Make Every Book Beautiful. Bookshelf Set Book covers from- Book City Jackets – are portable pieces of personal expression and represent a modern take on a childhood classic. The covers are printed at a small press in downtown New York, made from recycled paper and sized to fit almost any book. Whether you keep them [...]
Art & Design &Books Entropy | 25 Oct 2011
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.–Vincent Van Gogh The Pantone Color Matching System literally sets the standard for color reproduction. By standardizing color shades and nomenclature, the PMS has enabled designers to “color match” specific color at the production stage. In this book, Pantone collaborators and color specialists Leatrice Eiseman and Keith [...]
Books &Medicine Entropy | 23 Sep 2011
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”– Voltaire Becoming Mindful Of Medical Decision Making.. Even the youngest among us have had to make difficult medical decisions. Perhaps we’ve had to choose between two doctors with [...]
Books &Literature Entropy | 20 Jun 2011
On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel Lecture is a resounding tribute to fiction’s power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. “We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, [...]
Books &Mathematics Entropy | 22 Mar 2011
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.– G.H. Hardy A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form- By Paul Lockhart The first thing to understand is [...]
Books &Thought Provoking Entropy | 01 Feb 2011
I am and will remain a bibliophile, for me the books are living and tactile.. For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives. -Amy Lowell Wish to share this [...]