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Twice Born, spans the years from 1935 to 1958, it is set in England and Australia, and the oceans between. The story follows the first twenty-one years of an extraordinary boy's life. After having strangled his twin brother, Bunny, with his own umbilical cord, Bobby Shafto is untimely ripped from his mother's womb in the twenty-eighth week of her pregnancy. At birth, he is tiny, weighing only three and a half pounds. He has webbed fingers and eyes that never close. Like all identical twins, Bobby Shafto's rapport with his twin brother, remains potent; their symbiotic relationship continues,...

Updated and expanded, the third edition of Photonics Rules of Thumb represents an evolving, idiosyncratic, and eclectic toolbox intended to allow any engineer, scientist, manager, marketeer, or technician (regardless of specialty) to make rapid and accurate guesses at solutions in a wide range of topics during system design, modeling, or fabrication. This book will help any electro-optics team to make quick assessments, generally requiring no more than a calculator, so that they can quickly find the right solution for a design problem. This book has been assembled to introduce anyone...

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain s most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes, and motifs that he can appropriate, adapt, use, and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods, and styles in dialogues that are surprising, innovative, and sometimes provocative.Lenkiewicz s imagination and energy seem to be inexhaustible, concocting endless amazing hybrids such as iconic Renaissance paintings invaded by...