avoid some of the mistakes I, myself, have made. I may also provoke some more competent authorities to take up the subject and to write something really worthwhile. Thus we would eventually build up some authoritative saw- milling literature. Nor do I assume to write for the man who owns his modern bandmill; makes more in a day than I do in a month, and knows the business better than I could ever hope to know it. He is too busy anyway to read what I have to say. He could probably write much better himself and say more in fewer words, but is too but is too busy for that. He will tell you he had to learn by hard knocks; let the other fellow do the same. Why should he give information gratis that cost him years to accumulate? I write rather with the man in view who operates the small sawmill, sawing anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 feet a day, or the man who is contemplating taking a flyer in the sawmill business - the farmer who owns some timber and thinks he will turn it into lumber, having heard vague rumors of the high prices of lumber, and knowing what he has to pay for the few thousand feet he buys annually from the local lumber yard. There are also a large number of successful men who have made money in business or professions that are interested in timber as an investment. Later they decide, like the farmer, to manufacture their own stumpage. There are those also who have had northern...
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Windham Press is committed to bringing the lost cultural heritage of ages past into the 21st century through high-quality reproductions of original, classic printed works at affordable prices.
This book has been carefully crafted to utilize the original images of antique books rather than error-prone OCR text. This also preserves the work of the original typesetters of these classics, unknown craftsmen who laid out the text, often by hand, of each and every page you will read. Their subtle art involving judgment and interaction with the text is in many ways superior and more human than the mechanical methods utilized today, and gave each book a unique, hand-crafted feel in its text that connected the reader organically to the art of bindery and book-making.
We think these benefits are worth the occasional imperfection resulting from the age of these books at the time of scanning, and their vintage feel provides a connection to the past that goes beyond the mere words of the text.

Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 Fundamentals (Paperback): Elise Moss Autodesk AutoCAD 2014 Fundamentals (Paperback)
Elise Moss
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Autodesk AutoCAD 2010 Fundamentals is designed to be used during instructor led training in a eight week course. It is an introductory level textbook intended for new AutoCAD 2010 users. This book covers all the fundamental skills necessary for effectively using AutoCAD and will provide a strong foundation for advancement. This textbook applies the use of AutoCAD as it pertains to mechanical drafting. Knowing how to draw a line in AutoCAD is not the same as understanding which line type is required when creating technical drawings. This text not only provides the necessary information to operate AutoCAD but also provides the skills to use AutoCAD as a tool to work proficiently as a mechanical drafter or designer.

Tropiline Bajan Design - Tropiline from concept to development to preproduction (Paperback): Don J. B. Blackman Tropiline Bajan Design - Tropiline from concept to development to preproduction (Paperback)
Don J. B. Blackman
R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Tropiline Bajan Design (USA Design Patent Des 328198 S), the best modern product design ever to come out of an emerging market and is a major advance in international modern art with cultural, personal, and regional influences all synthesized to produce a masterpiece. It is a single line drawn in space as the essence of the design, like Malevich's rotated linear squares, Saarinen's St. Louis Arch, and Brancusi's Bird in Space "Even less is even more" permeates the philosophy, which is an amazing chronology of the creative process, the struggles of innovative artists, perseverance and determination (as the design moves around the world from Barbados, to Denmark, to China); with a challenge to all emerging markets (and communities) to move forward modern progressive principles in an age of increasing globalization and international cooperation.

Basic To Advanced NX6 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies - A Project Oriented Learning Manual (Paperback): Anuranjini Pragada,... Basic To Advanced NX6 Modeling, Drafting and Assemblies - A Project Oriented Learning Manual (Paperback)
Anuranjini Pragada, Benjamin Stevenson, Eric Weeks
R3,163 Discovery Miles 31 630 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
42 Rules of Product Marketing - Learn the Rules of Product Marketing from Leading Experts from Around the World (Paperback,... 42 Rules of Product Marketing - Learn the Rules of Product Marketing from Leading Experts from Around the World (Paperback, New)
Phil Burton, Gary Parker, Brian Lawley
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"42 Rules of Product Marketing " is a collection of product marketing wisdom and insights from forty-two experts from around the world. This book will expose you to the experience and knowledge of a group of the world's leading product marketing experts with a range of perspectives in both consumer and business markets. In this book, you'll learn ways to: Craft the right positioning and messaging for your prospective customers. Communicate with your customers in terms that are meaningful to them. Use the web and social media to have two-way conversations with your customers. Use web analytics to understand customer interest. Work effectively with sales and sales channels to manage leads and drive revenue. Become recognized in your company or organization. Discern a prospect's digital body language from web interactions. Understand the new rules of public relations. Best of all, it was written with the busy product marketer in mind. Each rule is kept to two pages and designed to stand on its own. The rules can be read in any order. In less than five minutes a day, you can learn from forty two of the best marketing managers in the world. Whether you are a seasoned, experienced product marketing manager or are just starting out, the "42 Rules of Product Marketing" will help you to work more effectively and produce greater returns for your company.

Idea Work - Lessons of the Extraordinary in Everyday Creativity (Paperback): Arne Carlsen, Stewart Clegg, Reidar Gjersvik Idea Work - Lessons of the Extraordinary in Everyday Creativity (Paperback)
Arne Carlsen, Stewart Clegg, Reidar Gjersvik
R1,341 R1,203 Discovery Miles 12 030 Save R138 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

What does it take to find oil in an area where many have tried, but failed? What does it take to design buildings that become prize-winning cultural landmarks? And what can the best architects, oil explorers, business lawyers, journalists, and business developers within banking and trading analysis have in common? Idea Work can provide the answers. This book builds on a four-year research project and describes what extraordinary idea work looks like in practice. The authors take you behind the scenes of some of Norways leading companies and show how surprisingly similarly they work when they are working creatively to develop and realise new ideas. The book gives us, for example, a glimpse of how Snohetta designed the Opera and the 9/11 memorial, and how explorers at Statoil discovered the most oil of all oil companies in the world in 2011. Narratives are presented on how prepping, sketches, pin-ups, drama, wonder, and punk are important aspects of the extraordinary. Examples are supported by theory, placing this book at the forefront of international research. Idea Work will appeal to practitioners as well as students. It recounts engaging stories from actual production processes and combines new theoretical perspectives with practical advice. It will also be of interest to anyone working with development, particularly with developing new ideas. From a professional standpoint, this book is an uncommon contribution to describing and understanding creativity as something collective and grounded in everyday activity.

French Design - Creativity as Tradition (Hardcover): French Design - Creativity as Tradition (Hardcover)
R1,194 R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Save R235 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A tribute to excellence in the know-how of leading French firms. The material transformation of an intention in an object is the result of a meeting between a designer and a craftsman, between know-how and project. The French know-how societies were born from Colbertism and closely associated with the evolution of French society, accompanying the major sociological changes. In the 19th century, they were adopted by a middle class that demanded to gain a status hitherto reserved for the aristocracy. Their heritage and archives are immense, as is their know-how. They contributed to the century to the extent that they regenerated their forces and raison detre: a transmission implemented by todays creators. This book will not be a mere catalogue but is instead intended as a tribute to excellence in the know-how of leading French firms which have succeeded in reinventing themselves in contact with designers and the unceasing challenges they face. Retracing the history of the most prestigious of these and highlighting their capacity to reinvent themselves by tackling the proposals formulated by the meltingpot of French designers, this volume will also aim to reveal and stress the unique qualities of craftsmanship. Transmission, Know-how and French design will be a must for graphic and fashion designers, marketing professionals, collectors and students.

Doing Research in Design (Hardcover): Christopher Crouch, Jane Pearce Doing Research in Design (Hardcover)
Christopher Crouch, Jane Pearce
R4,170 Discovery Miles 41 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Doing Research in Design presents new ways of thinking about the relationship between design and research by positioning design as a social as well as a material practice. This approach emphasises the social consequences of design decisions as well as the importance of the efficient functioning of a design. Doing Research in Design argues that design promotes social change and that, in order to understand that change, designers must turn to social science research methods. The book outlines the relationships between thinking and doing in design - and makes explicit links between design, research, philosophy and sociology - and then examines four central social research methodologies in practice. The aim of Doing Research in Design is to provide anyone involved in the field of design with the knowledge and understanding of the best methods to plan and conduct their research.

Grundlagen Der Konstruktion - Fur Feinwerk- Und Elektrotechniker (German, Paperback, 3rd 3. Aufl. 1984. Softcover Reprint of... Grundlagen Der Konstruktion - Fur Feinwerk- Und Elektrotechniker (German, Paperback, 3rd 3. Aufl. 1984. Softcover Reprint of the Original 3rd 1984 ed.)
G. Siegmund; Edited by W. Krause
R2,056 R1,883 Discovery Miles 18 830 Save R173 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Das Erzeugnisspektrum der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Feinwerktechnik umfaBt so- wohl Maschinen, Gerate und Anlagen fUr die Erzeugung, Obertragung und Anwendung von Elektroenergie als auch vorwiegend informationstibertragende und -verarbeitende Gerate und Anlagen der Nachrichten-, MeB- und Automatisierungstechnik, der Daten- verarbeitung und Rechentechnik sowie der Feinmechanik und Optik. Diese Erzeugnisse werden aus mechanischen, elektromechanischen, elektrischen, optischen und zunehmend aus elektronischen und mikroelektronischen Bauelementen und Funktionsgruppen auf- gebaut. Das Spektrum reicht von hochkomplizierten Anlagen, vielfach in einmaliger SpezialausfUhrung hergestellt, bis zu Produkten der Konsumgiiterindustrie, deren hoher Bedarf meist nur durch Anwendung spezieller und ausgereifter Verfahren der Massen- fertigung gedeckt werden kann. Auf dem Gebiet der Elektrotechnik, z. B. im Elektromaschinenbau, steht dabei viel- fach die Leistungstibertragung im Vordergrund, die mit moglichst hohem Wirkungsgrad erfolgen solI. In der Elektronik und Feinwerktechnik dagegen mtissen vorwiegend Infor- mationen der unterschiedlichsten Art erfaBt, gespeichert, verarbeitet oder zur Aufnahme durch den Menschen aufbereitet werden, wobei hohe Arbeitsgeschwindigkeiten und zu- gleich groBe Genauigkeiten, z. B. bei der Einhaltung vorgegebener Ubertragungsfunk- tionen, erforderlich sind. Dariiber hinaus werden bei allen Erzeugnissen dieser Fachgebiete gesteigerte Leistungsfiihigkeit sowie erhOhte Zuverlassigkeit, Lebensdauer und Umwelt- freundlichkeit unter Wahrung wirtschaftlicher Aspekte gefordert. Die Tendenz gehtda- bei dahin, die informationsverarbeitenden Funktionsgruppen unter Verwendung mikro- elektronischer Bausteine zu realisieren und mechanische durch elektronische Prinzipe tiberall dort abzulOsen, wo es funktionell und okonomisch vorteilhaft ist. An der Gerate- peripherie werden dagegen in zunehmendem MaBe leistungsfiihige mechanische und elektromechanische Baugruppen benotigt.

DIY Furniture - A Step-by-Step Guide (Paperback): Christopher Stuart DIY Furniture - A Step-by-Step Guide (Paperback)
Christopher Stuart
R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch. All the projects can be easily assembled using the step-by-step guides from common materials which can be found at the local hardware store. Along with designs for seating and storage, the book also features projects for making your own bed, wardrobe, lighting and garden furniture. Each project features hand-drawn diagrams with short, easy-to-follow instructions on how to build the piece. Whether building from scratch or customising existing designs, DIY Furniture allows you to create unique designer pieces at a fraction of the normal cost. Brief biographies of all the featured designers are included at the end of the book.

3d-CAD Mit Inventor 2011 - Tutorial Mit Durchgangigem Projektbeispiel (German, Paperback, 2011 ed.): Wolfgang Hager, Dirk... 3d-CAD Mit Inventor 2011 - Tutorial Mit Durchgangigem Projektbeispiel (German, Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Wolfgang Hager, Dirk Bauermeister
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dieses Tutorial beschreibt sehr anschaulich und Schritt fur Schritt die Erzeugung eines Gesamtprojekts Schraubstock. Dadurch lasst sich der Handlungsablauf zu jedem Zeitpunkt nachvollziehen. Neben der reinen 3D-Modellierung wird auch die Gestaltung von Prasentationen und Animationen dargestellt und somit ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz realisiert. Das Buch wendet sich an alle Einsteiger, die sicher das Arbeiten mit diesem 3D-CAD-System erlernen mochten."

A Life in Style (Paperback): Roy Axe A Life in Style (Paperback)
Roy Axe
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Roy Axe devoted his life to car styling. From his earliest years, he had a passion for the way cars looked and having secured a job in the engineering department of Rootes he soon persuaded his bosses to allow him to study in the styling department. From then on, his course for a life in style was set. Axe enjoyed a stellar career. At just 29 he became design director at Rootes and Chrysler UK where he was responsible for styling many influential classics. During a period of massive expansion he worked for Chrysler in both the UK and the USA and headed up a truly international operation that shaped cars from all over the world - including the groundbreaking Chrysler Minivan. He also enjoyed a spell leading Rover's design team during one of its most embattled periods, overseeing the launch of the 800- and 200-series and the development of some exciting prototypes. A Life in Style is a unique first-hand account of corporate life in the automotive industry, and the sometimes troubled circumstances in which new cars were created. The accounts of battles between styling and engineering departments, as well as the cultural differences between car people from all four corners of the world are absolutely fascinating - as is the life story of a man who proved that nice guys can succeed in the car industry.

Locus of a Boat Designer 2 (Paperback): Kotaro Horiuchi Locus of a Boat Designer 2 (Paperback)
Kotaro Horiuchi; Edited by B. Timmons Michael
R736 R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Horiuchi presents an illustrated record of the development of new vehicles on water, land, and in the sky, in which he has been actively involved. The edition includes a number of drawings and photographs to facilitate the reader's understanding.

Mid-Century Modern - Visionares Moebeldesign aus Wien (German, Hardcover): Caroline Wohlgemuth Mid-Century Modern - Visionares Moebeldesign aus Wien (German, Hardcover)
Caroline Wohlgemuth
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Visionary furniture design from Vienna In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day - not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their ideas and vision throughout the entire world. Their creations became classics of twentieth-century furniture design, the epitome of mid-century modern style. This book honors the memory of the exiled designers with a thorough overview of their work. It details their life stories and their visionary designs, which remain as relevant and contemporary as ever, and brings to light new aspects of the history of Viennese furniture design. A new history of Viennese furniture design, with 27 detailed biographies Numerous previously unpublished photographs and sketches Including works by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Martin Eisler, Josef Frank, Friedrich Kiesler, Richard Neutra, Bruno Pollak, Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, Franz Singer, Ernst Schwadron, among others

Odyssey of a DP - Memoirs of a Displaced Person (Paperback): Vladimir Drobashevsky Odyssey of a DP - Memoirs of a Displaced Person (Paperback)
Vladimir Drobashevsky
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From displaced person to award winning designer: the memoirs of Vladimir Drobashevsky.
In 1941, twelve year old Vladimir awakes one morning to the chaos of the Luftwaffe bombing his neighborhood in Belgrade. The Germans are invading his homeland. Vladimir and his family are soon suffering hunger and deprivation from the German occupation as well as daily air raids by the Allies.
His parents reluctantly decide it will be best if Vladimir and his mother leave his father behind to defend Yugoslavia and fight the now advancing Soviet Army while they flee to Austria.
Finally the family is re-united in an Austrian refugee camp and ultimately they are able to immigrate to America after the war.
For the next forty years Vladimir designs national and international expositions - including several Nuclear Information Centers in the U.S. and Asia - and receives numerous awards for his work in design and graphic arts.
One night, after Vladimir has received a phone call in his hotel room that his father has died from a heart attack, he realizes that he never took the time to listen to his father's stories about World War I, the Russian Revolution or his father's battles against the Communists in his native land.
Like his father, Vladimir, too, is a wealth of unique historical information about an important period in the history of the world.
Odyssey of a DP is his contribution to preserving those stories and paying tribute to his lineage and his family.
Highly respected designer Vladimir Drobashevsky was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1929. He immigrated to America in 1949, served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and then earned a B.S. degree in Industrial Design. He enjoys caring for his wife and life partner of fifty-six years, Elfrieda, who serves as a remarkable example of perseverance and positive attitude to all who know her. They have one surviving child, their daughter Elizabeth. Besides the wide recognition for his commercial work, Vladimir has also received an award for his chestnut-carved iconostas design at his church in Allison Park, Pennsylvania.

The Story of Eames Furniture (Hardcover): Marilyn Neuhart, John Neuhart The Story of Eames Furniture (Hardcover)
Marilyn Neuhart, John Neuhart; Edited by Robert Klanten, Sven Ehmann, Franz Schulze
R4,517 R3,562 Discovery Miles 35 620 Save R955 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this unique 2-volume, 800-page book with more than 2,500 images, Marilyn Neuhart tells the story, to paraphrase Charles Eames himself, of how Eames furniture got to be the way it is.

The Art of Boot and Shoemaking - A Practical Handbook Including Measurement, Last-Fitting, Cutting-Out, Closing, and Making... The Art of Boot and Shoemaking - A Practical Handbook Including Measurement, Last-Fitting, Cutting-Out, Closing, and Making (Paperback)
John Bedford Leno
R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

2010 Reprint of 1865 edition. This useful treatise on boot and shoe making covers all aspects of the industry. Chapters on the history of the craft, anatomy of the foot, measurement, lasts, fittings, materials, cutting out, fitting and closing, leggings and gaiters, mending, furring, bows, rosettes, shoe armour, kit-cutting, knives, machines etc. Profusely illustrated with 106 figures and illustrations in the text.

Way More Than A Bed On Stilts - Build this 21st Century Loft Bed Yourself (Paperback): Erik Johanson Way More Than A Bed On Stilts - Build this 21st Century Loft Bed Yourself (Paperback)
Erik Johanson
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Way More Than A Bed On Stilts is written for the person or family who is living in a crowded living space. It shows them more options to cope with their pressing needs, through creative and practical furnishings. If a strategy of life improvement includes basic needs, plus education, organization and discipline, we must accommodate those continually. Of course we need a bed, but we also need to store our clothes in a ready to wear condition. Yes, we need education, but we also need a place to study and an organized way to store and access our study materials. If we lack a clothes closet, or bureau, or a desk, organized storage, or the space for it, we handicap ourselves Way More Than A Bed On Stilts can help people overcome these types of limitations. This book contains a 21st century loft bed design. When built and used as designed, it is safe; it exceeds all applicable safety standards. Please read those standards and evaluate for yourself. This loft bed design is very durable. It won't become shaky in a year or two. The frame should serve for many years. It can be disassembled and reassembled repeatedly to accommodate moving. This loft bed system is incredibly useful: it features multiple options for built in desks, shelving, drawers and containers. It accommodates clothes storage, books, files, supplies, games and lighting. The design is modular; the accessory options fit together in several combinations. On top of all this, more than one may fit in a room This system is designed for most of the electronic accoutrements of modern life. This is the 21st century. Way More Than A Bed On Stilts is a do-it-yourself project. If you are at all handy, you can build this, while saving money. The sample configuration loft bed with a desk, bureau, and closet rod cost about the same as a comparable size bureau alone (excluding the mattress of course). This is do-able for many people. Just follow the instructions and choose wisely. You can do it

Fake (Paperback): Kati Stevens Fake (Paperback)
Kati Stevens 1
R327 R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Save R66 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing and improving upon the real thing for millennia - from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. So why do people have such disdain for so-called "fakes"? Kati Stevens's Fake discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as our ever-changing psychological and socioeconomic relationships with them. After all, fakes aren't going anywhere; they seem to be going everywhere. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Working Drawings Of Colonial Furniture (1922) (Paperback): Frederick J. Bryant Working Drawings Of Colonial Furniture (1922) (Paperback)
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