NEW ARRIVALS - I

PRODUCT DESIGN

CHANGE BY DESIGN
by Tim Brown
Call number: 658.4063 BRO

The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This book introduces the idea of design thinking‚ the collaborative process by which the designer′s sensibilities and methods are employed to match people′s needs not only with what is technically feasible and a viable business strategy. In short‚ design thinking converts need into demand. It′s a human−centered approach to problem solving that helps people and organizations become more innovative and more creative.

THE REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER: how professionals think in action
by Donald A. Schon
Call number: 153.4 SCH

A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions—engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning—to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schön maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice.



PERFORMING ARTS

INDIA SONG
by Marguerite Duras
Call number: 842.912 DUR

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.





THE PRICE
by Arthur Miller
Call number: 812.52 MIL

In a building slated for imminent demolition, two brothers, long estranged, reunite to sell off their family's possessions. In short time the transaction draws in one man's wife and an ancient but still wily furniture dealer. And a crowded attic becomes the setting for an acrid, funny, and moving inquest into the wounds of family, the allure of the disposable, and the nature of human failure.




FILM STUDIES

PRO TOOLS FOR VIDEO, FILM AND MULTIMEDIA
by Ashley Shepherd
Call number: 780.285536 SHE

The book offers comprehensive coverage of the extensive multimedia features of Pro Tools, giving you the skills you need to take any multimedia soundtrack project from concept to completion. It covers a wide range of audio topics, including the equipment you need to use Pro Tools with video, tips for efficient trimming and timing of audio, and processing outside the mixing environment. You'll also get in-depth coverage of film mixing file formats as you prepare to wrap up your project and deliver the master recordings.



THE SOUND EFFECTS BIBLE: how to create and record Hollywood style sound effects
by Ric Viers
Call number: 791.43024 VIE

This book is a complete guide to recording and editing sound effects. It covers topics such as microphone selection, field recorders, the ABCs of digital audio, understanding Digital Audio Workstations, building your own Foley stage, designing your own editing studio, and more. Industry secrets are shared by sound effects veteran Ric Viers (along with the companion website www.soundeffectsbible.com that offers free sound samples referenced in the book).