"Celebrate any important event in life, from a birthday to a retirement, with these 40 beautiful blocks and 7 customizable settings. Created to commemorate the author's 40th wedding anniversary, you can read the story behind each block, then make it personal by stitching in your…
"Historical Pattern Archive: Women's Clothing 1837-1969 is the first book of its kind to capture such a wide range of women's period patterns in one book, featuring 83 patterns spanning over a century of clothing. The book offers an accurate pattern of each garment on a 1/8" gra…
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In this book, the author has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as teacher of symmetry and geometry. In this sense, the author says, flowers can be treated as sources of remembering - a way of recalling our o…
Agile web development with rails
by Thomas, David, Pragmatic Programmers (Firm), Ruby, Sam
Provides information on creating Web-based applications with Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9, covering such topics as HTTP authentication, validation and unit testing, cart creation, Ajax, caching, migrations, and plugins.
In this book, the author takes the recurring patterns in nature – trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts – and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world.
Although numerous statistical methods for analyzing spatial point patterns have been available for several decades, they haven't been extensively applied in an ecological context. Addressing this gap, this book shows how the techniques of point-pattern analysis are useful for ta…
This book discusses the shapes, sizes, patterns, distribution, history and care of wind-blown dunes, and covers all aspects of dunes, terrestrial and in the Solar System.
"One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature--designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but bec…
This collection of 18 charming quilts and home accessories from Sherri McConnell brings together the best of the old and new in quilting. Sherri's new designs update traditional blocks (many handed down from her grandmothers) with fresh colors and fabrics from some of today's to…