Since its first publication in 1969, Pioneers of Modern Typography has been the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography. In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had t[...]
Herbert Spencer's text examines what led up to the new concepts in graphic design and carefully disentangles the respective influences of Futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism and the Bauhaus. His text is illustrated with examples of crucial contributions to the new typography - f[...]
Spencer's account of his sociologial doctrines. Its publication marked Spencer as a popular philosopher of the Victorian age. It was a influential in terms of the impetus it gave to the academic pursuit of the new science of sociology.[...]
This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as The Man Versus the State in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. In addition, it provides "The Proper Sphere of Government", an important early essay by Spencer. Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramificatio[...]
Presents a handbook for the identification of over five hundred species of trees by illustration and text.[...]
Full-color illustrations of 278 of the most common fresh- and salt-water fishes accompany clear and concise descriptions that tell:
-Where different fishes live and what they eat
-Their sizes, shapes, and other identifying features
-Their intriguing and various ways of life
"Fishes" is[...]
"Seashells of the World "is an introduction to the world of marine seashells, emphasizing the most attractive and best-known species. This guide will help you to:
-Identify
-Classify
-Understand the beautiful shells you see and collect
No other animals are so widely collected, traded, [...]