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In the United States today, there are more than twenty-two million quilters who collectively spend more than one billion dollars on quilting every year. The annual International Quilt Festival attracts more than 50,000 dedicated visitors from around the world. Festival prize money can reach $100,000. Drawn into this material world by a newspaper assignment, Spike Gillespie soon found the personalities who populate serious quiltmaking as compelling as the art itself. Quilty as Charged is not a history or how-to guide; it is a collection of many small stories, including Gillespie's, stitched together in the spirit of quilting, separate scraps made into a cohesive cloth.

Quilting today is a world of traditionalists and visionary artists, collectors and connoisseurs, and it encourages the same intrigue, innovation, and inspiration found in "fine" art. (Many of the quilts themselves hang, deservedly, in fine art museums.) Inevitably, Gillespie begins piecing together a quilt. But while her effort begins as a helpful tool for understanding her subjects, what she ultimately understands is that she, like all inspired quilters, is sewing her own pattern.

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Alison and Peter Smithson, founders of Team X and authors of the classic Team X Primer, are among the most influential architects of the postwar decades. Their reevaluation of modernism shifted the focus of architecture and urbanism toward the particularities and uniqueness of human associations, urban patterns, and climatic conditions. Many of their ideas, both social (cluster and human association) and architectural (Brutalism, the nature of materials), profoundly influenced later generations of academics, students, and practitioners. As the social ideals of earlier times became an integral part of the reassessment of the built environment of recent years, the Smithsons continue to gain in significance.

This unprecedented and long-overdue publication is the first comprehensive book available on the enormous legacy of the Smithsons. Prepared by the architects themselves, The Charged Void: Architecture will be followed by a volume of their urban projects and a collection of their later writings. The architectural works in this book, which span from the mid-1940s to the mid-1990s, include all of their major projects, such as Hunstanton Secondary School, Golden Lane Housing, Sheffield University, the Economist Group, and the ìHouse of the Future,î as well as smaller-scale designs, such as Sugden House. Introductions to groups of projects highlight the Smithsonsí ongoing areas of inquiry; each project is accompanied by an original text, photographs, drawings, plans, and other illustrations. The rich documentatipon on each project and the careful compilation ensure that this volume will record the work of these important architects for posterity..
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The Charged Void: Urbanism is the companion volume to The Charged Void: Architecture; the two together comprise the complete works of Alison and Peter Smithson. For the designers, architecture and urbanism were inseparable: buildings encapsulate urban ideas; urban systems are the means by which buildings function effectively. This second book collects both urban and architectural designs that have specific implications for city form into fifteen thematic chapters: the Team X Doorn Manifesto with its worked examples (Close Houses, Fold Houses, Terraced Crescent Houses); large-scale designs such as the Berlin Hauptstadt, Hamburg Steilshoop, and the Kuwait Urban Form Study; and built manifestations of urban ideas, notably the Economist Building of 1959-64. More than a collection of work, The Charged Void: Urbanism represents a record of a focused thought process concerned with the qualities of urban life--a thoughtful and witty collection of observations, decipherings, and reccomendations for understanding and improving the complex nature of the city..
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Balancing its coverage of theory with a wide range of application areas, Handbook of Charged Particle Optics provides a complete guide to understanding, designing, and using high resolution instrumentation such as scanning electron microscope (SEM), scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), and focused ion beam (FIB) systems. This second edition features new chapters on aberration correction, the transmission electron microscope (TEM), and applications of gas phase field ionization sources. Including additional references to past and present work in the field, this comprehensive text also presents up-to-date information of Schottky electron as well as liquid metal ion sources..
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What makes lights blink on and refrigerators hum? Learn how electricity goes from the power plant to you home. See what happens when a bolt of lightning sends things awry in this story of electricity .
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The book covers all theoretical aspects of modern geometrical charged particle optics. It is intended as a textbook for graduate student and as a guide for researchers, who are involved in the design of electron optical instruments and beam-guiding systems for charged particles. Procedures for calculating the properties of systems with arbitrarily curved axis are outlined in detail and methods are discussed for designing and optimizing special components such as aberration corrector, spectrometers, energy filters, monochromator, ion traps, electron mirrors and cathodes. The design of novel electron optical components enabling sub-Angstroem spatial resolution and sub-0.1eV energy resolution are discussed. Relativistic motion and spin precession of the electron is treated in a concise way by employing a covariant five-dimensional procedure.

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The SEC's complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that Madoff yesterday informed two senior employees that his investment advisory business was a fraud. Madoff told these employees that he was "finished," that he had "absolutely nothing," that "it's all just one big lie," and that it was "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme." The senior employees understood him to be saying that he had for years been paying returns to certain investors out of the principal received from other, different investors. Madoff admitted in this conversation that the firm was insolvent and had been for years, and that he estimated the losses from this fraud were at least $50 billion. According to regulatory filings, the Madoff firm had more than $17 billion in assets under management as of the beginning of 2008. It appears that virtually all assets of the advisory business are missing..
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Get ready for a high-speed adventure with The Everything KIDS' Cars and Trucks Puzzle and Activity Book! Inside you'll find over a hundred all-new puzzles that will have you racing from page to page as you maneuver mazes, hunt for hidden pictures, wheel through riddles, and navigate tons of other exciting activities for hours of entertainment!
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