The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design

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Human factors research impacts everything from the height of kitchen counters to the placement of automobile pedals to a book's type size. And in this updated and expanded version of the original landmark work, you'll find the research information necessary to create designs that better accommodate human need. Featuring more than 200 anthropometric drawings, this handbook is filled with all of the essential measurements of the human body and its relationship to the designed environment. You'll also discover guidelines for designing for children and the elderly, for the digital workplace, and for ADA compliance. Measurements are in both English and metric units.

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not the best reference for interior designers.......2007-08-17

I found a handful of pages out of this book useful for space planning. Not worth fifty bucks unless you are designing equipment and products.

Awesome reference.......2006-11-05

There's minimal reading in this book, which is nice since it's good for reference. The reading that it does have is very simple with bulleted paragraphs full of information that you can't get from looking at the diagrams.
Great diagrams for industrial design students (I got this for one of my classes), gives you the measurements, reach, sight and motion range, pretty much any numeric info you need to know for the 1 percentile, 99 percentile, and 50 percentile man/woman.
Also has nice chart of child development w/descriptions of what the ave. child can do at each age, as well as diagrams for the elderly (and in wheelchair). This book is essential if you are going for product design or interior design.

Good reference book.......2006-10-31

This was purchased to be a reference book for human sizes and I am very happy with it.

Interesting..........2006-02-13

This book arrived in good condition from the sender and before time. The book inself is very interesting and will serve its purpose.

HUMAN FACTORS.......2005-09-05

I AM A BIG FAN OF THE AUTHOR, AND HAVE USED HIS WORKS IN THE PRACTICE OF MY WORK MANY TIMES, THE BOOK, IS GOOD WITH MANY PRACTICAL EXAMPLES, BUT SADLY DOES NOT SEEM TO TELL ME ANYMORE THAN I ALREADY KNEW. ....I WAS HOPING FOR MORE.

THE BOOKLET NEEDS UPDATING.

SUPERB THOUGH AS A REFERENCE BOOK.

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Mechanical Alloying
Li Lü , and Man On Lai
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Mechanical Alloying is intended as an introduction to the mechanical alloying technique used in developing different materials systems. It is useful not only to undergraduate and post-graduate students, but also to scientists and engineers who wish to gain some understanding of the process.
Mechanical Alloying begins with a brief introduction providing a historical background to the development of the mechanical alloying process. Currently there are several different types of ball mills available, some of them specially designed for the mechanical alloying process. Since the resultant materials are milling-intensity and milling-temperature dependent, ball mills should be carefully selected in order to obtain the desired materials and structures. This is discussed in Chapter 2. The actual mechanical alloying process is considered in Chapter 3. As it is essential to understand the use of processing control agents, the physical properties of some commonly used agents are listed. Chapter 4 deals with the formation of new materials and presents the mechanical alloying of Al, Ti and Mg alloys and their intermetallics. The formation of composite materials using this technique is also discussed in detail. Several examples of the mechanical alloying of amorphous materials, an important group of engineering materials where mechanical alloying is commonly employed, are given. Chapter 5 looks at the characterization of the alloyed powders. Details of the use of X-ray diffraction to identify crystalline size, the use of thermal analysis and measurement of particle size are provided. Densification methods are discussed in Chapter 6 while mechanisms of strengthening the composite materials by mechanical alloying are considered in Chapter 7. To understand the mechanisms of the alloying technique so that better control of the process can be exercised, the effects of temperature, activation energy, and grain size on diffusion during the alloying process are examined in Chapter 8. The last chapter of the book, Chapter 9, deals with the dynamics and modeling of the alloying process together with some experimental outputs.

Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World

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Neither style nor substance as easy as ABC!
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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
John Man
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In the tradition of small books that try to explain a lot (think How the Irish Saved Civilization), John Man's Alpha Beta is an excellent survey on the history of letters. They may have played a more dramatic role in the advancement of Western culture than most people realize: "The Greeks, so this argument runs, would not have been so influential but for the invention that fixed their writings, the invention that they named after its first two signs, alpha and beta--the alphabet." This opinion will no doubt ruffle a few feathers in the classics departments at universities, which have instructed students on the intellectual and literary achievements of the Greeks for generations. Man seems to challenge the idea that the Greeks offered something inherently worthwhile. "Possibly nothing of their oral genius would have been preserved but for a piece of astonishing good fortune. They just happened to live near one of the cultures that had stumbled on the alphabet, and they just happened to be at a crucial state in social evolution that made them open to its adoption." This is a fascinating argument, and Man makes it a compelling one, although it's also possible to believe the Greeks had the additional good fortune of producing a storyteller as good as Homer.

Most of the book is a well-told tale that runs a course from the first symbols pressed into clay tablets to the advent of the Internet--the Greeks are just a piece of it. The book covers the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Etruscans, and several other cultures in some detail. One of the most interesting sections discusses the Koreans, creators of "an alphabet that is about as far along the road towards perfection as any alphabet is likely to get." Man is a colloquial writer; reading Alpha Beta is like listening to a popular college professor lecture on his favorite topic. The complex and controversial scholarship on the alphabet becomes instantly accessible to nonexpert readers on these pages. Anyone interested in the power of words and the history of civilization will find Alpha Beta irresistible. --John Miller

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"This book comes at the perfect momentas we rediscover the importance in early reading of cracking the alphabetic code. The story of how that code came into being is a fascinating one, and Man is the ideal writer to tell it." Times Educational Supplement

"A richly absorbing exploration, from B.C. to PCs, of the evolution of the most fundamental characters of our cultural history, the alphabet we so much take for granted. John Man writes with a compellingly restless curiosity and immediacy. The ever surprising, exotically detailed narrative in his informative book makes it as undryly enjoyable as a successful archaelogical dig of one of Alan Mooreheads colorful histories of African exploration." -David Grambs, author of The Describers Dictionary and The Endangered English Dictionary

"Text that is crisp, taut, and as clear as a bell.... A fascinating story with many a beguiling subplot along the way." New Scientist

"Letter perfectthe best histories and mysteries of our ABCs!" Jeff McQuain, author of Never Enough Words and Power Language

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Who is John Man?.......2006-06-24

The book provides a clear enough pathway along the history--at least, the author's version of the history--of the roman alphabet. Obviously, a book published by Barnes and Noble will be geared toward a popular rather than academic audience, and Man recognizes this, but he seems uncomfortable drawing a boundary. For example: leading off the first chapter with a story about his headmaster in boarding school, who only had one eye, then the seventh chapter with, "at this point in my research, I began to wonder what was going on." On page 204, while discussing the adoption of the Phoenician alphabet by the Greeks, he says that "some classicists would rather Zeus is pronounced 'Zday-us,' to the confusion of non-specialists like me." Why would you read a book written by someone who's not a specialist in the topic they're writing about? Couldn't this book have been better written by someone who's actually made a career of studying it, rather than just reading up for an assignment? Also puzzling and distracting are his frequent anecdotes from his field work among the Waorani Indians in Ecuador (hard to get less relevant than Ecuador), his irritating habit of filling in historical information with first person narration, and the yarn about the time he shot a hole in the wall after his Uncle Stephen left a rifle loaded in his cabin. In sum, he never reaches the balance between actual scholarly work (which is good, by and large) and awkward attempts to identify with what he must imagine to be an ADD-inflicted reader, making this book unsatisfying for readers with either a casual or a serious interest.

Great Read!.......2005-12-04

I love this book, and I think anyone with a passing interest in linguistics and language evolution (as well as art history) will as well. Man does delve into minutiae, as other reviewers have suggested, but I enjoy minutiae, myself. I think the book was cleverly and humorously written, making it an easy read, and I look forward to Man's next project.

Quite interesting indeed........2003-10-30

I was indeed quite surprised to find so many negative comments about this book from other readers' reviews. Indeed personally I found this book quite interesting, just to mention how the author proposed the interesting theory of the evolution of the character "a" in the chapter of "Letters in the Wilderness". And I like the chapter of "Into Sinai" which proposed another theory of how a biblical figure (Mose) was created. I have no way to tell if his theories are with or without facts, but it's interesting to read.

Neither style nor substance as easy as ABC!.......2003-10-07

You would be hard pressed not to agree with other reviewers who seem near unanimous in their sense of frustration with the author's meandering style which unfortunately obscures some interesting points. Instead of holding up and walking us through a clear thesis, the author continually digresses into various minutiae about ancient Mediterranean history, archaeology, and linguistics, coupled with an awkardly placed chapter, two-thirds into the book, compariong and contrasting the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution.

This being said, I feel it only fair to tell you what the book attempts to convey. John Mann sees the alphabet (by which he really means the modern Roman alphabet used widely in western civilizations) as a peculiar artifact of human invention and whose origin and spread were hardly accidental. According to him, the evolution of the alphabet was shaped by dynamics similar to those which cause heridity, variation, and selection of genetic traits among species. His foil is the work of Yale classics scholar Eric Havelock whom Mann characterizes as holding up the ancient Greek alphabet as the paragon of literary perfection and the underpinning of Greek genius.

Mann then proceeds to dismantle this image of the ancient Greek alphabet, showing the debt the Greeks owed to older civlizations, notably the Phoenicians, through a complex process of evolution initally shaped by the needs of recording trade transactions in a mechanism more efficient than Egyptian hieroglyhpics or Sumerican cuneiform, and later by the needs of an emerging culture (the Hebrews) whose ideology required literacy under a strogn charismatic leader (Moses).

It would be neither fair nor accurate to represent John Mann's arguments on the origins of the alphabet as based on biblical claims. In fact, he is cautious to point out the such claims are generally not substianted by available evidence, much of which however was gathered by archaeological expeditions exploring such claims. Unfortunately, the discussion of this topic is too full of digression from the book's purported central thesis to be worthy of the few interesting insights it does bring.

Having described the archaeological finds around the "Asiatic" script which was contemporary with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Mann shows links between this script and that developed in the mysterious eastern Mediterranean state of the second millenium known from Egyptian sources as Ugarit, one of several~~ rival Phoenician ports of that ancient period. Again, the central thesis in the book gets lost amidst a welter of minutiae, albeit not uninteresting, about this civlization.

In the next step towards completing the jigsaw puzzle he presents, Mann shows the links between the Phoenicians who had their alphabet around 1200 BC and the ancient Greeks whose early alphabet is not evidenced till 800 BC. But before leaping into this discussion, Mann inserts the seventh chapter of the book whose title "The Selfish Alphabet" takes off from biologist Richard Dawkins' book "The Selfish Gene" and in which he develops a curious argument about the evolution of cultural artifacts as language and religion which he likens to the so-called memes, the famous term that Dawkins coined in his 1976 book. Mann admits his own struggle in seeking his "Grand Unified Theory of Culture" and does humbly invite the uniterested reader to proceed to the next chapter where he continues his exposition on the transmission of the alphabetic tradition from the Phoenicians to the Greeks.

Lest you think that Mann has a narrow focus on Western civilization, you might be interested to discover his special interest in Mongolian culture and history. In fact, his fifth chapter provides an absoluting fascinating account of the development in fifteenth century Korea of an alphabet which Mann, quoting British linguist Geoffrey Sampson, describes as QUOTE one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind UNQUOTE

With this chapter,in which he shows this Korean script drew from the Mongols, Mann tries to butress what seemed to me to be one of his key points: that the invention of the alphabet was a rare intellectual achievement whose impact was independent of technology and which has linked many civilizations. Referring to the thirteenth century adoption by Mongolian leader Chingis Khan of the alphabet of the Naiman people he had conquered, Mann proclaims grandly QUOTE He [Chingis Khan] ordered his staff to adopt the script of the newly conquered Naiman tribe, who wrote taking a system from the Uighurs, who inherited ot from an Iranian culture, Sogdian, who had taken it over from Aramaic, who had it from old Hebrew: in effect, the script familiar to the Israelites 3000 years earlier UNQUOTE Full circle back to his argument on the origins of the alphabet.

The appendices provide some interesting set of transliterations across different alphabets, a historical timeline, and a fairly extensive biobliography. I was truly sorry to find this intriguing book handicapped by its cumbersome style, let alone some likely questions about the scholarship.

GOOD TOPIC, HAPHAZARD GISTS.......2003-01-22

The motive of this book is very fine, but its factual presentation is the exact opposite.
Starting with the first chapter, John Man's intention to initiate his audience into the ancient Chinese writings brought confusion to both himself and his audience. Information about the ancient Egyptian writings are not better. They were presented in hazy haphazard manner. It is easy to lose patience with the very first part.
The author had scarcely understood his topic before rushing into teaching his audience.
Nevetheless, I must add that if the needed homework is accomplished, Mr Man would come up with a better book: a very interesting piece. But as regards the current situation, most readers would get lost in this book. It is that confusing!

Buildings in Watercolour (Step-by-Step Leisure Arts)

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Buildings in Watercolour (Step-by-Step Leisure Arts)
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How to Draw Fast Cars, Monster Trucks, & Fighter Jets

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Well Done!!
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i wish i could give it zero stars!!

How to Draw Fast Cars, Monster Trucks, & Fighter Jets
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Well Done!!.......2003-07-16

Well written and incredible drawings. Anybody who likes to move around in something with a motor will love this book. Of course most kids who love cars grow up into adults who love cars. I enjoyed this book as much as my 13 year old son.

Excellent!.......2003-07-16

This is a great little book. Like a lot of guys, I love fast cars and this book was a pleasure to read and study with. Lots of practice and my techniques have improved greatly. This book is well worth the modest cover price.

i wish i could give it zero stars!!.......2001-09-13

Just with all of Hart's books this book cover is misleading.You look at the cover and think I'm really going to learn something and you read the book and get disappointed.He only shows the finnished step.He doesn't show the steps on how to get to the finnished step.Instead of describing how he draws it he gives you a history on each car.I'm sorry but telling a person the car history doesn't show them how to draw the car.I'm starting to think that Hart's books aren't very good.

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Amos Fortune Free Man Study Guide

Amos Fortune Free Man Study Guide
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Amos Fortune Free Man Study Guide.......2006-02-24

This study guide was surprisingly thorough! The guide goes through each chapter of the book, Amos Fortune Free Man, including writing sections, vocab.,thought provoking questions, etc.. To me (as a parent) I most enjoyed the writing sections; some of the questions are: "Write a paragraph telling what you would do if you were in Amos's place and about to be sold to some unknown person." another one is: "Write a poem or story telling what you think happened to Ath-mun and her people during the next year."

The guide gives answers to all the questions in the back, resources for continuing learning on many different topics - just not Amos Fortune, also pre activities that your child could do to get more ready for the book. It is recommended for grades 5-7; a good setting.

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A classic story that is perfect for any age, any background
Pure perfection

The Old Man & the Sea
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A classic story that is perfect for any age, any background.......2004-09-28

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest writers of all time, and Old Man and the Sea is one of his greatest works. The story is simple and compelling, as all of his greatest works are, but this one stands out because anybody can see themselves in either the old man, the boy, or even the fish. Once you pick this book up and start reading, the story will envelope you and make it hard to put down. This story is great for students of any age because it is simple enough for young readers and complex and multi-faceted enough for advanced readers. It can be read for a great story about a man in an effort to catch a fish, almost as a child's book, but can be read as a battle of man vs. nature, or even as far as a struggle within a man's own soul. Whatever is read into this story, it is a great work of literature at all of these levels. It will not disappoint any student, teacher, or recreational reader. The stories about what this book means to the world are far longer than the book itself.

Pure perfection.......2001-05-08

The problem with most audiobooks is that they take out some of the material. This edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" does not do that, however. I would, though, suggest to people who are considering the idea of experiencing this work for the first time that you read the book instead. Reading the book tends to wring out more emotion, which only makes this classic better. If you want to listen to it, however, and you want to choose the right version, for goodness sake, choose an unabridged version.

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