Today's students of architecture, interior design, and landscape design need to master the art of marketing themselves via both traditional handheld and digital portfolios. Design Portfolios: Moving from Traditional to Digital, 2nd Edition, enables students to create portfolios that serve as both ev[...]

Athletes and actors, models and musicians, pastors and politicians... many have stepped forward, looked in the camera, and proclaimed, "I am second." But most in the I Am Second movement are not celebrities. They are ordinary people - and they've come to the simple realization that when God comes fi[...]

Perhaps LA is best defined by those simple life-affirming moments. A cracked-ice, jazz-age cocktail on Beverly Boulevard, a hike high into the Hollywood Hills sagebrush, a swirling pod of dolphins off Point Dume Adam Skolnick, Lonely Planet Writer
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet California is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Spot the stars in Hollywood, explore the Napa Valley's world-famous wineries and soak up the ray[...]

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Discover California is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Go star-spotting in Hollywood, marvel at soaring redwood forests, or sample vintages in[...]

For most of the seventeenth century the Netherlands constituted the most important maritime power in the world, with by far the largest merchant fleet and a dominance in seaborne trade that other countries feared and envied. Born out of an 80-year struggle against Spain for independence, the Dutch r[...]

Celebrating Hermès' chosen theme of metamorphosis, this publication features 12 large-format photographs by French fashion photographer and filmmaker Sarah Moon (born 1941). Also included are ten short stories on metamorphosis by authors such as Mikhail Bulgakov, Aimee Bender, Yoko Ogawa, José Car[...]

Corrosion resistance is the property of a material to resist corrosion attack in a particular aggressive environment. Although titanium, tantalum and zirconium are not noble metals, they are the best choice whenever high corrosion resistance is required. The exceptionally good corrosion resistance o[...]