Master the fundamental concepts and techniques of motion media design so you can apply–and occasionally break–the rules to achieve your communication goals. This authoritative guide presents all of the design essentials in an engaging and inspiring way. Each principle is explained with text, illustration and photography where necessary. An accompanying website will contain any necessary digital files for download, updates and links to other resources.
As they reach middle age, most men begin looking forward to “what’s next.” They gear up to experience renewed productivity and purpose and are more conscious of their health. A Man’s Guide to Healthy Aging is an authoritative resource for them, and for older men, as well. In collaboration with a variety of medical experts, the authors provide a comprehensive guide to healthy aging from a man’s perspective.
At its core, this is an easy-to-use technical handbook with lighting set-ups and simple tips you can implement right now to improve your lighting. Each chapter focuses on a type of lighting (e.g. one-strobe, two-strobe, camera flash, hot lights). At its heart, this book and its images are meant to inspire you, with a candid look into the background and thought behind each creative concept, and the amusing realities of bringing an idea to life. Don’t wait another day. Start reading, and soon, you’ll feel comfortable enough to tackle any photoshoot with confidence. Forewords by Jingna Zhang of Zemotion and Pratik Naik of Solstice Retouch.
Comprehensive Stress Management helps students identify, understand, and manage the stressors that most affect their lives. Written in an informal, anecdotal style, the text presents the latest research findings on the physical, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects of stress. The text also provides an in-depth discussion of a wide variety of coping skills, including relaxation techniques, behavior change interventions, and strategies for defusing physiological arousal. This engaging, easy-to-read text gives students the tools they need to cope with stress in an increasingly stressful world. Accompanying the text are instructor and student resources on the Online Learning Center.
Perspectives on Nursing Theory is a comprehensive anthology of important articles addressing diverse theoretical and philosophical perspectives on the nature of theory and knowledge development in nursing. This informative and contemporary resource features some of the most widely read and cited articles that facilitates thought and discussion among nurses, researchers, students, and teachers.
What’s wrong with the US food system? Why is half the world starving while the other half battles obesity? Who decides our food issues, and why can’t we do better with labeling, safety, or school food? These are complex questions that are hard to answer in an engaging way for a broad audience. But everybody eats, and food politics affects us all.
Water colors are the most widely used of all coloring techniques. This is the case for a number of reasons. One can buy an inexpensive box of six or eight “cakes” of water-color pigment and, with a few camel’s-hair or sable brushes, a glass of water, and almost any kind of paper, one is ready for painting at small cost and little trouble. Water-color painting is a familiar medium of art expression. Every child in earliest school days has tinted pictures in coloring books and colored miles of scrap paper with crude trees, animals, and people. We are all at home with water colors.
Do you have the urge to take the casing off your Windows-based PC and tinker around, but you’re a little intimidated? If so, get this book first. The text is clear and well-indexed, and this book will give you the information, and then, confidence, that you need. (It would also be a great book for anyone who wants to help recycle old computers for schools or non-profits). Two Torx blades up!
Your complete instructional guide on taking breathtaking special effects shots and cool images your friends won’t believe.
The moment you’ve been waiting for is finally here. Maximum PC has expanded its bestselling “Building a Dream PC” issue to bring you the more complete Maximum PC Guide to Building a Dream PC. This full-color layout packed with pictures, illustrations and infographics that will show you how to build the perfect PC from the ground up. Written by the top two voices in PC hardware technology, Maximum PC and Que, you will also learn how to tune, optimize and backup your dream PC once it’s built. No stone is left unturned in this step-by-step guide, as it gives you tips on how to find the best prices on parts, assemble the PC and tweak the BIOS to maximize performance. PC lovers, look no further-your lifeline is here!
This book is the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, colour usage and space. Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text. Graphic design is a ‘visual language’ and brilliance is recognised in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly. This is a fun and accessible handbook that presents the fundamentals of design in lists, tips, brief text and examples.
