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Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

Addison Wesley, 2001

When I mention software to senior executives, I get lots of reactions. Most are frustrated. They complain about missed commitments, quality problems, and unpleasant surprises. Others have been less closely involved. Software was a problem, but those problems have been handled. No one mentions the business opportunities of...

Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

A superior primer on software testing and quality assurance, from integration to execution and automation

This important new work fills the pressing need for a user-friendly text that aims to provide software engineers, software quality professionals, software developers, and students with the fundamental developments in testing theory and...

Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop

Focal Press, 2008

Go beyond the mechanics of Final Cut Express 4--learn how to edit with it! More than a button-pushing manual--this workshop give you firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing. You develop a working knowledge with nineteen tutorials that cover each and every essential, including:

* setting up your system and...

Geographic Information Systems and Science

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Geographic Information Systems and Science has become the pre-eminent textbook in its field, for students and practitioners alike. Its unique approach communicates the richness and diversity of GIS in a lucid and accessible format. This fully revised and updated second edition reinforces the view of GIS as a gateway to science and...

Propellants and Explosives: Thermochemical Aspects of Combustion

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Explosives and propellants contain considerable chemical energy that can be converted into rapid expansion. In contrast to the simple burning of a fuel, explosives and propellants are self-contained and do not need an external supply of oxygen via air. Since their energy content inherently creates the risk of accidental triggering of the...

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

Adobe Press, 2008

While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool. That’s where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers...

Surround Sound, Second Edition: Up and running

Focal Press, 2007

Recorded multichannel sound has a history that dates back to the 1930s, but in the intervening years up to the present it became prominent, died out, became prominent again, and died out again, in a cycle that’s had at least four peaks and dips. In fact, I give a talk called “The History and Future of Surround Sound” with a...

Software Studies: A Lexicon (Leonardo Books)

MIT Press, 2008

This collection of short expository, critical, and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic impact of software. Computing and digital media are essential to the way we work and live, and much has been said about their influence. But the very material of software has often been left invisible. In...

Directing, Fourth Edition: Film Techniques and Aesthetics (Screencraft Series)

Focal Press, 2007

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive manual that has inspired tens of thousands of readers worldwide to realize their artistic vision and produce well-constructed films. Filled with practical advice on every stage of production, this is the book you will return to throughout your career.

Directing covers the...

Introducing Autodesk Inventor 2009 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2009

Sybex, 2008

Create The Complete Digital Prototype

Finally, there is a top-notch, beginner-level book on Autodesk's Inventor 3D mechanical design software that helps you quickly master the essentials and start designing with confidence. With the skilled instruction of Inventor expert and veteran trainer Thom Tremblay, you'll learn Inventor 2009 in the...

Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing (Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design)

CRC Press, 2005

Chemical engineers and those in related disciplines will avidly welcome this impressive five-volume compilation that updated the classic Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design, ed. by J. J. McKetta et. al. (1976). The approximately 250 signed articles, mostly by academic authors, are clearly written, well organized, and abundantly...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science)

Oxford University Press, 2006

Over its long lifetime, the phrase “political economy” has had many different meanings. For Adam Smith, political economy was the science of managing a nation’s resources so as to generate wealth. For Marx, it was how the ownership of the means of production influenced historical processes. For much of the twentieth century, the...

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