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Birkhauser Forefront The Culture Of Shop Window Design 2005 Edition by Shonquis Moreno
Stories about ourselves and the desires that drive us: showcasing today's shop window culture.A pane of glass not more than 1.5 centimeters thick divides the shop from the pavement. On one side the climate-controlled interior welcomes those who can afford to pay the price; on the other the inclement street where the others may in the time-honored ritual of window-shopping look for free. Glass is technically a solid liquid a magical paradox linking the "real" world with a world of luxury. At their finest the displays behind it are magical too - spell-binding ensembles greater than the sum of their parts.Enclosed-window retail displays of the highend kind in which a temporary mise en scene revolves around expensive merchandise have been neglected as a design discipline although they continue to play a significant role in our consumer culture. Table of contents : Preface Part I. The Theory of Stochastic Processes Fundamentals of Probability Stochastic Processes The Ito Integral Stochastic Differential Equations Part II. The Applications of Stochastic Processes Applications to Finance and Insurance Applications to Biology and Medicine Part III. Appendices A. Measure and Integration B. Convergence of Probability Measures on Metric Spaces C. Maximum Principles of Elliptic and Parabolic Operators D. Stability of Ordinary Differential Equations References