罗伯特·克雷（Roben Clay），英国米德尔斯堡蒂赛德大学艺术传播设计学院工业和产品设计专业首席讲师。

《设计之美》内容简介：设计中历史的、背景的、哲学的、技术的、视觉的以及实践的方法经常单独地出现在设计者面前。但是，每种方法又影响到其它方法，它们共同作用着我们对设计的全面理解。《设计之美》一书将这些方法作为一个整体系统地呈现出来，详尽讲解了各种基本概念，引领读者把设计中不同的元素联系起来。 《设计之美》在本质上并不是讲述美的哲学，而是通过融八实用、历史、文本问题介绍设计，这些问题通常被当作分离的实体教授，但全都是成为优秀的设计师所必需具备的知识。一名优秀的设计师应该能够面对众多新问题，提出美妙的整体的解决方案。 全书生动易读，一步一步带领读者领略设计中的品位、设计演变、构图、色彩、绘图、传播以及表达等主要话题，此外，还概括地讲解了书中复杂但又十分必要的概念。书中大量精美的插图展示了各种精美的设计案例。

This text presents and dicusses a variety of graphics used in transmitting information, analyzing signs, graphs and charts through a method similar to that found in Edward Tufte's books, "Envisioning Information" and "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" - both texts that have been seen to have had considerable influence on late-20th-century graphic designers. Includ...(展开全部)

Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. It is not a blind result however. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of opportunities for elements such as connections a...(展开全部)

The book is yet unpublished and in draft which could be accessed via the author's homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tborgers/ Therefore, the ISBN is wrong and will be updated when the publication is complete.

What is the best way to auction an asset? How should a group of people organize themselves to ensure the best provision of public goods? How should exchanges be organized? In An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design, Tilman Börgers addresses these questions and more through an exploration of the economic theory of mechanism design. Mechanism design is reverse game theo...(展开全部)

This introduction to programming places computer science in the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process. This approach fosters a variety of skills--critical reading, analytical thinking, creative synthesis, and attention to detail--that are important for everyone, not just future computer programmers. The book ...(展开全部)

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality is about research design, specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is separated into two halves, each with different approaches to that subject. The first half goes through the concepts of causality, with very little in the way of estimation. It introduces the concep...(展开全部)

In this new edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this new edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring the tensions and continuities between the different forms of Buddhism. Harvey criti...(展开全部)

In the years since it was first published in 1973 by McGraw-Hill, this classic introductory textbook has established itself as one of the best-known and most highly regarded descriptions of Newtonian mechanics. Intended for undergraduate students with foundation skills in mathematics and a deep interest in physics, it systematically lays out the principles of mechanics: vectors...(展开全部)