Directly from the years-long research of two software engineers, a revolutionary book that will show you mathematics from a completely new point of view. You'll rapidly learn how to perform extremely complex calculations within a few seconds, you'll acquire precious key-competencies for the academic and business world and you'll see how many priceless strategic tools for the everyday life can be built just by using the simple mathematics you learnt at school. Game theory, Probability Theory, Vedic Mathematics, War strategy, ancient cultures and modern studies will weave themselves together in a volume you'll hardly forget and you'll always want to keep in your library!
Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints: Reflections of Meiji Culture is a pioneer exploration of a previously neglected genre of late-Meiji art: the type of handmade multicolor book frontispieces known as kuchi-e. Early European collectors assumed that the Japanese woodblock tradition came to an end in Western-tainted prints. Although many crudely colored prints of subjects such as steam trains and men in derby hats did flood the Japanese market, the works introduced in this amply illustrated and readable volume make clear that there was another class of popular woodblock tradition unknown to foreigners that continued into the early twentieth century. In their examination of this late flowering of the woodblock print, the authors provide not only an introduction to a popular artistic tradition but also a new lens through which to view Japanese life at the end of the nineteenth century.
[An] impressive volume, with a valuable amount of information not otherwise available in one source." --Choice Companion volume to Merritt's Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints. This volume is a reference work that is both comprehensive and rigorously chronological.
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