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Design for Living with Smart Products
Author Simone Rebaudengo
As more connected products are launched and kickstarted daily, it’s clear that homes have become a new data factory for entrepreneurs, designers, and developers. But most of these products are based on the assumption that efficiency is the main goal of domestic lif....
Release Date 2017/08 -
Choosing 360: A Guide to Evaluating Multi-rater Feedback Instruments for Management Development
Author John Fleenor , Jean Brittain Leslie , Ellen Van Van Velsor
Feedback is a rare commodity in organizational life, but it is key to managerial effectiveness. One increasingly popular vehicle for getting feedback from one's boss, peers, and subordinates is the multiple-perspective, or 360-degree, feedback instrument. Use of s....
Release Date 1997/06 -
Should 360-degree Feedback Be Only Used For Developmental Purposes?
Author Cynthia D. McCauley , Maxine Dalton , David W. Bracken
Along with the growing use of 360-degree feedback in organizations today, there is much disagreement over how it should be employed: strictly to help the manager develop or also to help those who work with the manager decide such issues as pay and promotion? This p....
Release Date 1997/11 -
Author Kathy Ceceri
In this book you'll create your own fabric inventions as you learn to make wearables, playthings, and decorative items using textile arts--both old and new. Easy projects using will get you started knitting, adding color to your wardrobe with silkscreen and batik,....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Adobe® After Effects® 6.5: Studio Techniques
Author Mark Christiansen
Ready to learn the visual effects secrets used at such leading-edge studios as Industrial Light + Magic and The Orphanage? Adobe After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques inspires you to take your work to the next level with realworld examples and insider techniques. Get ....
Release Date 2005/04 -
Author Felix Nelson , Scott Kel
Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson (the creative team behind Photoshop User magazine) take their best-selling Photoshop Killer Tips books to a whole new level with their update for Photoshop CS2.Okay, why a book of nothing but tips? Because that's where all the really sl....
Release Date 2005/09 -
How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas
Author Steve Borghatti , Brandy L. Aven , Jacomo Corbo , Param Vir Singh , Peter A. Gloor
What prompts people to come up with their best ideas? Even Steve Jobs, renowned for his digital evangelism, recognized the importance of social interaction in achieving innovation. As CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, Jobs explicitly instructed the ....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Fourth Edition
Author Adobe Systems , Inc.
Your official guide to the Adobe Type Library! Choosing the right type for your designs can be one of the hardest parts of your job as a digital designer. There are thousands of fonts available and the choices can be overwhelming. With more than 2,400 fonts, the Ad....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Travel and Street Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots
Author John Batdorff
Whether you’re heading to Paris or San Francisco, Patagonia or Yosemite, you need a book that goes beyond the camera manual to teach you how to take great shots. This guide by pro photographer John Batdorff will help you conquer the fundamentals of travel and street....
Release Date 2014/10 -
Engineering Design Graphics with Autodesk Inventor 2020
Author James D. Bethune
Using a step-by-step format, Engineering Design Graphics with Autodesk Inventor shows students how to use Autodesk Inventor to create and document designs. Chapter test questions help students assess their understanding of key concepts. Sample problems, end-of-chap....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 Classroom in a Book
Author Jeff Carlson
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does -- an official training series from Adobe, develope....
Release Date 2020/12 -
Author Michael Freeman
Today's DSLRs have manuals running to hundreds of pages, but they neglect one crucial fact: great photographers do not just simply know how to navigate menus, they also understand how their camera works and how to get the best possible pictures from it.The DSLR Fie....
Release Date 2013/08 -
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides: Rome
Author Reid Bramblett , Jeffrey Kennedy
Although functioning as a vibrant, modern capital akin to any in Europe, the unique appeal of Rome is that the entire city is a vast, 3,000-year-old, indoor-outdoor museum. In every quarter you’ll find ancient monuments, art treasures and timeless architecture in ch....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Eunice Parisi-Carew , Jane Ripley , Ken Blanchard
Collaboration Begins with YouEveryone knows collaboration creates high performing teams and organizations—and with today's diverse, globalized workforce it's absolutely crucial. Yet it often doesn't happen because people and groups typically believe that the....
Release Date 2015/10 -
The Art and Science of Drawing
Drawing is not a talent. It’s a skill anyone can learn. This is the philosophy of drawing instructor Brent Eviston based on his more than twenty years of teaching. He has tested numerous types of drawing instruction from centuries old classical techniques to contemporary practices and designed an ap.... -
Saving Adam Smith: A Tale of Wealth, Transformation, and Virtue
Author Jonathan B. Wight
Adam Smith ... Father of Modern Economics ... Died in 1790 ... but 200 years later, his spirit is tortured by the caricatures we remember in his name. In Saving Adam Smith, he is tortured enough to return to Earth ... and so begins a journey of discovery that cuts a....
Release Date 2001/10 -
Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
Author David Karlins
Adobe Illustrator CS4 is more than just the world’s most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, it’s a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to c....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation
Author Mollie Johanson
Learn to create personalized graduation announcements, congratulations, and additional keepsakes for education-related accomplishments with Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation—with mix-and-match design elements and more than 20 patterns.
Release Date 2023/03 -
Film Scriptwriting, 2nd Edition
Author Joye R Swain , Dwight V Swain
This second edition of the widely acclaimed Film Scriptwriting is a truly practical manual for the working writer. It provides all the clear, step-by-step guidance you need to script both fact and feature film and video - from getting and developing ideas to t....
Release Date 1988/08 -
VFX Fundamentals: Visual Special Effects Using Fusion 8.0
Author Wallace Jackson
Learn concepts central to visual special effects using the free Black Magic Design Fusion 8.0 software package. This book also provides foundational background information regarding concepts central to digital image compositing, digital video editing, digital illus....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Beginning Windows Mixed Reality Programming: For HoloLens and Mixed Reality Headsets
Author Sean Ong
Develop applications and experiences for Microsoft’s HoloLens and other Windows mixed reality devices. This easy-to-follow guide removes the mystery behind creating amazing augmented reality experiences. Mixed reality development tools and resources are provided.Be....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Introduction to Photoshop: An Essential Guide for Absolute Beginners
Author Kevin Wilson
This full-color book is an essential guide to getting started with Adobe Photoshop. It's packed with tutorials, illustrations, and practical exercises to help you make sense of this complex and powerful software.You'll start with the basics of Photoshop, including an overview of its myriad tools a....
Release Date 2022/12 -
Wearable Programming for the Active Lifestyle
Author Brian Jepson
If you want to design apps for smart watches, it’s important to know that different platforms have vastly different capabilities. Apple Watch and Android Wear, for instance, serve primarily as smartphone extensions with fast CPUs, bright displays, and relatively sh....
Release Date 2017/01 -
David Busch's Canon EOS 90D Guide to Digital Photography
Author David D. Busch
David Busch's Canon EOS 90D Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for the advanced Canon EOS 90D camera. This upgraded 32.5 megapixel APS-C model features a 45-point autofocus system. The Dual Pixel CMOS hybrid autofocus bri....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Author Guy Tal
A deeper look at the creativity, art, expression, craft, and philosophy of landscape photography.More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition is a passionate and personal book about creativity and expression. In this series of over 70 brief essays, photographer and teacher Guy Tal share....
Release Date 2020/09 -
Style Bible: What to Wear to Work
Author Lauren A. Rothman
First impressions (and second ones!) count, whether you are an intern or a CEO. Lauren A. Rothman addresses an age-old dilemma: how to be appropriate and stylish in the workplace. Based on a decade of experience in the fashion industry, she addresses the basics of ....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Single-Camera Video Production, 4th Edition
Author Robert B. Musburger PhD
Single-camera Video Production, Fourth Edition clearly explains the technology and the equipment of video production and details step-by-step the professional-level techniques that can be applied to any type of production or budget. In addition, this manual w....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Take Control of Screen Sharing in Leopard
Author Glenn Fleishman
Screen sharing lets you control one Mac while you sit at another. It's great for providing remote tech support, managing remote servers, and for collaborating with colleagues. Leopard brings screen sharing to normal Mac users, but adds complexity by enabling scree....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
Author Julien Smith , Chris Brogan
How to tap the power of social software and networks to build your businessIn Trust Agents, two social media veterans show you how to tap into the power of social networks to build your brand's influence, reputation, and, of course, profits. Today's online influen....
Release Date 2009/08