English | 92 Pages | True PDF | 68MB

LEARNING BY DESIGN is the premier source for education design and innovation excellence. Published twice each year, this prestigious magazine recognizes the nation’s preeminent architectural firms by publishing outstanding pre-K to 12 and college/university projects. There is no better way to showcase education design excellence in this billion dollar market than by submitting a project to LEARNING BY DESIGN. The award-winning publication circulates to 50,000+ leaders and decision makers at all levels of education—from early childhood and elementary schools to career-technical, college, and university-level institutions.

English | 2011 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0321771605 | PDF | 30 MB

Photographers, videographers, and other creative content makers are dealing with a new world of media that presents the challenge of managing all their raw and prepared data produced in the creative process. The framework for managing this data must go beyond Digital Asset Management (DAM) to the holistic data lifecycle perspective.

English | 2011 | ISBN-10: 1435454367 | PDF | 250 pages | 15 MB

If you've ever found yourself looking at a photograph in a museum or gallery and thinking, "I can do that," this is the book for you. 101 QUICK AND EASY IDEAS TAKEN FROM THE MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY shows you how to recognize and use the techniques of some of the great photographers of the last century. Each chapter of the book focuses on one photographer, and includes a brief biography that highlights what life experiences influenced his or her work, as well as descriptions of one or several iconic images they photographed that include the key photographic elements that apply to that work ? light, shadow, narrative, and symbolism. Along with the descriptions are recreations of the images that use similar subject matter and settings, as well as the steps to help you compose and manipulate your own version of the image. As you work through the book you'll find that the same concepts and themes were used by many of the photographers, but the meanings change as their work is shaped as the events, technology, and environment changed throughout the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, 101 QUICK AND EASY IDEAS TAKEN FROM THE MASTER PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, features photographers you'll easily recognize and some that are new to you, such as Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lang, Robert Mapplethorpe, Berenice Abbott, Heri Cartier-Bresson, and many more. By learning about and trying the common photography concepts and techniques used by famous photographers you'll enhance your photographic skill set and hopefully find inspiration and ideas for your own work.

2006 | ISBN: 0756623545, 1405312521, 1405340932 | 288 pages | PDF | 103 MB

Get the best out of your equipment and explore your creative side with this practical guide to digital photography. Still life or action, portrait or abstract - whatever your subject, discover how to take amazing digital images with expert photographer and inspiring teacher, John Hedgecoe. Learn the fundamentals of composing a digital photograph - from lighting, camera angle, drama and colour to time of day, style and subject matter. Get the most out of your camera, so whatever moment you are capturing: from stunning landscapes to action-packed sport and beautiful weddings to playful children you'll be picture perfect again and again. Enjoy 500 breathtaking photographs and learn how to take great pictures every time.

English | 2006 | ISBN: 1590596765 | 445 pages | PDF | 9,3 MB

Don't waste time on 1,000-page tomes full of syntax; this book is all you need to get ahead in XML development. Renowned web developer Sas Jacobs presents an essential guide to XML. Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax is practical and comprehensive. It includes everything you need to know to get up to speed with XML development quickly and painlessly.

English | 2009 | ISBN: 0240812492 | 160 pages | EPUB | 35 MB

HDR is both a technical solution to the limitations of digital camera sensors, and a creative tool that can give any image much more impact - but it is not without its pitfalls, and it's essential to understand these if you want to take full advantage of this innovative technique. 

Practical HDR provides you with an abundance of step-by-step examples that will quickly make you an expert on the theory and practice of shooting and processing HDR images, allowing you to get the best possible results every time.

English | 2008 | ISBN: 1590599985 | 142 pages | PDF | 6,1 MB

One of the most basic laws of a web application is that the client, not the server, must initiate any communication between the two. There are a number of common–use cases where, ideally, the server would like to talk to the client—dashboards and monitoring apps, chat rooms and other collaborations, and progress reports on long–running processes. 

Comet (a.k.a. Reverse Ajax) provides a mechanism for enabling this. Comet is moderately complex to implement. But this practical, hands–on book gets you going.

English | 2001 | ISBN: 0240516729 | PDF | 208 pages | 7 MB

This is a must-have guide both for aspiring students and for established professionals who need to keep up to speed with the current impact of recent digital developments.

In this highly visual, full colour text Michael Harris shares his professional secrets and demonstrates how to achieve top quality architectural images. Brief histories of both architecture and architectural photography lay the foundations for the technical applications that follow. This third edition provides increased coverage of the revolution in digital photography, which is forcing all photographers to review their practices. The pros and cons of these developments are assessed through a comparison of the film and digital mediums and the highly debated variances in their quality and cost.

English | 2011 | ISBN: 0123849195 | 424 pages | PDF | 12,5 MB

This book is intended for network engineers, solution architects, internetworking professionals, IT managers, CIOs, Service Providers and anyone who is interested in building or managing a state-of-the-art solution for private cloud services. 

The information in this book enables you to consolidate services from data centers and remote branch offices, leverage WAN optimization to keep performance high and build a routing and switching platform to provide a foundation for cloud computing services. It assumes familiarity with basic TCP/IP networking. As we progress from simple to more complex topics, the book addresses hard to understand concepts and difficult areas through each chapter and provides case studies and configuration examples to guide comprehension.

English | ISBN: 0321574168 | edition 2009 | PDF | 361 pages | 18 mb

Speaking in Styles aims to help Web designers learn the "language" that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet. Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it's too hard to learn. Jason takes an approach to CSS that breaks it down around common design tasks and helps the reader learn that they already think in styles--they just need to learn to speak the language.

2009 | ISBN-10: 1430272295 | 328 pages | PDF | 4.89 MB

This book takes a comprehensive look at Magento, a robust and flexible e-commerce platform built on the Zend framework. With over 750,000 downloads, Magento is the fastest growing open source e-commerce solution. This book walks you through all of the steps necessary to build a fully functional Magento-based web site. It also includes information on managing products, customers, and orders. This book is directed at web site designers and developers, but will also be extremely useful for business owners who have web sites built on the Magento platform.

1 edition | English | July 15, 2011 | ISBN: 0240812204 | 232 pages | PDF | 73,3 MB

This no-nonsense, highly affordable, and inspiring guide walks photographers new to Photoshop through the end to end Photoshop workflow. Starting from the moment you download your images off your memory card, photographer Corey Hilz guides you through importing and organizing your photos in Bridge, demonstrating how to give each photo ratings and keywords to make searching through your photos a snap. 

English | 2011 | PDF | 484 pages | ISBN: 1849683042 | 10,7 Mb

IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide /by Gabriella Davis, Marie L. Scott and Thomas Duff. A comprehensive, practical book and eBook for the planning, installation, and maintenance of your Sametime 8.5.2 environment

English | ISBN: 159059732X | edition 2006 | PDF | 405 pages | 12,5 mb

Pro CSS Techniques is the ultimate CSS book for the modern web developer. If youve already got web design and development basics under your belt, but want to take your knowledge to the next level and unleash the full power of CSS in your web sites, then this is the book for you. 

It is a collection of proven CSS techniques that you can use daily to get the most out of the time you spend on your projects, from start to finish.

English | 2013 | ISBN: 1849905789 | ISBN-13: 9781849905787 | 320 pages | EPUB | 288 MB

In search of the perfect curry—the very best recipes that India has to offer

Whenever I hear the word curry, I'm filled with a longing for spicy hot food with the fragrance of cumin, cloves and cinnamon. I see deep red colours from lots of Kashmiri chillis, tinged with a suggestion of yellow from turmeric. 

2008 | ISBN-10: 1564778185 | 80 pages | scan PDF | 103 MB

Think cables are too tricky to master? Debunk that myth today! Cabling is just a series of knits and purls. If you can knit and purl, you already have the foundation for making gorgeous textured sweaters. A new knitting world will open up as soon as you learn the basics. Unlock the mysteries of reading stitch charts, using cable needles, swatching, and much more with this beginner-friendly guide. Start with the easiest stitches, and then move on to more complex techniques, one step at a time. Knit up starter projects like pillows, scarves, and an afghan, and then move on to gorgeous pullovers and cardigans-14 projects in all. 

84 pages | 33MB | PDF | English

Martial arts info you need to keep your power focused & your technique true!

Black Belt tells you everything you need to know about every style of self-defense in the world! It offers the broadest, most informative coverage of all aspects of the traditional fighting disciplines that were developed in Asia, as well as the modern eclectic systems that were devised in the West.

English | 100 pages | PDF | 51 Mb

Try the all-digital edition of Ladies Home Journal on your computer or portable device!

Over 16 million women turn to Ladies Home Journal each month for advice, smart, comprehensive and cutting-edge editorial on major social issues. Food & Nutrition, Family & Home, Beauty & Fashion, Health & Fitness and more. Helping women deal with the complexities of living in todays world.

English | PDF | 88 pages | 37.8MB

Vegetarian Times delivers simple, delicious food, plus expert health and lifestyle information that is exclusively vegetarian but wrapped in a fresh, stylish mainstream package that is inviting to all.

English | PDF | 128 pages | 46.5MB

PC Magazine(sometimes referred to as PC Mag) is an online computer magazine, provides reviews and previews of the latest hardware and software for the information technology professional.