This book/eBook package is your guide to getting more interesting and creative photos with the 15.1 megapixel Canon EOS 50D. It discusses every camera setting on this high-quality camera in a clear, well-illustrated style, with many integrated tips and QuickSteps, but it also does much more. You'll also learn the concepts of photography...

It's the trap that ensnares virtually every business. We focus on process: "how" we're doing the job. And we forget about the bigger issue: "what" we're doing and "why" we're doing it. That's why we're leaving so much value on the table. In Rethink, business architect Ric Merrifield...

Food is the one thing none of us can do without. Fortunately very few of us in the developed world ever have to. Yet strangely, in these times of plenty, food is talked about more and more. In the past, most people had very little choice over what they ate. Nowadays, we are genuinely spoiled for choice. Supermarkets provide a year-round...

Th e swift course of domestic and world events, part of a hastened process of change, requires an enormous increase of basic understanding by peoples of the multiple factors infl uencing the tempo and direction of national developments. Th e pattern of intercultural penetration and cross-fertilizing exchanges of scientifi c and technological...

The technical world is changing very rapidly. In only 15 years, the power of personal computers has increased by a factor of nearly one-thousand. By all accounts, it will increase by another factor of one-thousand in the next 15...

Do you think that only experts with a deep understanding of the inner workings of ASP.NET, SQL Server, and IIS can improve a website's performance? Think again - because this book tosses that notion out of the window. It will help you resolve every web developer's nightmare - a slow website - with angry managers looking over your...

The purpose of Top-Down Network Design, Third Edition, is to help you design networks that meet a customer’s business and technical goals. Whether your customer is another department within your own company or an external client, this book provides you with tested processes and tools to help you understand traffic...

This is a CS 2 book that presents classical data structures in an object-oriented programming (OOP) context using Java. This book also focuses on the basic principles of OOP and graphical user interface (GUI)-based programming – two paradigms essential for modern programming and problem solving. Our book is aimed principally at CS 2...

My first exposure to a...

Over the past 15 years, movie audiences all over the world have witnessed the emergence of one of the most revolutionary tools ever created to aid in the creation of films, the use of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI). Through the use of CGI, filmmakers have transported us to distant places, put us right in the middle of very dangerous shots,...

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you...

The Semantic Web is the realization of an aspect of the Web that was part of the original hopes and dreams of 1989, but whose development has, until now, taken a back seat to the Web of multimedia human-readable material. Even though at the first WWW conference, in 1994, I ended my talk with a few slides about the Semantic Web, the steps...