Product Description: Due to the increased use of composite materials in aerospace, energy, automobile, and civil infrastructure applications, concern over composite material failures has grown, creating a need for smart composite structures that are able to self-diagnose and self-heal...read more

Product Description: If you want to understand, and be a part of, the creative revolution in materials design, then Designing with Smart Textiles is the complete toolkit you need to get started.Beginning by introducing the terminology and key applications, the book goes on to examine the key design processes needed to develop interactive textile design concepts, with detailed projects and examples to help you apply these approaches in your own practice...read more

This definitive book provides information on establishing and managing an interior design practice. Equally relevant for commercial and residential designers, it covers all the basics from legal responsibilities to financial management, personnel management, licensing, marketing, and general business issues. The First Edition was the winner of the prestigious Joel Polsky award from ASID.

Contains Chapter overviews, Key Terms, Study questions, and Critical Thinking Exercises.

Product Description: This book facilitates the access to the various disciplines, highlighting their many points of contacts and making the clear the message that membrane-based sensors represent the future of the research in every field, including chemistry, biology, biomedicine, textiles, and electronics...read more

Product Description: Exciting new developments are enabling sensors to go beyond the realm of simple sensing of movement or capture of images to deliver information such as location in a built environment, the sense of touch, and the presence of chemicals...read more

Product Description: Smart Composites: Mechanics and Design addresses the current progress in the mechanics and design of smart composites and multifunctional structures. Divided into three parts, it covers characterization of properties, analyses, and design of various advanced composite material systems with an emphasis on the coupled mechanical and non-mechanical behaviors...read more

Modernism in art and literature was characterized by a reaction against the rationalism and scientism of the late nineteenth century and by a desire to open up enexplored areas of the mind, including the unconscious realms that were being uncovered by Freud and others. "Modernism and the European Unconscious" is a systematic study of this modernist "flight from reason" and of the impact of this movement on European culture in the twentieth century. In a comparative and comprehensive way, the contributors to this volume examine the interaction of modernist forms and new models of the mind. They focus on literary texts as well as on theatre, cinema and painting. They analyze not only the classic canon of great modernist novelists, such as Kafka, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, but also avant-garde movements like Surrealism and influential figures like Magritte, Max Ernst, Breton and Artaud. The result is a major work of comparative and cultural analysis. Among the contributors are Malcolm Bowie, Elizabeth Wright and Edward Timms.

Modernism in art and literature was characterized by a reaction against the rationalism and scientism of the late nineteenth century and by a desire to open up enexplored areas of the mind, including the unconscious realms that were being uncovered by Freud and others. "Modernism and the European Unconscious" is a systematic study of this modernist "flight from reason" and of the impact of this movement on European culture in the twentieth century. In a comparative and comprehensive way, the contributors to this volume examine the interaction of modernist forms and new models of the mind. They focus on literary texts as well as on theatre, cinema and painting. They analyze not only the classic canon of great modernist novelists, such as Kafka, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann, but also avant-garde movements like Surrealism and influential figures like Magritte, Max Ernst, Breton and Artaud. The result is a major work of comparative and cultural analysis. Among the contributors are Malcolm Bowie, Elizabeth Wright and Edward Timms.

Product Description: Photonic crystal nanostructures, whose photonic properties can be tuned in response to external stimuli, are desired for a wide range of applications in colour displays, biological and chemical sensors, and inks and paints. Until now there is no single resource which gives a complete overview of these exciting smart materials...read more

Product Description: The design of smart materials based on different natural and synthetic polymers represents one of the most attractive research areas over the last several years. This book reviews recent advances and developments of various classes of stimuli responsive polymer materials, different type of hydrogels for biomedical and pharmaceutical devices, scaffolds for tissue regeneration, and stimuli-responsive sensors or separation processes...read more

This definitive book provides information on establishing and managing an interior design practice. Equally relevant for commercial and residential designers, it covers all the basics from legal responsibilities to financial management, personnel management, licensing, marketing, and general business issues. The First Edition was the winner of the prestigious Joel Polsky award from ASID.

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Diana Vreeland's best-selling autobiography takes us with her around the globe in the company of royalty, actors, artists, and designers. Throughout, her vivacious conversation is peppered with glittering stories and outrageous pronouncements, displaying fully the talent for perception and persuasion that made her the empress of chic. Here she tells how Buffalo Bill taught her to ride, describes how she redefined the standards of attractiveness with the quirky models she brought to Vogue in the sixties, disparages her own looks, relates her search for “the perfect red,” and discourses on the nature of elegance. Whatever her subject, from backaches to nostalgia, from Paris to New York, from marriage to dinner parties, from Clark Gable to Swifty Lazar, you never want her to stop. For D.V. is unique among memories: a conversation as pleasurable as a perfect wardrobe.

Product Description: "Smart Materials in Structural Health Monitoring, Control and Biomechanics" presents the latest developments in structural health monitoring, vibration control and biomechanics using smart materials. The book mainly focuses on piezoelectric, fibre optic and ionic polymer metal composite materials...read more