Introduction to Optimum Design, Fourth Edition, carries on the tradition of the most widely used textbook in engineering optimization and optimum design courses. It is intended for use in a first course on engineering design and optimization at the undergraduate or graduate level in engineering depa...

Career Paths: Art & Design is a new educational resource for art and design professionals who want to improve their English communication in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in four language co...

Career Paths: Beauty Salon is a new educational resource for salon professionals who want to improve their English communication in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in four language components:...

This volume comprises the fourth installment in this ambitious publishing project. The oeuvre of Gerhard Richter (born 1932) comprises in excess of 3,000 individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as...

Career Paths: Beauty Salon is a new educational resource for salon professionals who want to improve their English communication in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in four language components:...

Career Paths: Art & Design is a new educational resource for art and design professionals who want to improve their English communication in a work environment. Incorporating career-specific vocabulary and contexts, each unit offers step-by-step instruction that immerses students in four language co...

Architecture in Europe has always been characterized by an inimitable variety of style. Also current architecture, from Estonia to Spain, between Norway, Germany and Greece is inspired by the creative interaction of international design trends with the unparalleled and individual architectural langu...

Setting the Standard. Raising the Bar. The Enjoyment of Music has been the most trusted introduction to music for more than five decades.This shorter edition of The Enjoyment of Music continues to teach students how to listen and connect to any kind of music.

Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear provides a straightforward introduction to the principles of form pattern cutting for garments to fit the body shape, and flat pattern cutting for casual garments and jersey wear.This sixth edition remains true to the original concept: it offers a range of goo...

A publishing collaboration between Gagosian Gallery and Phaidon.An in?depth study of painters and photographers studios with examples from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries.Introductory essays and catalogue entries on individual works by two experts in their respective fields John Elderf...

For courses in Fashion Design, Pattern Making, Draping, Introduction to Fashion, and Fashion Promotion.Draping for Fashion Design, Fifth Edition, is thedefinitive basic instructional text for draping in numerous fashion design programs since its original publication. This book covers all of the fund...