Art Nouveau was the dominant art style in both Europe and America at the turn of the 20th century. Its organic, curvilinear designs influenced painting, architecture, and sculpture, but it was in...
Clothing worn by plantation society shortly before the beginning of the Civil War. This collection of 29 carefully researched illustrations captures the fine details of these garments, which...
Recapture the excitement of ice skating with this winsome young athlete. She's ready for the spotlight with a stunning mix-and-match wardrobe of 18 glittering sticker costumes.
Forty drawings re-create many of the famous lighthouses of the United States and Canada, including those in Cape Hatteras, Montauk Point, Cape Canaveral, West Quoddy Head, Point Reyes, and other...
Ranging all over the globe to recapture cryptic creatures that have been sighted but not documented, this coloring book features Madagascar's giant vampire bat, the Himalayan Yeti, North...
Features works for organists who prefer to play without pedals, including J. S. Bach's Partite diverse sopra, "O Gott, du frommer Gott!"; Pachelbel's "Canon in D"; plus...
Victorian artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883) is famous for his charming illustrations of elves, fairies, and gnomes. For this colouring book, Marty Noble has skillfully adapted 29 of the...
PrefaceSolitairesGames for two playersA theory of gamesTournaments and rankings (solutions to exercises)Linear programming and the theory of gamesPermutation groupsFibonacci numbersA little graph...
A wonderland of wee folk, this imaginative colouring book is populated by gremlins, pixies, giants, and other fantasy characters. In addition to mermaids, leprechauns, and other familiar creatures,...
Wine lovers and other adult colorists will savor these 31 delightful illustrations, paired with fun contemporary quotes about the popular drink. For those who see the world through ros -colored...
Combining stories of great philosophers, quotations, and riddles with the fundamentals of mathematical logic, this new textbook for first courses in mathematical logic was written by the...
Budge gives the history of hieroglyphic writing, its evolution into hieratic and demotic scripts, and the fascinating tale of its decipherment by Young, Champollion, Akerblad, and others.
Thirty full-page images depict men and women in Victorian regalia adorned with goggles and gears against moody background mashups of butterflies, flowers, and stars with locomotives, hot-air...
PrefaceI. Elementary Theory of Orthogonal PolynomialsII. The Representation Theorem and DistributionIII. Continued Fractions and Chain SequencesIV. The Recurrence Formula and Properties of...
The meditative state associated with Zen philosophy inspired the creation of these soothing patterns. More than 30 pages of repetitive images feature graceful, sinuous lines and swirling circular...
Ilya Prigogine won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics. This groundbreaking 1962 monograph, written for researchers and graduate students in...
Brief, clear, and well written, this introduction to abstract algebra bridges the gap between the solid ground of traditional algebra and the abstract territory of modern algebra. The only...
FIRST LECTURE. Introduction. Reversibility and IrreversibilitySECOND LECTURE. Thermodynamic States of Equilibrium in Dilute SolutionsTHIRD LECTURE. Atomic Theory of MatterFOURTH LECTURE. Equation...
Colorists who love fantasy art and mermaids in particular will rejoice in this original collection of 31 imaginative illustrations of sea-dwellers amid crashing waves, coral reefs, and other...
Carefully designed to promote mindfulness and inner peace, 31 mesmerizing illustrations encourage expressive and experimental coloring. Abstract, organic forms swirl with tendrils, fins, pods,...
The second of the great Surrealist's collage novels, this profoundly bizarre work was first published in Paris in 1930. Humor and irony abound in its expression of religious ecstasy and carnal...
Nearly 200 examples exhibit the wide range of Islamic art, including hexagon and octagon designs, combinations of stars and rosettes, and many variations on other geometric patterns.
The entire corpus of Brahms' short piano pieces is contained in this volume, including the delightful and familiar Waltzes, the Scherzo in E-flat Minor, and many more. The music is reproduced...
Attractive couples model fashionable apparel worn from the 1860s through 1910: frock coats, trousers, top hats for the men; gowns with hoop skirts, softly draped bustles, and bloomers for the...