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CorelDraw 10 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author Steve Schwartz , Phyllis Davis
CorelDRAW has enjoyed a long run at the front of the pack of illustration programs on the market. No wonder: You get vector illustration, layout, bitmap creation, image editing, painting, and animation, all in one package. With the milestone release of version 10, t....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Professional Architectural Photography, 3rd Edition
Author Michael Harris
This is a must-have guide both for aspiring students and for established professionals who need to keep up to speed with the current impact of recent digital developments. In this highly visual, full colour text Michael Harris shares his professional secrets and dem....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Second Edition
Author Greg Perry
Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Second Edition explains the basics of programming in the successful 24-Hours format. The book begins with the absolute basics of programming: Why program? What tools to use? How does a program tell the computer ....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Curves and Surfaces for CAGD, 5th Edition
Author Gerald Farin
This fifth edition has been fully updated to cover the many advances made in CAGD and curve and surface theory since 1997, when the fourth edition appeared. Material has been restructured into theory and applications chapters. The theory material has been streamline....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Saving Adam Smith: A Tale of Wealth, Transformation, and Virtue
Author Jonathan B. Wight
Adam Smith ... Father of Modern Economics ... Died in 1790 ... but 200 years later, his spirit is tortured by the caricatures we remember in his name. In Saving Adam Smith, he is tortured enough to return to Earth ... and so begins a journey of discovery that cuts a....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Ten Minute Guide to Microsoft® Visio® 2002
Author Eric R. Infanti
Because most people don't have the luxury of sitting down uninterrupted for hours at a time to learn Visio, this 10-Minute Guide focuses on the most often used features, covering them in lessons designed to take 10 minutes or less to complete. In addition, this gui....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Music Engineering, 2nd Edition
Author Richard Brice
Music Engineering is a hands-on guide to the practical aspects of electric and electronic music. It is both a compelling read and an essential reference guide for anyone using, choosing, designing or studying the technology of modern music. The technology and underp....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Author John M. Carroll , Mary Beth Rosson
You don't need to be convinced. You know that usability is key to the success of any interactive system-from commercial software to B2B Web sites to handheld devices. But you need skills to make usability part of your product development equation. How will you asse....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, 2nd Edition
Author Alan Randolph , John P. Carlos , Ken Blanchard
Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute tells the story of a young manager whose attempts to turn his troubled company around through traditional top-down, command-and-control management are failing. Reluctantly, he contacts an expert in empowerment, even though h....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Author Matthew Gast
If you haven't worked with T1 before, you could be in for an unpleasant surprise. If you have, you'll already know that T1, the current network standard for business and professional Internet access, is neither efficient, easy to use, nor particularly well-suited....
Release Date 2001/08 -
Studio and Outside Broadcast Camerawork
Author Peter Ward
Studio and outside broadcast is often done with more than one camera and has its own distinct discipline and operational procedures. Many camera operators now start with single camera operations and have little or no experience of the skills required for multi....
Release Date 2001/08 -
Author David Pitzer , Bill Burchard , David Harrington
This edition provides rock solid information on the latest changes and enhancements of the past two AutoCAD releases. The book guides you through the newest enhancements and shows you how to apply them to real projects. The great thing about this book is that it get....
Release Date 2001/07 -
Teach SMEs to Design Training—Instructional Systems Design
Author Linda J. Elengold
This issue provides guidelines and background information to help subject matter experts (SMEs) develop instructional design skills. The issue covers the basics of adult learning, the ADDIE model, and selecting techniques and materials. Includes a course evaluation ....
Release Date 2001/06 -
User Interface Design for Programmers
Author JOEL SPOLSKY
Most programmers' fear of user interface (UI) programming comes from their fear of doing UI design. They think that UI design is like graphic design—the mysterious process by which creative, latte-drinking, all-black-wearing people produce cool-looking, artistic pi....
Release Date 2001/06 -
Cyberbranding: Brand Building in the Digital Economy
Author Deirdre Breakenridge
The first complete framework for integrating offline and online marketing!Step-by-step processes for reengineering any brand!Achieving true synergies between online and offline brandsIncludes interviews with the world's leading Internet branding executivesThe Inter....
Release Date 2001/05 -
Composing Music with Computers
Author Eduardo Miranda
Focuses on the role of the computer as a generative tool for music composition. Miranda introduces a number of computer music composition techniques ranging from probabilities, formal grammars and fractals, to genetic algorithms, cellular automata and neural co....
Release Date 2001/04 -
Author Richard Swegan , Debra Dinnocenzo
For millions of people, technology is making their lives harder, not easier. They're bombarded with so much information they can barely read it, let alone process it. They're tied to the office-through email, cell phones, pagers, voice mail and fax machines-2....
Release Date 2001/01 -
Advanced Use Case Modeling: Software Systems
Author Frank Armour , Granville Miller
"This book isn't just another introduction to use cases. The authors have used their wealth of experience to produce an excellent and insightful collection of detailed examples, explanations, and advice on how to work with use cases."–Maria EricssonThe toughest cha....
Release Date 2000/12 -
Ten Minute Guide to Conducting a Job Interview
Author William W. Larson
If you have the responsibility of selecting and evaluating job candidates, this book will give you the tools to carry out an effective interview. Based on the philosophy that the best predictor of future success is past performance, the guide teaches you how to anal....
Release Date 2000/11 -
Ten Minute Guide to Employee Stock Option Purchase Plans
Author Ken Little
If you find yourself sorting through a maze of vesting schedules, option plans, investing data and tax advice, this book is for you. It will give you the information you need, defining terms and concepts and explaining how most ESOPPs work. While you will still need....
Release Date 2000/10 -
Manual of Photography, 9th Edition
Author Norman Axford , Geoffrey G Attridge , Sidney Ray , Ralph Jacobson
The Manual of Photography is the standard work for anyone who is serious about photography - professional photographers and lab technicians or managers, as well as students and enthusiastic amateurs who want to become more technically competent. The authors provide ....
Release Date 2000/08 -
Basic Photography, 7th Edition
Author Michael Langford
'Basic Photography' is a longstanding international bestseller and continues to be the introductory textbook for photography courses throughout the world. Key features:practical assignments, so you can put into practice what you've learnedchapter summaries for ea....
Release Date 2000/08 -
Production Safety for Film, Television and Video
Author Robin Small
Covering all aspects of production safety, this is an invaluable reference guide for the independent programme maker, freelancer, manager, producer, tutor and student filmmaker. Robin Small identifies all the major risks and gives advice on how to control and/....
Release Date 2000/07 -
Humane Interface, The: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
Author Jef Raskin
"Deep thinking is rare in this field where most companies are glad to copy designs that were great back in the 1970s. The Humane Interface is a gourmet dish from a master chef. Five mice!" --Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group Author of Designing Web Usability: The....
Release Date 2000/03 -
Special Edition Using AutoCAD® 2000
Author Dylan Vance , John Brooks , Paul W. Richardson , Ron House
Special Edition Using AutoCAD 2000 is designed as a novice to intermediate book that allows you to quickly become acquainted with the software, even if you have no previous experience with AutoCAD. The extensive use of case studies throughout the book familiarizes y....
Release Date 2000/03 -
Designing Effective Speech Interfaces
Author Dean T. Barker , Susan Weinschenk
Master the critical knowledge you need to design speech-enabled applicationsIt's not just a far-fetched gizmo straight out of a sci-fi movie anymore. Speech interface technology, which allows a user to communicate with computers via voice instead of a keyboard or a....
Release Date 2000/02 -
Author Jakob Nielsen
Users experience the usability of a web site before they have committed to using it and before making any purchase decisions. The web is the ultimate environment for empowerment, and he or she who clicks the mouse decides everything. Designing Web Usability is the d....
Release Date 1999/12 -
How to Conduct Focus Groups—Business Skills
Author Neal Chalofsky
This issue explains how focus groups can be used to identify problems, plan, develop new products, obtain market information, and conduct research. It outlines how to get started with the focus group process, how to recruit participants, and how to facilitate a focu....
Release Date 1999/07 -
Author Greg Roelofs
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is the next-generation graphics file format for the Web. Designed as an open-source format to replace the proprietary GIF format, PNG is better, smaller, more extensible, and free. Already supported by major software like Macromedia F....
Release Date 1999/06 -
Giving Feedback to Subordinates
Author Dana McDonald-Mann , Raoul Buron
Providing specific information about performance is key to developing the people who report to you. This guidebook tells you how to give your subordinates effective feedback so they can work more effectively, develop new skills, and grow professionally. ....
Release Date 1999/05