Mastering mental ray Rendering Techniques for 3D and CAD Professionals

Reduce render times and improve your results Doing a final render for a new product presentation ? Trying to finish a rush job without sacrificing quality ? If you're a busy artist seeking high-end results for your game, film, product, archit...

 Results Rule! Build a Culture That Blows the Competition Away

Praise for RESULTS RULE! "What on earth could pre-thawed turkeys, Eva the dolphin, and toothpaste tubes squeezed from the middle have to do with the success of your business? Everything. Results Rule! is that rare business book that you can't put dow...

 Multivariate T-Distributions and Their Applications

Almost all the results available in the literature on multivariate t-distributions published in the last 50 years are now collected together in this comprehensive reference. Because these distributions are becoming more prominent in many applications, thi...

 Getting People On Board A Timesaving Guide - Empower Employees - Foster Change - Exert Influence

Even the most respected leaders struggle to develop the right blend of leadership styles to overcome resistance to change. Getting People on Board provides critical strategies and tools for managers to effectively implement change initiatives. Learn to: ...

 Dealing with Difficult People A Time Saving Guide - Avoid Conflicts and Negativity - Foster Positive Behavior - Motivate Underperformers

Managers who are distracted and frustrated by difficult behavior have less time and energy to devote to their core responsibilities. Dealing with Difficult People will help you boost your ability to work productively with anyone, anywhere. And in the proc...

 Taking Control of Your Time A Timesaving guide - Make every Meeting Matter - Lead for Faster Results - Avoid Information Overload

In today's rapidly shifting business landscape, managers need to make every minute count. Taking Control of Your Time provides tested strategies for managing communication overload, prioritizing demands, and sharpening focus. Learn to: Make smart decis...

 Business Etiquette for the New Workplace Build a Good Reputation - Use the Right Communication Channel - Avoid Damaging Confrontations

Business is built on relationships, but human interaction is fraught with communication land mines that can range from embarrassing to punitive. This guide offers savvy advice for managers on how to conduct themselves professionally and effectively by com...

 Investment Performance Attribution A Guide To What It Is, How To Calculate It, And How To Use It

Investment performance measurement is fine for telling you what happened-but only performance attribution goes a step further to explain why it happened. Uniquely valuable in that it allows you to truly learn from your investment results, attribution give...

 Total E-mail Marketing Maximizing Your Results from Integrated E-marketing

E-mail is a powerful marketing communications tool which excels at developing relationships with existing customers and acquiring new customers. This second edition builds on the author's successful formula, describing a practical approach to e-mail marke...

 UMTS Performance Measurement A Practical Guide to KPIs for the UTRAN Environment

UMTS Performance Measurement is a practical guide that explains how to identify and measure the main problems seen in today's UMTS live networks and will make performance measurement results gathered in the UTRAN environment understandable for the reader....

 Search Engine Optimization An Hour a Day

There are several ways to influence search engine results, ranging from optimizing Web sites to instituting pay-per-click ad campaigns; this book lays out the various approaches with clear "hour-a-day strategies" for improving results Drawing on their ...

  Adobe After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques

Ready to learn the visual effects secrets used at such leading-edge studios as Industrial Light + Magic and The Orphanage? Adobe After Effects 6.5 Studio Techniques inspires you to take your work to the next level with realworld examples and insider techn...

 Retaining Your Best People

If great talent is hard to find, it's even harder to keep. This valuable guide offers insights and strategies to make sure your most important people stay motivated, happy, and productive--within your company. Engage your workers. Design appropriate incen...

 Making DVDs A Practical Guide to Creating and Authoring Your Own Discs

Perfect for first-timers who demand professional results This easy-to-use guide can help any savvy computer user master DVD creation, from zero to done. Making DVDs covers the process from planning to development to burning a disc. Through real-world c...

 Winning Results with Google AdWords

Don't get lost in the digital haystack! With thousands of links for every search, the chances of your products being found online are slimmer than a needle. But there's good news: you can pinpoint your marketing message with help from Winning Results with...

 Aspects of Incompleteness Lecture Notes in Logic 10

This thoroughly revised second edition of a classic book on the main ideas and results of general meta-mathematics contains new results and simplified proofs, as well as an up to date bibliography. In addition to the standard results of Godel and others o...

  Photoshop for digital video Creative Solutions for Professionnal Results

Whether you're new to Photoshop or want to use it at a more advanced level, this book will give you must-have techniques to work more quickly and achieve dazzling results. You'll begin with core Photoshop and DV fundamentals, then move on to titling, work...

 Small Websites, Great Results The Blueprint for Creating Websites That Really Work

The definitive guide on the new approach to website design. Small Websites, Great Results brings the latest trends-simplicity, ease-of-use, and efficiency-to the world of website design. Big, bloated, hard-to-navigate websites are a thing of the past. Th...

 Digraphs Theory,Algorithms and Applications

The study of directed graphs has developed enormously over recent decades, yet no book covers more than a tiny fraction of the results from more than 3000 research articles on the topic. Digraphs is the first book to present a unified and comprehensive su...

 Vector Optimization Theory, Applications, and Extensions

This book presents fundamentals and important results of vector optimization in a general setting. The theory developed includes scalarization, existence theorems, a generalized Lagrange multiplier rule and duality results. Applications to vector approxim...

 Mathematics for Multimedia

Mathematics for Multimedia focuses on the mathematics behind multimedia applications. This timely and thoroughly modern text is a rigorous survey of selected results from algebra and analysis, requiring only undergraduate math skills.The topics are 'gems'...

 Automatic Sequences Theory, Applications, Generalizations

Uniting dozens of seemingly disparate results from different fields, this book combines concepts from mathematics and computer science to present the first integrated treatment of sequences generated by ‘finite automata'. The authors apply the theo...