If you are serious about learning photography this is the book needed to get started.
This authoritative classic, written by a leading international photography writer and lecturer has been updated by successful photographer, lecturer and best-selling Photoshop Elements author, Philip Andrews.
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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...
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Microsoft Vista may be the hot new operating system, but to use it with confidence, you'll need to know its quirks and shortcuts. Find out what the manual doesn't always tell you in this insider's guide to using Vista in the real world. How can you customize...
A detailed introduction to the design, implementation, and use of network simulation tools is presented. The requirements and issues faced in the design of simulators for wired and wireless networks are discussed. Abstractions such as packet- and fluid-level network models are covered. Several existing simulations are given as examples, with...
The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four decades by a large number of experiments. Two...
[A]n information-packed reference guide to the latest applications of mass spectrometry in forensic science. … Each chapter is written by one or more well-known subject experts including Yinon himself. The chapters are very readable with many drawings and diagrams and are extensively annotated. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. ...
This new and innovative text helps students develop a deeper understanding of organic chemistry. It treats the subject as a coherent whole, complete with numerous logical connections, consequences, and an underlying structure and "language." Employing an approach based on mechanism and reaction type, the book empasizes understanding ideas...
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Lincoln's humor and personal tales do much to convey the flavor of modern particle physics research. -- Symmetry
The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and...
All of the material is presented clearly and concisely. - Tom Hartquist in A&G
It is by far the most comprehensive, detailed, and in depth work ever published on this subject. The book derives all of the relevant physics for interstellar dust from first principles. It includes all of the necessary physics of dust grains,...
