The ABC of Custom Lettering: A Practical Guide to Drawing Letters

Arts & Photography

Castro, Ivan

Graphic Design

Korero Press

The definitive introduction to game theory
This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, in a style that combines rigor with accessibility. Steven Tadelis begins with a concise description of rational decision making, and goes on to discuss strategic and extensive form games with complete information, Bayesian games, and extensive form games with imperfect information. He covers a host of topics, including multistage and repeated games, bargaining theory, auctions, rent-seeking games, mechanism design, signaling games, reputation building, and information transmission games. Unlike other books on game theory, this one begins with the idea of rationality and explores its implications for multiperson decision problems through concepts like dominated strategies and rationalizability. Only then does it present the subject of Nash equilibrium and its derivatives.
Game Theory is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Throughout, concepts and methods are explained using real-world examples backed by precise analytic material. The book features many important applications to economics and political science, as well as numerous exercises that focus on how to formalize informal situations and then analyze them. 
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 <li>Introduces the core ideas and applications of game theory</li>
 <li>Covers static and dynamic games, with complete and incomplete information</li>
 <li>Features a variety of examples, applications, and exercises</li>
 <li>Topics include repeated games, bargaining, auctions, signaling, reputation, and information transmission</li>
 <li>Ideal for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students</li>
 <li>Complete solutions available to teachers and selected solutions available to students</li>
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An authoritative resource for designers, typographers, signwriters, illustrators, pinstripers, and other creative professionals Need to produce some flyers? Want to draw up a logo for a band? Does your local speed shop need a T-shirt design? Don't want to use the same old computer fonts? Well let graphic designer and typography teacher Ivan Castro show you The ABC of Custom Lettering. This practical and inspirational workbook features easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for hand drawing a range of letterforms, from Modern Roman and Gothic through to Latin, Script, and Interlocked. Offering traditional instruction methods with a modern twist, this reference also comes with gallery sections for inspiration and accompanying projects to practice your technique.

Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper’s post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro’s life as well. Mangled by shrapnel and badly burned, Castro was medevac’d to Germany more dead than alive. His lungs were collapsed. He couldn’t hear. One eye had been blown out, the nerve to the other severed.
In the weeks and months that followed, Castro would find that physical darkness was nothing compared to the emotional darkness of loss and despair. Desperate for a reason to live, he eventually fought his way back to health through exercise and a single-minded goal: running a marathon. Once he set his course, there was no stopping him. Stubborn to a point that at times bordered on insanity, he managed not only to recover but to return to active duty. Since 2007, he has run over two dozen marathons, including the Boston Marathon in 2013, where he was one of the runners diverted when the bombs exploded.
Today, Castro helps prepare soldiers for combat, working exactly as if he were “sighted.” Fighting Blind, this frankly told account of his struggle through adversity, the highs and lows and the always bumpy road in between, is a story of hope and perseverance against the odds: an Unbroken for the present generation.

Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage

Biographies & Memoirs

DeFelice, Jim

Community & Culture

St.Martin's Press

St. Martin's: Griffin

Lettering - the drawing, designing and illustration of words - has a personal uniqueness that is increasingly valued in today's digital society, whether personal or professional. This lettering manual by internationally renowned designer Ivan Castro outlines the basic materials and skills needed to get started and decodes typographical concepts and the principles of construction and composition. Ivan also presents several practical projects that allow the reader not just to practice their newfound skills, but to develop their own ideas. In-depth but accessible, this book is the ideal beginner's guide and also an excellent reference for the well-versed.

Lettering to the Max

Study & Teaching

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The ABC of Custom Lettering: A Practical Guide to Drawing Letters

The ABC of Custom Lettering: A Practical Guide to Drawing Letters

The ABC of Custom Lettering: A Practical Guide to Drawing Letters

Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage

Fighting Blind: A Green Beret's Story of Extraordinary Courage

Lettering to the Max