Histories of design pay scant attention to the corded telephone, which played an immeasurable role in early communication. Although the Bell System, with many Nobel Prizes, is justly acknowledged for its technical prowess, it should also be recognized for its early and considerable impact on the developing discipline of industrial design. In 1930, young Henry Dreyfuss, who would later become known as a pioneer of industrial design, was retained by the Bell System as a design consultant and...

Celebrates the design work of Henry Dreyfuss and his associates that revolutionized 20th century industrial design from telephones to trains to thermostats.Henry Dreyfuss: Designing for People reveals the work of Dreyfuss's talented, hand-picked staff and explores how together they influenced nearly a century of industrial design. With his wife as business partner, he orchestrated a firm that created some of the 20th century's most iconic designs, includin...

An odd friendship develops between a lonely dolphin, Silver, and a crusty old pelican, Sam. Swim with Silver and discover his love and need for home, the sea, and the true and extraordinary meaning of friendship.

**A new chapter in the enthralling graphic novel series—**The Undertaker takes readers on an unforgettable journey of love, loss, and redemptionThe Undertaker thought he was chasing love—only to be paid to bury it.When Jonas Crow receives a letter out of the blue, signed “R. Prairie,” it’s enough to shake him from his whiskey-soaked stupor: Rose, the woman he loves, wants to see him again. But when he shows up in Eaden, a small Tex...

In the frozen heart of Apache territory, the cold doesn’t kill as fast as a friend’s betrayal.In volume 3 of this acclaimed graphic novel series, Jonas Crow is a man alone again. With Rose gone, the Undertaker has returned to his solitary trade, carving out a living by burying the dead as a brutal winter descends upon the Arizona desert.He’s content to be left alone—until Sid Beauchamp, a face from a past Jonas would rather forget, arrives with a propositio...

A gold-toothed corpse, a town hungry for vengeance, and a hearse full of secrets—a gripping opening to a groundbreaking graphic novel series by expert duo Xavier Dorison and Ralph Meyer.Jonas Crow is not your average mortician. Tall, lean, and accompanied by a carrion-eating vulture, he travels the Old West in a black hearse, providing final rites for those who can afford them.But Jonas is a man with a past as dark as the clothes he wears—and his newest cli...

An examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in disciplines from astronomy to literary analysis.In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode—which they term

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Ralph Adams Cram.

In the wild frontier, the dead stay buried. It’s the living you have to worry about.In volume two of this exciting graphic novel series, Jonas Crow—the West’s most cynical undertaker—just wants to enjoy the quiet life of a traveling mortician. His hearse is fixed, his vulture is content, and the chaos of his last job is behind him. But peace is a luxury a man with Jonas’s past can’t afford.The silence is shattered when an old colonel delivers a chilling rev...

Drowning in sorrow, regret, and longing—and bottle after bottle of whisky—Jonas Crow can see no future for himself without Rose Prairie, the woman he never even had a chance to love. When word arrives that she may be in Texas, he heads straight there. In the topsy-turvy world of post-Civil War Texas, abortion is legal but firearms are not. When Jonas arrives, he finds a destitute town full of hopelessness and a young crusader on a mission to do God's work and rid the Lone Star State of vic...