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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorM.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
M.C. Escher · 96 pages
The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
Bruno Ernst, M.C. Escher · 112 pages
Mathematician Bruno Ernst examines the oeuvre of twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher, as well as the artist's life and his inspirations and techniques.
The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow · 200 pages
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent grand design of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented, in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. The G
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Francis D.K. Ching · 446 pages
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers · 81 pages
Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers' unique ideas of colour experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edi
Rembrandt, 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form
Michael Bockemuhl · 96 pages
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman · 810 pages
This book covers topics related to the functionality and design of compilers, including: - Compiler structure - Lexical analysis (including regular expressions and finite automata) - Syntax analysis (including context-free grammars, LL parsers, bottom-up parsers, and LR parsers) - Syntax-directed translation - Type checking (including type conversions and polymorphism) -
History of Beauty
Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele · 438 pages
From the Publisher: What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today. While closely examining the development of the visual
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · 166 pages
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we e
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick · 526 pages
From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Tur
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · 704 pages
The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom an
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold · 393 pages
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries. Using everyday objects an
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
David Hockney · 312 pages
The Art Book
Phaidon Press · 513 pages
An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page color plate of a typical work, accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on each image and its creator. The entries are comprehensively cross-referenced and glossaries of artistic movements and technical terms are included, together with an international direct
The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
Matt LaMothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski · 160 pages
A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose 75 of today's hottest artists onto life's vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going.
The Language of New Media
Lev Manovich · 400 pages
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics And Astronomy
Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Albert Einstein, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei · 256 pages
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
Lauren Redniss · 266 pages
Focusing on the intricate nature of the world around us, as well as the personal relationship we all have to the weather, a National Book Award finalist and visionary writer combining personal stories with history, interviews, scientific research and full-color photos explores the transformative power of weather. --Publisher
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe · 312 pages
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a
Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
Guillermo del Toro, Marc Scott Zicree
The Art of The Princess and the Frog
Jeff Kurtti · 159 pages
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Albert Einstein · 158 pages
The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examina