This is a compendium of practical advice and pointers - a unique masterclass in practical product design that bridges the gap between theory and implementation. It is an invaluable companion for circuit designers and practicing electronics engineers - gives best practices, design guidelines and engi[...]
In the Electronics industry, consumer demand for devices with hyper-connectivity and mobility has resulted in the development of a complete system on a chip (SoC). This is a guide to the techniques, methods and technologies to carry out model- based electronic system design.[...]
This book is the first major study of the means by which the classical Athenians organised and funded their many festival choruses. It explores the mechanics of the institution by which a minority of rich citizens were required to arrange and pay for a festival chorus, including choruses for tragic [...]
A collection of elementary pieces that are fun to play for the beginner Violinist.
Presents design of optimized and reliable electronic circuits. A guide to electronic design for production, this book focuses on the art of designing circuits. It covers topics such as analog and digital circuits, component types, power supplies and printed circuit board design.[...]
This book provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, the book gives 'easy-to-find' design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which engineers can easily match and apply t[...]
This title is the winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011. The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degr[...]
Peter Wilson provides a concise yet comprehensive account of the Holy Roman Empire and its profound impact during its last three centuries of existence. Drawing on a wealth of research, the expanded new edition has been fully revised and updated throughout and now features a new chapter on 'Nation a[...]
This authoritative and multi-disciplinary book provides architects, lighting specialists, and anyone else working daylight into design, with all the tools needed to incorporate this most fundamental element of architecture. It includes: an overview of current practice of daylighting in architecture [...]
This new and completely redesigned edition is a dazzling display of angels in art, folklore, literature and scripture, around the world and through the ages. Peter Lamborn Wilson explains how philosophers, mystics and artists have envisioned the messengers of the gods since ancient times: their appe[...]
This book provides a radical new interpretation of the aims of the lesser German princes during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the example of the duchy of Württemberg. Arguing that the princesâ political ambitions were fundamental in shaping the internal development of their [...]
A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the moder[...]
One of America's finest abstract painters, Chris Martin (born 1954) explores the fertile areas between sophisticated formalism and the visionary joy of outsider art, making abstract painting look enviably effortless. For this massive volume, Martin and Dan Nadel have assembled a massive compendium o[...]
'Peter Lamborn Wilson shows why we cherish pirates - and why, for the sake of the future, we must continue to do so. Interesting and compelling...a rollicking, adventurous book.' Marcus Rediker, author, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 'A chronicler, a historiographer, and a piratologist in [...]
"Every map has its Night Sky because the Map is not the Territory -- & yet it is....
Ordinary maps project ideological inscriptions onto the body of landscape -- but a magical map would share essences with that landscape & engage in co-realization with it. Such a map could then act as a pilgrim'[...]
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. EC(O)LOGUES is a Menippean Satyre (mixed poetry and prose, both serious and humorous) inspired by Virgil's Eclogues. "What this book does has never been done even by Peter Lamborn Wilson himself before now; with all his exuberant learning and poetics, it offers the first[...]
A series of gatherings took place in 2006 to discuss the contemporary relevance of the ancient sacred science of hermeticism, or alchemy. This book is a partial record of those meetings, focusing on finding a spiritual and cultural path for the healing of the current ecological crisis. Peter Lamborn[...]
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Great Britain is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ponder the mysteries of Stonehenge, explore the many sides of Edinburgh, or try new versions [...]
A study of the impact of war and military developments on German society and politics, and on the course of German history into the modern era.[...]