The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, where students and teachers can examine hundreds of design solutions and explore a world of typographic information. First published more than thirty-five years ago, Designing with Type has sold more than 250,000 copies--and this fully...

Shemlan, a small, once unknown village in the hills overlooking Beirut, became notorious throughout the Middle East when Bertram Thomas chose it as the location for the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in 1947. The knowledge that a western government was taking pains to teach its citizens Arabic and inform them of Arab history, society and religion made the Arabs suspicious. The success of MECAS in producing specialists who were the envy of other governments produced doubt and anxiety. The power of MECAS to attract British but also foreign diplomats and businessmen should have made...

When Adolf Hitler called for all German's sons to return to defend the Fatherland, Willi Marcks left his adopted home in Western Kansas and answered the call, joining the German Army in time for the invasion of France. As their son tries to come to grips with Nazism, his parents find themselves involved in local politics, American Nazis, Jewish immigrants and murder. Throughout the question is asked, "What do you believe, what do you honor and what do you stand for?"