Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Introduction to Media Production:


Introduction to Media Production: 
The Path to Digital Media Production  536 Pages | PDF | 34 MB

Introduction to Media Production began years ago as an alternative text that would cover ALL aspects of media production, not just film or just tv or just radio. Kindem and Musburger needed a book that would show students how every form of media intersects with one another, and about how one needs to know the background history of how film affects video, and how video affects working in a studio, and ultimately, how one needs to know how to put it all together. Introduction to Media Production is the book that shows this intersection among the many forms of media, and how students can use this intersection to begin to develop their own high quality work.

Introduction to Media Production is a primary source for students of media. Its readers learn about various forms of media, how to make the best use of them, why one would choose one form of media over another, and finally, about all of the techniques used to create a media project. The digital revolution has exploded all the former techniques used in digital media production, and this book covers the now restructured and formalized digital workflows that make all production processes by necessity, digital.

This text will concentrate on offering students and newcomers to the field the means to become aware of the critical importance of understanding the end destination of their production as a part of pre-production, not the last portion of post production.

Covering film, tv, video, audio, and graphics, the fourth edition of Introduction to Media Production is a comprehensive guide for both students of media and newcomers to the media industry.

Key Features
* Covers all aspects of digital media production--from conception of the idea to the final end product
* Introduces students to all forms of media: film, tv, video, audio, and graphics (other books focus mostly on one aspect)
* Reinforces the importance for media artists and practitioners to be aware of the ultimate distribution and exhibition of their media products from the outset of the project
* Completely revised to show the new theories, practices, and examples involved in an entirely digital world
* Updated Instructors' Manual with PowerPoint slides for lecture use, teaching notes, test questions, essay topics, and math problems

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Monday, August 30, 2010

SQL Clearly Explained


SQL Clearly Explained, Third Edition 
480 pages | PDF | 3,5 MB

Although the core of the SQL language remains relatively unchanged, the most recent release of the SQL standard (SQL:2008) includes two sets of extensions: 1) support for object-relational databases and 2) support for XML. The second edition of this book included some material about the object-relational extensions. However, that set of commands has been greatly extended and the new edition takes that into account. The XML extensions are entirely new to the third edition. A chapter on basic relational concepts will be also added to broaden the audience and make the book more complete in its own right.

All of the chapters will be revised to be sure they are up to date. Chapter 10 ("Views, Temporary Tables, and Indexes") from the second edition will be expanded to include common table expression (CTEs). The material in the existing Chapter 14 ("Unimplemented SQL-92 Features 251") will be disbursed through the chapters where the particular type of operation is discussed. While the content throughout will be updated where necessary, the existing organizational structure through chapter 14 will remain largely intact because this coverage represents the stable portion of the SQL language.

There will be two NEW chapters at the beginning of the book. Chapter 1 ("The Relational Data Model") covers the relational data model conceptual material; Chapter 2 ("Manipulating Relations with Relational Algebra") covers the relational algebra material that will be pulled from the retrieval chapters. Part 5 ("Non-relational SQL Extensions") will now include the non-relational SQL extensions in three chapters. Chapter 17 (NEW) will cover XML. Chapter 18 will contain the object-relational conceptual material from the original chapter 15 and chapter 19 (NEW) will cover SQL object-relational support. (Some of chapter 19 will come from the second edition, however, a great deal of object-relational support has been added to the current standard and therefore needs to be added.) The other NEW chapter is Chapter 14, which covers triggers and stored procedures. This material was missing from previous editions. Many readers should find it a useful addition.

•Demonstrates how to formulate SQL queries and how queries are processed to maximize performance of the database management system Explains use of SQL to enter, modify or delete data to maintain database structural elements Covers in great detail new SQL application for XML to meet the growing XML usage in development of online content

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Architect Magazine August 2010


Architect Magazine August 2010
English | 92 Pages | 55MB | True PDF

ARCHITECT provides a complete suite of information services for the 21st century architect. With breaking news, savvy business tips, and state-of-the-art design inspiration, ARCHITECT is the place to go for professional success. ARCHITECT offers architecture news, market intelligence, business and technology solutions, continuing education, building products, and other resources for practicing architects.

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Architect Magazine July 2010


Architect Magazine July 2010
English | 84 Pages | 64MB | True PDF

ARCHITECT provides a complete suite of information services for the 21st century architect. With breaking news, savvy business tips, and state-of-the-art design inspiration, ARCHITECT is the place to go for professional success. ARCHITECT offers architecture news, market intelligence, business and technology solutions, continuing education, building products, and other resources for practicing architects.

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Video Production Handbook


Video Production Handbook 
 352 Pages | PDF | 45 MB

Techniques matter! Great ideas don't automatically translate into great programs. It's not enough simply to show what is going on. The way you present your subject will influence how your audience responds. You need to choose your picture and sound carefully, to convey your ideas in an interesting, persuasive way. This book will show you how.

Video Production Handbook shows the full production process, from inception of idea to final distribution. The book focuses especially on why each step occurs as it does and provides guidance in choosing the simplest methods of creating the shots you want in your video project. Concentrating on the techniques and concepts behind the latest equipment, this book demonstrates the fundamental principles needed to create good video content on any kind of budget.

Suitable for students and beginning videographers, the new edition of this classic text retains its clarity and directness but has been completely revised and updated.

This practical sourcebook has been specially prepared to give you an at-a-glance guide to quality video program-making on a modest budget. Emphasis throughout is on excellence with economy; whether you are working alone or with a small multi-camera group. The well-tried techniques detailed here will steer you through the hazards of production, helping you to avoid those frustrating, time-wasting problems, and to create an effective video program.

For many years Video Production Handbook has helped students and program-makers in a wide range of organizations. Now in its thoroughly revised 4th edition, Video Production Handbook guides you step-by-step, explaining how to develop your initial program ideas and build them into a successful working format. It covers the techniques of persuasive camerawork, successful lighting and sound treatment, and video editing. You will find straightforward up-to-the-minute guidance with your daily production problems, and a wealth of practical tips based on the authors' personal experiences.

* Highly visual: hundreds of full-color illustrations demonstrate techniques
* Modern: Up-to-date information on current equipment, techniques, and new distribution outlets such as the Web and mobile phones
* Balanced: Production techniques are covered in detail, but ideas and creative problem solving are given equal weight
* A complete resource: Detailed teaching ancillaries are available for instructors

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Learning Exchange Server 2003


Learning Exchange Server 2003
 CHM |440p | 8.88 MB

This is your start-to-finish guide to getting Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 into production, then maximizing its reliability, performance, and business value. Bill Boswell writes for working administrators whose responsibilities now include Exchange Server 2003. He addresses every facet of Exchange from architecture to address lists, answering three key questions: How does it work? How do I get the most out of it? How do I fix it if it breaks?

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Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003


Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
 586 pages | CHM | 19 Mb

This authoritative book teaches IT professionals responsible for Exchange messaging systems how to efficiently manage the program's many and complex system capabilities and features. Once you've designed and implemented a messaging system, the bulk of the day-to-day work involves monitoring to ensure an optimum traffic flow, accomplished by continuously reviewing and fine-tuning dozens of system specifications and components. Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange 2003 teaches readers proven and innovative techniques, tools, and procedures for managing and optimizing systems of all sizes and types built on Exchange 2003. Based on the author's own twenty years of messaging system experience and the collective experience of HP, the leading implementer of Exchange Server systems, this book will be a leading resource for Exchange administrators and designers.

*Provides best practices and innovative everyday techniques for managing the enterprise Exchange environment
*Teaches readers proven procedures for managing and optimizing systems of all sizes and types
*Based on the author's own twenty years of messaging system experience



Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Huge Book of Puzzles


Huge Book of Puzzles 
 384 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Hours of fun to fascinate all who love a huge challenge. Quick crosswords, crossword pairs, same and opposite crosswords, 'clueless' crosswords, spinners, word searches, 'spot the difference' puzzles, and all kinds of word and logic puzzles, are here combined together to excite your imagination and test your powers of deduction.

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

101 American English Idioms


101 American English Idioms 
 136 pages | PDF | 10,6 MB

101 American English Idioms is designed to help bridge the gap between "meaning" and "thrust" of American colloquialisms by providing a situation and a graphic illustration of that situation, so that the imagery created by the expression can be felt, rather than simply learned as a stock definition.

The book is divided into nine sections. The title of each section reflects a notion or a manifestation of the physical world, the world of behavior, or the world of the senses with which the reader may easily identify. It is hoped that the natural tone of the language of the situations in which the idiom is presented  will help to convey the feeling of the idiom and the circumstances under which it may be used. The illustrations graphically depicting the meaning of the components of the expressions not only add an element of humor, hut also serve to highlight the contrast between the literal and actual meaning of the idioms as presented in the text.
 
An index is included to facilitate recall and location of the expressions. 101 American English Idioms is intended primarily for all students of English. Nevertheless, because  If the graphic humor of the idioms in caricature, native speakers of English will also find the book refreshingly entertaining.

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

50 Successful Ivy League Application Essays :


50 Successful Ivy League Application Essays :
 Includes Advice from College Admissions Officers and 
the 25 Essay Mistakes That Guarantee Failure 
224 pages | PDF | 4,8 MB

The powerful tools in this invaluable resource equip students with the skills to write successful entrance essays for top-notch universities. The strengths and weaknesses of 50 application compositions from Ivy League schools, as well as Caltech, Duke, MIT, Stanford, and University of Chicago, are analyzed in detail, highlighting techniques to emulate and mistakes to avoid. 

College admission officers from some of these schools provide informative strategies and inside information on their writing assessment criteria. A comprehensive writing workshop provides tips toward selecting topics, developing stories, editing drafts, and applying finishing touches. Acknowledging that the written portion of the process is one of the most important factors for admission into highly selective schools, this helpful guidebook offers sage advice and inspiration to keep applicants on the right track.


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Friday, August 20, 2010

IPhone Life - Vol.2 No4 (September/October 2010)


IPhone Life - Vol.2 No4 (September/October 2010)
English | 100 pages | PDF | 28.50 Mb

iPhone Life magazine is chockd full of news, reviews, and tips for both consumers and enterprise users.
 

Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Computer Active -5-18 August 2010


 The Computer Active  5-18 August 2010
English | PDF | 75 Pages | 22 MB

Computer Active - The UK best-selling computer & technology magazine offering essential productivity and buying advice, delivered in an entertaining, informative and plain English style. Computeractive has maintained its position as the UK No1 computer magazine for over 6 years as a result of the impartial editorial content, the emphasis on consumer advocacy and PC troubleshooting and its unique fortnightly publishing schedule.

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Computer Graphics World -July 2010


Computer Graphics World  -July 2010
English | 84 Pages | 24MB | True PDF

CGW explores how leading-edge graphics techniques, including the 3D modeling, animation and visualization are used in such applications as CAD/CAM/CAE, architecture, scientific visualization, special effects, digital video, film, and interactive entertainment.

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

PC Today - August 2010


PC Today - August 2010
English | PDF | 80 Pages | 24,3 Mb

PC Today is a monthly publication that delivers information about your operating system. Each issue includes the latest computing news, the lowdown on current Windows Updates, hardware previews, and software reviews.

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Shutterbug – August 2010


Shutterbug – August 2010
PDF | 188 pages | English | 70.2 MB

Shutterbug - photo magazine for all photographers with pictures, product reviews and tips.




Shutterbug - July 2010


Shutterbug - July 2010
PDF | 188 pages | English | 77.6 MB

Shutterbug - photo magazine for all photographers with pictures, product reviews and tips.


Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide


Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide 
 499 pages | PDF | 10,4 MB

Essential Visual Studio 2010 Skills--Made Easy!

Endorsed by Microsoft and written by a Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio expert, this hands-on guide teaches programmers and developers new to Visual Studio 2010 how to maximize the latest release of Microsoft's flagship development environment. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to build applications from the ground up. You'll also learn how to customize the integrated development environment (IDE) itself, adding your own tools that integrate with Visual Studio 2010.


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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Harvard Business Review - September 2010


Harvard Business Review - September 2010
English | 132 pages | PDF | 52.50 Mb

Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives, and management consultants.

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Monday, August 9, 2010

Creating Spreadsheets and Charts


Creating Spreadsheets and Charts 
in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Windows: 
Visual QuickProject Guide 
 144 pages | PDF | 11,6 MB

Microsoft Excel is the world's most-popular spreadsheet program--used by schools, offices, and home users. In Excel 2007, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface, making it more intuitive and more attractive. But anyone needing to get started quickly without learning all the ins and outs of the software still needs a handy guide. And with Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide they've got one. 
Excel expert Maria Langer walks readers through the new interface and teaches them the tools they will use throughout the project. From there, she helps them create their first workbook, using formulas, adding formatting, adding a visually rich chart. Readers also learn how to effectively print their spreadsheets and charts--something that's much more confusing than it sounds! Along the way all readers will learn how to create attractive, professional, and effective Excel documents. 

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Computeractive India - August 2010


Computeractive India - August 2010
PDF | 98 pages | English | 34.8 MB

The objective of Computeractive is to provide 'Simple Clear Advice In Plain English' on all matters of technology. Computeractive writes about technology issues facing general readers in their day to day life.


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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Tech and Learning - August 2010


Tech and Learning - August 2010
English | True PDF | 52 Pages | 16,4 Mb

Tech and Learning is compiling a compendium of the people most important to the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Our first 30 honorees are plucked from the past: the founding fathers and mothers whose inventions, declarations, and theories set the table for where we are today.

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Digital Camera World - August 2010


Digital Camera World - August 2010
English | 172 pages | PDF | 50.10 Mb


Digital Camera World is your guide to digital imaging and digital photography. Each issue is full of digital camera reviews, digital imaging tips and tricks, digital photography tutorials, digital imaging software and accessory reviews, and the opinions and advice of digital photography experts


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Monday, August 2, 2010

Photographers' Guide to Photoshop


Photographers' Guide to Photoshop
English | 130 pages |  PDF | 37.10 Mb

Produced by photographers for photographers, this publication is the perfect introduction to Photoshop. Guiding you through key features and tools as well as providing step-by-step instructions across a variety of techniques, this magbook is geared towards helping you make the most of your digital images. Whether you are looking to make minor adjustments to the exposure, contrast or sharpness of your images, or keen to apply more wholesale changes, this magbook will help you master the Photoshop techniques every photographer should know.


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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Computer Active - 22 July-04 August (UK)


Computer Active  - 22 July-04 August (UK)
English | 76 pages | PDF | 23.90 Mb

Computer Active - The UK best-selling computer & technology magazine offering essential productivity and buying advice, delivered in an entertaining, informative and plain English style. Computeractive has maintained its position as the UK No1 computer magazine for over 6 years as a result of the impartial editorial content, the emphasis on consumer advocacy and PC troubleshooting and its unique fortnightly publishing schedule.


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