Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! Simulating the Physical World with Blender 3D

Defy the Rules of 3D and Get Physical with Blender Bounce, Tumble, and Splash! is the only book to cover the advanced simulation features of Blender, the premier open source 3D software that is a must-have for your animation toolbox. Expert author To...

 Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new Microsoft technology for allowing software to communicate. Superseding earlier technologies, such as COM/DCOM, .NET Remoting, ASP.NET Web Services, and the Web Services Enhancements for .NET, WCF provides a ...

 GMAT Exam Prep

The GMAT Exam Prep provides a comprehensive text for studying for the GMAT test. This book takes each topic and provides numerous examples, explanations, strategies, and tips for both understanding the content of knowledge that the test covers, as well as...

 Nanomaterials Handbook

Even before it was identified as a science and given a name, nanotechnology was the province of the most innovative inventors. In medieval times, craftsmen, ingeniously employing nanometer-sized gold particles, created the enchanting red hues found in the...

 Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices The Best Ways for a Financial Manager to Save Money

Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices provides financial manages with no-nonsense, balanced, and practical strategies that are being targeted and used nationwide for controlling costs by thousands of companies in areas such as human resources, compens...

 Applied Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis

This book emphasizes linear algebra as an experimental science. It provides a balance of applications, theory, and computation, and also examines their interdependence. The text has a strong orientation towards numerical computation and the linear alge...

  AI Game Engine Programming

AI Game Engine Programming provides game developers with the tools and wisdom necessary to create modern game AI engines. It takes programmers from theory to actual game development, with usable code frameworks designed to go beyond merely detailing how a...

 Introduction to Telecommunications

For Telecommunications courses requiring comprehensive coverage of today's most cutting edge telecommunications technologies and concepts. Rosengrant's 2nd edition deploys a layered approach to examining current telecommunications technology. The firs...

 Software Management

This Seventh Edition of Donald Reifer's popular, bestselling tutorial summarizes what software project managers need to know to be successful on the job. The text provides pointers and approaches to deal with the issues, challenges, and experiences that s...

  Effective Methods for Software Testing

Written by the founder and executive director of the Quality Assurance Institute, which sponsors the most widely accepted certification program for software testing Software testing is a weak spot for most developers, and many have no system in place t...

 The Complete DVD Book Designing, Producing, and Marketing Your Independant Film on DVD

Use your brain, your hands, and this book to take control of your filmmaking career. Release your own film on DVD with this step-by-step guide that walks you through the most complex aspects of production and provides detailed information to create a DVD ...

  Systems Analysis and Design

For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series has successfully introduced computers to millions of students - consistently presenting the highest quality, most up-to-date, and innovative materials in computer education. The series includes a wide ...

 Fundamental Modeling Concepts Effective Communication of ITSystems

A must-have book for systems analysts, architects and managers interested in enhancing successful communication in their organisation. Provides detailed examples of how to understand and implement 'fundamental modeling concepts' for IT-systems communic...

 The Mac OS X Panther Book

Developed in cooperation with Apple Computer and written by Mac personality Andy Ihnatko, this book provides entertaining, real-world tips and techniques for getting the most out of Mac OS X Panther Illustrated in full color, this amazing book engages...

 Evolutionary Computation Toward a New Philosophy of Machine Intelligence

This Third Edition provides the latest tools and techniques that enable computers to learn The Third Edition of this internationally acclaimed publication provides the latest theory and techniques for using simulated evolution to achieve machine intell...

 C# 2.0 Practical Guide for Programmers

You don't need coddling; you don't need to be told what you already know. What you need is a book that uses your experience as a Java or C++ programmer to give you a leg up into the challenges and rewards of C#. And this Practical Guide is precisely what ...

 Making IT Governance Work in a Sarbanes-Oxley World

This book discusses a dilemma common to many corporation's IT departments--the tension between top-down governance directives and the challenge to get everything properly functioning on a bottom-up basis. Making IT governance work does not simply mean adh...

 Programming the Network with Perl

After providing an introduction to the Perl programming language, this helpful guide teaches computer networking using Perl. Topics discussed include ethernet network analysis, programming standard Internet protocols, and exploring mobile agent programmin...

 Introduction to RF Propagation

An introduction to RF propagation that spans all wireless applications This book provides readers with a solid understanding of the concepts involved in the propagation of electromagnetic waves and of the commonly used modeling techniques. While many...

  Hit the Ground Running with Visual C++.Net

Providing easy-to-understand tutorials, this book will help programmers hit the ground running in their development efforts! Beginning and advanced programmers alike will quickly establish competency in the usage of the Visual C++.NET language through cur...

  Mozilla Firefox Introductory Concepts and Techniques

This brand new book to the Shelly Cashman Series provides content on the popular open source Firefox browser and can be bundled with any concepts or office textbook. Benefits: Includes three projects, one special feature, and three appendices for an i...

 Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory

With its lively, conversational tone and practical focus, this new edition mixes applied and theoretical aspects for a solid introduction to cryptography and security, including the latest significant advancements in the field. Balances applied and...

 Traktor DJ Studio Ignite! The Visual Guide for New Users

Traktor DJ Studio Ignite! provides an introduction to the fundamentals of Native Instruments' most popular software product, Traktor DJ Studio. A best-seller, even to the quite popular Reaktor, this pro-level DJing/mixing software has a demand for a guide...

 Modern Recording Techniques

As the most popular and authoritative guide to recording available, Modern Recording Techniques provides everything you need to master the tools and day-to-day practice of music recording and production. The sixth edition has been expanded to cover the la...

 UML 2 and the Unified Process Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

This thoroughly revised edition provides an indispensable and practical guide to the complex process of object-oriented analysis and design using UML 2. It describes how the process of OO analysis and design fits into the software development lifecycle as...

  CCNA Certification Kit (640-801)

The Most Comprehensive CCNA Self-Study Solution on the Market! This box set provides you with the knowledge and skills needed to approach the new CCNA exam with confidence. With the best-selling CCNA Study Guide and the CCNA Virtual Lab Platinum Edit...

 Cisco LAN Switching Fundamentals The essential guide for understanding Ethernet switched networks

Local-area networks (LANs) are becoming increasingly congested and overburdened because of a dramatic increase in traffic, faster CPUs and operating systems, and more network-intensive applications. Many organizations that use network and computing te...

  Sams Teach Yourself Openoffice.Org All in One

OpenOffice.org includes many of the features found in Microsoft Office and StarOffice, but it is free. For millions of Windows, Mac, and Linux users, OpenOffice.org provides an office productivity suite that is powerful and easy to use, and includes the s...

 OpenOffice.org Macros Explained

Failing to anticipate the popularity of macros to automate OpenOffice, the existing developer's documentation emphasizes control through other languages. This book provides a sufficient introduction to macro programming in OpenOffice to allow you to creat...

 GPRS in Practice A Companion to the Specifications

Professionals quickly discover that, although the technical specifications for GPRS cover all parts of the engineering functions in detail and depth, they are lacking in one important feature; the conceptual framework within which the specifications sit -...

 JavaScript

Create dynamic, interactive Web pages with the latest upgrade to this flexible development tool. Coverage includes event handling, object oriented programming, IE specific content, XML, and sample code that lets you work through projects and provides grou...

 Excel 2003 VBA Programmer's reference

If you're an Excel user seeking more control over your spreadsheets, or if you are developing Excel applications for others, this comprehensive volume provides what you need to maximize VBA flexibility in the Excel environment. Fully revised and update...

  Guide to Operating Systems

Guide to Operating Systems Third Edition provides the information needed to understand and support common desktop and network operating systems in use today. Major concepts such as installation, upgrading, file system organization, security, and network c...

  Code Hacking A Developer's Guide To Network Security

See your code through the eye of a hacker! Code Hacking: A Developer's Guide to Network Security provides a hands-on approach to learning vital security skills needed to protect your systems. It details the software and techniques hackers use and pro...

  Game Programming Golden Rules

Game Programming Golden Rules provides indispensable techniques that should be part of every game programmer's arsenal. Written as a series of easy-to-remember rules, the book provides a building block approach in which each new rule builds upon the previ...

 Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering A multimodal System Approach

For Transportation Engineering courses. Combining topics that are essential in an introductory course with information that is of interest to those who want to know why certain things in transportation are the way they are, the text provides a strong ...

 Access 2003 VBA

Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference provides comprehensive coverage of the use of VBA for building Access applications. The typical reader would be expected to have some experience with VBA programming and have read at least an introductory tutorial, s...

 Marketing Wireless Products

Marketing Wireless Products provides a comprehensive insight into the world of wireless technology marketing by addressing the many issues faced in effectively presenting this new technology to the end user/consumer. The book is based upon the rational...

  CCNA Certification Kit (640-801)

This box set provides you with the knowledge and skills needed to approach the new CCNA exam with confidence. You'll find in-depth coverage of all official objectives and advanced study tools to reinforce critical knowledge and skills. The new edition ...

 The Elements of C++ Style

The Elements of C++ Style is for all C++ practitioners, especially for those working in teams where consistency is critical. Just as Strunk and White's The Elements of Style provides rules of usage for writing in the English language, this text furnishes ...