Bøger af Kim Williams

The world can be a crazy place to live. The way people treat each other can be heartbreaking--the way we hurt each other's feelings down to picking on each other for the way we look, talk, and dress and even for our religion. This story is to bring people together, a different look on life when we have Jesus in our hearts and how we can look at people with a whole new meaning. And that's love. My mom told me this story when I was a child, and I asked her to write it out thirty years later, so I can publish it. The illustration in this story is how I imagined it when she told me the story. The true meaning of this book is to get people to look deeper in their hearts and notice more on the inside of people's hearts and not the outer appearance.

The moon and the Stars is a book about a dad's love for his little girl. He shows his unconditional love for his daughter and promises her that he will always be in her life.

Leave me Bee is a heartfelt story about how a bully becomes friends with the boy he is picking on.

Thankful reminds children about how important it is to never take for granted all the wonderful things they have in their life.

Mirror Mirror is a book about having a postive self image This book teaches that positivity starts with the reflection in the mirror.

The first day of school can be a very exciting, yet scary place for little boys and girls. This story takes a look at interesting people, places and things one might encounter when starting school.

Many children look forward to the beginning of the school year with great enthusiasm. On the other hand, it may also be a source of tension and anxiety for some kids. Some questions ring in their mind. Will they get along with their new teacher? Is it going to be fun for them to attend their new school? Will any of their buddies be enrolled in the same class as them? It is not always easy to make the transition back into the school year, and this is particularly true for children who are attending a new school or are beginning school for the very first time. If you have the type of child with whom you find yourself holding your breath whenever you make a suggestion of anything new, you should definitely start preparing yourself now for what may or may not be a challenge in a few days or weeks. This book offers you a practical guide on how to help your child overcome their back-to-school anxiety and fears as well as settle properly for the academic session. Also, some other helpful tips to make them happy and best snacks ideas to get them jumping with joy always. You shouldn't scroll further without adding this to your cart.

This book, edited by Kim Williams and Cosimo Monteleone, follows the publication of two other books dedicated to Daniele Barbaro and published by Springer: Daniele Barbaro's Vitruvius of 1567 (Kim Williams, 2019) and Daniele Barbaro's Perspective of 1568 (Kim Williams and Cosimo Monteleone, 2021). Therefore, it can be considered another installment in a series that has deepened the scientific treatises published by Daniele Barbaro. Due to the numerous scientific interests that Barbaro matured in the years he spent at the University of Padua, we have invited experts in these topics to discuss Barbaro in relation to his training. In particular, the book opens with the essays of the two editors to frame its general theme in relation to mathematics. Cosimo Monteleone addressed the relationship between Barbaro's perspective theory with Euclid's optics, the Aristotelian process of knowledge and the ophthalmological discoveries of the University of Padova in the Renaissance. Kim Williams underlines how Barbaro's arithmetic and geometry established `the most certain sciences' and set the base of the `primary sciences'. A series of essays concerning Barbaro's training at the University of Padua complete the theoretical framework analyzed by the two editors. These studies embrace the following subjects: mathematical instruments (Filippo Camerota), astronomy and sundials (Cristiano Guarneri), mathematics, geometry and polyhedral (Vera Viana), perspective and anamorphosis (Agostino De Rosa), botany and the foundation of the botanical garden (Stefano Zaggia), Vitruvius' architecture (Ekaterina Igoshina, Ilya Anikyev, Anna Markova) and Aristotelianism (Branko Mitrovi¿). A foreword by Xavier Salomon sets the stage for this book, outlining the innovations that Barbaro brought to scientific knowledge.Barbaro's scientific efforts are sometimes dismissed in recent studies as a compilation of known principles. The aim of this present book is to reveal the truly innovative nature of Barbaro's experiments and results and restore him to his rightful place as an original scholar of Renaissance.

This issue is dedicated to various kinds of patterns in architecture. Buthayna Eilouti and Amer Al-Jokhadar address patterns in shape grammars in the ground plans of Mamluk madrasas, religious schools. Giulio Magli goes back further in history, to the age of Greek colonies in Italy before they were conquered by the Romans, to examine patterns in urban design. In Traditional Patterns in Pyrgi of Chios: Mathematics and Community Charoula Stathopoulou examines the geometric patterns that decorate the buildings of the town of Pyrgi, on the Greek island of Chios. Curve Fitting is a study of ways to construct a function so that its graph most closely approximates the pattern given by a set of points. Dirk Huylebrouck¿s paper examines how a pattern of points extracted from an arch might be associated to a precise mathematical curve. James Harris looks at the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright and Piet Mondrian to extract the rules of their pattern generation and propose possible applications.

A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many years before. Barbaro was the first to publish a formal treatise entirely dedicated to the science of geometric perspective. In an informal style especially addressed to practicing artists and architects, Barbaro begins by drawing on and expanding the manuscript treatise of Piero della Francesca with regards to basics of perspective constructions for representing three-dimensional solids on two-dimensional media, and then goes on to show that perspective is a particularly suitable instrument for other scientific and artistic applications as well, including cartography, cosmology, stage set design, and anamorphosis. Here for the first time Barbarös The Practice of Perspective is made available to contemporary scholars in an English translation, augmented by annotations relating the printed treatise to the three unpublished manuscripts in Italian and Latin of the work now conserved in Venice¿s Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. A foreword by Philip Steadman sets the stage for this book. In-depth essays by authors Kim Williams and Cosimo Monteleone situate the treatise within the editorial panorama of the Cinquecento, outline the innovations that Barbaro brought to the study of perspective, and focus particularly on his creative explorations of geometric solids and the construction of clocks. Sometimes dismissed in recent studies as a compilation of known principles, the aim of this present book is to reveal the truly innovative nature of Barbarös experiments and results and restore him to his rightful place as an original scholar of Renaissance perspective theory.