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Born in Shanghai, Lin trained as an engineer. His passion was bridges, and to make them better he used prestressed concrete, which uses embedded high-tension steel cables to allow more economical and better-looking building techniques. During his career, he oversaw the constructions of thousands of bridges, including a thousand in China alone. His ideas spread when he turned to teaching: he was a professor at the University of California in Berkeley from 1946 to 1976 -- his alma mater (he got a graduate degree there in 1933). He also designed an elevated roadway into San Francisco International Airport. When President Ronald Reagan presented Lin the National Medal of Science in 1986, he shocked the President by presenting him with a design for an "Intercontinental Peace Bridge" across the Bering Strait, linking the U.S. with the USSR. "You spend money on bombs, and in 10 years they're out of date," he said later. "But you build bridges, they last forever." He died November 15 at home in El Cerrito, Calif. He was 91. From This is True for 16 November 2003 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Carol A. JohmannElizabeth Rieth List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $10.36 Editorial Review: Build bridges of your design -- from the 'workhorse' truss-beam bridge to the dazzling suspension bridge. Use bridge-building basics, and, along the way, discover how science and creativity come together in the creation of those weight-bearing wonders -- bridges. Choose the best bridge design for different sites. Make decisions about cost, safety, materials, and the environment. Build and innovate using available materials. Test your construction for function and load.  By: Donald MacDonaldIra Nadel List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $16.95 Editorial Review: Nine million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year, yet how many know why it's painted that stunning shade of "international orange"? Or that ancient Mayan and Art Deco buildings influenced the design? Current bridge architect Donald MacDonald answers these questions and others in a friendly, informative look at the bridge's engineering and 70-year history. This accessible account is accompanied by 70 of MacDonald's own charming color illustrations, making it easy to understand how the bridge was designed and constructed. A fascinating study for those interested in architecture, design, or anyone with a soft spot for San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge is a fitting tribute to this timeless icon.  By: Derrick Story List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $16.49 Editorial Review: "Derrick shows that Photoshop can be friendly as well as powerful. In part, he does that by focusing photographers on the essential steps of an efficient workflow. With this guide in hand, you'll quickly learn how to leverage Photoshop CS4's features to organize and improve your pictures." -- John Nack, Principal Product Manager, Adobe Photoshop & Bridge Many photographers -- even the pros -- feel overwhelmed by all the editing options Photoshop provides. The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers pares it down to only the tools you'll need most often, and shows you how to use those tools as part of an efficient and enjoyable workflow. This book explains an easy method for processing your images using the new user-friendly features that come with Photoshop CS4, including Adobe Bridge, Photo Downloader, and Adobe Camera Raw. A perfect fit for your laptop bag, this guide is designed to help you process photos in the field. Professional photographer and bestselling author Derrick Story teaches you how to quickly and efficiently organize and edit your photos without compromising the originals. With this book, you will: Import your images and apply metadata with Photo Downloader Rate your images and add keywords with Adobe Bridge Make basic (and reversible) edits with Adobe Camera Raw, such as cropping, color balance, and tonal adjustments Use advanced ACR tools for black & white conversion, spot removal, batch processing, and more Refine your images with Photoshop using adjustment layers, masking, and smart objects Apply advanced Photoshop techniques for retouching portaits, swapping colors, correcting lens distortion, and much more To use Photoshop effectively, photographers must know which tools they really need and which ones they don't. The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers gives you the knowledge to create your own efficient path to great-looking photos.  By: Deke McClellandDavid Futato List Price: $49.99 Amazon Price: $31.49 Editorial Review: Master the fundamentals of Adobe InDesign with One-on-One, Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One includes step-by-step tutorials, more than four hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first-hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective. Whether you're new to InDesign or a creative professional interested in the groundbreaking features of CS4, Deke's conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you easily through the program's fundamental and advanced concepts and techniques. More than 900 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots illustrate every key step. With this book, you will: Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorials Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools Discover how to create, import, and modify artwork Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation Compose a fully interactive document with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and movies Test your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapter And more. Written and produced by a Photoshop expert with well over 20 years of experience, Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One simulates a classroom environment that provides one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. You'll learn to use InDesign faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible. With Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One, you'll quickly learn how to design professional layouts for print and digital publishing with this program. You get complete step-by-step instructions and hours of DVD-video demonstrations with Deke McClelland's unique and effective system. Learn techniques in the book, see how they're done in the video, and apply the knowledge to hands-on projects offered in every chapter. Coauthor David Futato's Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One Top Ten New Features Roundup David Futato is a full-time freelance designer and the design mastermind behind the One-on-One book series. Having worked in design and production in both publishing and advertising for the last fifteen years, he brings real-world experience to his projects?he's wrestled with nearly every kind of layout, file format, schedule, press issue, and client one can imagine. In addition to the One-on-One books, his credits include the interior book designs for the Animal and Digital Media series from O'Reilly Media. David holds a Bachelor of Science in writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 10) Spread-view rotation. If you have landscape pages in your document, this feature will save you a trip to the chiropractor. Just rotate the spread view from the Pages palette, and like magic, InDesign suddenly rights itself. 9) New Style option in dialogs. This may seem like something trivial, but the amount of time saved adds up quickly. In CS4, whenever you are asked to specify a style (say, for a nested style or an automatic number), you now have the option of creating a new style from within the dialog. No more backing out, creating the new style separately, then heading back to the original dialog box. 8) The Preflight palette. Quite possibly the biggest new feature in the bunch. The plethora of options tucked away inside the Preflight palette may well have designers pulling at their hair (or ignoring the palette entirely), but prepress folks and standards-sticklers will fall in love. Real-time preflighting as you work? Awesome. No more surprises when your files go to the vendor? Even better. 7) GREP nested styles. This is InDesign's most obtuse new feature, hands down. GREP? Regular expressions? Still, if your eyes haven't glazed over yet, they're probably popping. Users with an understanding of regular expressions will love the power and flexibility of this feature?automatically styling any URL, or phone number, or anything else that can be found with a regex search, regardless of where it appears in the paragraph. 6) Contact-sheet cascade placement. Sure to be the new best friend of catalog-makers, asset managers, heck, just about anyone with more than a handful of images to keep track of. Take a stack of images loaded on the Place cursor, and drag a box on the page. InDesign automatically sizes and distributes the images in contact sheet form in the box you just drew. 5) The tabbed-window interface. This is a controversial feature for sure, and a couple of OS X users are crying foul. Early on, I was one of them?I'm a Mac guy through and through, using Boot Camp to run Windows when necessary?but I became a tabbed-window convert. You now have the option of docking every document in a tabbed window. Click a tab to switch documents. Drag a tab to reassign priority. Just like I could never give up my tabbed web browsing, I'm hooked on the tabbed-window interface in CS4. 4) Place-gun constrained frames. Even though it may sound dangerous, in actuality it's the best new image placement feature. With an image loaded onto the place cursor, click and drag?InDesign automatically constrains the frame to the proportions of the image. What's more, it displays the scale percentage of the image on the fly while you drag. 3) The Links palette. Rebuilt, retooled, and revamped in CS4, the Links palette is no longer just a place to check for red question marks or yellow triangles. Split into two panes, the first is the traditional list you know and love (though now it's customizable), and the second gives you more information than you can imagine about the selected image. Best feature? You can see the effective PPI directly from within InDesign?something I'm thrilled to finally see. 2) Smart Guides. The Smart Guides are an amazing collection of... well, it's hard to say exactly what they are. How they work, on the other hand, is straightforward and yet magical?InDesign compares the object you're working on to those around it on the page, and snaps into place. The Smart Guides work for aligning, scaling, cropping, distributing?you name it, they've got it covered. And the Smart Measure cursor puts the most relevant dimensions right at the same point as your mouse, so no more looking back and forth between what you're doing and what the control palette dimensions say. 1) Cross-references. Sure, it's not flashy (or visually stunning) like Photoshop CS4's OpenGL navigation, or even InDesign's Smart Guides. And some people may never use the feature?rarely do you need cross-references in print ads or other single page documents. But as an author, a book designer, a layout artist?whatever hat I'm wearing at the moment?my bread and butter are books, and a book without cross-references is little more than a doorstop. I've been waiting, no clamoring, for this feature for years. No more entering five-hundred-plus figure references by hand! The cross-reference formats are fully customizable and work beautifully across book documents. Best of all, they automatically translate to links when exported to PDF.  By: Gretchen Bank List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $29.35 Editorial Review: Cross these bridges when you come to them! Until you visit them in person, there's no better way to experience the extraordinary architecture and construction of the world's most prominent bridges, including New York's Brooklyn Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, and Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge than with this fascinating addition to the new Master Builders series. With easy-to-follow instructions, you won't find any troubled waters here! o Book includes a fascinating history and full-color photography of each featured bridge, making it a valuable reference for professional architects and amateur admirers alike. o Want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge? Now you can have your own miniature version of one of America's greatest structural icons. o A golden opportunity awaits you as you span San Francisco's breathtaking tourist attraction, which took over four years and $35 million to build. o The London Bridge fell down a long time ago, but a bigger and better one still stands downstream-the Tower Bridge-and you can build your very own replica! o Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge by erecting the world's widest long-span bridge, which also happens to be the world's largest steel-arch bridge. |
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