| The Writing Template Book: The MICHIGAN Guide to Writing Well and Success on High-Stakes Tests [by Kevin B. King and Ann M. Johns] |
 The Writing Template Book is a practical how-to guide for academic writers. Because good writers automatically develop their own internal writing templates that impose clarity and structure on their material, this text provides template examples to help less experienced writers produce the reliable, replicable syntax that is essential to good writing. The Writing Template Book provides numerous examples and practice exercises on writing summaries, thesis sentences, introductions, conclusions, and the bodies of typical essays and papers.
Templates are an effective tool for improving performance on standardized tests like the TOEFL® and the SAT®. Writing templates can enhance students’ scores on standardized tests by providing them with a structure that ... |
ebook Size:10MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Sports Photography: How to Capture Action and Emotion [by Peter Skinner] |
 The ultimate guide to sports photography for anyone who wants to capture great sports pictures.
Seasoned sports photographer Peter Skinner uses 211 stunning examples from the work of Walter Ioss, Ben Chen, Bob Gomel, Duane Hart, Mark Johnson, and six other renowned photographers—as well as his personal archives—to show exactly how to take great action photos. Whether the subject is baseball or basketball, rock climbing or golf, kayaking or soccer or stickball or swimming, Sports Photography offers comprehensive, detailed, easy-to-understand information on how to get crisp, clear shots that capture the movement, grace, and mood of the moment. Special projects and self-assignments, plus detailed information on equipment, film and digital techniques, showing e... |
| ebook Size:16MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition [by G. Newman Lowrance ] |
 Get an insider s look at the techniques, equipment, and know-how needed to take eye-catching and inspiring sports action photographs with "Digital Sports Photography, Second Edition." Written by an experienced professional sports photographer and featuring firsthand insight and ideas from other industry pros, this book provides the basics of sports photography whether you are just getting started or want to enhance your skills. You ll learn about color management, camera setup, equipment options, shutter speeds, composition, and more to help you attain professional-quality results with a digital camera. You ll also discover what a sports photo editor looks for when selecting images, knowledge you can use to help you take the best possible shots, whether you as... |
ebook Size:45MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Sports Injuries: Their Prevention and Treatment [by Lars Peterson and Per Renström] |
 Thoroughly updated and improved, Sports Injuries: Their Prevention and Treatment, Third Edition, remains an essential handbook for athletic trainers, physical therapists, and physicians.
Written by two eminent orthopedic surgeons, the book addresses
-acute treatment of athletic injuries,
-the biomechanics of sports injuries,
-preventive measures,
-methods of treatment,
-sports injuries by specific area,
-injuries during specialized activities,
-risks to children and adolescents, and
-training of different parts of the body.
The clarity of the artwork that made the previous editions of this book so helpful has been maintained. Each of the chapters opens with a series of photographs illustrating the part of the body that will be examined in detail, with page re... |
| ebook Size:14.98MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Essentials of Creatine in Sports and Health [by Jeffrey R. Stout, Jose Antonio and Douglas Kalman] |
 With all of the misinformation regarding the effects of creatine supplementation on health and sports performance, this book brings together the information on how creatine affects body composition, exercise performance, and health. Supported by the International Society of Sports Nutrition, this volume is timely and vital for all professionals in the field of sports nutrition.
A great deal of misinformation is present in popular culture regarding the effects of creatine supplementation on health and sports performance. For instance, it is not uncommon for various media outlets to claim, in spite of the lack of supporting evidence, that supplementing with creatine is harmful to the liver and kidneys and may cause dehydration and cramping. In reality, creatine is inti... |
| ebook Size:15.53MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Imaging of Orthopedic Sports Injuries (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging) [by Filip M. Vanhoenacker, Mario Maas, Jan L.M.A. Gielen and C. Faletti] |
 This volume provides an updated review of imaging abnormalities in orthopedic sports injuries. The first part of the book contains background information on relevant basic science and general imaging principles in sports traumatology. The second part comprises a topographic discussion of sports injuries. Each chapter highlights the merits of different imaging techniques, focused on a specific clinical problem. In the third part, natural history, monitoring and follow-up imaging are discussed.... |
| ebook Size:20MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Westwood Light and Lens Bundle: Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age [by Robert Hirsch ] |
 Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers eye, an aesthetic point of view. Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today s digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. Explore the history, theory and methods of digital image-making. L... |
| ebook Size:23MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers [by Walt Ritscher] |
 Graphic Shaders are used throughout the game and movie industry to improve onscreen graphics. They are versatile, doing important tasks like making computer rendered aliens look realistic, providing the ripples on a background lake or growing fur on the latest Pixar monster. In the PC world, programmers are often delighted to find that shaders are nothing more than a miniature program that is optimized to run on the computers GPU. This happiness fades when they start exploring the strange programming model underlying shaders however. Because shaders are strung together in an unusual fashion and run on a massive parallel processer developers shouldn’t use their traditional OO or procedural approach to writing code. Writing effective shaders requires a mind shift re... |
| ebook Size:5.47MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Getting Started with Metro Apps: A Guide to the Windows Runtime [by Ben Dewey ] |
 Get a head start on creating "Metro"-style apps for the approaching release of Windows 8. If you’re new to .NET programming, this introductory guide will quickly get you up to speed on the tools you need to build user interfaces with Microsoft’s new design language, code-named Metro. Learn how to use WinRT and the preview version of the upcoming Visual Studio release, and get tips and tricks for having your app published in the Windows Store.
Windows 8 brings some dramatic changes to the way users interact with computers and devices, and the Metro design language plays a key role. Whether you’re an experienced .NET developer, or build apps with HTML and Javascript, this book gets you in on the ground floor.... |
| ebook Size:3.76MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Developing Backbone.js Applications [by Addy Osmani] |
 If you’re looking to use the single-page application model to build your site’s frontend, Backbone.js is an ideal framework for the job. This practical guide provides all the information you need to create structured JavaScript applications using Backbone.js and its unique flavor of the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.
You’ll start with the essentials of Backbone’s models, views, collections, and routers, and then dive into methods for building RESTful applications with modern technology stacks. Author Addy Osmani also demonstrates advanced uses of the framework, as well as ways to conduct unit tests.
Learn MVC fundamentals to help you understand the framework
Build Backbone apps with Node.js, Express, Mongoose, and MongoDB
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| ebook Size:2.54MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript [by Tom Hughes-Croucher and Mike Wilson ] |
 This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You ll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you ll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.
Written by a core contributor to the framework, Node: Up and Running shows you how Node scales up to support large numbers of simultaneous connections across multiple servers, and scales down to let you create quick one-off applications with minimal infrastructure. Built on the V8 JavaScript engine that runs Google Chrome, Node is already winning the hearts and minds of many companies, including Google and Y... |
| ebook Size:7.88MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |
| Learning JavaScript Design Patterns [by Addy Osmani ] |
 Learning JavaScript Design Patterns... |
| ebook Size:2MB Downloads:2 Rating: Updated:May 19,2012 |