This sensational design book showcases America's most gorgeous and inventive art jewellery! For over a decade, the elite, invitation-only American Jewelry Design Council (AJDC) has sponsored an annual project: every member creates an original piece based on a given theme. Jewellers have previously tackled such concepts as the Mona Lisa, Wheel, Key, Puzzle, Water, Flight, Sphere...(展开全部)

Brilliance by Design offers a systematic way to reach joyfully into the soul of learners and facilitate their brilliance so they can make a positive difference in the world.

Editorial Reviews Product Description Drawing is an essential part of any creative process and it remains the most efficient tool for communicating a concept or an image. This book features a varied selection of the work of leading jewellery designers, as revealed through their original illustrations and working drawings, plus colour photographs of the finished pieces About the...(展开全部)

From M & Ms to Post-It Notes, a charming and insightful collection of design marvels from everyday life, celebrated by the curator of the MoMA's department of architecture and design.  </P> Every day we use dozens of tiny objects, from Post-It notes to Band-Aids. If they work well, chances are we do not pay them much attention. But although modest in size and price, some of...(展开全部)

More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the d...(展开全部)

Marcus Sakey's thrillers have been nominated for more than fifteen awards, named New York Time's Editor's Picks, and selected among Esquire's Top 5 Books of The Year. His novel GOOD PEOPLE has been turned into a movie starring James Franco and Kate Hudson, to be released fall 2014, and BRILLIANCE is currently in development as a studio tent-pole starring Will Smith and Noomi Ra...(展开全部)

Marcus Sakey's thrillers have been nominated for more than fifteen awards, named New York Time's Editor's Picks, and selected among Esquire's Top 5 Books of The Year. His novel GOOD PEOPLE has been turned into a movie starring James Franco and Kate Hudson, to be released fall 2014, and BRILLIANCE is currently in development as a studio tent-pole starring Will Smith and Noomi Ra...(展开全部)

A 2013 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called “brilliants,” and since 1980, one percent of people have been born thi...(展开全部)

Marcus Sakey's thrillers have been nominated for more than fifteen awards, named New York Time's Editor's Picks, and selected among Esquire's Top 5 Books of The Year. His novel GOOD PEOPLE has been turned into a movie starring James Franco and Kate Hudson, to be released fall 2014, and BRILLIANCE is currently in development as a studio tent-pole starring Will Smith and Noomi Ra...(展开全部)