Bookforms

Brought to you by the instructors at the Center for Book Arts, Bookforms is a comprehensive guide for making books by hand with a focus on functionality in design. Written by the experts at the Center for Book Arts in New York, Bookforms presents all the instruction you need to craft by hand a comprehensive array of historic bookbinding styles from all over the world. Bookforms traces the functional roots of each structure, explains their appropriateness for various uses, and provides projects for making an essential structure for each style of binding. Topics covered include: Why books work: General bookbinding principles for functionality and what we can learn from the past What you need to know for planning a special book or embarking on an edition How materials affect function Bookforms tackles a wide range of projects for all levels of bookbinders. You'll see everything from sewn and ticketed blank books and traditional western codex book forms, to scrapbooks and albums, Asian stab-sewn bindings, unusual structures, and aesthetics/embellishments. What better time to dive into this venerable and unique hobby than now?

This book introduces you to AngularJS through a sample project that builds gradually. You will learn about the basic concepts, which allow you to create structured, modular and thus easy-to-maintain applications. In particular, we explain concepts such as modules, scopes, services and directives, and show how you can use them effectively. A separate chapter is devoted to connecting to a REST-based web service. In addition, we discuss tools such as Bower, Grunt, Karma and Yo. These tools can save you time by rendering certain tasks unnecessary. With Yeoman we outline a workflow that defines how these tools can be employed to create a productive environment for developers.

This book comes as an answer for students, lecturers, or the general public who want to learn Java GUI programming starting from scratch. This book is suitable for beginner learners who want to learn Java GUI programming from the basic to the database level. This book is also present for JAVA learners who want to increase their level of making GUI-based database applications for small, medium, or corporate businesses level. The discussion in this book is not wordy and not theoretical. Each discussion in this book is presented in a concise and clear brief, and directly to the example that implements the discussion. Beginner learners who want to learn through this book should not be afraid of losing understanding of the programming concepts, because this book in detail discusses the concepts of Java programming from the basic to the advanced level. By applying the concept of learning by doing, this book will guide you step by step to start Java GUI programming from the basics until you are able to create database applications using JDBC and MySQL. Here are the material that you will learn in this book. CHAPTER 1 : This chapter will give you brief and clear introduction about how to create desktop application using Java GUI starting from how to setup your environments, create your first project, understand various control for your form, and understand how to interact with your form using event handling. CHAPTER 2 : This chapter will discuss clearly about the concept and the implementatiton of data types and variables in Java GUI. CHAPTER 3 : This chapter will discuss in detail about how to make decisions or deal with a condition in the program. This chapter is the first step to deeper understanding of logics in programming. This chapter specifically discusses relational operators and logical operators, if statements, if-else statements, and switch-case statements, and how to implement all of these conditional statements using Java GUI. CHAPTER 4 : This chapter will discuss in detail the looping statements in Java including for statement, while statement, do-while statement, break statement, and continue statement. All of these looping statements will be implemented using Java GUI. CHAPTER 5 : This chapter will discuss how to use methods to group codes based on their funcitonality. This discussion will also be the first step for programmers to learn how to create efficient program code. This chapter will discuss in detail the basics of methods, methods with return values, how to pass parameters to methods, how to overload your methods, and how to make recursive methods. CHAPTER 6 : This chapter will discuss in detail how to create and use arrays, read and write file operations, and how to display data stored in arrays or files in graphical form. CHAPTER 7 : This chapter will discuss in detail the basics of MySQL, how to access databases using JDBC and MySQL, and how to perform CRUD operations using JDBC and MySQL. CHAPTER 8 : In this chapter we will discuss more about Java GUI programming. This chapter will discuss in detail about how to make a program that consists of multi forms, how to create MDI application, and how to create report using iReport with data stored in a database.

A radically new way of thinking about form and context in literature, politics, and beyond Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today—how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life—and our attempts to know both art and politics. Inescapable and frequently troubling, forms shape every aspect of our experience. Yet, forms don't impose their order in any simple way. Multiple shapes, patterns, and arrangements, overlapping and colliding, generate complex and unpredictable social landscapes that challenge and unsettle conventional analytic models in literary and cultural studies. Borrowing the concept of "affordances" from design theory, this book investigates the specific ways that four major forms—wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks—have structured culture, politics, and scholarly knowledge across periods, and it proposes exciting new ways of linking formalism to historicism and literature to politics. Levine rereads both formalist and antiformalist theorists, including Cleanth Brooks, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Mary Poovey, and Judith Butler, and she offers engaging accounts of a wide range of objects, from medieval convents and modern theme parks to Sophocles's Antigone and the television series The Wire. The result is a radically new way of thinking about form for the next generation and essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities who must wrestle with the problem of form and context.

C# is a modern, object-oriented language that enables programmers to quickly build a wide range of applications for the new Microsoft .NET platform, which provides tools and services that fully exploit both computing and communications. Learning to Program the Object-Oriented Way with C# presents an introductory guide to this hot topic. The authors use a practice-based approach supported by lots of examples of increasing complexity and frequent graded exercises, which are available online. -Introduces an approach to learning programming based on the use of object orientation from day one. -Includes many worked examples, the code and solution to which are available online. -The book is being technically reviewed and approved by Microsoft. -One of the first introductory textbooks on C# and object orientation - based on the final release version at the beginning of 2002. -Suitable for courses in introductory programming.

Presents twenty two projects for making handmade books, from a classic journal, to an accordion fold book, to a storyboard on wheels.

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