The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation (2010)

Course Technology (June 17, 2010) | English | PDF | 352 Pages | PDF
Take an in-depth look at the art and techniques of stop-motion animation. The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation helps experienced stop-motion artists enhance their craft by exploring the professional methods and advanced technology used by top film studios today. This book features expanded coverage of the basic principles of animation, including specific applications for character performance and visual effect compositing techniques. All the newest technology is touched on, including detailed information on camera rigs, effects, and shooting stop-motion in stereoscopic 3D. Discover new puppet building techniques, including the technology behind the rapid prototyping of computer models for stop-motion production. You'll even find a thorough history of early feature-length stop-motion films. The practical techniques and skills presented are enhanced by interviews with many of the most celebrated stop-motion artists as well as coverage of the work of several artists working in the online stop-motion community. Whether your focus is low-budget indie filmmaking or big studio productions, The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation provides a comprehensive look at both the latest methods and the artists who are driving the revival of stop-motion animation.

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The Art of Friendship

70 Simple Rules for Making Meaningful Connections


St. Martin's Press | English | Audio MP3 (32kb/s) | 144 pages | 75,96 mb
The frantic pace and casual attitudes of modern life have made real friendship a rare experience. The Art of Friendship shows how making true connections can greatly enhance one's life. Seventy brief essays present simple but effective "rules of connecting" with action points to help you put each rule into practice in daily life. Woven throughout are personal anecdotes from the Horchows, sharing their experiences of friendship.


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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

English | Audio MP3 | 128 MB
"Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?" is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of "New Scientist", the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of "Does Anything eat Wasps?" - the Christmas 2005 surprise bestseller - this new collection includes recent answers never before published in book form, and also old favourites from the column's early days. Yet again, many seemingly simple questions turn out to have complex answers. And some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. "New Scientist's" 'Last Word' is regularly voted the magazine's most popular section as it celebrates all questions - the trivial, idiosyncratic, baffling and strange. This new selection of the best is popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

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A sequel of sorts to the bestselling Does Anything Eat Wasps?, this compilation of readers' questions and answers published in "The Last Word" column of New Scientist Magazine prove there really is no such thing as a stupid question: reader questions "Why is nasal mucus often green?"; "Why doesn't superglue stick to the inside of its tube?"; "Why is red meat red and white meat white?"; and "What time is it at the North Pole?" all draw serious consideration from their fellow readers, as well as personal stories, myths, jokes and even a poem (on why the sea is salty). Readers will learn that helium atoms are small enough to diffuse through the elastic material of a balloon, which is why balloons deflate; they'll also learn how to hypnotize a mynah bird and why "fish don't fart"; the conflagration of trivia, knowledge, anecdote and humor should entertain just about anyone.

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Solar Power Your Home For Dummies

The bestselling alternative energy reference book in North America

307 pages | Publisher: For Dummies | English | ISBN: 978-0470175699 | PDF
Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether you’re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, Solar Power For Dummies, 2nd Edition takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you!

This new edition gives you hands-on tips and techniques for making your home more energy-efficient though solar power—and helping the planet at the same time. Plus, you’ll get all the latest information on changes to federal, state, and local regulations, laws, and tax incentives that seek to make solar-power adoption more feasible.

* Expanded coverage of the technology that underpins full-scale solar-power systems for the home
* New small- and mid-sized solar products, projects, and applications
* Rik DeGunther is a design engineer who started his own energy consulting firm

Featuring ten of the easiest and cheapest DIY solar projects, Solar Power For Dummies, is the fun and easy way to meet your energy needs with this clean power source!

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Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business

Wiley (January 12, 2010) | PDF | 323 pages | English | ISBN-10: 0470525460 | 5,5 Mb
Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business /by Steve Garfield (Author). In the last year, the world of online video exploded. Hollywood got into the game, professional actors and writers joined in, and independent producers looked to find their niche. Now, companies are wide awake to the opportunities for product and brand promotion as well as customer engagement.

So how do you want to fit into the new online video universe? The must-have guide, Get Seen by Steve Garfield, the “Paul Revere of video blogging,” offers a quick and complete toolkit to get you up to speed on the latest that online video and related media have to offer.

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Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart (2010)

Publisher: Peachpit Press (Jun 7, 2010) | English | Pages: 432 | PDF
Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn.

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, written by best-selling author Steve Schwartz, has been extensively rewritten to provide expanded coverage of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and also provides a thorough introduction to the Office Web Apps. Coverage of each application is jam-packed with information and tips that not only explain HOW to perform a task, but WHY you need this procedure and WHEN it's best to use it.

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Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site - 2010

Publisher: Wrox | ISBN: 047057089X | edition 2010 | PDF | 364 pages | 10,5 mb
Everything you need to know to plan and maintain a Joomla! site
Joomla! offers powerful functionality and ease of configuration, making it an immensely popular open source content management system. However, far more than simply downloading and installing Joomla! is required in order to create a dynamic web site. This book walks you through the critical steps that must be taken in the planning process prior to establishing a Joomla! site. Joomla! expert Jen Kramer reviews essential questions that need to be asked of a client, discusses technical solutions to a variety of challenges, and explains how a site structure should be organized.

Topics Covered:
- I Want a Web Site and I Want It Blue — How Much Will That Cost?
- Choosing the Right Technologies to Solve the Business Problem
- Downloading and Installing Joomla!
- A Brief Tour of the Joomla! Administration Interface
- Creating and Configuring Menus
- Installing and Configuring
- Modules That Come with Joomla
- Components That Come with Joomla!
- Plug-Ins That Come with Joomla!
- Adding Extensions to Joomla!
- Home Page Tips and Tricks
- Custom Templates
- Advanced Template and CSS Tricks
- Site Maintenance and Training
- Once the groundwork has been laid, you'll discover how to host and install Joomla!, and upgrade and maintain your Joomla! site.

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