Finding a Form
Title | Finding a Form PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Gass |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2013-10-23 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0804150931 |
From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of the most important and briliant thinkers at work today.
The Form Book
Title | The Form Book PDF eBook |
Author | Borries Schwesinger |
Publisher | Thames and Hudson |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2010-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Filling in a form may be an everyday experience, yet as an aspect of design that affects all our lives, forms are quite often overlooked. This is a handbook on form design for designers, students and anyone interested in improving client communication and information handling.
Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch
Title | Frei Otto, Bodo Rasch PDF eBook |
Author | Sabine Schanz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9783930698660 |
A Little Book on Form
Title | A Little Book on Form PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hass |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2017-04-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0062332449 |
An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass. Robert Hass—former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize—illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this sophisticated, graceful, and accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop. A Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic and reflects his profound education in the art of poetry. Starting with the exploration of a single line as the basic gesture of a poem, and moving into an examination of the essential expressive gestures that exist inside forms, Hass goes beyond approaching form as a set of traditional rules that precede composition, and instead offers penetrating insight into the true openness and instinctiveness of formal creation. A Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our longest lasting mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets.
Web Form Design
Title | Web Form Design PDF eBook |
Author | Luke Wroblewski |
Publisher | Rosenfeld Media |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 193382025X |
Forms make or break the most crucial online interactions: checkout (commerce), registration (community), data input (participation and sharing), and any task requiring information entry. In Web Form Design, Luke Wroblewski draws on original research, his considerable experience at Yahoo! and eBay, and the perspectives of many of the field's leading designers to show you everything you need to know about designing effective and engaging Web forms.
Form and Forces
Title | Form and Forces PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Allen |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 2027 |
Release | 2012-01-09 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1118174259 |
Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it without the need for complex mathematics. This unique text teaches the whole process of structural design for architects, including selection of suitable materials, finding a suitable configuration, finding forces and size members, designing appropriate connections, and proposing a feasible method of erection. Chapters are centered on the design of a whole structure, from conception through construction planning.
Matter and Form
Title | Matter and Form PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Ward |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2009-10-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0739135708 |
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political philosophy: he argues that humans are by nature political animals, having their natural end in the city whose regime is hierarchically structured based on differences in moral and intellectual capacity. Medieval theorists attempt to synthesize classical natural and political philosophy with the revealed truths of scripture; they argue that divine reason structures an ordered universe, the awareness of which allows for psychic and political harmony among human beings. Enlightenment thinkers challenge the natural philosophy of classical and medieval philosophers, ushering in a more liberal political order. For example, for Hobbes, there is no rest in nature as there are no Aristotelian forms or natural places that govern matter. Hobbes applies his mechanistic understanding of material nature to his understanding of human nature: individuals are by nature locked in an endless pursuit of power until death. However, from this mechanistic understanding of humanity's natural condition, Hobbes develops a social contract theory in which civil and political society is constituted from consent. Later thinkers, such as Locke and Rousseau, modify this Hobbesian premise in their pursuit of the protection of rights and a free society. Nevertheless, materialist conceptions of the cosmos have not always given rise to liberal democratic philosophies. Historicist influence on scientific inquiry in the nineteenth century is connected to Darwin's theory of evolution; Darwin reasoned that over time the process of natural selection produces ever newer and more highly adapted species. Reflecting a form of social Darwinism, Nietzsche envisions an aristocratic order that draws its inspiration from art rather than the rationalism embodied in the history of natural and political philosophy. Matter and Form's interdisciplinary approach, by international scholars in philosophy and political science, suits it for researchers, teachers and students of these fields.