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Book The Grand Designers

Download or read book The Grand Designers written by John D. Anderson Jr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The airplane has experienced phenomenal advancement in the twentieth century, changing at an exponential rate from the Wright brothers to the present day. In this ground breaking work based on new research, Dr John D. Anderson, Jr, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, analyzes the historical development of the conceptual design process of the airplane. He aims to answer the question of whether airplane advancement has been driven by a parallel advancement in the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design. In doing so, Anderson identifies and examines six case histories of 'grand designers' in this field, and challenges some of the preconceived notions of how the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design advanced. Filled with over one hundred illustrations which bring his words to life, Anderson unfolds the lives and thoughts of these grand designers.

Book The Grand Design

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  • Author : Stephen W. Hawking
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0553819224
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by Stephen W. Hawking and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relativity physics.

Book The Best of Grand Designs

Download or read book The Best of Grand Designs written by Kevin McCloud and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete celebration of Britain’s favourite architectural show.

Book The Grand Design

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  • Author : Joy Callaway
  • Publisher : Harper Muse
  • Release : 2022-05-17
  • ISBN : 1400234387
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by Joy Callaway and published by Harper Muse. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her socialite circles. Only the aristocracy’s annual summer trips to The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia spark her imagination. In this naturally beautiful place, an unexpected romance with an Italian racecar driver gives Dorothy a taste of the passion and adventure she wants. But her family intervenes, sentencing Dorothy to the life she hopes to escape. Thirty-eight years later, as World War II draws to a close, Dorothy has done everything a woman in the early twentieth century should not: she has divorced her husband—scandalous—and established America’s first interior design firm—shocking. Now, Dorothy returns to The Greenbrier with the assignment to restore it to something even greater than its original glory. With her beloved company’s future hanging in the balance and brimming with daring, unconventional ideas, Dorothy has one more chance to give her dreams wings or succumb to her what society tells her is her inescapable fate. Based on the true story of famed designer Dorothy Draper, The Grand Design is a moving tale of one woman’s quest to transform the walls that hold her captive. “Five Stars!” —Carleton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc. “As captivating and confident as the heroine at its center.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil “Full of luscious details of fashion and luxury!” —Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott “A dazzling, intimate portrait.” —Louise Claire Johnson, author of Behind the Red Door “Historical fiction at its finest!” —Elyssa Friedland, author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel Historical novel centered around America’s first female interior designer Stand-alone novel Book length: 109,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs

Book Grand Designs Handbook

Download or read book Grand Designs Handbook written by Kevin McCloud and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Packed with tools and tips, this essential guide provides the instructions any aspiring self-builder needs to ensure that their vision becomes reality. Organized into three main sections—Thinking, Dreaming, and Doing—guidelines are provided that cover every aspect of the build, from finding a plot, obtaining planning permission, and commissioning and briefing architects and builders up through implementing the build itself. Structured around fundamental locations—urban, suburban, and rural—a host of successful projects are featured, including, a reinvented violin factory, a converted barn, and a glass pavilion on a beach. Suggestions for using green design and building techniques are also provided. DIVDIV Kevin McCloud is an interior designer and the author of several books, including Bathrooms, Choosing Colors, Grand Designs, Grand Designs Abroad, and Lighting Style.

Book X Men

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  • Author : Ed Piskor
  • Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
  • Release : 2019-08-21
  • ISBN : 1302514776
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book X Men written by Ed Piskor and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects X-Men: Grand Design - X-Tinction #1-2 - plus the classic Uncanny X-Men (1981) #268, masterfully recolored by Ed. Presented in the same dynamic, oversized format of the best-selling Hip Hop Family Tree. The series that has critics and fans raving returns for its final installment! The fall and rise of the X-Men revisited! Relive the now-classic storylines of the 1980s - including the Mutant Massacre, the Fall of the Mutants, Inferno and the X-Tinction Agenda! And it's out with the old and in with the blue and gold as the X-Men enter the '90s! An explosive era of X-Men history is revisited, expanded and polished for a new generation - including the debuts of such 1990s mainstays as Jubilee, Gambit, Psylocke, Mister Sinister and more! The final chapter of this best-selling prestige series caps off the first three decades of X-Men lore in one neat package - all of it brought to life by the master of graphic fiction himself, Ed Piskor!

Book The Grand Design

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  • Author : John Dos Passos
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-06-23
  • ISBN : 1504015460
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by John Dos Passos and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dos Passos’s literary response to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, The Grand Design critiques the gargantuan growth of bureaucracy in Washington during the Great Depression and World War II. The satiric novel conveys the author’s frustration with federal overreach and the hollow rhetoric that sells it to the people. “War is a time of Caesars,” writes Dos Passos as he laments the death of idealistic, intelligent enterprises at the desks of elitist administrators. After witnessing the Spanish Civil War claim so many well-intentioned men, he advises caution for America’s New Dealers: “Some things we have learned, but not enough; there is more to learn. Today we must learn to found again in freedom our republic.”

Book The Grand Design

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  • Author : Donald Stoker
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-20
  • ISBN : 0199752567
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by Donald Stoker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising account of strategy as it evolved between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. Reminding us that strategy is different from tactics (battlefield deployments) and operations (campaigns conducted in pursuit of a strategy), Stoker examines how Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis identified their political goals and worked with their generals to craft the military means to achieve them--or how they often failed to do so. Stoker shows that Davis, despite a West Point education and experience as Secretary of War, ultimately failed as a strategist by losing control of the political side of the war. Lincoln, in contrast, evolved a clear strategic vision, but he failed for years to make his generals implement it. And while Robert E. Lee was unerring in his ability to determine the Union's strategic heart--its center of gravity--he proved mistaken in his assessment of how to destroy it. Historians have often argued that the North's advantages in population and industry ensured certain victory. In The Grand Design, Stoker reasserts the centrality of the overarching plan on each side, arguing convincingly that it was strategy that determined the result of America's great national conflict.

Book Mind of God

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  • Author : P. C. W. Davies
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1993-03-05
  • ISBN : 0671797182
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Mind of God written by P. C. W. Davies and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-03-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of whether modern science can provide the key that will unlock all the secrets of existence.

Book The Grand Design

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  • Author : Owen Strachan
  • Publisher : Christian Focus
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781781917640
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by Owen Strachan and published by Christian Focus. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has gone gray-fuzzy, blurry, gender-neutral gray. In a secularist culture, many people today are confused about what it means to be a man or a woman. Owen Strachan and Gavin Peacock clear away the confusion and open up the Scriptures.

Book Grand Designs

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  • Author : Lara Kriegel
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780822340720
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Grand Designs written by Lara Kriegel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCombines cultural and labor history of Victorian Britain to investigate the relationship of culture to design, the role of the marketplace in the making of cultural institutions such as museums, and England's eventual loss of industrial superiority. /div

Book The Grand Design

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  • Author : Sally Foy
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by Sally Foy and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grand Design

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  • Author : John Marco
  • Publisher : Spectra
  • Release : 2014-09-17
  • ISBN : 0804180857
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book The Grand Design written by John Marco and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Marco comes the epic sequel to his thrilling debut military fantasy, The Jackel of Nar. An infamous warrior is once again caught between two irrexixtible forces, and his choice may change the world... Prince Richius Vantran, the Jackal of Nar, has fled into exile. Meanwhile, Nar has exploded in civil war. The conflict is being waged between the religious fanatics of Bishop Herrith, who follow the Light of God, and the ruthless followers of Count Biagio and his Black Renaissance. As the terrifying slaughter mounts, fueled by the development of hideous new war machines, Vantran is offered a chance to ally with a third faction and take his revenge against his ancient enemy Biagio. But Biagio, a master of deception and intrigue, has a grand design to gain total power that involves luring Vantran's new allies into a deadly trap. As for Vantran, Biagio has a special punishment: to strike the warrior-prince's only weakness...Vantran's innocent daughter. And Vantran himself will unwittingly seal the young girl's fate.

Book Luxers    Multiverse

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  • Author : John Mayer Charmant
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2018-02-01
  • ISBN : 1480947687
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Luxers Multiverse written by John Mayer Charmant and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxers’ Multiverse By: John Mayer Charmant In the year 2090, the world is a much different place. The traditional borders between countries have dissolved, leaving only a handful of large, competitive regions. Solar energy dominates, capitalizing on the increased radiation that penetrates the atmosphere due to global warming. Flying cars fill the skies and houses are carved from solid gemstones. It is into this strange and distant future that Adnex Courageux is born. Born to Genus and Dora Courageux, Adnex appears at first to be a normal, happy child, but great beings beyond the realm of human understanding soon take an interest in the peculiarly intelligent boy. As an adult, his mastery of technology changes the path of human history, but his true potential still lies untapped. Will he be the savior of humanity or does he represent the next step in our evolution, destined to leave us behind to fade from history?

Book Little House of My Own

Download or read book Little House of My Own written by Les Walker and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Little House of My Own" offers humble dreams of solitude, romance, oasis for meditation, and whimsy, all less than 325 square feet. Includes the technical details of the structure from the building materials and woodworking techniques to estimated cost of construction. 300 color and b&w photos.

Book God s Grand Design

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  • Author : Sean Michael Lucas
  • Publisher : Crossway
  • Release : 2011-10-05
  • ISBN : 1433524457
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book God s Grand Design written by Sean Michael Lucas and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards was a preacher, pastor, revivalist, and theologian. This volume unpacks his magnificent theological vision, which starts with God's glory and ends with all creation returning to that glory. Sean Michael Lucas has converted his years of teaching on Edwards into this valuable work, which places Edwards's vision in an accessible, two-part framework. Part one focuses on Edwards's understanding of redemption history—God's cosmic, grand work from eternity past to eternity future, where all things are united in Christ. Part two examines Edwards's perspective on "redemption applied"—how that gracious, divine work unfolds in space and time to personally transform individuals, stirring their affections, illuminating their minds, and moving their wills to form new habits and practices. This overview of Edwards's theology will prove to be a thought-provoking, encouraging guide to contemporary believers at every stage of their spiritual journey.

Book Grand Design

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  • Author : Elizabeth A. H. Cleland
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2014-10-06
  • ISBN : 0300208057
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Grand Design written by Elizabeth A. H. Cleland and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502 – 1550) was renowned throughout Renaissance Europe as a draftsman, painter, and publisher of architectural treatises. The magnificent tapestries he designed were acquired by the wealthiest clients of the day, up to and including rulers such as Emperor Charles V, King Francis I of France, King Henry VIII of England, and Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici of Tuscany. At the same time, Coecke was remarkable not only for the complexity and unparalleled quality of his tapestries, but also for his fluency in various media: this lavishly illustrated volume examines the full range of his work, from tapestry and stained-glass window designs to panel paintings, prints, drawings, and architectural treatises. Though only forty-eight when he died, Coecke was one of the greatest Netherlandish artists of the sixteenth century. His paintings and drawings, initially wrought in the style of the Antwerp Mannerists, evolved through his enthusiastic response to Italian Renaissance design, and influenced generations of artists in his wake. This comprehensive study explores Coecke’s stylistic development, as well as his substantial contribution to the body of great Renaissance art in Flanders. Featuring twenty monumental tapestries, along with many of their cartoons and preparatory sketches, plus seven paintings, additional drawings, and printed matter—many of them newly photographed for this volume—Grand Design provides a thorough reappraisal of Coecke’s work, amply justifying the high regard in which Coecke’s work was held and its wide dissemination long after his death.