Histories of design pay scant attention to the corded telephone, which played an immeasurable role in early communication. Although the Bell System, with many Nobel Prizes, is justly acknowledged for its technical prowess, it should also be recognized for its early and considerable impact on the developing discipline of industrial design. In 1930, young Henry Dreyfuss, who would later become known as a pioneer of industrial design, was retained by the Bell System as a design consultant and...

Celebrates the design work of Henry Dreyfuss and his associates that revolutionized 20th century industrial design from telephones to trains to thermostats.Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People reveals the work of Dreyfuss's talented, hand-picked staff and explores how together they influenced nearly a century of industrial design. With his wife as business partner, he orchestrated a firm that created some of the 20th century's most iconic designs, includin...

Dieses Buch räumt mit drei Irrtümern, die die Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitstörung betreffen, auf. Erstens zeigt es: ADS ist keine Modediagnose, sondern eine Erkrankung, an der viele Menschen leiden. Sie ist zweitens objektiv diagnostizierbar. Und drittens schließlich: ADS ist heilbar!Aber ADS verschwindet nicht von allein. Das Gehirn hat nur unzureichende Lernfortschritte machen können und dies bedingt das Störungsbild. Dieses Buch stellt ein neues Konzept in der Diagnostik und Therapieb...

Wer wissen will, was Seelsorge ist, hat die Qual der Wahl. Gibt es doch eine verwirrende Vielfalt an Konzepten, Lehren und Schulen. Wie auch in anderen praktisch-theologischen Teildisziplinen hat sich die Theorie ausdifferenziert und in verschiedenen kirchlichen Arbeitsfeldern etabliert. Lässt sich in der Theorie ein theologisches Fundament ausmachen? Gibt es einen gemeinsamen Nenner in der Praxis? Wer es wissen will, findet in diesem Buch eine kompakte und konzentrierte Antwort. Die Beitr...

An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode—which they term

A gold-toothed corpse, a town hungry for vengeance, and a hearse full of secrets—a gripping opening to a groundbreaking graphic novel series by expert duo Xavier Dorison and Ralph Meyer.Jonas Crow is not your average mortician. Tall, lean, and accompanied by a carrion-eating vulture, he travels the Old West in a black hearse, providing final rites for those who can afford them.But Jonas is a man with a past as dark as the clothes he wears—and his newest cli...

In the frozen heart of Apache territory, the cold doesn’t kill as fast as a friend’s betrayal.In volume 3 of this acclaimed graphic novel series, Jonas Crow is a man alone again. With Rose gone, the Undertaker has returned to his solitary trade, carving out a living by burying the dead as a brutal winter descends upon the Arizona desert.He’s content to be left alone—until Sid Beauchamp, a face from a past Jonas would rather forget, arrives with a propositio...

An odd friendship develops between a lonely dolphin, Silver, and a crusty old pelican, Sam. Swim with Silver and discover his love and need for home, the sea, and the true and extraordinary meaning of friendship.

In the wild frontier, the dead stay buried. It’s the living you have to worry about.In volume two of this exciting graphic novel series, Jonas Crow—the West’s most cynical undertaker—just wants to enjoy the quiet life of a traveling mortician. His hearse is fixed, his vulture is content, and the chaos of his last job is behind him. But peace is a luxury a man with Jonas’s past can’t afford.The silence is shattered when an old colonel delivers a chilling rev...

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Ralph Adams Cram.

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...