 | Islamic Design
by Dover
For designers, illustrators, and craftworkers—splendid decorative images from one of the world’s great art traditions. High-quality, royalty-free illustrations—reproduced from a wealth of rare sources—include exquisite patterns, borders, and motifs dis... read more
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 | The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales
by Arthur Ransome
Choice collection of nine classic tales-gathered by British author on his journeys to Russia in the early twentieth century-tells of magical beasts, daring young men, frightful giants, wicked witches, and beguiling creatures of the sea. A delight for fairy tale fans of all ag... read more
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 | Lighthouses of the World
by John Batchelor
Ready-to-color illustrations of 30 authentic sentinels by the sea include accurate depictions of the ancient Pharos light in Alexandria, Egypt (one of the Seven Wonders of the World); a 2,000-year-old Roman lighthouse in England; an early eighteenth-century pillared construct... read more
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 | Finger Prints: The Classic 1892 Treatise
by Francis Galton
One of the preeminent scientists of the nineteenth century, Sir Francis Galton published this landmark study of fingerprint science in 1892. His procedure, using prints of all ten fingers, remains the basis of today’s systems. Finger Prints reviews Galton’s... read more
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 | The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe
Stranded in a gloomy medieval fortress, an orphaned heroine battles the schemes of her guardians as well as her own melancholy fancies. Generations have thrilled to The Mysteries of Udolpho, a best-seller upon its 1794 publication that achieved further renown with a sa... read more
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 | Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics
by Peter C. Hughes
From its roots in classical mechanics and reliance on stability theory to the evolution of practical stabilization ideas, this volume offers comprehensive coverage of environmental torques encountered in space; energy dissipation and its effects on the attitude stability of s... read more
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 | Applied Exterior Calculus
by Dominic G.B. Edelen
Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students with a grasp of upper-division algebra and analysis will benefit from this three-part treatment, which begins with coverage of the essential elements of the exterior calculus together with a number of abbreviated applications. ... read more
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