For decades anyone who cared about product design looked to the Braun label when choosing their appliances radios & other consumer items Now Dieter Rams the guiding force behind the Braun look breaks down his design principles & processes in this elegant book Enumerating each of his ten principles such as good design is innovative; good design is aesthetic; good design is useful etc this book presents one hundred items that embody these guidelines Readers will find items that are familiar such as the ubiquitous coffee grinder but also those that are more unusual such as shelving systems & cigarette lighters A fascinating essay places Dieter Rams in the context of modern design from Bauhaus to Philip Johnson Archival materials include photos of Rams' design team & excerpts from his publications & speeches The book closes with a chronological overview of design icons categorized by function that show the enormous breadth of Rams' vision Taken together these images & texts offer the most comprehensive overview of Dieter Rams' work to date & will serve as both a reference & an inspiration for anyone interested in how & why good design matters ...

Since its publication in 1968 Difference & Repetition an exposition of the critique of identity has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy & one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works The text follows the development of two central concepts those of pure difference & complex repetition It shows how the two concepts are related difference implying divergence & decentring repetition being associated with displacement & disguising The work moves deftly between Hegel Kierkegaard Freud Althusser & Nietzsche to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics & has been a central text in initiating the shift in French thought
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The gripping new psychological thriller from Joanne Harris to follow her bestselling Gentlemen & Players & Blueeyedboy Perfect for fans of Claire Mackintosh BA Paris Paula Hawkins & Tracy Chevalier ‘ Crime novel or literary novel? Categories really don’t matter; readers will find themselves comprehensively gripped’ Independent&A cracking psychological thriller& Good Housekeeping After thirty years at St Oswald’s Grammar in North Yorkshire Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come & go – the clowns the rebels the underdogs & those he calls his Brodie boys But every so often there’s a boy who doesn’t fit the mould A troublemaker A boy capable of twisting everything around him A boy with hidden shadows inside With insolvency & academic failure looming a new broom has arrived at the venerable school bringing Powerpoint sharp suits & even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors But while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future a shadow from his past is stirring A boy who even twenty years on haunts his teacher’s dreams A boy capable of bad things ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play BEADY EYE Different Gear Still Speeding (2011 UK Deluxe limited edition 2-disc CDDVD set
- Liam Gallaghers Beady Eye present their debut album Produced by Steve Lillywhite Different Gear Still Speeding was was recorded at RAK Studios in Summer 2010 This 2-disc set comprises the 13-track CD album featuring the singles Four Letter Word Bring The Light & The Roller; plus a Bonus DVD including music videos for Bring The Light Four Letter Word Sons Of The Stage & the making-of documentary RAK Them Out)
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Read the original stories which became the celebrated films STAND BY ME APT PUPIL & THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION voted the world's most popular movie In this classic collection of four novellas the grand master takes you on irresistible journeys into the far reaches of horror heartache & hope Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption is the story of two men convicted of murder
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- who form the perfect partnership as they dream up a scheme to escape from prison In Apt Pupil a golden schoolboy entices an old man with a past to join in a dreadful union The Body sees four young boys venture into the woods & find life death & the end of innocence The Breathing Method is the tale of a doctor who goes to his club & discovers a woman determined to give birth
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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities Sam is like any other teenage girl except that she was born deaf She meets Jim falls in love & feels happier than ever before Then one day Jim's jealous ex-girlfriend reveals a secret Sam is left wondering if she really knows Jim at all For their love to grow Jim must show her that their worlds are not too different Paperback-only version Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book ...

Fully updated & revised Differential Diagnosis in Dermatology Fourth Edition has been greatly expanded & now

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With a lighter accent on the physical interpretation of the results a more manageable page count than comparable texts a highly readable style & over 1000 exercises designed to be solved without a calculating device this book emphasizes the understanding & practice of essential topics in a succinct yet fully rigorous fashion ...

This text presents a graduate-level introduction to differential geometry for mathematics & physics students The exposition follows the historical development of the concepts of connection & curvature with the goal of explaining the Chern-Weil theory of characteristic classes on a principal bundle Along the way we encounter some of the high points in the history of differential geometry for example Gauss' Theorema Egregium & the Gauss-Bonnet theorem Exercises throughout the book test the reader's understanding of the material & sometimes illustrate extensions of the theory Initially the prerequisites for the reader include a passing familiarity with manifolds After the first chapter it becomes necessary to understand & manipulate differential forms A knowledge of de Rham cohomology is required for the last third of the text Prerequisite material is contained in author's text An Introduction to Manifolds & can be learned in one semester For the benefit of the reader & to establish common notations Appendix A recalls the basics of manifold theory in addition in an attempt to make the exposition more self-contained sections on algebraic constructions such as the tensor product & the exterior power are included Differential geometry as its name implies is the study of geometry using differential calculus It dates back to Newton & Leibniz in the seventeenth century but it was not until the nineteenth century with the work of Gauss on surfaces & Riemann on the curvature tensor that differential geometry flourished & its modern foundation was laid Over the past one hundred years differential geometry has proven indispensable to an understanding of the physical world in Einstein's general theory of relativity in the theory of gravitation in gauge theory & now in string theory Differential geometry is also useful in topology several complex variables algebraic geometry complex manifolds & dynamical systems among other fields The field has even found applications to group theory as in Gromov's work & to probability theory as in Diaconis's work It is not too far-fetched to argue that differential geometry should be in every mathematician's arsenal ...

This is a textbook on differential geometry well-suited to a variety of courses on this topic For readers seeking an elementary text the prerequisites are minimal & include plenty of examples & intermediate steps within proofs while providing an invitation to more excursive applications & advanced topics For readers bound for graduate school in math or physics this is a clear concise rigorous development of the topic including the deep global theorems For the benefit of all readers the author employs various techniques to render the difficult abstract ideas herein more understandable & engaging Over 300 color illustrations bring the mathematics to life instantly clarifying concepts in ways that grayscale could not Green-boxed definitions & violet-boxed theorems help to visually organize the mathematical content Color is even used within the text to highlight logical relationships Applications abound! The study of conformal & equiareal functions is grounded in its application to cartography Evolutes involutes & cycloids are introduced through Christiaan Huygens' fascinating story in attempting to solve the famous longitude problem with a mathematically-improved pendulum clock he invented mathematics that would later be applied to optics & gears Clairaut's Theorem is presented as a conservation law for angular momentum Green's Theorem makes possible a drafting tool called a planimeter Foucault's Pendulum helps one visualize a parallel vector field along a latitude of the earth Even better a south-pointing chariot helps one visualize a parallel vector field along any curve in any surface In truth the most profound application of differential geometry is to modern physics which is beyond the scope of this book The GPS in any car wouldn't work without general relativity formalized through the language of differential geometry Throughout this book applications metaphors & visualizations are tools that motivate & clarify the rigorous mathematical content but never replace it ...