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3D Game Textures, Second Edition: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop

Focal Press, 2009

Finally the eagerly-awaited next edition of Luke Ahearn's cornerstone game art book: 3D Game Textures is on its way. The book will be refreshed per the latest revision of Photoshop and the latest game industry trends and developments. 3D Game Textures allows next-gen game artists to learn to create everything from bricks to books in...

Maya Feature Creature Creations (Graphics Series)

Charles River, 2008

When I was growing up, there were almost no learning resources at my disposal. Trial and error is extremely frustrating. Around the age of seven, I saw an interview with Ray Harryhausen on the making of Clash of the Titans. That was the first “making of ” I’d seen. He discussed making foam puppets from sculptures and placing...

Build Your Own CNC Machine (Technology in Action)

Apress, 2009

Do you like to build things? Are you ever frustrated at having to compromise your designs to fit whatever parts happen to be available? Would you like to fabricate your own parts? Build Your Own CNC Machine is the book to get you started. CNC expert Patrick Hood-Daniel and best-selling author James...

OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide

O'Reilly, 2012

OS X was first released to the public over a decade ago as Mac OS X Beta (code-named Kodiak). The decade after that saw Mac OS X go from an interesting oddity unsuited to daily work to a usable operating system with little third-party support to everything most people want out of an operating system and a...

PHP 6 Fast and Easy Web Development

Course Technology PTR, 2008

Learn to create Web pages quickly and easily with PHP—no prior programming experience required! PHP 6 Fast & Easy Web Development provides a step-by-step, learn-by-example path to learning through easy-to-understand language and illustrations. Unlike the verbose text-only chapters found in most programming books, the Fast & Easy Web...

Microsoft(R) XNA(TM) Unleashed: Graphics and Game Programming for Xbox 360 and Windows

Sams Publishing, 2007

Many developers became interested in programming because they saw a video game and thought, “How did they do that?” This book helps demystify what is required to make video games. Being able to write games on a next-generation console like the Xbox 360 has never been an option for the masses before. Now with the XNA Framework, games can...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Russia and Eurasia/China

Macmillan Technical, 1994

This project began in 1987 with the goal of assembling a basic reference source that provides accurate, clear, and concise descriptions of the cultures of the world. We wanted to be as comprehensive and authoritative as possible: comprehensive, by providing descriptions of all the cultures of each region of the world or by describing a...

Electrons and Phonons: The Theory of Transport Phenomena in Solids

Oxford University Press, 2001

LIKE a chemical compound, scientific knowledge is purified by recrystallization. When first published, each new grain of fact or theory shines from a mud of irrelevant or erroneous details. In subsequent discussion the grains are redissolved, and filtered. Finally, in books and treatises, the solution is allowed to precipitate into a single...

Think Python

O'Reilly, 2012

In January 1999 I was preparing to teach an introductory programming class in Java. I had taught it three times and I was getting frustrated. The failure rate in the class was too high and, even for students who succeeded, the overall level of achievement was too low.

One of the problems I saw was the books. They were too...

Sex Magicians: The Lives and Spiritual Practices of Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Anton LaVey, and Others

Destiny Books, 2021

An in-depth look at the lives and occult practices of 12 influential practitioners of sex magic from the 19th century to the present day

• Explores the background and sexual magical beliefs of Paschal Beverly Randolph, Ida Craddock, Aleister Crowley, Maria de Naglowska, Austin Osman Spare, Julius Evola, Franz Bardon,...

Taking Your iPhone 4 to the Max

Apress, 2010

Before the iPhone, every smartphone on the market had a little screen, a tiny thumb keyboard, and a user interface that confused even the experts. Then, in June of 2007, everything changed.

In the three years since the introduction of the first iPhone, we’ve seen a tremendous change in the way that people work with...

Oracle Core: Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers

Apress, 2011

When I wrote Practical Oracle 8i, there was a three-week lag between publication and the first e-mail asking me when I was going to produce a 9i version of the book—thanks to Larry Ellison’s timing of the

launch of 9i. That question has been repeated many times (with changes in version number) over the last 12...

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