ISBN: 0470381302 | 1252 pages | August 11, 2008 | PDF | 27 Mb
The only comprehensive reference-tutorial on 3ds Max available, this book is everyone's favorite. Whether you're a beginner looking for 3D basics or a full-fledged animator seeking new ways to dazzle viewers with your creations, it's all here. You'll find pages of professional tips, loads of advice, and more than 150 step-by-step tutorials guaranteed to build your skills and spark your creativity. A 16-page color insert highlights cutting-edge work from 3D artists. A valuable companion DVD provides all the examples and content from the book, including unique models and textures you can customize on your own, and a searchable, full-color version of the book.
ISBN: 0764588877 | 450 pages pages | August 26, 2005 | PDF | 7 Mb
* Fans will get bent out of shape if they miss the first book to cover circuit-bending-"bending," for short-the method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound
* Written by the inventor of the technology, this book covers the tools of the trade, shows how to build a bending workshop, and reveals secrets that will have readers of all levels making sweet music in no time
* Readers learn basic bends, body contacts, and other bending skills, as well as ways to create bent instruments from a variety of popular toys and electronic devices
* Features some of the author's own unique creations
ISBN: 1845281624 | 120 pages |15 Dec 2006| PDF | 6 MB
In today's information-laden and time-constrained world we are required to digest an increasing amount of written and printed material. Most people, in their capacity as student, job seeker, employee or leisure reader, want to be able to deal with their daily reading faster and also recall it effectively. This book gives you the means to do just that by: finding the techniques for improvement that work best for you; providing methods for increasing retention and recall; promoting flexibility - the key to reading efficiently; offering techniques for developing skim-reading; and, highlighting problem areas and suggesting ways of addressing them. The book contains exercises to facilitate your development and assesses your results throughout, ensuring that you come away reading faster and recalling more.
ISBN: 0572034369 | 304 pages |2008-06-10| PDF | 6,4 MB
"IQ Gym" is a fun way of boosting your brain power. Organized into sections, and comprising a more and more challenging array of puzzles and problems, it will give all aspects of your intelligence a rigorous workout. As well as presenting verbal, numerical and spatial challenges, the book will test your powers of logic, lateral thinking, and right vs. left brain hemispherical balance. Performance assessments at the end of each section will enable you to monitor your progress.
Let the sun shine on your evil side - and have a wicked amount of fun on your way to becoming a solar energy master! In this guide, the popular Evil Genius format ramps up your understanding of powerful, important, and environmentally friendly solar energy - and shows you how to build real, practical solar energy projects you can use in your home, yard - even on the road!
In Solar Energy Projects for the Evil Genius, high-tech guru Gavin Harper gives you everything you need to build more than 50 thrilling solar energy projects. You'll find complete, easy-to-follow plans, with clear diagrams and schematics, so you know exactly what's involved before you begin.
Publisher: Marc C. David | ISBN: N\A | edition 2007 | PDF | 45 pages | 1,29 mb
If you don't know exactly what you're doing, right from the beginning, you will make many costly diet and training mistakes, and it can take years to get the type of body you want and deserve, if you ever get there at all. In fact, if you listen to the bad advice most “experts” are spitting out these days, you might even go backwards and actually gain fat or lose muscle!
IQ Brainteasers is the ultimate test of your brain power. Packed with over 300 puzzles, your visual, mathematical and lateral-thinking abilities will be stretched to the limit. Also included are some Japanese puzzles – Sudoku, Bridges and Slitherlink – which will really get your brain cells working.
The body never lies. A tilt of the head, a crossing or uncrossing of the legs, even the buttoning or unbuttoning of a jacket, can speak pages about what a person is thinking or feeling about his or her immediate surroundings and situation. More importantly, it can tell a great deal about how one person reacts to another. To be able to recognize the meaning of these cues and to be able to respond to them in the manner one chooses is the art at the center of this provocative book. How to Read a Person Like a Book is an illustrated guide on learning how to spot the hidden messages that we send to each other with our bodies
Most people think meetings are all too often a waste of time. But Weisbrod and Janoff say that's only because of the way most meetings are run. In this book they offer ten principles that will allow you to get more done in meetings by doing less. The key is knowing what you can and can't control. You can't controol people's motives, behavior, or attitudes.
ISBN: 1934356220 | 400 pages | September 28, 2008 | PDF | 6 Mb
Ubuntu Kung Fu provides hints, hacks, tweaks and tricks for every level of user. Guaranteed to be free of the usual dross that fills tips books, Ubuntu Kung Fu is written to be entertaining and, above all, readable. Its 300+ concise tips utilize and exploit hidden or lesser-known features to boost day-to-day productivity. You'll also find tips on tweaking Ubuntu, wrangling the system into shape, optimizing, enhancing security, and lots more. Learn what extraordinary things can be done with Ubuntu.
Do you want the ability to manage documents, photos, and other content over the Web but don't want to shell out thousands of dollars in proprietary solutions? Want to create an online community for your hobby or user group? You're not alone. For thousands of like-minded around the globe, the answer is Joomla!, an open source content management system used to manage all sorts of data over the Web.
GOOGLE HATES YOU...
Or That's What Some Of The So-Called "Gurus" Want You To Believe.
... But The Truth Is That Those Who Have Been Following My Instructions Are Still Raking In Massive Passive Income By Claiming Their Piece Of The 3.2 BILLION Dollar Google Cash Machine
ISBN: 1579584330 | 479 pages | January 2004 | PDF | 8 Mb
In its broad coverage of architecture produced between 1900 and 2000, the Encyclopedia of 20th -century A rchitecture provides a three-volume, English-language reference work for scholars, professionals, students, and the general public seeking a basic understanding of interdependent topics that define the production of architecture in the developed cities, countries, and regions of the world. Seeking the breadth and diversity of any encyclopedic endeavor, the project extends its coverage beyond the conventional study of prominent architects and their buildings to address important related facets of 20th-century architectural production that motivate architects and their clients and give form and meaning to their buildings..
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks | 258 pages | PDF | 31.6 MB
You already know Photoshop CS3 basics. Now you’d like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that
let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is
the book for you. Inside, you’ll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool
secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with
Photoshop CS3.
