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Sim Greene (Hardcover)
Richard T (Richard Taylor) 1 Wiley, John C. Winston Company
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R813
Discovery Miles 8 130
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A comprehensive and practical guide full of advice and inspiration
for anyone wishing to capture the beauty of the urban landscape.
The wonderful thing about drawing buildings is that, wherever you
travel around the globe, you will never be short of subjects to
inspire you. From the most elaborate of Renaissance cathedrals,
through to the humble garden shed, you will always be able to
practise your skills and learn a few techniques in the process.
This hands-on and inspirational book will encourage you to meet the
exciting challenges of drawing and painting buildings using a
variety of media and a wide range of techniques, including pencil,
pen, graphite powder, watercolour, water-soluble pencils and Indian
ink. As you work through this book, you will look at materials and
their qualities then move on to explore how to put these materials
to best use when drawing specific types of building. You will be
led gently through levels of learning, with easy and more
challenging exercises progressing your knowledge and developing
your skills. As the book is divided into discrete sections, you can
dip in to a particular type of building that you wish to draw, and
use the information and illustration provided, while extended
teaching exercises take you through the way the author approaches
composing and completing a drawing. Fully annotated paintings,
working drawings and extended projects reveal how each effect was
achieved. Detailed artworks in a range of styles and media are
thoroughly annotated to demonstrate key techniques and important
details and there are invaluable exercises for understanding
perspective, negative and positive space, tone, choosing details
and constructing large-scale images. The book includes thorough
studies of a wide range of different architectural styles, from
town houses to rural cottages and barns, from churches and
classical architecture to continental cafes and street scenes.
Taylor's exquisite drawings and paintings demonstrate the quality
of the results that can be achieved by following his helpful
guidance and advice.
This monograph has arisen out of a number of attempts spanning
almost five decades to understand how one might examine the
evolution of densities in systems whose dynamics are described by
differential delay equations. Though the authors have no definitive
solution to the problem, they offer this contribution in an attempt
to define the problem as they see it, and to sketch out several
obvious attempts that have been suggested to solve the problem and
which seem to have failed. They hope that by being available to the
general mathematical community, they will inspire others to
consider-and hopefully solve-the problem. Serious attempts have
been made by all of the authors over the years and they have made
reference to these where appropriate.
A Southern officer's war
This is a valuable Civil War memoir from a regimental officer of
the Army of the Confederacy. Its author, Richard Taylor has taken a
well rounded view of his experiences relating them against the
events of the opening phases of the war to his military life on
campaign during the Peninsula and Valley Campaigns through to
Berwick's Bay, the Red River and the closing operations of the
armed conflict. As a Southerner Taylor had to experience the
hardships of occupation and reconstruction under Johnson and Grant
and his book provides interesting perspectives on this period
immediately following the cessation of hostilities. The Leonaur
edition is available in soft cover and cloth bound hard cover with
dust jacket, head and tail bands and gold foil lettering to the
spine-a credit to the bibliophile's library!
British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is
difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period
that provokes such a strong sense of failure. Unfortunately, many
of the accusations appear to be true - British tanks were in many
ways a disgrace. But why was Britain, the country that invented
them, consistently unable to field tanks of the required quality or
quantity throughout the conflict? This perceived failure has taken
on the status of a myth, but, like all myths, it should not be
accepted at face value - it should be questioned and analysed. And
that is what Dick Taylor does in this closely researched and
absorbing study. He looks at the flaws in British financial policy,
tank doctrine, design, production and development before and
throughout the war years which often had fatal consequences for the
crews who were sent to fight and to be murdered' in mechanical
abortions'. Their direct experience of the shortcomings of these
machines is an important element of the story. He also considers
how British tanks compared to those of the opposition and contrasts
tank production for the army with the production of aircraft for
the RAF during the same period. His clear-sighted account goes on
to explain how, later in the conflict, British tank design improved
to the point where their tanks were in many ways superior to those
of the Americans and Germans and how they then produced the
Centurion which was one of the best main battle tanks of the
post-war era.
The Directions series has been written with students in mind.
Contract Law Directions is the ideal guide as they approach the
subject for the first time, this book will help them: - Gain a
complete understanding of the topic: we won't overload or leave
your students short, just the right amount of detail conveyed
clearly - Understand the law in context: with scene-setting
introductions and highlighted case extracts, the practical
importance of the law becomes clear - Identify when and how to
evaluate the law critically: students will be introduced to the key
areas of debate and given the confidence to question the law -
Deepen and test knowledge: visually engaging learning and
self-testing features aid understanding and help students tackle
assessments with confidence - Elevate their learning: with the
ground-work in place, your students can aspire to take their
learning to the next level, with direction provided on how to go
further, each chapter now has a 'digging deeper' feature to further
develop understanding Digital formats and resources The eighth
edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a
variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. The
e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access, along with
functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer
extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks The text
is also supported by online resources, which include: - Self-test
questions - Guidance on answering essay and problem questions - Web
links - Flashcard glossary Additional lecturer resources include: -
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