Gerald A. Meehl Livres

Confused by charts? Don't know your area chart from your Venn diagram? How Charts Work will help you understand data visualisation and how to do it well.

This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific - told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service.

Combining perceptive insights from behavioral economics with leading-edge ideas on price management, this book offers a new approach to pricing. Gerald Smith demonstrates why understanding, reframing, and refining everyday pricing processes-one's pricing orientation-results in a better long-term pricing strategy.

A bird specialist with the Canadian Wildlife Service, Alan Smith has used his experience to good effect in this colourful and beautifully illustrated book. Features 145 birds common to Saskatchewan with a description of each bird's key features for quick identification, as well as information about songs, habitat, nesting, feeding and best viewing sites.

The classic photo book about the battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater then and now - updated with new information about the preservation and accessibility of these historic sites

This practical new paperback edition explains the full process of etching, covering traditional techniques in depth and introducing modern ideas when they add to mark-making capabilities. Illustrated with lavishly finished examples and clear step-by-step sequences, this beautiful book covers the basics of etching - the materials required, how to prepare a plate, and ways of making marks using hard ground, soft ground and aquatint. Other etching techniques are covered including spit-bite and sugar lift, and how to transfer images onto the plate using photo etching. Engraving techniques are shown with various ways of making the plate without drypoint, line engraving, stipple engraving and mezzotint. Advice on printing is given including papers and inks, the printing process and more advanced techniques such as colour printing and editioning.

A fascinating and, until now, unknown story of a ship and her captain. The recent discovery of her wreck and salvage of her guns has propelled the ship into the public limelight. A highly significant story within the wider naval history of the 18th-century