Former People. The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy

History

Douglas Smith

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Pan/Macmillan

The authors are the leaders in this course area. They decided to write this text based upon a successful transition course that Richard St. Andre developed at Central Michigan University in the early 1980s. This was the first text on the market for a transition to advanced mathematics course and it has remained at the top as the leading text in the market. Douglas Smith is Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Dr. Smith's fields of interest include Combinatorics / Design Theory (Team Tournaments, Latin Squares, and applications), Mathematical Logic, Set Theory, and Collegiate Mathematics Education.

Transition to Advanced Mathematics

Science & Math

Maurice Eggen

Richard St

Mathematics

Brooks/Cole

Of all of history's great romances, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Their turbulent and complicated relationship shocked their contemporaries and continues to intrigue observers of Russia centuries later. Lovers, companions, and, most likely, husband and wife, Catherine and Potemkin were also close political partners, and for a time Potemkin served as Catherine's de facto co-ruler of the Russian Empire. Their letters offer an intimate glimpse into the lovers' unguarded moments, revealing both ecstatic expressions of love and candid insights on eighteenth-century politics. In February 1774, the Russian empress took Grigory Potemkin for her lover and, it is now believed, secretly married him a few months later. Particularly in the first two years of their relationship, Catherine was consumed by her passion for Potemkin. The hundreds of letters and notes she dashed off to him between assignations in the Winter Palace during this time attest to the giddy exuberance of the new love that so fully embraced her. Love and Conquest contains the most historically significant and personally revealing of these letters, only a few of which have ever before been translated into English. Beginning with Potemkin's letter to Catherine written while off fighting the Turks in 1769 and concluding with his farewell note scribbled the day before his death in 1791, the correspondence spans most of Catherine's reign. The letters are at once personal and political, private and public. Many of Catherine's love letters to Potemkin written during their stormy affair reveal the empress's passionate personality. Potemkin's letters provide rare insight into his arrogant and mercurial character, while serving to dispel the myth of Potemkin as little more than a corrupt sycophant. Love and Conquest reveals the complexity of Catherine and Potemkin's personal relationship in light of dramatic changes in matters of state, foreign relations, and military engagements. After their love cooled, Catherine and Potemkin continued to discuss and debate a wide range of state affairs in their letters, including the annexation of the Crimea, court politics, wars against the Ottoman Empire and Sweden, and the colonization of southern Russia. Together they carried out the most dramatic territorial expansion in the history of imperial Russia, transforming Catherine into a powerful world leader and creating a bond of affection that would never fully fade. Readers will find in the letters new insights on Russia's most famous empress, her passions, and her world.

Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Catherine

Grigorii Aleksandrovich Potemkin

Historical

Northern Illinois University Press

France: Paintings and Sketches: Douglas Smith Travels with a Sketch Book - the Exploration of an Artist Architect

Travel

Europe

Douglas Smith Stimson Partnership Ltd (DSSP)

Business Law

A.A. Painter

Richard D Lawson

Routledge

A Transition to Advanced Mathematics

Richard St. Andre

Cengage Learning'

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved Russia from Famine

Picador

Russian Job

Technical Drawing 101 covers topics ranging from the most basic, such as making freehand, multiview sketches of machine parts, to the advanced creating an AutoCAD dimension style containing the style settings defined by the ASME Y14.5-2009 Dimensioning and Tolerancing standard. But un-like the massive technical drawing reference texts on the market, Technical Drawing 101 aims to present just the right mix of information and projects that can be reasonably covered by faculty, and assimilated by students, in one semester. Both mechanical and architectural projects are introduced to capture the interest of more students and to offer a broader appeal. The authors have also created video tutorials for this book in which they demonstrate how to use many of AutoCAD's tools and Commands. The CAD portion of the text incorporates drafting theory whenever possible and covers the basics of drawing setup (units, limits, and layers), the tools of the Draw, Modify, and Dimension toolbars, and the fundamentals of 3D modeling. By focusing on the fundamental building blocks of CAD, Technical Drawing 101 provides a solid foundation for students going on to learn advanced CAD concepts and techniques (paper space, viewports, xrefs, annotative scaling, etc.) in intermediate CAD courses. In recognition of the diverse career interests of our students, Technical Drawing 101 includes projects in which students create working drawings for a mechanical assembly as well as for an architectural project. We include architectural drawing because our experience has shown that many (if not most) first-semester drafting students are interested in careers in the architectural design field, and that a traditional technical drawing text, which focuses solely on mechanical drawing projects, holds little interest for these students. The multidisciplinary approach of this text and its supporting materials is intended to broaden the appeal of the curriculum and increase student interest and, it is hoped, future enrollments. Table of Contents <ol>
<li>Technical Drawing</li> <li>Multiview Drawing</li> <li>Traditional Drafting Tools and Techniques</li> <li>Computer-Aided Design Basics</li> <li>Dimensioning Mechanical Drawings</li> <li>Dimensioning Architectural Drawings</li> <li>Isometric Drawings</li> <li>Sections</li> <li>Auxiliary Views</li> <li>Blocks</li> <li>Mechanical Working Drawings</li> <li>Architectural Working Drawings</li> <li>Modeling Basics</li>
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 Appendix A: ANSI/ASME Standards Appendix B: ISO Standards Appendix C: United States Dimensioning and Tolerancing Basics Glossary Index

Technical Drawing 101 with AutoCAD 2014

Computers & Technology

Antonio Ramirez

Jana Schmidt

Graphics & Design

SDC Publications

This publication covers topics ranging from the most basic, such as making freehand, multiview sketches of machine parts, to the advanced - creating an AutoCAD dimension style containing the style settings defined by the ASME Y14.5-2009 Dimensioning and Tolerancing standard. But unlike the massive technical drawing reference texts on the market, this book aims to present just the right mix of information and projects that can be reasonably covered by faculty, and assimilated by students, in one semester.

Technical Drawing 101 with AutoCAD 2024: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Drafting Theory and Practice with Video Instruction

Ashleigh Congdon-Fuller

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