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Slowly but surely, Minette Walters has been building up her reputation as one of the UK's most penetrating and distinctive purveyors of the psychological thriller. Disordered Minds will add even more lustre to her name. Such books as Fox Evil and Acid Row demonstrated Walters' reluctance to repeat herself in terms of narrative, and her easy command of the various social groups in her novels (upper middle or council estate) is more sure than that of her colleagues and peers.Disordered Minds bu... less info

Slowly but surely, Minette Walters has been building up her reputation as one of the UK's most penetrating and distinctive purveyors of the psychological thriller. Disordered Minds will add even mo... more info

T1: A Survival Guide explains leased T1 data circuits for the benefit of the lessee--in other words, for the telephone company's customer. The T1 line and its predecessors were developed as long-distance voice trunks, but now they're used almost exclusively as data connections for large and mid-sized organisations. In part because they've been adapted to fill a new role, T1 lines make use of complicated signalling and linking protocols. What's more, T1 technology has a lot to do with the publ... less info

T1: A Survival Guide explains leased T1 data circuits for the benefit of the lessee--in other words, for the telephone company's customer. The T1 line and its predecessors were developed as long-di... more info

In 1996, George Maestri wrote what is now the benchmark for computer character animation books, Digital Character Animation.It quickly became a best seller, and addressed many important issues for people using computers for character animation. But like many books of its type, it covered an enormous amount of territory without going into the depth that some sections deserved. With the publication of Digital Character Animation 2: Volume 1--Essential Techniques, Maestri has been able to restru... less info

In 1996, George Maestri wrote what is now the benchmark for computer character animation books, Digital Character Animation.It quickly became a best seller, and addressed many important issues for ... more info

The title of Real World Digital Photography doesn't adequately indicate the scope and sheer practical usefulness of the information within. The authors not only give a clear breakdown of how to choose and use a digital camera, they also cover everything from sound photographic advice (lighting, framing and cropping) to manipulation of digital images (primarily in Photoshop). This latter section is especially well written; it covers everything necessary for colour correction: levels, histogram... less info

The title of Real World Digital Photography doesn't adequately indicate the scope and sheer practical usefulness of the information within. The authors not only give a clear breakdown of how to cho... more info

Microsoft books exist in a world where Microsoft software is the best and only option. Rizzo's book on creating collaborative apps using Exchange Server 5.5 (and 2000), Outlook 2000 and IE as application platforms with VBScript for glue shows how simple it can be to meet common business needs via dialogue boxes and standard forms without traditional programming.Rizzo breaks collaborative apps into five categories: messaging, tracking, workflow, real-time and knowledge management; though an ap... less info

Microsoft books exist in a world where Microsoft software is the best and only option. Rizzo's book on creating collaborative apps using Exchange Server 5.5 (and 2000), Outlook 2000 and IE as appli... more info

Aimed at the working C++ game developer, 3D Game Engine Design provides a tour of mathematical techniques for 3-D graphics and the source code used to implement them in state-of-the-art video game engines. If you work in the game industry (or would like to), this book will serve you well because it delivers excellent best practices for algorithms and programming techniques that will help your software keep up with the competition.This text is a virtual encyclopaedia of expertise, based on the... less info

Aimed at the working C++ game developer, 3D Game Engine Design provides a tour of mathematical techniques for 3-D graphics and the source code used to implement them in state-of-the-art video game ... more info

From the beginning of Paint Shop Pro 6 Visual Insight, the authors tell us to "dive right in, push every button". This hands-on approach works particularly well in the unimposing interface of Paint Shop Pro, an alternative to more complex, and more expensive, paint applications like Photoshop.Overview explanations of important concepts, like "The Basics of Masking", alternate with step-by-step walk-throughs of essential tasks, like "Creating a Layered Image" or &... less info

From the beginning of Paint Shop Pro 6 Visual Insight, the authors tell us to "dive right in, push every button". This hands-on approach works particularly well in the unimposing interfac... more info

Edition: 2, Audio CD, Macmillan Digital Audio less info

Edition: 2, Audio CD, Macmillan Digital Audio

Pages: 128, Edition: Pap/Cdr, Paperback, Dover Publications less info

Pages: 128, Edition: Pap/Cdr, Paperback, Dover Publications

A lavishly illustrated demonstration of what you can do with a digital camera, Start with a Digital Camera mimics a traditional photography text. It teaches how to choose a subject, arrange lighting, compose frames, work with models and capture fast action. The author, a graphic designer, also discusses various styles of photography (landscapes, still lifes, portraits and so on) available for exploration. But rather than discuss film, chemical development and darkroom techniques, Odam digs in... less info

A lavishly illustrated demonstration of what you can do with a digital camera, Start with a Digital Camera mimics a traditional photography text. It teaches how to choose a subject, arrange lightin... more info

This fourth outing for Eoin Colfer's teenage criminal mastermind, Artemis Fowl, is--as ever--full of dramatic action, explosions, treachery, high speed chases, windy escapes from Trolls and a generous helping of fairy magic. There are plenty of laughs amidst the action and more new technical gizmos than you could fit into James Bond's latest car. At the end of Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Artemis was left with his memory erased of all previous dealings with the fairy folk, any underground... less info

This fourth outing for Eoin Colfer's teenage criminal mastermind, Artemis Fowl, is--as ever--full of dramatic action, explosions, treachery, high speed chases, windy escapes from Trolls and a gener... more info