The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type

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Approach page design in a revolutionary new way! Unlike other graphic design books, The Elements of Graphic Design reveals the secrets of successful graphic design from the unique perspective of the page's "white space." With the help of carefully selected examples from art, design, and architecture, the role of white space as a connection between page elements is thoroughly explored. Clear, insightful comments are presented in a dynamic page design, and interactive design elements, thought-provoking captions, and scores of illustrations challenge designers to "think out of the box." This unique resource is guaranteed to inspire more creative and thorough thinking.

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Visually confusing, the layout makes the content questionable........2007-08-12

The layout of this book is confusing and really, really bad. The content is repetitive and dull, and is very basic. I hope nobody learns to design like the author, his book is a trainwreck.

I like The Non Designer's Design Book for really basic stuff, and I am a huge fan of Designing With Type for typography.

Don't buy this book, it is dissapointing

Excellent resource.......2007-08-09

This book is invaluable for its information. If only one could memorize and master each and every page, one would never have a design problem again. Amazing and concise, the knowledge contained within this book is absolutely wonderful!

Mediocre.......2007-06-06

Add me to the chorus of naysayers. There are a few good concepts in here, buried in repetitive, obtuse writing and confusing (!) layout.

Some, even many, of the examples are good, but the book is too small in format to do them proper justice. I wouldn't be surprised if White designed the book for a larger size, but it got reduced to cut costs.

I'm a dabbler/hobbyist with a limited design bookshelf, but for what it's worth, I would suggest instead:

The Non-Designer's Design Book -- for a much clearer and more compelling introduction to graphic design basics for novices. Simple and informal, but way more memorable.

Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols -- colorful, packed with visual ideas, pure fun.

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs) -- much better written, more comprehensive, and better looking "serious" coverage of similar material.

Solid graphic arts reference, not overly trendy .......2007-06-06

Coming from a technical background (and not art school), I was looking for a solid graphic arts intro that had lots of examples. White gives lots of illustrations of the good, bad, and the ugly of graphic arts - as applied to both print and new media. He focuses on the use of white space as an integral part of the overall design; typography is covered in a comprehensible way as well.
A great reference I plan to keep and apply in the near future.

Great book.......2007-06-03

This is a great book that shows you the essentials of graphic design. There is a lot of information jam packed into this book. There is a nice section in the book that even explains typography. I have been doing a lot of logo competitions and after reading this book my average rating per logo that I design has gone up 1 point which is insane. I recommend this book to everyone!!!!

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A detailed study, and details of how to study.

Type Spaces
Peter Burnhill
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ASIN: 0907259197

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Type Spaces examines pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500. By measuring the word-spaces, author Peter Burnhill discerns a system of measurement at work and comes up with the surprising suggestion that this printing shows a unified system of dimensions: of type size, of "leading" or line-increment, of line length, and of text area. He argues that the exceptional figures of Manutius and his punchcutter, Francesco Griffo, used a set of "in-house norms."
This system of unified measurement has a rationality that can apply to any process of type design, in any age, and with any system of production, making the book relevant even for contemporary designers. Since the passing of metal type, we have had no clear method of measuring type size and Burnhill's work suggests a new (or very old) approach to measurement in typography.

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A detailed study, and details of how to study........2004-12-18

Lots of well-known type designers have done revivals of traditional fonts. Good designers spend immense amounts of time studying the originals before rendering them anew. The beginning designer hears all that but never quite hears: just what is it they study?

This is a detailed examination of the printed texts of Aldus Manutius, one of the Renaissance founders of typography. Burnhill has gone back to the original sources, all there in black and white, to understand the thinking, the art, and the technology of those early printers. I was surprised that Burnhill pays a lot more attention to the white than the black - his main interest is in the spacing rather than the letterforms themselves.

For me, the real surprise was in the technology. Eli Whitney is often credited with the development of standardized parts in a weapons contract around 1800. That completely ignores what was already common practice by European print shops 300 years earlier. Although shops differed, each one was built around an elaborately standardized set of movable type sorts, casting molds, matrices, punches, and frames for holding type to be printed. Measurements had to be precise, repeatable, and common across huge investments in tools and equipment. They also had to meet the esthetic requirements of the typographers and wealthy book-buyers, while making the most of expensive hand-made paper.

This book will fascinate serious students of type or of western technology. One could ask for better printing - although nicely laid out, photographic reproductions are crude and barely adequate for illustrating they points they need to make. They are adequate, though, and keep the costs down in producing this low-volume academic treatise.

The right reader will find this book immediately useful and endlessly fascinating. Others, I'm afraid, will treat it as an inexplicable curiousity. I hope you like it the way I do.

//wiredweird

Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn (Photobiographies)

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Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn (Photobiographies)
Don Mitchell
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War hero, test pilot, American astronaut, and U.S. Senator—for John Glenn, serving his country has always been a joyous adventure. How does a boy from a small Ohio town grow up to become one of the most enduring heroes in American history?

Young readers find out as they follow his inspiring story from his schoolboy days in New Concord, Ohio, to his adventures as a highly decorated Marine Corps pilot in both World War II and the Korean War, a test pilot, one of the seven Mercury astronauts and the first American to orbit Earth, a successful businessman, a U.S. Senator, and, at the age of 77, the oldest human being in space.

Don Mitchell skillfully weaves highlights from John Glenn's extraordinary life with inspirational quotes and dynamic images to create an intimate portrait of a man whose challenge to young people everywhere is to become dedicated "to a purpose larger than themselves."

This superbly illustrated book follows the life trajectory of a very focused, highly competitive man, driven by a sense of duty to his country and an innate sense of obligation towards others. Readers will find themselves inspired to "liftoff" to new heights of achievement.

Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design (Architecture Series)

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Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design (Architecture Series)
Karen A. Franck
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Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)

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Solar-Type Activity in Main-Sequence Stars (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
R.E. Gershberg
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Protostars and Planets V (University of Arizona Space Science Series)

ASIN: 3540212442

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Solar-type activity over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum is a phenomenon inherent in the majority of low- and moderate-mass main sequence stars. In this monograph observational results are summarized in a systematic and comprehensive fashion. The analysis of the various manifestations of such stellar activity leads to the identification of these phenomena with macroscopic non-linear processes in a magnetized plasma. Comparative study of flare stars and the Sun has become increasingly fruitful and is presently an active field of research involving stellar and solar physicists, experts in plasma physics and high-energy astrophysicists. This book will provide them with both an introduction and overview of observational results from the first optical photometry and spectroscopy, from the satellite telescopes International Ultraviolet Explorer to Hubble Space Telescope, XMM-Newton and Chandra, as well as with the present physical interpretation of solar-type activity in main sequence stars. Gershberg's 40-year career studying UV Cet type stars and related objects enables him to provide readers with expert insight into the characteristics of such stars in both the quiescent state and during flares and the reliability of the data over the electromagnetic spectrum and wide temporal scales.

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Cosmic Author Rip-Off
Did I Miss Something? No, This Book is Just Awesome
Shaken, Not Stirred
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Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut
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Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time.

Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society.

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There's been a timequake. And everyone--even you--must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time--minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again, marrying the wrong person again. Why? You'll have to ask the old science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. This was all his idea.

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Cosmic Author Rip-Off.......2007-09-28

Readers may be interested to learn that in chapter 63 of "Timequake" a speech given to the character Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut's parody version of Theodore Sturgeon) was clearly borrowed from Chapter 29 of Sturgeon's 1958 novella "To Marry Medusa" - a meditation on how the human eye and mind can travel from star to star faster than light.

Did I Miss Something? No, This Book is Just Awesome.......2007-08-19

This was only the second book by Vonnegut I have read. I bought this and Slaughterhouse 5 the day he died. Thinking, oh man that sucks he died, I never read anything by him. So maybe I did a dis-service to myself, reading one of his last works first.

About halfway through the book, I began to think maybe this book was "too smart" for me. Why was the author breaking the 4th wall like he was doing demolition work on an office building? Maybe there's something here I am not getting.

I think I was wrong. I think this book was Vonnegut's last chance to put into writing many of his own private musings, anecdotes, old jokes, family history, biographical info, not to mention his own private thoughts on a multitude of topics.

It was a great read and a wonderful insight into what seems to be a great man, a credit to writers everywhere and one hell of an American author!

Shaken, Not Stirred.......2007-07-17

Don't be fooled by the "plot" descriptions of a "timequake" making everyone have to do the same things over again from the last ten years. That makes up possibly 1% of the this novel. Another 50% is dedicated to Vonnegut's memoirs with the balance being dedicated to the life and stories of the fictional Kilgore Trout.

What this book ends up being is one of those rambling yarns Abe Simpson might spin that starts, "Back in my day..." There's no cohesive narrative in the slightest and you know what, that's OK by me. I've never read any Vonnegut except a short story back in high school (I hated that story, BTW) so maybe this wasn't the place to start, or maybe it was a great place to get a little background--if you believe anything Vonnegut tells you. After reading I'm a little dubious about what is fact and what is fiction, but now I'm rambling.

The simple truth is that Vonnegut's writing is so smooth and so funny that the lack of cohesive narrative or characters or any of that jazz one excepts from a book in the "Fiction" section isn't all that disconcerting. There are some great insights into life, history, science, and writing that are worth reading even if they aren't "true" as in actually having happened they're true in spirit and that's what's important. More to the point, this book is so short that I breezed through it in about 5 hours.

So if you're going on a trip, why not take along something that will make you think instead of another crime story or romance novel or Hollywood gossip rag? You'll be better off for it.

On a side note, it was eerie reading this a few months after the author passed away. (I trust I don't need to include a spoiler warning for that.) Vonnegut makes several references to his death--and those of various relatives and acquaintances. Most disturbing was he predicted he would still be alive in 2010. He ended up a little short from that mark, but in the meantime he accomplished far more than most of us.

That is all.

what if.......2007-06-21

...and just what would happen if we had to repeat the 1970s all over again. And couldn't change a thing. Would we really want to change anything, or could we bear to do it all over again.

That is what is asked, and how much does free will really enter the picture....

Vintage Vonnegut, on a lighter existential diet...

Thank you, Mr. Vonnegut, for a Wonderful Book........2007-03-25

Kurt Vonnegut is a science fiction writer the way I'm a water drinker, it just isn't sufficient definition. Timequake, tentatively his "last" novel, was by his own admission a failure - an abysmal attempt at writing a complete novel. Rather than abandoning the effort he regrouped, kept some parts and rewrote the whole thing, but in true Vonnegut style his rewriting is a monologue mixture of memoir, opinion, political and social commentary, and lessons on how to live a life worth living. In the first reading he comes across as somewhat bitter for not being everything he thinks he could be and in turn we as humans aren't everything we could be as humanity. On second reading it comes across less as bitterness and more as hope that we can learn from Kurt Vonnegut a lesson or two and make our own lives both more enjoyable and more enjoyable for those around us.

The premise of the book is science fiction. Kilgore Trout experienced the timequake differently from everyone else because he knows what's happening and still can't do anything about it. A timequake is like a needle skipping on the vinyl record of space/time, causing all events to repeat over a given period of time. In a very real way it's a commentary on determinism, where Vonnegut shows that without the belief that we are controlling our own actions and making a difference in the world, life isn't worth living. As I alluded to in the opening of the review, the science fiction isn't the crux of the story, it's just a convenient circumstance with which Vonnegut can make his points and have a conversation with the reader.

I think the central theme of the novel was death, and in particular family death. As he contemplates the lives of people around him, from his ex-wife to his brother and sister to Isaac Asimov to the very real alter-ego Kilgore Trout, he wanders from the value of their lives to the importance of their deaths. Often he brings his own mortality into the mix, and he successfully explores the meaning of life as a consequence of the reality of death. It's for this mixture of philosophy and practicality that I give this novel 5 stars. It's worth it because not only was it an enjoyable read and a bizarre journey with the man I consider America's finest novelist, but it was a book that taught me something about myself and made me want to be a better person, to fulfill ambitions that upon my own mortality will perhaps have made my life worth living.

Thank you for that, Mr. Vonnegut.

- CV Rick

Voyager in Night (Thorndike Press Large Print Science Fiction Series)

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Voyager in Night (Thorndike Press Large Print Science Fiction Series)
C. J. Cherryh
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Rafe Murray, his sister Jillian, and Jillian's husband Paul Gaines, like many other out-of-luck spacers, had come to newly-built Endeavor Station to find their future. Their tiny ship, Lindy, had been salvaged from the junk heap, and fitted to mine ore from the mineral-rich rings which circled Endeavor. But their future proved to be far stranger than any of them imagined, when a "collision" with a huge alien vessel provided them with the oddest first contact experience possible!

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Alien Incarnations.......2006-06-07

Voyager in Night (1984) is a singleton SF novel in the Alliance-Union universe. Trishanamarandu-kepta is very old, 100,000 years in ship time, but it has spent so much duration in jumpspace that it is much older in terms of normal spacetime. It is also very large, with the mass of a starstation.

In this novel, the Company Wars are over and Alliance trade routes are expanding. Endeavor Station is being constructed and ships are converging on the system to provide needed raw materials and products. One of these ships is the Lindy, a very small mining ship, jury rigged from scraps and salvaged parts, with a crew of three.

Rafe Murray is the Old Man of the Lindy and his sister Jillian and her husband Paul Gaines are the crew. The Murrays are Merchant brats who were orphaned during the Company Wars and Paul was a stationer on Forgone. The trio have put everything they have into the Lindy.

Having no jump engines, the Lindy was brought to Endeavor aboard the can-hauler Rightwise. It is quickly put to work bringing in rock for the oreship/smelter Ajax. The crew have just finished their first tour and are going out for another load.

While they are gathering rock from the belt, Endeavor longscan detects a tandem jump into the system. At first they think that one of their supply ships is being pirated, but the John Liles sends transmissions claiming that the bogey is alien. The Lindy is within its projected flight path and pushes its puny engine to avoid the oncoming ship. Then they discover that the approaching craft is the bogey itself and they increase the acceleration.

Nothing works, for the bogey is aimed for them and decelerating to pull alongside. Rafe throws on the automatic pilot, but it throws them into a spin. He tries to disengage the autopilot, but blacks out with the spin only getting worse.

When Rafe awakens, he finds himself aboard the huge bogey and pieces of the Lindy collected around him. He soon discovers that Jillian and Paul are dead, but their holograms react to him as if they are alive. In addition, he is brought face-to-face with his own hologram.

Jillian and Paul have problems accepting their own death and revival as discorporate holograms. For Rafe Two, this acceptance is easier since his original body is alive and present. However, they soon learn that other copies are being activated and then additional templates are created.

< > is the dominant intelligence on the Trishanamarandu-kepta. < > has tried to save Jillian and Paul, but their bodies weaken, die and then decompose. Rafe is saved, but he is badly mauled by the Lindy's unchecked tumbling. < > controls the templates for the three humans and activates other copies to learn their thoughts. < > also deactivates -- kills -- some of these personae.

< > is opposed by < / >, who is almost as strong as < >. However < / > is now confined to his own part of the ship. Other crew and passengers are more or less insane; ((())) flies around the ship screaming and ==== has become a cannibal.

This novel is an early example of personae existing within a computer, but interacting with the real environment. The various persona are intelligent and responsive to stimuli. Indeed, they seem to be alive.

While the author has written many stories about humans living within an alien environment, this tale takes that plot almost to absurd extremes. Human persona dwelling within computers was really way out at the time of publication. However, this novel doesn't get bogged down in the techniques of such incarnation, but rather assumes that such technology is so advanced that it might as well be magic.

Highly recommended for Cherryh fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of really way out adventures with alien technology.

-Arthur W. Jordin

A Hidden Gem.......2000-07-12

This is a smart, moving book. To my mind it does what the best science-fiction ought to do, which is to provoke thought as well as entertain. It also manages to be genuinely moving, a rare-ish commodity within the genre of space fiction. I've noticed other reviewers have shied away from discussing the plot in detail, and I'll follow suit. Some of the book's ideas are more familiar now in our computer age, but to my mind that just increases this book's value as a mother-lode. I've long treasured this book, and would encourage others to seek it out. It's a haunting, harrowing and ultimately uplifting fable about humanity's struggle against the void. Best of all, it adds to the ever growing store of reflections on what it means to be human, to be alone, to be alive - qualities, surely, that move it from the shelf labelled "science fiction" onto the shelf labelled "art".

Well done, CJ!

Thought-provoking.......2000-06-25

The best novels portray people in difficult situations and explore their reactions at the emotional and psychological levels, not just at the physical. This book is haunting in its portrayal of three people caught in an ambiguous, alien, and unfathomable milieu. As they learn more about their surroundings, shocking revelations pour over them that literally redefine who they are, over and over again. The human drama is profound and realistic. After it appeared on a "most disturbing books" list, I searched a long time before I found it and it was definitely worth it. I see that a new edition is due in June 2000. If you want a thought-provoking read, get this book

Machine Intelligence with imagination!.......2000-05-23

This footnote in the annals of Merchanter/Union space describes the encounter of a small Family ship with an ancient alien vessel. The human crew become involved unwittingly in an internal power struggle between the alien crew. Then some of the humans find that they are not what they were.. This is a remarkable study of the interaction of human psychology with machine psychology, and particularly of how alien the combination can be. It is quite chilling but grips. I recommend it if you can find it. An antidote to space opera.

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A dress rehearsal for her later successes

Hestia
C. J. Cherryh
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A dress rehearsal for her later successes.......2001-06-15

This is a very early Cherryh novel about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists' problems, and his relationship with the young native cat-woman in scanty clothing on the cover. In this book you can see the beginnings of many of Cherryh's recurring themes, but the worldbuilding and character psychology in this novel lack the depth seen in other early works such as Gate of Ivrel, Faded Sun, and the Chanur novels. All in all I would only recommend this book if (like me) you absolutely have to read everything Cherryh has written.

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Well written but bland
Intersting and lots of fun
WAY COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Lost in Space: Promised Land
Pat Cadigan
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ASIN: 0783886756
Release Date: 2099-07-01

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Lost in Space

Hopelessly lost in the trackless depths of interstellar space, the Jupiter Two, piloted by John and Maureen Robinson, is suddenly beamed aboard a starship the size of a small planet. Inside is a place beyond imagination where secret dreams can seemingly come true. Is this the Eden the Robinsons longed for when they first blasted off from a polluted, dying Earth?Or is it something more sinister? Are they honored guests--or helpless prisoners? The answer soon becomes clear as John and Maureen Robinson, their children, Penny, Will, and Judy, and their crewmates, the murderous stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith and swaggering fighter jock Don West, face their biggest challenge yet.

One of today's most popular authors, award-winning "Queen of Cyberpunk" Pat Cadigan gives an exciting new spin to science fiction's most popular series in this authorized original novel that continues the adventures of the Robinsons begun in the hit film Lost in Space. This all-new Lost in Space combines the nonstop thrills of the classic serieswith an exciting contemporary edge

Promised Land

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Well written but bland.......2003-12-28

I am not a big fan of the 1998 "reimagining" of Lost In Space. However I was curious to read this book and see if it captured either the flavor of the original show or the movie. I must say that the dialog patterns and charaterizations meshed perfectly with the movie take on the Robinsons and Dr. Smith. As I read the dialog I could hear Matt Leblanc and the rest of the cast in my head delivering the lines. The author did a great job here. However, the plot of the book left me a bit cold. It is basically a first contact story. There are many misunderstanding as the Robinsons meet members of an alien culture. That's about all that happens. If you want action you will have to look for it elsewhere. If you are a strong fan of the movie, this book is worth a read. If you prefer the original series and like action as opposed to philisophical debates, you can safely skip this book.

Intersting and lots of fun.......1999-09-08

Fans of the old and new will like these new books from Harper. I liked both this book and the audio version read by Bill Mumy. Of particular interest to me in this book was the psychological study of Smiths addiction to a drug he calls the Kiss and his "kicking it" at the end. I wont tell you about what happens between him and Judy at the end, you'll have to find out for yourselves!

WAY COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1999-08-29

I am so glad that they came out with a series of books on this epic tale of space explores with their REALLY handsome pilot. I hope that there are a lot more to come:) A 16 yr. old reader

Interesting.......1999-06-08

I thought it was interresting on how there was a differant piont of thinking. I never new the charitars from the old sieries , but I think I like how Penny never changes, from her laser eyes he,he, whell gotta go ,but this book was good anuff so that I would whant to know when the next one comes out so Ill see you there.

An easy read........1999-05-03

I thought this was a good book, and an easy read. It was a little confusing at first, what with the constantly change point of view. But after I quickly adjusted to that, it was quite enjoyable and very imaginative. The plot was good too. The only thing I found weird was as I was reading, I pictured the old Don West instead of the new one. Every other character was just like in the movie.

Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space Network Data Types for Navigation (JPL Deep-Space Communications and Navigation Series)

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Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space Network Data Types for Navigation (JPL Deep-Space Communications and Navigation Series)
Theodore D. Moyer
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A valuable reference for students and professionals in the field of deep space navigation

Drawing on fundamental principles and practices developed during decades of deep space exploration at the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), this book documents the formation of program Regres of JPL's Orbit Determination Program (ODP). Program Regres calculates the computed values of observed quantities (e.g., Doppler and range observables) obtained at the tracking stations of the Deep Space Network, and also calculates media corrections for the computed values of the observable and partial derivatives of the computed values of the observables with respect to the solve-for-parameter vector-q. The ODP or any other program which uses its formulation can be used to navigate a spacecraft anywhere in the solar system.

A publication of the JPL Deep Space Communications and Navigation System Center of Excellence (DESCANSO), Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space Network Data Types for Navigation is an invaluable resource for graduate students of celestial mechanics or astrodynamics because it:
* features the expertise of today's top scientists
* places the entire program Regres formulation in an easy-to-access resource
* describes technology which will be used in the next generation of navigation software currently under development

The Deep Space Communications and Navigation Series is authored by scientists and engineers with extensive experience in astronautics, communications, and related fields. It lays the foundation for innovation in the areas of deep space navigation and communications by conveying state-of-the-art knowledge in key technologies.

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