Author: Tony Schwartz
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: chord, responsive
Published: 1974-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0385088957
ISBN-13: 9780385088954

Written by the man the New York Times called the "king of sound," The Responsive Chord is drawn from an unrivaled wealth of experience in the communications industry. Schwartz has learned that most advertisers, politicians, and educators--in fact, most all of us--use a "model" of communication long outmoded by the coming of electronic media. "The Responsive Chord is a survival kit for those individuals trying to maintain their sanity in a world where their senses and intelligence are bombarded daily by audio and visual stimuli." -- Sander Vancouver "The Responsive Chord certainly gets a big re

Author: Nathan Goldstei
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: drawing, responsive, art
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-07-16
List price: $95.40
ISBN-10: 0131945610
ISBN-13: 9780131945616

More a “how-to-see-it” than a “how-to-do-it” book, this edition explores the disguises and characteristics of shapes and forms in nature, and it examines the visual elements and the relational, moving, and emotive forces that constitute the language of drawing. Clear and objective, this book offers an intensive examination of vital drawing processes and concepts, an in-depth analysis of exceptional drawings by old and contemporary artists, and suggested exercises to enhance the readers’ grasp of important measurable and dynamic phenomena. For the art student, the

Author: Lucy Bullivant
Publisher: Victoria and Albert Museum
Keywords: design, contemporaries, art, architecture, environments, responsive
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1851774815
ISBN-13: 9781851774814

The latest title in the V&A Contemporary series looks at groundbreaking interior design, art, and architecture. Responsive environments?spaces that interact with people who use or pass through them?have become ubiquitous lately. Lucy Bullivant provides an intriguing look at these cutting-edge spaces, from an installation in a shopping center that registers passers-by with patterns of colored light and sound, to an interactive artwork in the boardroom of a British TV network. With insights drawn from the author?s interviews with many of the designers featured, Responsive Environments will appea

Author: Ellen S. Amatea
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Keywords: school, relationships, family, responsive, culturally, building
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-03-21
List price: $78.67
ISBN-10: 0205523641
ISBN-13: 9780205523641

This text promotes a collaborative approach to working with all students� families to promote student learning and resolve student problems throughout the early childhood and elementary school years. Taking into account economic and cultural diversity as well as exceptionality, Building Culturally Responsive Family-School Relationships describes culturally-responsive instructional and non-instructional practices that educators can use to build family-school relationships characterized by trust, cooperation and motivation to help all children succeed in school.� Grounded in research, this book

Author: Tim Kadlec
Publisher: New Riders Press
Keywords: everywhere, web, voices, matter, anywhere, sites, responsive, design, building, implementing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2012-08-16
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0321821688
ISBN-13: 9780321821683

Users are accessing online content on a multitude of different devices, from mobile phones to desktop computers. This book takes a deep dive into all the considerations that go into a responsive project in order to provide a great user experience. It discusses the techniques required to make a bulletproof responsive site, and also looks at what we need for standards and tools to evolve into in order to simplify the methods of implementation.

Authors:Philip Selznick, Robert A. Kagan,  Philippe No
Publisher: Transaction Publisher
Keywords: law, responsive, society, transition
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 2001-04-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0765806428
ISBN-13: 9780765806420

Year by year, law seems to penetrate ever larger realms of social, political, and economic life, generating both praise and blame. Nonet and Selznick’s Law and Society in Transition explains in accessible language the primary forms of law as a social, political, and normative phenomenon. They illustrate with great clarity the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of polity. To make jurisprudence relevant, legal, political, and social theory must be re

Authors:Sue McGlynn, Graham Smith, Alan Alcock, Paul Murra
Publisher: Architectural Pre
Keywords: environments, responsive
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1985-07-15
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0750605669
ISBN-13: 9780750605663

Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; ’Responsive Environments’ - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings. This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is most concerned with the areas of design which most frequently go wrong and impresses the idea that ideals alone are not enough. Ideals must be linked through appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built environem