The most complete, extensive, and accessible guide for LightWave 8. Inside Lightwave 8 is chock full of step-by-step tutorials on every topic LightWave users need to know. It is also clear, well-organized and easy to use--essential for a comprehensive book when you need to find answers to their questions quickly. Dan Ablan, award-winning animator and LightWave author, offers Inside LightWave X to get you up-to-speed and enhances productivity with NewTek's LightWave 3D software. No other LightWav...
Multiagent Engineering (International Handbooks on Information Systems)
This book gives detailed descriptions of the development of two large scale multiagent systems: Agent.Hospital and Agent.Enterprise. These two systems have been developed in close cooperation with more than 20 enterprises and hospitals. They demonstrate clearly that multiagent technology has a great potential for innovative information systems, if a high degree of flexibility of the overall systems is required, e.g. because human actors and technical systems exhibit a great degree of local auton...
Kai's Power Tools 3: Visual QuickStart Guide focuses on the bestselling plug-in set that allows users to achieve stunning visual effects in a today's top graphics programs. KPT 3's expanded and enhanced collection of plug-ins gives users the ability to manipulate text and images in artistic ways. Its effects can be seen in publishing, advertising, graphics, web design, and even animation. Kai's Power Tools are used with Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator, FreeHand, and other programs that support...
Flash 4 Hands-on-training (Lynda Weinman's Hands-on-training S.)
by Lynda Weinman
-- Written by a best-selling author, renowned teacher, sought-after speaker, and leading Web designer.-- Offers the ideal way to learn this terrific Web tool, thanks to hands-on classroom-proven exercises combined with support from the CD-ROM.Macromedia Flash is the industry-standard tool that enables users to create graphics, animation, and interactivity for expressive, imaginative Web sites. Version 4 has been substantially updated, with an interface that's more in line with those for other Ma...
Virtual Coaching to Improve Group Relationships
Process consultation, invented by Edgar Schein, is both a skill and an organization development change effort. As a skill, process consultation means the ability to observe and provide feedback about small group dynamics to a work group about how well group members interact and how to improve that interaction. Just as facilitators devote their time to (in one word) asking, process consultants devote their time to (in one word) watching—at an expert level. As a change effort, process consultation...
Optical Fiber Telecommunications III
Updated to include the latest information on light wave technology, Optical Fiber Telecommunication III, Volumes A & B are invaluable for scientists, students, and engineers in the modern telecommunications industry. This two-volume set includes the most current research available in optical fiber telecommunications, light wave technology, and photonics/optoelectronics. The authors cover important background concepts such as SONET, coding device technology, andWOM components as well as projectin...
Lotus Freelance Graphics 2.0 for Windows Illustrated
by Katherine Murray
Windows Store App Essentials: Give Your App the Windows Difference
by Greg Leonardo
Give your app the Windows Store difference. Windows Store App Essentials provides you with all of the practical information that you need to make sure that your app takes advantage of all of the unique features of the Windows Store environment. Starting with practical advice on app design and working within Microsoft's Modern UI guidelines, the book carries on to cover making the most of Live Tiles, integrating with the Charms Bar, and using Live Connect to enable a seamless user experience. Win...
Self-adaptive software evaluates its own behavior and changes its behavior when the evaluation indicates that the software does not accomplish what it is intended to do or when better functionality or better performance is possible. The self-adaptive approach in software engineering builds on well-known features like the use of errors and the handling of exceptions in languages like Lisp or Java and aims at improving the robustness of software systems by gradually adding new features of self-ada...
Grep Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
by John Bambenek and Agnieszka Klus
"Grep Pocket Reference" is the first guide devoted to grep, the powerful utility program that helps you locate content in any file on a Unix or Linux system. Several applications use grep, from mail filtering and system log management to malware analysis and application development, and there are many other ways to use the utility. This pocket reference is ideal for system administrators, security professionals, developers, and others who want to learn more about grep and take new approaches wit...
Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual)
by Barbara Brundage
After more than two years, Adobe has finally released a new version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac. Version 6 packs a lot more editing firepower than iPhoto, and this Missing Manual puts every feature into a clear, easy-to-understand context - something that no other book on Elements does! "Photoshop Elements 6" is perfect for scrapbooking, making email-ready slideshows, and creating Web galleries. It has lots of new features such as Guided Edit for performing basic editing tasks, an improved...
Classical and Discrete Differential Geometry
by David Xianfeng Gu and Emil Saucan
This book introduces differential geometry and cutting-edge findings from the discipline by incorporating both classical approaches and modern discrete differential geometry across all facets and applications, including graphics and imaging, physics and networks. With curvature as the centerpiece, the authors present the development of differential geometry, from curves to surfaces, thence to higher dimensional manifolds; and from smooth structures to metric spaces, weighted manifolds and compl...
Is this book about patterns? Yes and no. It is about software reuse and representation of knowledge that can be reapplied in similar situations; however, it does not follow the classic Alexandine conventions of the patterns community--i.e. Problem- solution- forces- context- example, etc. Chapter 6 on claims comes close to classic patterns, and the whole book can be viewed as a patterns language of abstract models for software engineering and HCI. So what sort of patterns does it contain?...
The Definitive Guide to Plone (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
by Maurizio Delmonte, Davide Moro, Alice Narduzzo, Fabrizio Reale, and Andy McKay
* McKay is a member of Plone's core development team-defining The Expert's Voice in Open Source. * Author's web site ZopeZen.org is a site dedicated to Zope-based applications and will plug book on the site. * Python programmers are a growing community and this will be the only up-to-date book on Plone for programmers. * For the latest information on Plone and the latest developments, visit: http://plone.org.