[D]ance is what a Stout biography should do, to keep up with the career-switching, cause-embracing, book-producing stamina of the creator of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin: child math whiz, sailor, magazine fictioneer, mastermind of the lucrative kiddiebanking Educational Thrift Service, publisher, defender of authors' rights, WW II's radio "lie detective" and Hate-the-Germans propagandist, gardener, chef, and Baker Street highly-Irregular.

Zaha Hadid is the most famous woman architect in the world, and the first to win the Pritzker Prize. Having achieved international recognition through her striking images and design, the Iraqi-born, London-based architect is now of the profession's most ought-after figures. Her buildings are now appearing across the globe, from Europe to the United States, in China and Japan. Zaha Hadid's moment has arrived. Zaha Hadid: Complete Works is one of the most exciting and complex architectural monographs ever ublished. This brilliantly conceived and designed publication comprises four volumes of differing sizes that offer multiple perspectives on more than a hundred projects and over twenty years at the vanguard of architecture. Major and Recent Projects is a arge-scale presentation of Hadid's recently built work and famed paintings, while the thematically organized Projects Documentation identifies the strands of her work through detailed descriptions and illustrations. Models and Sketches is a selection of the architect's groundbreaking explorations in perspective, many taken from her private sketchbooks, and previously unpublished. Essays and References features essays by international critics, an appreciation by maverick Peter Cook and an exhaustive referene section, including a bibliography and project data.

Above Ground - Be Here To Love Me - Carnival Town - Creepin' In - Don't Miss You At All - Humble Me - In The Morning - Sunrise - The Long Way Home - The Prettiest Thing - Those Sweet Words - Toes - What Am I To You

For the English, sugar paste (fondant) cake decoration is truly an art. Nadiene Hurst and Julie Springall are professional cake decorators in England, specializing in royal icing and sugar paste. They both teach and write for a variety of cake-decorating and bridal magazines. Each of the more than 20 exquisite Christmas cakes photographed and described in Classic and Contemporary Christmas Cakes was done by one or the other.
Step-by-step instructions with photos follow ingredient lists so comprehensive they include even the tools and materials necessary to re-create these elaborate cakes. Each cake begins with either a traditional Rich Fruit Cake or an alternative Light Fruit Cake, and you can choose whichever you prefer. The recipes for both are in the back, and they are scaled so that you can make as many cakes as you need, as large or as small as you'd like. A recipe for royal icing is followed by instructions for covering cakes and cake boards and for piping decorations.

For Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, a demolitions expert attached to the International Brigades, lies "flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees." The sylvan setting, however, is at sharp odds with the reason Jordan is there: he has come to blow up a bridge on behalf of the antifascist guerrilla forces. He hopes he'll be able to rely on their local leader, Pablo, to help carry out the mission, but upon meeting him, Jordan has his doubts: "I don't like that sadness, he thought. That sadness is bad. That's the sadness they get before they quit or before they betray. That is the sadness that comes before the sell-out." For Pablo, it seems, has had enough of the war. He has amassed for himself a small herd of horses and wants only to stay quietly in the hills and attract as little attention as possible. Jordan's arrival–and his mission–have seriously alarmed him.

Swedish energy policy employs a mix of government involvement and lightlyregulated market forces to achieve its objectives. On the one hand, Sweden has high and complicated energy taxation, the largest electricity company is 100% owned by the State and the government intends to shape the supply mix through a possible phase-out of nuclear power and the encouragement of renewable energy technologies. On the other hand, as part of the Nordic Power Market (Nord Pool), Sweden is one of the true pioneers in liberalised electricity sectors and generally employs a very light-handed approach to regulating energy companies. In general, this mix of government influence and free market forces has been judiciously applied and consequently, Sweden has a successful history of providing its citizens with low-cost, reliable, secure and environment-friendly energy.

The Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium is the oldest, continuously running research meeting dealing with the area of rapid prototyping, rapid manufacturing and solid freeform fabrication. Held in Austin, Texas every August, the 2004 Fifteenth Annual Meeting brought together over 120 national and international researchers from 16 countries for three full days of talks, discussion and networking. Papers addressed SFF issues in computer software, machine design, materials synthesis and processing, and integrated manufacturing. Based on peer evaluations of both oral/poster presentations and the submitted manuscripts, the seven top manuscripts from the meeting have been selected from almost 90 total for inclusion in this special issue of the Rapid Prototyping Journal.

Справочник школьника по английскому языку составлен в соответствии с требованиями программы общеобразовательной школы. Издание сочетает в себе полноту информации, доступность изложения и удобство в пользовании.