Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of one of the world's most popular design teams, a colorful look at twenty-four of the duo's most spectacular homes utilizes more than 250 full-color photographs to capture the trademark elements and components of their design philosophy.

The settled and nomadic people of Saudi Arabia - their arduous life, their generosity, chivalry and stoicism - are well known, but their arts and crafts remained largely unrecorded until the publication of the first edition of Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia. This fully illustrated and authoritative work now appears in a revised and amplified edition.
The work covers all aspects of Saudi Arabian culture: weavings, costumes and jewellery, leatherwork, woodwork, basketwork, metalwork and the equipment needed for life in the desert. Most of the artefacts have been collected by John Topham, who over many years in Saudi Arabia sought out the best and most representative examples of Bedouin arts and crafts - a collection which has been exhibited throughout America in major museums. For the present edition of Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia, Topham returned to Saudi Arabia to augment both his research data and his collection.
He brings together a distinguished team of contributors. From the late W. E. Mulligan comes a masterly account of the traditional lifestyle of the Bedouin and its adaptation to encroachment from without, while Anthony Landreau describes Bedouin weaving. Topham himself covers the varied range of nomadic and village equipment and crafts, and weaponry.
Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia is both a guide for the layman and a work of reference for the specialist. It illustrates the beauty and the variety of form, technique and colour in the arts and crafts of Saudi Arabia, from women's elaborate headdresses, embroidered with silver beads and cowrie shells, to coffee boxes, camel saddles and swords and guns.

With roots in British and American endeavors to restore apostolic Christianity, the Stone-Campbell Movement drew its inspiration from the independent efforts of nineteenth-century religious reformers Barton W. Stone and the father-son team of Thomas and Alexander Campbell. The union of these two movements in the 1830s and the growth of the new body thrust it into a place of significance in early nineteenth-century America, and it quickly spread to other parts of the English-speaking world.From its beginnings the Movement has developed into one of the most vital and diverse Christian traditions in the world. Today it encompasses three major American communions -- Churches of Christ, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and Christian Churches/Churches of Christ -- as well as united churches in several other countries.Over ten years in the making, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement offers for the first time a sweeping historical and theological treatment of this complex, vibrant global communion. Written by more than 300 contributors, this major reference work contains over 700 original articles covering all of the significant individuals, events, places, and theological tenets that have shaped the Movement. Much more than simply a historical dictionary, this volume also constitutes an interpretive work reflecting historical consensus among Stone-Campbell scholars, even as it attempts to present a fair, representative picture of the rich heritage that is the Stone-Campbell Movement.Scores of photographs and illustrations (many quite rare) enrich and enliven the text, and an extensive, carefully prepared index facilitates ready access to important information throughout the volume. The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement -- a standard reference work for religious, academic, public, and personal libraries everywhere. Features of this encyclopedia:Presents over 700 articles on the people, events, churches, and beliefs that comprise the Stone-Campbell traditionProvides cutting-edge commentary on current topics of discussion as well as basic historical knowledgeWritten by more than 300 scholars from across the Stone-Campbell MovementEnlivened with photographs and illustrations (some quite rare) from around the worldIncludes an extensive index for rapid reference

The seventh in an eight-volume series, this text presents a body of documents from the National Archives and repositories of other official sources which chronicle a period in which the Supreme Court decided a variety of cases dealing with such matters as debt, taxation, fraud, bills of exchange, treaty interpretation, and prize--some of constitutional importance, many affecting the position of the U.S. on the world stage, and all resolving significant questions of procedure. Arranged in chronological order by their date of decision, the collection includes landmark cases, such as Ware v. Hylton, Hylton v. United States, and Olney v. Arnold/Olney v. Dexter. Marcus is director of the Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solving significant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozen implementations on computer platforms ranging from IBM SP-2 supercomputers to clusters of PCs running Windows NT or Linux ('Beowulf' machines). The initial MPI Standard document, MPI-1, was recently updated by the MPI Forum. The new version, MPI-2, contains both significant enhancements to the existing MPI core and new features.Using MPI is a completely up-to-date version of the authors' 1994 introduction to the core functions of MPI. It adds material on the new C++ and Fortran 90 bindings for MPI throughout the book. It contains greater discussion of datatype extents, the most frequently misunderstood feature of MPI-1, as well as material on the new extensions to basic MPI functionality added by the MPI-2 Forum in the area of MPI datatypes and collective operations.Using MPI-2 covers the new extensions to basic MPI. These include parallel I/O, remote memory access operations, and dynamic process management. The volume also includes material on tuning MPI applications for high performance on modern MPI implementations.

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