In this readable, well-researched history, a distinguished authority on musical instruments offers a concise survey of the evolution of trumpets, trombones, bugles, cornets, French horns, tubas,...
Winner of a 2017 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Silver Medal Millions of creatures live in the backyard: beetles and bugs; butterflies and birds; turtles and toads; ants, earthworms, and tiny...
1. Introduction Temperature Heat and Work Reversibility Perssure-Volume Work2. The First Principle of Thermodynamics Energy Enthalpy Thermochemistry and Hess's Law Heat Capacity Kirchhoff's...
This handsome reprint of a rare 1930s catalog displays the interiors and exteriors of Sears-designed homes. Illustrations of 68 houses, including measured floor plans, depict such attractive...
Extraordinarily beautiful and decorative letters of the alphabet — imaginatively ornamented with royal and saintly figures, mythical creatures, knights in battle, flora and fauna, more.
The first picaresque novel, and one of the gems of Spanish literature. A brief, simply told tale of a rogue's adventures and misadventures — full of laconic cynicism and spiced with puns and...
This outstanding volume is a compilation of the most important chapters from two books in which master singers and teachers offer invaluable advice on topics essential to every singer -- from basic...
Portraits of remarkable northern and southern women depict Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy; Dorothea Dix, Union Superintendent of Nurses; Harriet Tubman, African-American abolitionist; Mary Walker,...
User-friendly, visually appealing collection offers both new and classic strategic board games. Includes abstract games for two and three players and mathematical games such as Nim and games on...
This exciting volume features 35 neglected works from Handel's vast oeuvre, originally jotted down as improvisations. Includes 8 Great Suites, and others. New sequence.
Rich selection of 124 stylized designs from rare German collection includes lush blossoms, tropical fruits, graceful foliage. Low-cost royalty-free motifs for textiles, surface decoration, more.
Nestled amid the high peaks and eternal snows of the Himalayas and other mountain ranges, Tibet is home to a centuries-old Buddhist tradition, rich in mystic rites and rituals aimed at helping...
Author Serge Lang defines algebraic geometry as the study of systems of algebraic equations in several variables and of the structure that one can give to the solutions of such equations. The study...
"In studying the notebooks one feels like an eavesdropper on Dostoyevsky's artistic self-communings.... We may plainly observe Dostoyevsky's creative logic at work in selection and...
Based on a story żeby Alarcón, this witty musical frolic recounts a magistrate's attempts to seduce a miller's wife. This affordable miniature score is reproduced from an authoritative 1921...
Thirty-eight meticulous rendered illustrations of Viking saga: European raids, American and Russian presence, ship construction, weapons, art, literature, much more. Captions.
Historically accurate renderings of Vikings, Italian Condottiere, Spanish foot-soldiers, and luminaries such as Richard the Lion-Hearted document the evolution and development of personal armour...
This collection of lovely images invites colouring book fans to explore the exquisite beauty of medieval tapestries. Thirty handsome drawings of unicorns, delicate damsels, knights in armour, and...
This introductory text explains methods for obtaining approximate solutions to mathematical problems by exploiting the presence of small, dimensionless parameters. For engineering and physical...
This wonderful survey of the famed artist's early work features 44 color plates in addition to several black-and-white vignettes and spot illustrations. Fantastic dwarfs, giants, and elves,...
1. The Scope of Mathematical Modeling2. The Relation of Models to Data3. Evaluation of Mathematical Models4. Optimization5. Choosing the Mathematics for the ModelAnswers to Selected ExercisesIndex
Volume II of two-volume set of excellent Breitkopf & Hartel edition includes Hoboken Nos. 30-52 arranged in chronological sequence: Sonata No. 30 in A Major (ca. 1774-76) culminating with...
1. What is a model? 1.1 The idea of a mathematical model and its relation to other uses of the word 1.2 Relations between models with respect to origins 1.3 Relations between models with respect to...