![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Print Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillipss celebrated introduction to graphic. Colorful, compact, and clearly written, The New Basics is the new indispensable resource for anyone seeking a smart, inspiring introduction to graphic design and destined to become the standard reference work in design education. A longstanding excellent primer, in an equally excellent updated edition. It takes a fresh approach to design instruction by emphasizing visually intensive, form-based thinking in a manner that is in tune with the latest developments in contemporary media, theory, art, and technology. ![]() The New Basics explains the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of designfrom a logo or letterhead to a complex web site. ![]() Through visual demonstrations and concise commentary, The New Basics shows students and professionals how to build interest and complexity around simple relationships between formal elements of two-dimensional design such as point, line, plane, scale, hierarchy, layers, and transparency. In Graphic Design: The New Basics, Ellen Lupton, best-selling author of such books as Thinking with Type and Design It Yourself, and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips refocus design instruction on the study of the fundamentals of form in a critical, rigorous way informed by contemporary media, theory, and software systems. For those looking to challenge the cut-and-paste mentality thereare few resources that are both informative and inspirational. How do designers get ideas? Many spend their time searching for clever combinations of forms, fonts, and colors inside thedesign annuals and monographs of other designers' work. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Moravians in this Island have followed the brilliant career of Dr. will be of great interest to many of our readers. The above extract from a recent issue of the Bethlehem Times, published in Bethlehem, Penn, U.S.A. This accounts for the Latin title, "Episcopus Fratrum" - Bishop of the Moravian Unity. The office of Bishop is international in character, and a Bishop of one province may be recognised in another. Navy at Pearl Harbour, and his daughter is a student at Wilson College.īishops of the Moravian Church are not necessarily Executive Officers, but are spiritual leaders. He has books on "The Why of Latin" and "Outlines of the Old Testament" and has published numerous articles in religious papers. ![]() ![]() He is a member of the American Association of Theological Seminaries and the Classical League of the Middle Atlantic States. In 1930 he became Doctor of Divinity,and Dean of the Theological Seminary. In 1909 he was called to a Professorship at the Moravian College, where he had earned his M.A. Moses was born at Newport, Manchester, Jamaica, B.W.I, son of Mr. The date for the consecration has not yet been fixed, but no doubt it will take place shortly.ĭr. Moses, Dean of the Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., has been elected a Bishop of the Northern Province of the Moravian Church in the United States. Jamaican Elected Bishop Of Moravian Church In America ![]() ![]() ![]() Her top books include The Going to Bed Book, Moo Baa La La La, and many more. This poll is also a great resource for new fans of Sandra Boynton who want to know which books they should buy for their kids first. Parents are going to be reading these books out loud over and over again, so vote for the most "repetition friendly" books for toddlers in her catalog for the sake of other parents. Boynton's books are designed to be read to one, two, and three-year-olds, and hopefully also can be some of the first books those same kids will use to learn to read words from when they get older. ![]() ![]() Her children's books - which are often consumed mostly as board books - are beloved by young readers-to-be everywhere. With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt that Sandra Boynton is one of the most popular children's authors of the last 100 years. List of the best Sandra Boynton books, ranked by votes from parents (and kids at heart). ![]() ![]() ![]() Bodybuilding ChampionĪs an escape, Schwarzenegger turned to the movies, in particular those of Reg Park, a bodybuilder and star in B-level Hercules movies. ![]() So uptight and uncomfortable, in fact, that Schwarzenegger would later refuse to attend the funeral of his father, who died in 1972, or his brother, who was killed in a car crash in 1971. "It was a very uptight feeling at home," Schwarzenegger later recalled. He also ridiculed Schwarzenegger's early dreams of becoming a bodybuilder. Gustav is reported to have beaten and intimidated Schwarzenegger and, when he could, pitted his two boys against one another. His father, Gustav, was an alcoholic police chief and one-time member of the Nazi Party, who clearly favored Arnold's brother over his gangly, seemingly less athletic younger son. Schwarzenegger's childhood was far from ideal. Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, near Graz, Austria. ![]() He returned to the big screen after leaving office in 2011, finding success with The Expendables franchise and a return to the Terminator series. After years of blockbuster movie roles, Schwarzenegger went into politics, becoming governor of California in 2003. He rose to fame as the world's top bodybuilder, launching a career that would make him a giant Hollywood star via films like Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator and Total Recall. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947, near Graz, Austria. ![]() ![]() ![]() 66įor Nirmal and Nilima, their discovery of the work of Sir Daniel Hamilton is a wake-up call. It shamed to think that this man-a foreigner, a burra sahib, a rich capitalist-had taken it upon himself to address the issue of rural poverty when they themselves, despite all their radical talk, had scarcely any knowledge of life outside the city. Furthermore, though this conflict does not receive much attention in contemporary times, it continues to be extremely relevant to the characters of the novel due to its themes of the balance between conservation of nature and the protection of humanity. Though Morichjhãpi is located in a marginal part of India and may seem unimportant, the refugees' struggle led to a major conflict with the government. ![]() But it is also applicable to the events on Morichjhãpi. Nirmal has this thought about the Socialist International conference in Kolkata. In the tide country, where life was lived on the margins of greater events, it was useful also to be reminded that no place was so remote as to escape the flood of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now 62 years old, Moore is on the very short list of people responsible for why mainstream audiences - and corporations - treat superheroes as very serious stuff.ĭespite his status as a comic-book genius, Moore has disavowed some of the genre work - along with its Hollywood adaptations - that made him famous because of what he sees as the shady business practices and shallow creativity of corporate comic-book publishers and the studios behind the characters’ onscreen incarnations. In emotionally and intellectually complex masterpieces of genre deconstruction like his work on Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Swamp Thing, the lifelong resident of Northampton, England, showed how all of these crime-fighters running around in capes and masks could transcend simple entertainment and instead function as some of our most culturally potent myths. With his legendary run of comic-book writing in the 1980s, writer Alan Moore changed the way we think about superheroes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The end result was a subversive zombie tale called Warm Bodies, published by Zola Books in October 2010. "I decided to use that very silly premise to explore my own existential crisis and imagine how I might crawl out of it." "I had been tinkering with a story about a 'day in the life' of a zombie, imagining what they might be thinking behind their blank stares and mindless routines of consumption, and it hit me how much I could relate," Marion explains. In other words, he felt like a member of the undead, shambling through life without much purpose. The author was having a rough go of it in his late twenties, "struggling with depression and feeling disconnected from life in a lot of ways, didn't really know who I was or why I was here," he tells SYFY WIRE over email. ![]() Who ever thought of a zombie with a conscience? Isaac Marion, apparently. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Socrates was also concerned with the state, and the disequilibrating effects on lateantique society of imperial overreach. ![]() Although discovering no panacea, I argue that Socrates found more modest means of returning civility to the everyday life of these communities in intellectual humility, in religious tolerance, and - in a move almost unparalleled in contemporary Christian thought - in humour. Faced with the bitter intellectual, theological, and organisational disputes that afflicted Christian communities during this period - so often the unfo1iunate products of well-meaning attempts by Christians to correct the errors they perceived in one another - Socrates explored a range of potential solutions to restore unity. This thesis presents, then, a new reading of Socrates, not as an optimist, but as a sophisticated realist. ![]() Although he wrote in the relative security of the new imperial metropolis, Constantinople, during the reign of the pious emperor Theodosius II, I argue that Socrates was neither complacent nor, in any straightforward manner, confident in the upward trajectory of human history or the progress of Christian religion. Around 440, as the western Empire crumbled, Socrates composed his monumental Church Hist01y, spanning the turbulent period 305-439. This thesis examines the social and intellectual history of the later Roman Empire as evaluated by one of the most astute observers of the period, the church historian Socrates Scholasticus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But almost every cell in your body is a potential human being, given our recent advances in genetic engineering. Perhaps you think that the crucial difference between a fly and a human blastocyst is to be found in the latter's potential to become a fully developed human being. If you are concerned about suffering in this universe, killing a fly should present you with greater moral difficulties than killing a human blastocyst. If it is acceptable to treat a person whose brain has died as something less than a human being, it should be acceptable to treat a blastocyst as such. It is worth remembered, in this context, that when a person's brain has died, we currently deem it acceptable to harvest his organs (provided he has donated them for this purpose) and bury him in the ground. Consequently, there is no reason to believe they can suffer their destruction in any way at all. The human embryos that are destroyed in stem-cell research do not have brains, or even neurons. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. “A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. ![]() ![]() In high school, Harbach had played baseball, along with golf and basketball in March 2010, he told Bloomberg News, "What fascinates me about baseball is that although it's a team game, and a team becomes a kind of family, the players on the field are each very much alone. The novel, set at Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, tells the story of the gifted young shortstop Henry Skrimshander, whose errant throw upends the lives of five people. Harbach worked on his novel The Art of Fielding for nine years. ![]() Harbach is both an editor and writer for the journal, contributing essays on environmentalism, David Foster Wallace, and the Boston Red Sox. In 2004, Mark Greif, Gessen, Harbach, Kunkel, and Marco Roth launched the literary journal n + 1 Harbach had come up with the name as early as 1998. He received an MFA from the University of Virginia in 2004. Harbach graduated from Harvard University, where he befriended fellow writers and journalists Keith Gessen and Benjamin Kunkel. His father was an accountant and his mother the head of a Montessori school. An editor at the journal n + 1, he is the author of the 2011 novel The Art of Fielding. ![]() Chad Harbach at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.Ĭhad Harbach (born 1975 ) is an American writer. ![]() |