Best Selling Books by James Stevens

Digital Vernacular addresses the why and how of digital fabrication in hundreds of step-by-step color images, illuminating a set of working principles and techniques that join theory with practice. Authors James Stevens and Ralph Nelson reconcile local traditions and innovations with globally accessible methods and digital toolsets. By combining ethics with hardware, the book will root you in the origins of making, ensuring a lasting and relevant reference for your studio practice. The book opens with the origins and principles of the digital vernacular, then outlines digital vernacular tools including computer numerically controlled (CNC) mills, laser cutters, and 3D printers. You''ll even learn to create your own digital fabrication tools out of inexpensive materials. The book concludes with the processes of the digital vernacular, including techniques for removing, joining, forming, and adding. A companion website at make-Lab.org hosts additional step-by-step processes and project outcomes.

This book depicts the nature, causes, side effects, treatment, and course of schizophrenia and furthermore investigates living with it from both the patient''s and the family''s perspective. This new, totally refreshed seventh version remembers the most recent exploration discoveries for what causes the sickness, just as data about the freshest medications for therapy, and answers the inquiries frequently posed by families, customers, and suppliers. A basic guide for those burdened by schizophrenia too the individuals who care for them. Here is the preview of what you will learn... • What is schizophrenia? • Behavioral tendencies leading to schizophrenia • Early diagnosis of schizophrenia • Factors responsible for causing schizophrenia • Medical and psychological treatment • Prognosis of schizophrenia • Love and support to help a loved one recover This book is designed to provide information on schizophrenia for patients, families and clinicians. It contains information on the basic signs, symptoms and treatment options that are available. It is written by a psychiatrist with two decades of experience. He is board certified in general psychiatry and three other specialities of forensic psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and addiction psychiatry and has provided treatment for patients of schizophrenia in many different settings.

Autobiography of an African American man raised in Boston and educated at Harvard. Includes his business and civic activities in Boston and Harlem, his association with Lincoln Steffens and his experiences in the Spanish-American War.

James Curl argues that the greatest architectural achievements of the Victorian period have been greatly undervalued and that they produced confident, colourful, eclectic architecture in keeping with the intellectual complexities of the age.

Written in the style of a journalistic expos e, this book takes a humorous yet informative look at the UN IT years of Doctor Who. The Doctor''''s ever-popular nemesis, t he Master, is featured in the action. ''

This comprehensive reference work is packed with hairdressing and wigmaking terms. Details of different kinds of wigs, beards, moustaches and hairstyles and also the implements and processes of hairdressing, with their history, descriptions and meanings from all periods are drawn from both the author''s experience as a practising hairdresser and wigmaker and original manuscripts and printed sources. The author lists and describes not only the literary, vernacular and technical words of the twentieth century, but also archaic, dialectal and obsolete words with their local uses and specialised meanings which are not readily available elsewhere. With over 1130 illustrations from contemporary works, this dictionary will provide accurate source material for those studying costume history and fashion, for artists, designers, collectors and the many people involved in the world of theatre and cinema, as well as for the professional hairdresser.

Read Rand''s own never-before-scene journal entries about the Brandons. Author Valliant shines light on the truth hidden by the Brandens'' biographies and sets the record straight.

Written for dinghy sailors, windsurfers, motor boaters, jet skiers and yacht sailors, whether prospective or practising, The Seaway Code sets out the technicalities of sailing and driving a craft, and a grounding in safety measures, custom and practice, legal requirements and weather and water conditions. The book covers the background sailors should be familiar with before they venture out onto the water and ties in with the seamanship aspects of basic training contained in the courses provided by the Royal Yachting Association. It is designed to be accessible to teenage readers as well as adults.

A celebration of architectural design in the reigns of the first four Georges (1714-1830), examining the remarkable stylistic diversity of Palladianism, the revivals of Greek, Roman and Egyptian styles, the taste for the exotic and orientalism, and the developments leading to the Gothic revival.

Looks at the influence of ancient Egypt on art, architecture and design in Europe from the time of the Roman Empire, through the Renaissance and up until the start of the twentieth century.

Juan Bautista and his partner Faiola drive a FreezVan for the Suicide Prevention League in San Juan. Juan is starting to look below the surface at the conflict between the dominate Christian Catholic Church of America and the Twin Messiah cult.

Abstract: This hadbook is a detailed quide to the equipment available for use in the foodservice industry. Chapters cover such equipment as foodservice hardware, energy and power systems, maintenance equipment, kitchen tools and dining supplies, as well as such areas as the bar counter and dining room.

In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Professor Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day, drawing on a wealth of sources. His pioneering and definitive work analyses the remarkable and persistent influence of Ancient Egyptian culture on the West.

From humble working-class exequies to the massive outpourings of grief at the State funerals of Wellington and Queen Victoria herself, this book covers an immense canvas. It describes the change in sensibility that led to a new tenderness towards the dead; disposal of the dead as part of the great sanitary reforms of the epoch; the history of the urban cemeteries with their architecture and landscapes; the ephemera of death and dying (including wreaths, mourning-cards and jewelry, elaborate hearses crowned with ostrich-feather plumes, mourning-dress, and much more); State funerals as national spectacles; and the utilitarian reactions towards the end of the 19th century. Beautifully illustrated. Over 100 illustrations.