Photoshop CS5: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks

Visual | June 28, 2010 | English | ISBN-10: 0470612657 | 288 pages | PDF
Photoshop is the preferred image-editing software, with more than four million users worldwide. Professional photographers, Web designers, graphic designers, and serious photo hobbyists who already know earlier versions of Photoshop will expand their skills by mastering these techniques. Fully revised for the newest Photoshop release, this guide uses step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots to make comprehension quick and easy for the visual learner.

* Photoshop is the image-editing software preferred by professional photographers and designers around the world; new functionality and enhanced tools in the latest version enable new shortcuts and techniques
* This full-color guide shows intermediate-level users how to coax more from Photoshop with professional tips and tricks
* Packed with cool and valuable advice to help you take advantage of Photoshop's newest bells and whistles and take your skills to new heights

Photoshop Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks provides a visual reference that teaches adventurous users how to make the most of Photoshop.

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What's Your MBA IQ: A Manager's Career Development Tool

Publisher: Wiley (September 22, 2009) | ISBN: 0470439572 | English | PDF | 380 pages | 14,6 MB
What’s your MBA IQ? A combination of what you know and how much you’ve applied this knowledge on the job, your MBA IQ is what defines your management knowledge in today’s business climate. It’s what keeps you at the top of your profession, an expert in your specialized field with an understanding, as well, of cross-functional disciplines.

Arming you with a solid foundation across the entire MBA curriculum to interact with colleagues, clients, senior management, and professors at a higher, more advanced level, international business expert Devi Vallabhaneni helps you get the most from MBA-level topics—and ultimately, develop your career. This authoritative road map facilitates advanced management education and reveals a structured approach for career development in the management profession, equipping you with nuts and bolts coverage of:

* General management, leadership, and strategy
* Operations management • Marketing management
* Quality and process management • Human resources management
* Accounting • Finance
* Information technology
* Corporate control, law, ethics, and governance
* International business
* Project management
* Decision sciences and managerial economics

The related self-assessment exercises available at www.mbaiq.com allow you to compute your MBA IQ. You can find out where your weaknesses are and then begin to develop your knowledge base to gain proficiency in all management areas and become a true business generalist.

Since the MBA degree has become a de facto standard in management education, the goal of What’s Your MBA IQ? is to make the knowledge contained in an MBA accessible to all business practitioners. As a result, this book is equally relevant to business practitioners, whether or not they pursue an MBA. Also, your organization can use What’s Your MBA IQ? to assess its business practitioners’ readiness for corporate rotation programs, high potential programs, the CABM, the CBM, or an MBA degree.

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The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body

Atria Books | 224 pages | English | 2008 | ISBN: 1582702187 | PDF
The pile of recent dieting books is growing faster than the average American's waistline. From the well-known programs that deprive and restrict to ones that rely on juice alone, it seems that everybody has an answer to the growing problem of obesity.

When Jon Gabriel's life took an unexpected turn, he suddenly was awakened to the marvelous gift that he had been given -- the opportunity to live -- and was disgusted at how he had treated his body. At over four hundred pounds, walking, sleeping, and working was a struggle against gravity, and his life was a constant battle between emotional and physical satiation. He was slowly killing himself with food.

Like the estimated 58 percent of Americans, and rising numbers in other countries, Jon was trapped in what he came to call the FAT - Famine and Temperature - trap. By studying biochemistry, Gabriel learned that your body has an internal logic that determines how fat or thin you will be at any given time. The way to lose weight is not to struggle or to force yourself to lose weight but to understand this internal logic and work with it so that your body wants to be thinner. When your body wants to be thinner, weight loss is inevitable and becomes automatic and effortless. You simply crave less food, you crave healthier foods, your metabolism speeds up and you become very efficient at burning fat, just like a naturally thin person. And that's the real transformation -- to transform yourself into a naturally thin person, so that you can eat whatever you want whenever you want and still be thin, fit, and vibrantly healthy.

After reading The Gabriel Method, you will learn:

# Your body has a reason why it's holding on to weight--and it's not your fault.
# Fat is a cushion--a protective barrier that our mind believes is helping to protect us.
# If you can change that belief, you can change your body; Stop the cycle of crash dieting and start eating what you want, when you want it.
# How to choose healthy, nutritious foods that nourish the cells in your body, not starve them.
# Delicious shakes and smoothies, and super-power supplements, that can jump start your success.
# The simple way you can train your mind and body to work with your goal of health, not against it.
# Eliminate the emotional and mental reasons your body holds on to weight in just 10 minutes a day.

It certainly worked for Jon; he lost 225 pounds in two-and-a-half years, going from 409 pounds to 184, without suffering, dieting, or anguishing over his body. Unlike most people who lose an extensive amount of weight, his skin tightened up and now is indistinguishable from that of a person who has been healthy his whole life.

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Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems

178 pages | Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve | English | ISBN-10: 0871205696 | PNG | 14,3 MB
Although the brain is the most complex entity in the universe, it can be studied broadly as well as in great detail by focusing on five of its major systems: emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and reflective. In Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems, Barbara K. Given has cautiously investigated brain structures and functions of these five systems and applied findings from neurobiology to education without making leaps of judgment or unfounded claims. Thus, this is the first book that translates neuroscience into an educational framework for lesson planning and teaching.

The framework can serve as a mental model for an ongoing assessment of youngsters' basic human needs to be themselves, to belong, to know, to do, and to experiment and explore. It can also help teachers assess the roles they play (mentor/model, collaborator, facilitator, coach, and talent scout) and the personal/professional qualities they bring to the classroom (passion, vision, intention, action, and reflection). This is a practical book for educators based on current neurobiological insights into learning.

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The Handbook of Trading: Strategies for Navigating and Profiting from Currency, Bond, and Stock Markets

512 pages | Publisher: McGraw-Hill; (April 16, 2010) | English | ISBN-10: 0071743537 | PDF
Make the post-meltdown markets work for you, using the unparalleled insight of today’s top global investing experts!

“This book provides a collection of papers that examine trading execution, technical trading, and trading strategies, as well as algorithms in different markets (equities, forex, fixed income, exchange traded funds, derivatives, and commodities) around the world. This is particularly relevant given the recent explosion in trading volumes.”
Tarun Chordia, R. Howard Dobbs Chair in Finance, Goizueta Business School, Emory University

“This book uses a number of well-respected authors in the area of asset trading. It provides a comprehensive analysis of trading-related issues covering momentum trading, algorithmic trading, the use of technical trading rules, strategies for ETFs, and the role of trading volume.”
Professor John Cotter, Director of the Centre for Financial Markets, University College Dublin School of Business, University College Dublin

“The Handbook of Trading is a good reference tool for both practitioners and academics. The contents cover a wide range of topical issues.”
Professor Robert McGee, Director of the Center for Accounting, Auditing, and Tax Studies, College of Business Administration, Florida International University

About the Book:
Given today’s market volatility, even the most advanced investors can be unsure of their next move. Rather than rely on one or two individuals who claim general knowledge on any given investing topic, you need the advice of professionals who have spent their entire careers developing real expertise on more focused sectors of the market.

The Handbook of Trading is the only book available that provides just that. Greg N. Gregoriou has amassed forty of the world’s top academics, researchers, and practitioners who explain how to make today’s markets work for you. With this highly technical but ultimately practical guide, you have access to a broad array of trading strategies that will put you light years ahead of the competition—regardless of the state of the market.

From technical analysis and momentum trading to algorithmic and FOREX trading, The Handbook of Trading introduces you to techniques and insights never before published, each of which has been rigorously back-tested and analyzed. Chapters include:

* Performance Leakage and Value Discounts on the Toronto Stock Exchange
* Trading in Turbulent Markets: Does Momentum Work?
* Profitability of Technical Trading Rules in an Emerging Market
* Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds and Their Trading Strategies
* The Impact of Algorithmic Trading Models on the Stock Market

Applying critical lessons learned from the financial crisis of 2008–2009, the contributors explain how to approach turbulent market environments and adjust your trading methodologies accordingly.
The Handbook of Trading is the go-to guide for financial professionals seeking profits in today’s currency, bond, and stock markets.

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Think of a Number

172 pages | Publisher: Taylor & Francis | English | ISBN-10: 0852741839 | PDF | 13.5 MB
How many colors are needed to color a map? Must hailstones numbers always fall to the ground? Can statistics prove anything? What is a perfect square, and who has found the ultimate one? How do numbers affect national security? What kinds of problems confront the traveling salesman? Does anyone know how best to pack balls together? What is life like in 4 (or 3 1/2) dimensions? How does a clock count, and why should we care? What number secrets do sunflowers and pine cones conceal? What is a monster doing in mathematics?

These and many other fascinating questions about familiar numbers like 1, 2, and 3 are explored in Malcolm Line's second adventure into the world of numbers. Written in a lively and readable style, Think of a Number relates the story of some of the most famous problems that have confronted the world's experts over the centuries, from the earliest interests of the ancient Greeks to the very cutting-edge of modern research involving today's most powerful computers. The book explores the relationship between numbers and nature in its broadest sense and discovers the beauty of fractals and chaos. Requiring little or no prior knowledge of mathematics, this resource will be fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in numbers and their role in the natural world.

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Teach Yourself Visually PowerPoint 2010

Publisher: Wiley Pub., Inc. (June 15, 2010) | ISBN: 0470577665 | English | 320 pages | PDF | 68,8 MB
Fast, easy way to get the very most out of PowerPoint 2010

Present your work in style in a PowerPoint presentation using the tips and techniques in this visual guide to PowerPoint 2010. It covers the basics, as well as all the exciting new changes and additions in a series of easy-to-follow, full-color, two-page tutorials. Learn how to create slides, dress them up using templates and graphics, add sound and animation, and more. If you're looking for a practical, "show me, don't tell me" guide to PowerPoint 2010, this is the book for you.

• Helps you create presentations with greater impact using PowerPoint 2010, the latest generation of Microsoft's presentation software; PowerPoint 2010 is part of the new Microsoft Office 2010 suite of products
• Introduces PowerPoint 2010's new features, including the new Reading View, new transitions tab, and a new screenshot function
• Shows you how to create slides, dress them up with templates and graphics, add sound and animation, and present in a business or Internet setting
• Features easy-to-follow, full-color, two-page tutorials

Add more power to your PowerPoint presentations with this practical guide.

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long–winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you?ll find clear, step–by–step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 130 PowerPoint 2010 tasks. Each task–based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on PowerPoint 2010 in no time.

You?ll learn to:
• Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
• Enter your content in an outline
• Insert media clips and SmartArt
• Apply themes to selected slides
• Make duplicate slides
• Set up and run a slide show
• Two–page lessons break big topics into bite–sized modules
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• Full–color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

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