The Art and Style of Product Photography

The Art and Style of Product Photography

High quality images sell products. Here’s how you do it.

The Art and Style of Product Photography

The Languages of the World

The Languages of the World

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner’s best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations.

The Languages of the World

Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder

Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder

Friday 3rd June, 1927 Dear Alec, `Careful what you wish for, lest it come true? is my new motto, and here is why. I was summoned to Dunfermline, that old grey town, in the matter of a missing heiress. She had flounced off in a sulk over forbidden love and I, suspecting elopement, was loath to take the job of scouring guesthouses to find the the little madam and her paramour. Before I could wriggle out of it, though, there was a murder in the mix – or was it suicide? I had hardly begun to decide when it happened again. Then I was sacked. Actually sacked! By two separate people, and both dismissals in writing. And that?s not even the worst of it, darling: matters here are careering downwards much in the style of a runaway train. Please hurry ? or who knows where it might end, Dandy xx

Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder

The Illustrated Step-by-step Cook

The Illustrated Step-by-step Cook

For any cook, illustrated step-by-step instructions that explain an unfamiliar technique or guide them through the crucial part of a recipe can be invaluable. The Illustrated Step-by-Step Cook recognizes the importance of this and in classic DK style includes a photographic sequence of more than 300 classic recipes, positioned alongside the recipe so the reader doesn’t have to go searching for it in a separate techniques section.

The Illustrated Step-by-step Cook

Introduction to Stochastic Integration - Second Edition

Introduction to Stochastic Integration - Second Edition

A highly readable introduction to stochastic integration and stochastic differential equations, this book combines developments of the basic theory with applications. It is written in a style suitable for the text of a graduate course in stochastic calculus, following a course in probability.

Introduction to Stochastic Integration - Second Edition

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs

‘…an exceptional ready-reference source…conciseness and engaging style…Recommended for all library collections.’ Library Journal

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs

Pediatric Success

Pediatric Success

Over 900 NCLEX-style questions on pediatrics and growth and development into body system chapters. Add a 100- question comprehensive exam at the end of the book, plus two 75-question final exams on the bonus CD-ROM, and learning and studying become easier…and measurable. Students use the RACE model to apply critical thinking to the question types theyll encounter in class and on the NCLEX.

Pediatric Success

Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginners Guide

Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginners Guide

Written in a friendly, Beginner’s Guide format, showing the user how to use the digital media aspects of Matlab (image, video, sound) in a practical, tutorial-based style.This is great for novice programmers in any language who would like to use Matlab as a tool for their image and video processing needs, and also comes in handy for photographers or video editors with even less programming experience wanting to find an all-in-one tool for their tasks.

Visual Media Processing Using MATLAB Beginners Guide

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, originally published in 2005, is a landmark work in the burgeoning field of religion and nature. It covers a vast and interdisciplinary range of material, from thinkers to religious traditions and beyond, with clarity and style. Widely praised by reviewers and the recipient of two reference work awards since its publication (see www.religionandnature.com/ern), this new, more affordable version is a must-have book for anyone interested in the manifold and fascinating links between religion and nature, in all their many senses.

The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature

Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, Twelve Lectures in Quantum Mechanics presents theoretical physics with a breathtaking array of examples and anecdotes. Basdevants style is clear and stimulating, in the manner of a brisk lecture that can be followed with ease and enjoyment. Here is a sample of the books style, from the opening of Chapter 1: ‘If one were to ask a passer-by to quote a great formula of physics, chances are that the answer would be E = mc2. There is no way around it: all physics is quantum, from elementary particles, to stellar physics and the Big Bang, not to mention semiconductors and solar cells.’

Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Marketing Mistakes and Successes, 11th Edition

Marketing Mistakes and Successes, 11th Edition

This best-selling casebook, now in its 11th edition, presents a series of fascinating scenarios that let you learn from some of today’s most prominent , players. In an engaging, conversational style, Robert Hartley provides detailed analyses of the decisions and practices that led to major marketing wars, comebacks, mistakes, and successes. These real-life accounts are packed with practical tips, insider insights, and marketing advice.

Marketing Mistakes and Successes, 11th Edition

Rails AntiPatterns

Rails AntiPatterns

As developers worldwide have adopted the powerful , on , web framework, many have fallen victim to common mistakes that reduce code quality, performance, reliability, stability, scalability, and maintainability. Rails AntiPatterns identifies these widespread Rails code and , problems, explains why they’re bad and why they happen – and shows exactly what to do instead.,

The book is organized into concise, modular chapters – each outlines a single common AntiPattern and offers detailed, cookbook-style code solutions that were previously difficult or impossible to find.

Rails AntiPatterns

Microsoft Silverlight Edition

Microsoft Silverlight Edition

Get started building applications for , , 7 – expertly guided by award-winning author Charles Petzold. You’ll focus on the core concepts and techniques for creating apps with , Silverlight. Charles brings a unique combination of pragmatism and authority to his instruction – along with an eminently readable style and a wealth of hands-on examples.

Microsoft Silverlight Edition

Microsoft XNA Framework Edition

Microsoft XNA Framework Edition

Get started building applications for , , 7 – expertly guided by award-winning author Charles Petzold. You’ll focus on the core concepts and techniques for creating apps with , XNA. Charles brings a unique combination of pragmatism and authority to his instruction – along with an eminently readable style and a wealth of hands-on examples.

Microsoft XNA Framework Edition

Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010

Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 is a powerful, sophisticated desktop application that allows you to customize websites based on , , 2010. Written by a team of SharePoint experts, this book provides you with an overview of the SharePoint Designer toolset and shows you how to use those tools to do far more than simply modify web pages. You’ll learn to create and edit cascading style sheets, and visually , and edit code-free workflows. By the end of the book, you’ll have acquired the skills necessary to modify, manage, and enhance virtually every aspect of a user’s experience on a SharePoint 2010 website.

Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010

Camel in Action

Camel in Action

Apache Camel is a Java , that lets you implement the standard enterprise integration , in a few lines of code. With a concise but sophisticated DSL you snap integration logic into your app, Lego-style, using Java, XML, or Scala. Camel supports over 80 common transports such as HTTP, REST, JMS, and Web Services.,

Camel in Action is a Camel tutorial full of small examples showing how to work with the integration patterns. It starts with core concepts like sending, receiving, routing, and transforming data.

Camel in Action

Calculus: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies

Calculus: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies

1001 Calculus Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction and guidance offered in Calculus For Dummies, giving you 1001 opportunities to practice solving problems from the major topics in your calculus course. Plus, an online component provides you with a collection of calculus problems presented in multiple-choice format to further help you test your skills as you go.,

The practice problems in 1001 Calculus Practice Problems For Dummies range in areas of difficulty and style, providing you with the practice help you need to score high at exam time.

Calculus: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies