In Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior, acclaimed bird photographer and author Marie Read shares techniques and stories behind her compelling images, offering fresh insights into making successful bird photographs, whether you’re out in the field or in the comfort...
Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure describes and details serial television and "binge watching," the exceedingly popular form of contemporary television viewing that has come to dominance over the past decade. Author Dennis Broe looks at this practice of media consumption by suggesting that...
The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist...
Few areas of photography require the level of unwavering technical expertise required for successful macrophotography. When you’re shooting very big images of very small subjects, even tiny flaws—be it in the lighting, composition, focusing, or any other aspect of the process—can result in unusable images. In this...
This IBM® Redbook will help you get started in application development with
XML, PHP, C/C++, Java™, and .NET using the free IBM database management
system offering DB2® Express-C V9. This book is organized as follows:
Design an enterprise solution from scratch that allows the migration of a legacy application. Begin with the planning and design phase and be guided through all the stages of selecting the architecture framework that fits your enterprise.
Join Microsoft MVP Josh Garverick as he addresses all major areas of design and...
Get hands-on experience with each Gang of Four design pattern using C#. For each of the patterns, you’ll see at least one real-world scenario, a coding example, and a complete implementation including output.
In the first part of Design Patterns in C#, you will cover the 23 Gang of Four (GoF) design...