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Author Guy Hart-Davis
Your ultimate visual iPad guide.Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPad is the essential guide to getting the most out of your new device. Expert advice delivered in a visual step-by-step tutorial will have you using the latest key features, getting connected, and troubleshoo....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Author Sabina Jeschke , Tamim Sookoor , Ravi Srinivasan , Houbing Song
Provides the foundations and principles needed for addressing the various challenges of developing smart citiesSmart cities are emerging as a priority for research and development across the world. They open up significant opportunities in several areas, such as ec....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Ivana Markova
A groundbreaking text to the study of textile fibers that bridges the knowledge gap between fiber shape and end usesTextile Fiber Microscopy offers an important and comprehensive guide to the study of textile fibers and contains a unique text that prioritizes a rev....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Apple Watch For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Author Marc Saltzman
Take a bite out of the new and improved Apple Watch! The Apple Watch is a powerful computer that’s worn on your wrist — and can serve as an invaluable companion, anytime and anywhere. Acting as a communication device, fitness and health tracker, and sleek time piec....
Release Date 2019/01 -
Author Chris Qualls , Anna Weinstein
Acting for the Stage is a highly accessible guide to the business of theater acting, written for those interested in pursuing acting as a profession. This book is a collection of essays by and interviews with talented artists and businesspeople who have built succe....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Author Gene Leitermann
This book introduces theater planning to students and practitioners of each field, and provides a detailed guide to the process and the technical requirements particular to theater buildings. Part I is a guide to the concepts and practices of architecture and const....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Resources Booms and Macroeconomic Adjustments in Developing Countries
Author Mamta Banu Chowdhury
Chowdhury addresses fundamental issues of policy management in resource-based developing countries, by providing an extension of the existing 'Dutch Disease' theory and its applications to the developing country context. The impact of resources booms is of paramo....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Author Thomas Vander Wal , Dave Gray
To keep pace with today’s connected customers, your company must become a connected company. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how performance is rewarded. It requires a new way ....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Ann Light , Elizabeth Goodman , Claire Rowland , Alfred Lui , Martin Charlier
Networked thermostats, fitness monitors, and door locks show that the Internet of Things can (and will) enable new ways for people to interact with the world around them. But designing connected products for consumers brings new challenges beyond conventional softwa....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Practical Fashion Tech: Wearable Technologies for Costuming, Cosplay, and Everyday
Author Rich Cameron , Lyn Hoge , Joan Horvath
Pull back the curtain on making fun and innovative costumes and accessories incorporating technologies like low-cost microprocessors, sensors and programmable LEDs.Fashion tech can require skills in design, pattern-making, sewing, electronics, and maybe 3D printing....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Crafting Wearables: Blending Technology with Fashion
Author Kate Sicchio , Madeline Gannon , Sibel Deren Guler
Enter the exciting intersection of technology and fashion known as wearable computing. Learn about the future of electronics in clothing and textiles, and be a part of creating that future! Crafting Wearables begins with the history of the field, then covers curren....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Abusing the Internet of Things
Author Nitesh Dhanjani
A future with billions of connected "things" includes monumental security concerns. This practical book explores how malicious attackers can abuse popular IoT-based devices, including wireless LED lightbulbs, electronic door locks, baby monitors, smart TVs, and conn....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Thomas Vander Wal , Dave Gray
With a foreword by Alex Osterwalder.The future of work is already here.Customers are adopting disruptive technologies faster than your company can adapt. When your customers are delighted, they can amplify your message in ways that were never before possible. But wh....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Scott Sullivan
Now may be the perfect time to enter the wearables industry. With the range of products that have appeared in recent years, you can determine which ideas resonate with users and which don’t before leaping into the market. In this practical guide, author Scott Sulli....
Release Date 2016/12 -
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 -
Author Paul McConnell , Michael Clare
How can today’s growing cities use technology and design to improve their infrastructure, management, and quality of life? In this O’Reilly report, Paul McConnell and Mike Clare from Intersection review how connected services and platforms are redefining how cities....
Release Date 2015/12 -
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 -
Author Moshe Yudkowsky
The Pebble and the Avalanche shows how the Internet, the auto industry, music downloading, and other rapidly evolving industries are all connected by the same dynamic -- disaggregation. Moshe Yudkowsky shows why this dynamic is crucial to survival in the 21st c....
Release Date 2005/11 -
1,000 Incredible Costume and Cosplay Ideas
Author Joey Marsocci , Allison DeBlasio , Yaya Han
1,000 Incredible Costume and Cosplay Ideas provides a broad and detailed glimpse into the ingenious artistry and attention to detail behind some of the most fabulous costumes you can find. Featuring costumes from popular convention-goers to professional craftsman, t....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Author Lynda Gratton
You always know when you are in a Hot Spot. You feel energized and vibrantly alive. Your brain is buzzing with ideas, and the people around you share your joy and excitement. Things you've always known become clearer, adding value becomes more possible. Ideas ....
Release Date 2007/02 -
Designing the Networked Organization
Author Ken Everett
This book explores how naturally connected organizations (NCOs) can survive and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world using the principles of natural connectivity, organic growth and collaboration. It shows how naturally connected organizations are resilient....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Dinesh Kumar
Traditional marketing faces challenges as never before. The way that people interact with each other and with companies is changing completely in todayÕs era of 24/7 connectivity. This book explores tectonic changes in buyer behavior and how businesses ar....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Family Projects for Smart Objects
Author John Keefe
"The Internet of Things" is the new buzzphrase, but what is it? A toaster that texts? The fitness band on your wrist? The camera in an infant's room? Sure, it's all of those things. But it's also your phone: an ultra-sophisticated sensor and communications system....
Release Date 2016/09 -
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 -
The Internet of Things - Living in a connected world
Author The Chartered Institute for IT BCS
Over the last few years the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a very hot topic, sparking much excitement and debate across industries. This ebook provides a variety of articles discussing the role, impact, benefits, and issues around the idea of the IoT. ....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Tony Olsson
Design, code, and build exciting wearable projects using Arduino toolsAbout This BookDevelop an interactive program using sensors and actuators suitable with wearablesUnderstand wearable programming with the help of hands-on projectsExplore different wearable design....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Networked Collaborative Learning
Author Guglielmo Trentin
The sustainability of Networked Collaborative Learning (NCL) is a key topic of discussion amongst the institutions where it has been or may potentially be introduced. In order to determine the extent of NCL's sustainability, the added value university education may....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Author Daniel Professor Nelson
Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great undeveloped areas. Yet sweeping changes were underway. In l958 Congress awarded the new state over 100 million acres to promote economic development. In 1971, it gave Native groups more than 40 millio....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Reforming Regulatory Impact Analysis
Author Richard D Morgenstern , Lisa Heinzerling , Winston Harrington
Over the past decades, considerable debate has emerged surrounding the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to analyze and make recommendations for environmental and safety regulations. Critics argue that CBA forces values on unquantifiable factors, that it does ....
Release Date 2010/09