If you’ve decided that Jamaica sounds like the perfect place to relax, feel free to start unwinding right now, ecause we’ve done all the legwork for you. Below you’ll find carefully compiled lists of the best that Jamaica has to offer, from beaches and dive sites to resorts, restaurants, and sight-seeing—and nearly...

Beijing Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that...

In a city where fog lovers, strippers, and people with short attention spans all lay claim to their own fi lm festivals, and where starting your day with a potent Irish coffee is not considered anything out of the ordinary, it’s pretty much guaranteed you’ll have a great time. Where else in the world is it considered good, clean...

Need money for your charity or project but do not know the first thing about writing a grant? Let this DeMYSTiFied book unravel the secrets of this process. It will take you step-by-step through the fundamentals--from writing a letter of inquiry to outlining...

In the Caribbean, you can hike through national parks and scuba dive along underwater mountains. But if your idea of the perfect island vacation is to plunk yourself down on the sands with a frosted drink in hand, you can do that, too. Whetheryou want a veranda with a view of the sea or a plantation house set in a field of sugar...

Looking to take your photography to the next level? Need guidance on the basics, from choosing cameras to perfecting capture, managing files, editing images and developing a creative, critical eye?

Packed with quality images to inspire and enthuse, Digital Photography: Essential Skills takes a refreshingly practical,...

The phenomenal success of the iPhone, iPad and the iPod touch has ushered in a “gold rush” for developers, but with well over 300,000 apps in the highly competitive App Store, it has become increasingly difficult for new apps to stand out in the crowd. Achieving consumer awareness and sales longevity for your iOS app requires a...

THE INFORMATIONAL DELUGE shows no signs of abating. We are inundated with data from the TV, from the Internet, and from advertisements stuffed in our mail boxes, virtual and otherwise. Unfortunately, as the quantity of information increased, its quality declined dramatically: Books were replaced by journals; then magazines; then newspapers;...

I really love working with SharePoint! I’ve been doing it full-time for the last half decade, including lots of late nights and weekends. One area that I’ve found particularly interesting is Web Parts. I like the nature of a Web Part since it can act as a standalone application inside the powerful SharePoint platform—or it...

The 2010 Asian Conference on Computer Vision took place in the southern hemisphere, in “The Land of the Long White Cloud” in Maori language, also known as New Zealand, in the beautiful town of Queenstown. If we try to segment the world we realize that New Zealand does not belong officially to any continent. Similarly, in computer...