A great book for budding tesselation enthusiasts.
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This is a great addition to any origami library. It is preferred I suspect, to have some experience and moderate understanding of origami and tesselations. The directions are clear and well articulated. The pitures provided give a better understanding of the various processes you follow while folding your models. The projects go from front to back in a progressive mannor; beggining, intermediate, and finally advanced. The models are created both by the author Eric Gjerde, and several other masters of the study. I strongly reccomend this book. For the price I consider it a bargain, it is a treasure.
2262164
A Few of the pages are a bit juvenile (hearts and smiley faces), however most of them are wonderful. There is a good range with some being "easier to color" (meaning they take less time) and others being more intricate and time consuming. Overall, a great book.
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As a professional in the Additive Manufacturing space; I was pleased and excited to hear that the MIT Self-Assembly lab had compiled a physical book containing some of their most notable experiments over the last few years.

The book is composed of primarily two sections. The first section covers basic concepts of self-assembly and programmable matter. The second covers experiments conducted by the MIT group in conjunction with other organizations including academic institutions, corporations, R&D facilities, and other entities. The global theme of the book probes questions about the role of design in real-world research and engineering settings. This is done through the use of intermixed interviews from leading pioneers in fabrication, materials, architecture, design and research sectors. The format is heavy on photos of projects and light on the actual technical implementation side, which makes it a pleasure to read. Experiments are described on a high level and shown through well documented and professional photos.

Overall, this book is a great compilation of some of the earliest experiments in this new field of programmable matter through various techniques like self-assembly and gives insight into what the media has lumped into the category of 4D Printing. Whether you're an Artist, Scientist, Researcher, or Engineer youll find something of interest in this book.
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Because I am one of those 'visual learners', this book is ideal for me. The concise text in this book accompanies a very nice graphic or two -- both greyscale and line art.

There are typically a number of potential solutions for a given mechanical problem. This book is a great reference tool to explore some of the best options.
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Kids Knit is a compilation of six projects created by kids for an  Interweave Press knitting design contest.  The six projects--a horsie, a  salamander, a sweater for a stuffed cat, a "magical" quilt, a  "secret code" pullover sweater, and a whimsical knitted  breakfast--are all attractive.  My favorite part of the book is the photos  of the young designers, and their individual stories about designing and  making their projects.
I teach knitting to 6-10 year olds.  My  students, most at the high beginner level, have been fascinated by the  photos of the kids and their projects.  Trouble is, the projects vary  greatly in levels of difficulty, and this is not indicated in their  respective descriptions.  Of the six projects, my students could aspire to  knit four of them, with some guidance.  It is important for potential  buyers to realize that at least two of the projects require intermediate to  advanced skills.
There is a slight flaw in the text, which provides basic  knitting instructions and illustrations in the beginning.  The knitted  breakfast project requires the ability to make i-cords, yet instructions  for making i-cords are not included in the text.  This omission should be  remedied in subsequent editions.
Kids Knit is a nice inspirational  booklet of what knitting kids are capable of, but not all knitting kids  will be ready for these projects.  A more comprehensive, and more useable  book for teaching kids to knit is the excellent Kids Knitting (just a  slight change in title) by Melanie Falick.  Falick's book is just awesome!
1200413
A beautiful book, filled with great pictures, excellent as a beginner book for kids.

Less than 100 pages, about the size of a comic book, but printed on high-quality, high-gloss paper, these excellent full-color diagrams, illustrations, photos, and descriptions, all in a wonderful page layout provide a fantastic introduction to science and technology.  Primarily for kids, age approximately 6 to 14, but could be for anyone who wants a fun introduction to many topics in the basics of science and technology.
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This book is overall a good book on exploring typography. It shows plenty of examples. There are some explorations that are probably not practical in real world use, but maybe for some situations it will be okay. What I personally enjoyed about the book is how the author presents the content. In many textbooks on design, there is a lot to read. Other books contain a lot of text, but usually there are no visual examples to support what those authors are saying. In this book the text is kept minimal and gets to the point. The author does not go off topic or write too much. The text supports the different explorations and made this book easy to understand. It is a book that is easy to read compared to other textbooks. This is one of the few books that I have read through quickly. I wish more books were like this book. Each body of text has a visual example.

There are some negatives which is why I could not give this book 100% approval. The text is small and some colored orange. This is not the easiest to read. The book is labeled hardcover, but the cover is not the same as the hardcover books that I'm used to. The covers felt flimsy. The price of the book was an issue for me. It is expensive to me.

I would recommend this book if you have money to spend and looking for something easy to read or easy to understand regarding exploring typography.
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This is a very nice, coffee-table-style hardcover book for older kids or adult Lego or Batman fans. It's well illustrated with character pictures, detailed drawings and behind-the-scenes details of how the Lego Batman movie was assembled. Mostly pictorial, the text details are mostly brief but focus on things like how small changes in the design of a character can make big differences in the final animation AND associated real-life Lego sets.

Even hardcore Lego or animation fans are certain to learn something, and there are plenty of Easter eggs for eagle-eyed viewers to later look for in the film.
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This book has basic information such as part and functions of the various parts of different types of cameras.  It also has in-depth information for experienced photographers such as lighting and conducting a photo shoot.  Half of the book contains a variety of creative ways to use your photographs.  These projects may be geared toward more experienced photographers but the beginner can alter them to be more simple and work their way up to more advanced techniques.  My favorite part of the book is the way it's put together.  It is organized nicely yet fun and the language is not too technical.  The illustrations and design of the book demonstrates the author's knowledge and passion on photo arts.  EXCELLENT BUY if you have a vested interest in photographing children!
2499491
I would recommend this book for anyone looking for cute embellishments to their handiwork.  It will be a great reference for future projects.
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Iconografix has done some very fine picture books on transportation subjects but "Old Look Buses" is now my favorite. This pictoral essay of the various companies that operated the different Yellow and GM old Look style buses is presented according to regions of the United states and Canada. The authors have included interesting facts about each bus company as well as the model and version of the bus shown. Coupled with interesting illustrations of GM and Yellow vintage advertising and reproduced postcards, this book is a visual delight. Pages devoted to statistics, GM model identification, and exclusive special orders rounds out this publication. Previous Iconografix bus books were slightly larger than the 112 pages here. However, the inclusion of many color photographs more than makes up for a few less pages. I have two small complaints: 1. The lack of any photos showing the GM Old Look bus rears. GM built different tail light arrangements that would have been interesting to see and compare. 2. None of the photos are dated except for those from the "Powerama" exhibit in 1955. These are minor issues, especially when one views all the fantastic images included. High praise goes to Mr. Luke and Ms. Metler for their effort. My dream would be for the authors to produce a second volume, perhaps with other GM buses that were in production concurrently. Maybe this is asking too much. I really do like this book tremendously as there is nothing else like it on the subject of GM Old Look buses.
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Like so many other reviewers, I have fond memories of this book as a child.  It really is a book that piques the interest of anyone with even the faintest appreciation of numbers and science and makes a great gift.  Gamow's description of "how to count infinities" created a life-long interest in transfinite numbers.  For a one-two "punch" one might consider this book as a starting gift and a few years later follow up with "Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Hofstadter.

There are a few issues with some of the information contained in the book (e.g. the age of the universe as ~3 billion years) but these are easily noted and are themselves useful for demonstrating how scientific knowledge is constantly being updated.

For some reason I find the hand drawn sketches in the book much more effective than the slickest, computer generated graphic.
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This is the perfect book for people who are first time CAD users, or those moving over to Solidworks from other software packages.
70569
As a big fan of both tattoos and typography, I was very happy to discover this book. I love the photos and diversity of the tattoos. It is interesting to read the stories behind why a typeface or word was chosen. I will likely pick up the second book as well!
1914846
Hello,I have been building models since my youth and I built difficult models from Pocher of Italy and Revival. This book mostly covers the cars of the classic era and it has drawings and sidewievs of the models mentioned. The book is mostly black and white but it has a section of coloured pictures of the built models

All of the drawings are good,in scale  and the techniques and descriptions are excellent .The author uses some custom made special tools which are not able to get from the market but I think they were described in the book 'Unimat Lathe Projects: A Beginners Guide to the Lathe and How to Make Ten Useful Tools' from the same author 0904568202. I did not find that book yet and no guarantees.

I will recommend this book for the advanced modellers who has scratch building skills and able to use multiple machines lathe,drill press and materials,plastic,wood,brass,leather etc..I hope these will help
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This book has bold, eye-catching pictures and wonderful rhyming text.  I read this to a preschool class and they loved it.  It can serve as an intro or review of shapes and also as a way to show how to put simple shapes together to make more complex pictures.  At the end, there's a section that emphasizes how to put shapes together to make a picture, such as a clown.
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This is a great book to introduce constellations to young children. The graphics are great. The formating is pretty great too, although the yellow text on white background could be a little hard to read for some. Maybe a black or dark colored background would be better. I, myself didn't have any issues reading the yellow though. The facts are neat to know and my preschool class loved learning about the constellations when I read this to them. Its a fun book!