Offers information on unconventional contemporary patterns created by illustrators & graphic designers & shows how these unique patterns are created, applied to products, & presented in stores. This book is suitable for artists, illustrators, fashion designers/enthusiasts, & graphic designers. ...

Applying modern nonlinear stability theory to problems of continuous media mechanics in the presence of interfaces, this text is relevant to materials science, chemical engineering, & heat transfer technologies, as well as to reaction-diffusion systems. ...

Contains a number of mini-review articles authored by speakers & attendees at the IMA workshop on Pattern Formation in Continuous & Coupled Systems. The workshop focused on new directions in the patterns literature. This volume is intended to be a pointer to the literature for researchers at various levels & to have extensive bibliographies. ...

Explores the ways in which educators & facilitators can work to help students build those patterns that can be most useful to them that include 'technical' patterns of language, number, sequence or process, as well as thinking patterns that support problem-solving, creativity, logical analysis or empathy. ...

Six archive documentaries looking at the rural way of life in Britain during the 1940s. ' The Grassy Shires' (1944) looks at the farmlands of Nottinghamshire. ' Fenlands' (1945) looks at the story of the fens & how farmland was created over the centuries by draining the peat bogs. ' Cornish Valley' (1944) looks at remote farms making do without electricity or gas. ' Downlands' (1947) explores from the chalk cliffs of Dover to the Cotswolds. Also included is ' Crofters' & ' North East Corner'. ...

British culture was introduced to South Africa in 1814. But there was growing conflict between the old & new cultures that led to the South African (or Boer) War in 1899-1902, which was followed by the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. This title provides the historical contexts of the developments & achievements. ...