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Author Ben Long
How to make better pictures using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Working with digital photographs in raw format isn’t just for pros. Today, point-and-shoot cameras can capture images in raw format, giving shutterbugs of all stripes additional control and editing f....
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Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise
Author Frank Martinez , Les Phillips , Angela Yochem , Hugh Taylor
Improving Business Agility with EDAGoing beyond SOA, enterprises can gain even greater agility by implementing event-driven architectures (EDAs) that automatically detect and react to significant business events. However, EDA planning and deployment is complex, and ....
Release Date 2009/02 -
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook
Author Eric Lippert , Eric Carter
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook is the definitive book on VSTO 2008 programming, written by the inventors of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allows professional developers to use the full power of Microsoft Visual S....
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Author Steven Brown , Nick Lo , Rob Allen
From rather humble beginnings as the Personal Home Page scripting language, PHP has found its way into almost every server, corporation, and dev shop in the world. On an average day, somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million coders do something in PHP. Even when you ....
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Author Nathaniel Loewentheil , James Lardner
Times are changing. Instead of obsessing about what they’re against, progressives have begun to think about what they’re for—to prepare once again to play their role as agents of bold ideas and political and social transformation. Finding new confi....
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Author Michelle Helin , Linda Goodman
The emotional-trigger research you conducted revealed critical, sophisticated and powerful insights that provided a valuable roadmap to the successful turnaround of our company.”—Pamela Forbes Lieberman, former CEO, True Value Company“The research you conducted for ....
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Author Julius Walls , Kevin Lynch
A new breed of business is springing up across the land: social enterprises, whose primary purpose is to support the common good. Organized as for-profits, nonprofits, and everything in between, they see businesses as the means to a better world for all.In thi....
Release Date 2009/01 -
The Heretics of Finance: Conversations with Leading Practitioners of Technical Analysis
Author Jasmina Hasanhodzic , Andrew W. Lo
The Heretics of Finance provides extraordinary insight into both the art of technical analysis and the character of the successful trader. Distinguished MIT professor Andrew W. Lo and researcher Jasmina Hasahodzic interviewed thirteen highly successful, award-winnin....
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Author A&C Black Publishers Ltd
The job market has never been more competitive, and marketing yourself can be tricky. This title offers practical, step-by-step advice on preparing, writing, and presenting an impressive CV that will help you 'get your foot in the door' with prospective employers.....
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Author A&C Black Publishers Ltd
Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task, but Manage Projects Successfully will help you do just that. Practical, easy to read and jargon-free, the book contains a quiz to assess strengths and weaknes....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author A&C Black Publishers Ltd
Too many meetings, never enough decisions. Badly-managed meetings are a waste of time, and often they just don't need to happen at all. If you have to chair or arrange meetings, this book will help you to make sure that they're useful and helpful exchanges of info....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author A&C Black Publishers Ltd
An increasing number of people are deciding to work from home. Whether they are setting up their own business or trying to cut down on the amount of time they spend commuting, the idea of turning a space at home into an office is an appealing one. Work well from hom....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author A&C Black Publishers Ltd
Deciding to leave the security of a permanent job and go freelance is a brave decision - and is not to be taken lightly. However, as long as you manage your time, work-flow, contacts, and money, it may turn out to be the best career move you ever made!Go freelance i....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author Peggy Lou Morgan
Besides the usual parenting challenges, parents of disabled children face added obstacles that can tax the resolve and resources of even the strongest families. Peggy Lou Morgan has developed a powerful system for obtaining dramatically better care for children wit....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author A&C Black Publishers Ltd
While we'd all like a quiet life, there are some situations that can't be ignored. In offices, workplace bullying is on the rise and discrimination is commonplace. Key customers are ever more demanding, won't take no for an answer and aren't afraid to tell you s....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Work Wanted: Protect Your Retirement Plans in Uncertain Times
Author Linda H. Lewis , James W. Walker
“Work Wanted is a must-read for all boomers who see more than a finish line for their career! Jim Walker and Linda Lewis bring new light to the concepts of aging, work, and retirement in this great book.”–Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and author, What Got You....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Barack, Inc.: Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign
Author Rick Faulk , Barry Libert
Barack Obama's campaign didn't just make history: it teaches lessons that every business can profit from. The Obama campaign was brilliantly planned, strategized, and executed, and built to drive home a powerful, consistent core value proposition: the proposition ....
Release Date 2009/01 -
WCF Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ
Author Mike Liu
Build SOA applications on the Microsoft platform in this hands-on guideMaster WCF and LINQ concepts by completing practical examples and apply them to your real-world assignments First book to combine WCF and LINQ in a multi-tier real-world WCF serviceSetting up, ma....
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Expert C# 2008 Business Objects
Author Rockford Lhotka
Do you want to create .NET applications that provide high performance and scalability? Do you want to employ object-oriented programming techniques in a distributed environment? Do you want to maximize the reuse and maintainability of your code? Then this book is fo....
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Author Rudy Limeback
Simply SQL is a practical step-by-step guide to writing SQL. You'll learn how to make the most of your data using best-practice SQL code. Rather than bore you with theory, it focuses on the practical use of SQL with common databases and uses plenty of diagrams, eas....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn
Author Sharon L. Bowman
From Sharon L. Bowman, the author of the best-selling Ten-Minute Trainer, comes the dynamic new book, Training from the BACK of the Room! This innovative resource introduces 65 training strategies that are guaranteed to deliver outstanding training results no matter....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Author Michael Morrison , Lynn Beighley
If you're ready to create web pages more complex than those you can build with HTML and CSS, Head First PHP & MySQL is the ultimate learning guide to building dynamic, database-driven websites using PHP and MySQL. Packed with real-world examples, this book teac....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Bible
Author Kelly L. Murdock , Ted Padova
As one of the few books to cover integration and workflow issues between Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Acrobat, and Version Cue, this comprehensive reference is the one book that Creative Suite users needTwo well-known and respected authors cover topics ....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Photoshop® CS4
Author Mike Wooldridge , Linda Wooldridge
Are you anxious to get started with the new release of Photoshop? If you learn best visually, then you’ll love the updated and expanded coverage found in this tutorial.Full-color throughout, this book offers newly revised design features that allow for larger scree....
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FPGA-based Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
Author Ying Yi , Gaye Lightbody , John Mcallister , Roger Woods
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are an increasingly popular technology for implementing digital signal processing (DSP) systems. By allowing designers to create circuit architectures developed for the specific applications, high levels of performance can be a....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
Author Bas Vodde , Craig Larman
Lean Development and Agile Methods for Large-Scale Products: Key Thinking and Organizational Tools for Sustainable Competitive SuccessIncreasingly, large product-development organizations are turning to lean thinking, agile principles and practices, and large-scale ....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams
Author Janet Gregory , Lisa Crispin
Te>Two of the industry’s most experienced agile testing practitioners and consultants, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, have teamed up to bring you the definitive answers to these questions and many others. In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testin....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Author Tilak Mitra , Clive Gee , Robert G. Laird , William A. Brown
Address the #1 Success Factor in SOA Implementations: Effective, Business-Driven GovernanceInadequate governance might be the most widespread root cause of SOA failure. In SOA Governance, a team of IBM’s leading SOA governance experts share hard-won best practices f....
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Author Debra Kauffman , Linda Weil , Nolon Stacey , Cindy Smith , Patricia Getha
Learn to draw a collection of cute critters and pampered pets! Featuring an array of adorable pets and majestic wildlife, this exceptional 144-page book offers simple, step-by-step instructions for creating dozens of incredibly lifelike animal drawings. Inside, five....
Release Date 2008/11