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Author Matthew J. Hamm
If you’ve ever wanted to be a User Experience (UX) designer, this book will give you a great head start. It’s a comprehensive handbook to the core principles and leads you through design methodologies with many practical examples.In DetailDesigning the user experien....
Release Date 2014/01 -
Within the Frame, 10th Anniversary Edition
Author David Duchemin
When Within the Frame first published in 2009, it received high praise for both its practical teaching and its humanity. Ten years later, it is a best-selling modern classic and a must-read. Author David duChemin’s masterful and balanced emphasis on both the....
Release Date 2019/01 -
Author Stanley R. Alten
Written by highly respected author Stan Alten, WORKING WITH AUDIO provides readers with a fundamental understanding of the principles, technology, and techniques of audio production. This book covers the basics of audio production techniques in radio, TV, music, and....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Martie Cook
Learn to craft smart, original stories and scripts for a variety of television formats and genres, including comedy, drama, pilots, animation, made-for-TV movies, late night, and reality television. Hear directly from studio and network executives, agents, and manag....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Write Your Way into Animation and Games
Author Christy Marx
Launch your career in writing for video games or animation with the best tips, tricks, and tutorials from the Focal press catalog--all at your fingertips. Let our award-winning writers and game developers show you how to generate ideas and create compelling storylin....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Writing and Research for Graphic Designers
Author Steven Heller
For designers, writing and research skills are more necessary than ever before, from the basic business compositions to critical writing. In this competitive climate, designers are routinely called upon to make words about the images and designs they create for clie....
Release Date 2013/01 -
Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games
Author Christy Marx
Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games explains the practical aspects of creating scripts for animation, comics, graphic novels, and computer games. It details how you can create scripts that are in the right industry format, and follow the expected rules for you....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Linda Newman Lior
Writing for Interaction focuses on the art of creating the information experience as it appears within software and web applications, specifically in the form of user interface text. It also provides strategies for ensuring a consistent, positive information experie....
Release Date 2013/02 -
Writing Interactive Music for Video Games: A Composer’s Guide
Author Michael Sweet
“This book is a must read for newcomers and experienced composers wanting to learn more about the art of video game composition.”—Chuck Doud, Director of Music, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide StudiosAll You Need to Know to Create Great Video Game MusicWritten....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Wrong Numbers in Sports: Painting a Bigger Picture with Stats that Matter
Author Martin B. Schmidt , David J. Berri
This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats.Why sports decision-makers are wrong s....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Author John A. Adam
X and the City, a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or doctor's offices, gas stations, restaurants, or movie theaters in....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Author Chris Tyler
This book puts you in charge of the most flexible and adaptable graphical interface in the computer industry. The X Window System underlies graphical desktops on Linux and Unix systems, and supports advanced features of modern graphics cards. More people use the X W....
Release Date 2007/12 -
X Window System User's Guide for X11 R3 and R4 of the X Window System
Author Tim O'Reilly , Valerie Quercia
The X Window System User's Guide orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. Building on this basic knowledge, later chapters explain how to cust....
Release Date 1990/05 -
X Window System User's Guide, Vol 3 (The Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
Author Tim O'Reilly , Valerie Quercia
This book orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs including the xterm terminal emulator and the mvm window manager. Once you have a basic knowledge of the system, the later chapters explain how to custo....
Release Date 1988/09 -
X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
Author Eric Pearce , Linda Mui
As X moves out of the hacker's domain and into the "real world," users can't be expected to master all the ins and outs of setting up and administering their own X software. That will increasingly become the domain of system administrators. Even for experienced sy....
Release Date 1992/10 -
Xcelsius 2008 Dashboard Best Practices
Author Loren Abdulezer
THE DEFINITIVE, COMPREHENSIVE, OFFICIAL GUIDE TO XCELSIUS 2008 DASHBOARDSUsing Xcelsius, you can create powerful, interactive dashboards, gather data from spreadsheets or databases, and deliver knowledge that can be instantly understood and acted upon. Now there’s a....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Xlib Reference Manual for Version 11 of the X Window System
Author Adrian Nye
A complete programmer's reference for X library functions, which is the lowest level of programming interface to X.Reference pages for each Xlib functionA permuted index to the Xlib functionsreference pages for each event typeDescription of macrosA listing of the s....
Release Date 1989/01 -
Author Dorothy J. Hoskins
Discover the power of XML publishing with InDesign, and create content for multiple applications—including digital-first publishing workflows. With this book, XML evangelist Dorothy Hoskins teaches you several techniques for working with the built-in XML capabilitie....
Release Date 2013/01 -
XML Publishing with Adobe InDesign
Author Dorothy J. Hoskins
From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for s....
Release Date 2010/09 -
XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+
Author Dorothy J. Hoskins
Adobe InDesign's user documentation provides some examples of importing and formatting XML. But if you need to wrangle XML that comes from a database or website and make it look good inside an InDesign document, you'll want to dive deeper. (Note: while Adobe made....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Author Michael C. Neel
This Wrox Blox will guide you through the world of 3D programming and give you solid knowledge and a foundation in game programming using Microsoft's XNA Framework. You will learn the fundamentals from 3D mathematics to model animation, including all the subjects n....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Author Ralph Roberts
A concise, enjoyable look at using Yammer, the secure, fun-to-use private social network for your company, now from MicrosoftShare what you're doing, post announcements, congratulate people, link to documents or interesting websites, make files available, ask or an....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Author Noah Blumenthal
All of us have things about ourselves we'd like to change. Maybe you want to be more organized, healthier, thinner, or more outspoken. Or perhaps you want to procrastinate less, quit smoking, listen better, or be a better leader. Whatever you want to change, y....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Seth Adam Smith
What's holding you back? Seth Allen Smith says look in the mirror. It's who, not what. All of us feel trapped, stuck, or unable to move forward in life at some point. But ultimately, the greatest obstacle to achieving your full potential is you. But the good news ....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Jon Margulies , Chris Buono
YOUR ABLETON LIVE STUDIO will show you step-by-step how to get in on the action using Ableton Live as the central component of your home-based audio-production studio. What's more, YOUR ABLETON LIVE STUDIO will help you create a mobile-based studio so you can take ....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Author Carl Purcell
Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expression Improving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see—not what you think you s....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Your Camera Loves You: Learn to Love It Back
Author Khara Plicanic
With this friendly, accessible guide, beginning photographers will learn to take control of their photography and get the photos they want every time they pick up their camera! Beginning photographers often rely heavily on the “Auto” setting in their photography and....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Steve Pacey
You've recently purchased Cubase. You're ready to set up your home recording studio and finally produce that album you've been talking about. Now what? Your Cubase Studio provides a complete guide to setting up your digital recording studio with Cubase so you can....
Release Date 2008/02 -
Author Philip J. Romero
Most "managerial economics" textbooks are thinly disguised microeconomics texts: highly theoretical, too dependent on abstract and unproven assumptions, and simply undigestible by busy, practical-minded executives/readers. Furthermore, such texts leave it up to the....
Release Date 2011/12