-Titulo Original : Technical Manual And Dictionary Of Classical Ballet (Dover Books On Dance)-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)-Fabricante : Dover Publications-Descripcion Original: Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary War. He also invented bifocals, a stove that is still manufactured, a water-harmonica, and the lightning rod. Franklin's extraordinary range of interests and accomplishments are brilliantly recorded in his Autobiography, considered one of the classics of the genre. Covering his life up to his prewar stay in London as representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, this charming self-portrait recalls Franklin's boyhood, his determination to achieve high moral standards, his work as a printer, experiments with electricity, political career, experiences during the French and Indian War, and more. Related in an honest, open, unaffected style, this highly readable account offers a wonderfully intimate glimpse of the Founding Father sometimes called "the wisest American."...

-Titulo Original : Treasury Of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament (Dover Pictorial Archive)-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : Drawings Of Mucha: 70 Works By Alphonse Maria Mucha Including 9 In Full Color-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : Pictorial Composition (Composition In Art) (Dover Art Instruction)-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : Scroll Ornaments Of The Early Victorian Period (Dover Pictorial Archive)-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : Tattooing In The Marquesas (Dover Books On Anthropology And Folklore)-Fabricante : Dover Publications-Descripcion Original: This definitive source on the intricate tattoos of Polynesia's Marquesas Islands offers a rare glimpse of a dying art. Because of the colonial authorities' 1884 ban on tattooing, there remained only a single surviving tattoo artist at the time of this 1921 survey — and a dwindling number of living examples. These 38 plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete and intimate record of a sophisticated art form. The Marquesas consist of a dozen rugged volcanic islands that lie 1,000 miles northeast of Tahiti. Rich in oral traditions, folklore, and decorative arts, their complex culture was devastated by the intrusions of outsiders during the nineteenth century. In the early 1920s, Hawaii's Bishop Museum sponsored an expedition to preserve what was left of the islanders' vanishing world. Willowdean Chatterson Handy, an expedition associate, created this priceless record of the ancient body art rituals. In addition to detailed information about tattoo methods and customs, Handy's account features fascinating insights into the designs' symbolic significance and their representation of social status. Her painstaking drawings of tattoo patterns are accompanied by captions that explain the traditional motifs....

-Titulo Original : Tensors, Differential Forms, And Variational Principles (Dover Books On Mathematics)-Fabricante : Dover Publications-Descripcion Original: The aim of this book is to present a self-contained, reasonably modern account of tensor analysis and the calculus of exterior differential forms, adapted to the needs of physicists, engineers, and applied mathematicians. In the later, increasingly sophisticated chapters, the interaction between the concept of invariance and the calculus of variations is examined. This interaction is of profound importance to all physical field theories. Beginning with simple physical examples, the theory of tensors and forms is developed by a process of successive abstractions. This enables the reader to infer generalized principles from concrete situations — departing from the traditional approach to tensors and forms in terms of purely differential-geometric concepts. The treatment of the calculus of variations of single and multiple integrals is based ab initio on Carathéodory's method of equivalent integrals. Subsequent material explores the effects of invariance postulates on variational principles, focusing ultimately on relativistic field theories. Other discussions include: • integral invariants • simple and direct derivations of Noether's theorems • Riemannian spaces with indefinite metrics The emphasis in this book is on analytical techniques, with abundant problems, ranging from routine manipulative exercises to technically difficult problems encountered by those using tensor techniques in research activities. A special effort has been made to collect many useful results of a technical nature, not generally discussed in the standard literature. The Appendix, newly revised and enlarged for the Dover edition, presents a reformulation of the principal concepts of the main text within the terminology of current global differential geometry, thus bridging the gap between classical tensor analysis and the fundamentals of more recent global theories...

-Titulo Original : Spoon River Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : Differential Geometry Of Curves And Surfaces: Revised And Updated Second Edition (Dover Books On Mathematics)-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : The Devils Dictionary (Dover Thrift Editions)-Fabricante : Dover Publication...

-Titulo Original : She Stoops To Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions)-Fabricante : Dover Publications-Descripcion Original: This charming comedy has delighted audiences for over two centuries. First performed in 1773, it concerns Kate Hardcastle, a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentleman too shy to court ladies of his own class. A number of delightful deceits and hilarious turns of plot must be played out before the mating strategies of both Kate Hardcastle and her friend Constance Neville conclude happily. Along the way, there is an abundance of merry mix-ups, racy dialogue and sly satire of the sentimental comedies of Goldsmith's day. The extraordinary humor and humanity with which Goldsmith invested this play have made it one of the most read, performed, and studied of all English comedies. It is now available in this inexpensive Dover edition, based on the text of the fourth edition, published in the year of the play's first staging...