A staple of art instruction, this book is the most concise and accessible guide to accurately depicting the human body. Its illustrations and cross-sections offer examples of human skeletal and muscular substructures and details of individual body parts, helping students achieve the most precise visual re-creation of human form and motion. Subjects include the skeleton, the coverings and region…
"A wonderful look at the many styles of wood engraving from the time period 19001950. The illustrations are sublime, and there is a lot of variation both in theme, execution and style. I really enjoyed looking at the engravings, and the text was interesting and very readable." Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System At the turn of the twentieth century the art of wood-engraving enjoyed a flo…
A prominent figure in the Victorian art world, Walter Crane not only participated in the late nineteenth century's publishing revolution but also led the way toward the Golden Age of Illustration. Crane was instrumental in the transition from simple black-and-white illustrations for children's books to gallery-quality artwork. This original collection features more than one hundred of the influ…
An accomplished artist and teacher, Walter T. Foster began producing his classic art instruction books in the 1920s. He wrote, illustrated, printed, bound, packaged, shipped, and distributed his books from his own home for decades, before moving the business to a commercial facility to accommodate his international trade. This comprehensive volume combines four of the artist's vintage instructi…
Comprehensive and user-friendly, this volume combines four vintage instructional manuals by Walter T. Foster, the world-famous art teacher and publisher. In addition to explaining the principles of figure drawing, it provides a handy retrospective of fashions for men, women, and children from the first half of the twentieth century. This authentic guide to vintage styles features a splendid ran…
The only value-priced, full-color edition of the pre-Columbian Mexican (Mixtec) book. Features 88 color plates of kings, gods, heroes, temples, sacrifices, and more. New introduction.
"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is a halo? -- 1.2. Examples of halo nuclei -- 1.3. Experimental evidence for halos -- 1.4. The three phases of halo studies2. The structure of halo nuclei -- 2.1. One-neutron halos -- 2.2. Three-body systems--th…
"Version: 20170102"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Electrostatics principles -- 2.1. Coulomb's law and the principle of superposition -- 2.2. The electric field -- 2.3. Gauss's law -- 2.4. Electric potential -- 2.5. Conductors in electrostatic fields -- 2.6.…
"Version: 20170701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Why am I writing this book? -- 1.2. An essential tension -- 1.3. A few words on names2. Cecilia Payne -- 2.1. Beyond Curie -- 2.2. No insuperable objections -- 2.3. The Harvard Computers -- 2.4. Starstuff -- 2.5. Two…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. The Lattice Boltzmann equation for complex flows -- 2.1. Kinetic and lattice kinetic theory : a brief overview -- 2.2. The Lattice Boltzmann equation3. Lattice schemes for multiphase and multicomponent flows : theory a…