“Details how this playful organization provides a working environment that encourages imagination, inventiveness, and joyful collaboration. If you dream of creating a more positive climate in your company, this book might just make your dreams come true.” Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and...
Data compression is one of the most important techniques in computing engineering. From archiving data to CD-ROMs and from coding theory to image analysis, many facets of computing make use of data compression in one form or another. This book is intended to provide an overview of the many different types of compression: it includes a taxonomy, an...
Welcome to the official Apple training course for the iLife ’11 product
GarageBand, the dynamic music recording and arranging software from
Apple. This is a guide to playing, recording, fixing, mixing, and sharing
music projects.
Throughout these lessons you will not only record your own tracks, but
you’ll also...
Get the positive change you want in presentation using keyboard shortcuts.
Using mouse for your presentation in PowerPoint is okay because your audience will still understand every aspect of your presentation, but if you must be outstanding in that field, you must do something beyond “Okay” because some...
Dive Into Algorithms is a broad introduction to algorithms using the Python Programming Language.
Dive Into Algorithms is a wide-ranging, Pythonic tour of many of the world's most interesting algorithms. With little more than a bit of computer programming experience and basic high-school math,...
Find complete information about Second Life scripting and gain access to more than 50 previously unpublished ready-to-use scripts in Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. Learn how to script Second Life behaviors, grouped into categories like avatar movement, communications, prim and object control,...
One of the most important and exciting trends in web development in recent years is the move towards single page applications, or SPAs. Instead of clicking through hyperlinks and waiting for each page to load, the user loads a site once and all the interactivity is handled fluidly by a rich JavaScript front end. If you come from a background...
Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation of aesthetics to race, Lloyd challenges the absence of sustained thought about race in postcolonial studies, as well as the lack...
You're no stranger to Photoshop. But sometimes, it certainly would simplify your life if you had a step-by-step recipe for fixing this problem or creating that effect. And wouldn't it be nice if you could see the expected result? Open this book and that's what you'll find. From basic...
Many scenarios in modern computing give rise to a common problem: why should Alice trust computation that’s occurring at Bob’s machine? (The computer security field likes to talk about “Alice” and “Bob” and protection against an “adversary” with certain abilities.) What if Bob, or...
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), as befits a great magician, left behind him a number of mysteries for posterity. In two letters to his friends, in which he discussed the progress of his great treatise on magic De occulta philosophia libri tres1 [Three Books of Occult Philosophy, hereafter DOP ], Agrippa wrote of a...
(BMJ Books) Univ. College London, UK. Reference for healthcare personnel managing patients with HIV infection. Contains data in a concise and easy-to-read format. Thoroughly revised and gives an overview of all aspects of HIV/AIDS. Well illustrated in color and halftone. Includes the latest data on epidemiology, psychosocial effects,...
