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AI and automation are reshaping our world at an unprecedented speed, making traditional skills obsolete and opening new doors of opportunity. Those who adapt and develop unique, irreplaceable abilities will thrive. What is your plan to remain indispensable, protect your business, and safeguard your humanity in this AI-driven world? Pascal Bornetβaward-winning AI expert, former McKinsey executive, and Top Voice in...Paperback$8700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksInstagram & Facebook All-in-One For Dummies
Transform your online presence into a lead generation machine Instagram & Facebook All-in-One For Dummies brings together the expertise of a group of seasoned social media professionals and certified Meta trainers to solve the biggest challenge facing businesses and individuals today: how to translate Facebook and Instagramβs massive user bases into loyal audiences and customers. This comprehensive guide eliminates the...Paperback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Passengers
The high concept thriller from the bestselling author of The One - now a major Netflix series. Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide. When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-driving cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course. The passengers are: a TV star, a pregnant young woman,...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Minders
The Minders is a Black Mirror-esque thriller from the author of the million-copy international bestseller The One. Five strangers guard our secrets. Only four can be trusted... In the 21st century, information is king. But computers can be hacked and files can be broken into - so a unique government initiative has been born. Five ordinary people have been selected...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDonβt Burn Anyone at the Stake Today
An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi Alderman. What's the most useful thing you could know about your own life? In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns to a question that affects us allβhow do we understand, and navigate, the...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Virtual Universe
Will we one day inhabit virtual worlds? From the buzz around Second Life in the early 2000s to Mark Zuckerberg's much-hyped quest for the metaverse, there seems to be a clear pattern. After being touted as revolutionary, virtual worlds fail to meet expectations and fade into obscurity. Yet the dream of an immersive, independent, and interconnected virtual social universe still...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksSecurity Engineering
Now that there's software in everything, how can you make anything secure? Understand how to engineer dependable systems with this newly updated classic. In Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Third Edition, Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson updates his classic textbook and teaches readers how to design, implement, and test systems to withstand both error and attack....Hardback$14099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHBR's 10 Must Reads on Leading Digital Transformation, Updated and Expanded (featuring "Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation" by Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus)
Too many digital transformations fail to deliver. Don't let yours be one of them. If you read nothing else on leading digital transformation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you set ambitious milestones for your transformation, anticipate and avoid common mistakes, and reach your goals faster and...Paperback$6400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksApplied Math with Python
A step-by-step guide for using Python to transform abstract mathematical concepts into effective, on-the-ground scripts that solve real-world business problems. Applied Math with Python: Solve Real-World Problems with Python-Based Solutions is a detailed, step-by-step guide for business professionals, analysts, and data scientists interested in using Python to perform crucial organisational tasks: optimising inefficient supply chains, calculating probabilities, forecasting financial performance,...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksCybersecurity for Business Leaders
Cybersecurity for Business Leaders explains how cybersecurity is no longer purely an IT problem; it's a leadership responsibility that can derail careers, cripple organisations, and erase shareholder trust overnight. Cybersecurity for Business Leaders equips leaders to understand cyber risk, make confident decisions, and protect their businesses. Free from jargon and abstract theory, it bridges the gap between the boardroom and...Paperback$7100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Innovators
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Black Swan: Second Edition
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Walter Isaacson's enthralling (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two yearsβas well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleaguesβWalter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDoppelganger
A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller A New York Times notable book of 2023Vulture's #1 book of 2023One of Slate's ten best books of 2023A Guardian best ideas book of 2023One of Time's ten best books of 2023Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Shallows
Boldly reactionary...What looks like feast, Carr argues, may be closer to famine - Sunday Times Chilling - The Economist In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains,...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHuman Edge in the AI Age
What remains uniquely human when AI can do almost everything? We can thrive by unlocking our human edge through eight timeless mantras. "Nitin Sethβs POSSIBLE framework is a powerful guide to thriving in the AI era." β Lou Maiuri, Chairman & Group CEO, AssetMark "A grounded, human-centered approach to navigating AI disruption." β Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar If youβre...Hardback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTeach Yourself VISUALLY Microsoft Teams
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The story of how the FBI secretly used an encrypted phone company to infiltrate one of the world's largest crime syndicates, revealing how the underworld has become a globalised economy in its own rightβone that can't be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries. Written "in the manner of a good crime thriller" (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksCreativity's Edge
In an AI world that can write, code, and design, what's left for humans? Everything that matters. The world is changing fast. Are you ready for what's next? Technical skills alone won't keep you ahead anymore. Creativity has now become the dividing line between those who will lead the future and those who will be automated out of it. Creativity's...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksBeyond Cybersecurity
Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business arms your company against devastating online security breaches by providing you with the information and guidance you need to avoid catastrophic data compromise. Based upon highly-regarded risk assessment analysis, this critical text is founded upon proprietary research, client experience, and interviews with over 200 executives, regulators, and security experts, offering you a well-rounded, thoroughly...Hardback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksUnderstanding Bioinformatics
Suitable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, Understanding Bioinformatics provides a definitive guide to this vibrant and evolving discipline. The book takes a conceptual approach, guiding the reader from first principles through to an understanding of the computational techniques and the key algorithms. Understanding Bioinformatics is an invaluable companion for students from their first encounter with the subject through to more...Paperback$36800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksTop 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Utility Network
Learn how to use ArcGIS Utility Network, the powerful software that handles the complexity of modern utility systems now and into the future. Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Utility Network is a practical guide for GIS technicians and analysts, whether you are already using ArcGIS Utility Network in your organisation or are migrating to Utility Network. ArcGIS Utility Network...Paperback$11800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Ubiquitous Internet
This book presents state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical research on The Ubiquitous Internet: its everyday users and its economic stakeholders. The book offers a 360-degree media analysis of the contemporary terrain of the internet by examining both user and industry perspectives and their relation to one another. Contributors consider user practices in terms of internet at your fingertipsβthe abundance, free flow,...Hardback$45200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Transformative Magic of M Code in Power Query Excel & Power BI
This book is about Power Query and M Code. Power Query and the functional language M Code (M) are the heart and soul of Microsoftβs power data analysis tools: Excel, Power BI Desktop, and Dataflows. The beautiful data-driven and insightful PivotTables, Power BI solutions, and Dashboards that you create usually require that you use Power Query and M Code to...Paperback$7800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Official Raspberry Pi Handbook
The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2024 is packed with all the information beginners need to use their new Raspberry Pi computer. Inside, you'll also find the best projects from the past year for long-term Raspberry Pi enthusiasts. With a special section on Raspberry Pi 5, the latest and greatest in the Raspberry Pi microcomputer line, you'll learn how to code...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Garbage Collection Handbook
Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, captured the state of the field in 2012. Modern technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever. This second edition updates the handbook, bringing...Paperback$20700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Garbage Collection Handbook
Published in 1996, Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management, captured the state of the field in 2012. Modern technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever. This second edition updates the handbook, bringing...Hardback$25100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Foundations of Information Systems
Why does information technology disappoint or enslave us? Why do so many information systems projects collapse? How can we do better? There are many technical, social, economic and other aspects to consider. How do we ensure we take all these into account as we research ITC or employ them? ICT affects our lives and world more profoundly than ever before....Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Essentials of Data Science: Knowledge Discovery Using R
The Essentials of Data Science: Knowledge Discovery Using R presents the concepts of data science through a hands-on approach using free and open source software. It systematically guides an accessible journey through data analysis and machine learning to discover and share knowledge from data. Building on over thirty years of experience in teaching and practising data science, the author encourages...Hardback$66700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Culture of AI
In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but rather massive changes in the here-and-now of everyday life. In The Culture of AI, Elliott explores how...Hardback$51100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Color Management Handbook for Visual Effects Artists
The Color Management Handbook for Visual Effects Artists by Victor Perez brings together the research and expertise of world-leading colour scientists to create a comprehensive guide for visual effects (VFX) artists in colour management. This book explores the latest standards of high dynamic range (HDR) and Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) workflows, in an easily digestible and widely applicable resource....Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksTelevision News
Television News is a comprehensive resource for newswriting, reporting, shooting and editing video, and producing a newscast. This book provides instruction in the basic steps of telling video stories and is perfectly suited for preparing young professionals for entry-level positions as television or multimedia journalists. Moreover, the text delves into the heart of storytelling with guidance appropriate for advancement in...Hardback$68000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksTechnology and the Gendering of Music Education
Critical of technologically determinist assumptions underpinning current educational policy, Victoria Armstrong argues that this growing technicism has grave implications for the music classroom where composition is often synonymous with the music technology suite. The use of computers and associated compositional software in music education is frequently decontextualised from cultural and social relationships, thereby ignoring the fact that new technologies are...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksSound and Recording
Providing vital reading for audio students and trainee engineers, Sound and Recording is the essential guide for anyone who wants a solid grounding in both theory and industry practices in audio, sound, and recording. This updated and comprehensively restructured edition includes new content on DAW configuration, effects processing, 3D/immersive audio systems, object-based audio, and VR audio technology. This bestselling book...Hardback$60200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksSoftware Evangelism and the Rhetoric of Morality
Examining the layers of meaning encoded in software and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections between software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a rhetorical practice that aims to convert software developers, as well as non-technical lay users, from one platform to another (e.g., from the operating system Microsoft...Hardback$45200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksSocial Media in Healthcare Information
Social media has now been an integral part of life for over 20 years, revolutionising so many aspects of our lives that it is now difficult to imagine a world without it. As smartphone technology has matured and users have grown more sophisticated in their use of various social media platforms, concerns about privacy, ethics, censorship, and misinformation have grown...Paperback$24300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksRisk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks
Since the first edition of this book was published, Bayesian networks have become even more important for applications in a vast array of fields. This second edition includes new material on influence diagrams, learning from data, value of information, cybersecurity, debunking bad statistics, and much more. Focusing on practical real-world problem-solving and model building, as opposed to algorithms and theory,...Paperback$18100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksRedesigning Animation
The animation studio United Productions of America (UPA) was able to challenge Disney supremacy in the 1950s entertainment market by creating cutting-edge animated cartoons. UPA films express a simplified audiovisual language consisting of stylized layout designs, asymmetrical compositions, colours applied flatly and in contrast with each other, limited animation, and a minimalist use of sound effects. UPA artists developed this...Hardback$59200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksQuick Recursion
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We'll be doing this next project in Java. Unfortunately, you're a C++ programmer, or maybe a Python programmer. How are you going to get up to speed in a hurry? There are lots of Java books for beginners, telling you all about what a computer is and how it represents everything in bits. You donβt need that. At the other...Hardback$38400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksPsychosocial Dynamics of Cyber Security
This new volume, edited by industrial and organisational psychologists, examines the crucial topic of cyber security work in the US and worldwide. With contributions from experts in industrial and organisational psychology, human factors, computer science, economics, and applied anthropology, the book argues that employees in cyber security professions must maintain attention over extended periods, make decisions with imperfect information potentially...Paperback$26400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksPsychosocial Dynamics of Cyber Security
This new volume, edited by industrial and organisational psychologists, examines the critical topic of cyber security work in the US and around the world. Contributors include experts in industrial and organisational psychology, human factors, computer science, economics, and applied anthropology. The book proposes that employees in cyber security professions must maintain focus over extended periods, make decisions with incomplete information...Hardback$82300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksParametric Building Design Using Autodesk Maya
Due to its comprehensive tool-set and great potential for 3D modelling, more and more architectural design and interior design firms are adapting Autodesk Maya and integrating it into their practice. There has been no book aimed at architects and designers who wish to harness the opportunities presented by this software, until now... The book promotes parametric design. It integrates the...Hardback$70500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksNetworking for Big Data
Networking for Big Data supplies an unprecedented look at cutting-edge research on the networking and communication aspects of Big Data. Starting with a comprehensive introduction to Big Data and its networking issues, it offers deep technical coverage of both theory and applications. The book is divided into four sections: introduction to Big Data, networking theory and design for Big Data,...Paperback$25700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMultiplayer Online Games
Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) have become a new genre of "play culture," integrating communication and entertainment in a playful, computer-mediated environment that evolves through user interaction. This book comprehensively reviews the origins, players, and social dynamics of MOGs, as well as six major empirical research methods used in previous works to study MOGs (i.e., observation/ethnography, survey/interviews, content and discourse analysis,...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMrExcel 2025
Excel tips to skyrocket white-collar productivity. Originally designed for Bill Jelen's live Power Excel seminars, the target audience already uses Excel 40 hours a week. These tips are the "aha" tips that uncover secret methods in Excel. The book covers general Excel functions, pivot tables, and formulas such as XLOOKUP. It introduces elements of modern Excel such as the Power...Paperback$7800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMrExcel 2022
Inspiring Excel tips designed to save 100 hours per year. Originally designed for Bill Jelen's live Power Excel seminars, the target audience already uses Excel 40 hours a week. These tips are the "aha" tips that uncover secret methods in Excel. The book covers general Excel functions, pivot tables, and formulas such as VLOOKUP and the new XLOOKUP. It introduces...Paperback$8200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMobile Cloud Computing
Minimise Power Consumption and Enhance User Experience Essential for high-speed fifth-generation mobile networks, mobile cloud computing (MCC) integrates the power of cloud data centres with the portability of mobile computing devices. Mobile Cloud Computing: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications covers the latest technological and architectural advances in MCC. It also shows how MCC is used in health monitoring, gaming, learning, and...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMisunderstanding the Internet
The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the worldβs population. The internetβs meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take...Hardback$66700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMind Matters
Based on a symposium honouring the extensive work of Allen Newellβone of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the systematic study of computational architecturesβthis volume demonstrates how unifying themes may be found in the diversity that characterises current research on computers and cognition. The subject matter includes: An overview of cognitive and computer science by leading...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMachine Learning in Cognitive IoT
This book covers the different technologies of the Internet and machine learning capabilities involved in Cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT). Machine learning is explored by covering all the technical issues and various models used for data analytics during decision making at different steps. It initiates with IoT basics, its history, architecture, and applications followed by capabilities of CIoT in the...Hardback$38400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMachine Learning for Managers
Machine Learning for Managers can help managers make better predictions, automate complex tasks, and improve business operations. Managers who are familiar with machine learning are better placed to navigate the increasingly digital world we live in. There is a view that machine learning is a highly technical subject that can only be understood by specialists. However, many of the ideas...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMachine Learning for Computer and Cyber Security
While Computer Security is a broader term that incorporates technologies, protocols, standards, and policies to ensure the security of computing systemsβincluding computer hardware, software, and the information stored within itβCyber Security is a specific, growing field focused on protecting computer networks (both offline and online) from unauthorized access, botnets, phishing scams, etc. Machine learning, a branch of Computer Science, enables...Hardback$70500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksLocal Applications of the Ecological Approach To Human-Machine Systems
There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a...Hardback$74500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksLearn to Code with Games
A novel approach for the classroom or self-study, Learn to Code with Games makes coding accessible to a broad audience. Structured as a series of challenges that help you learn to code by creating a video game, each chapter expands and builds your knowledge while providing guidelines and hints to solving each challenge. The book employs a unique problem-solving approach...Paperback$19900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksInnovation in Music
Innovation in Music: Performance, Production, Technology and Business is an exciting collection comprising cutting-edge articles on a range of topics, presented under the main themes of artistry, technology, production, and industry. Each chapter is written by a leader in the field and contains insights and discoveries not yet shared. Innovation in Music covers new developments in the standard practice of...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksInformation Technology Law
The fifth edition of Information Technology Law continues to be dedicated to a detailed analysis of and commentary on the latest developments within this burgeoning field of law. It provides an essential read for all those interested in the interface between law and technology and the effect of new technological developments on the law. The contents have been restructured, and...Hardback$74500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHidden in White Sight
Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equaliser that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is this true? Given that the policing and judicial systems can display human bias, this book explores how the technology they use can also reflect these prejudices. From healthcare services to social scoring in exams, to applying for...Hardback$25800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHidden in White Sight
Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equaliser that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is this true? Given that the policing and judicial systems can display human bias, this book explores how the technology they use can also reflect these prejudices. From healthcare services to social scoring in exams, to applying for...Paperback$8100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGet started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico
Create your own programmable electronic contraptions for home projects, industrial automation, or learning (or teaching!) electronics and programming. Learn how to use the beginner-friendly MicroPython language to write programs and connect up hardware to make your Raspberry Pi Pico interact with the world around it. Using these programmable connections, you can light LEDs, make noises, send text to screens, and...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGeocomputation with R
Geocomputation with R is for people who want to analyse, visualise, and model geographic data with open source software. The book provides a foundation for learning how to solve a wide range of geographic data analysis problems in a reproducible, and therefore scientifically sound and scalable way. The second edition features numerous updates, including the adoption of the high-performance terra...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFeynman Lectures on Computation
The last lecture course that Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman gave to students at Caltech from 1983 to 1986 was not on physics but on computer science. The first edition of the Feynman Lectures on Computation, published in 1996, provided an overview of standard and not-so-standard topics in computer science given in Feynmanβs inimitable style. Although now over 20...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksExperimental Animation
Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital focuses on both experimental animationβs deep roots in the twentieth century, and its current position in the twenty-first century media landscape. Each chapter incorporates a variety of theoretical lenses, including historical, materialist, phenomenological and scientific perspectives. Acknowledging that process is a fundamental operation underlining experimental practice, the book includes not only chapters by international...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksExcel Insights
Learn favourite techniques from this group of twenty-two Excel MVPs. The Excel MVPs are friends and competitors who each pulled out their favourite tricks to impress you and their fellow MVPs. This book is written by twenty-four Excel MVPs: Jon Acampora, Liam Bastick, Leila Gharani, Mike Girvin, Roger Govier, Frederic le Guen, Mathieu Guindon, Ingeborg Hawighorst, Tim Heng, Wyn Hopkins,...Paperback$7600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEthical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide
Requiring no prior hacking experience, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or ethical hack, from beginning to end. You will learn how to properly utilise and interpret the results of modern-day hacking tools, which are required to complete a penetration test. The book covers a wide range...Hardback$74500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEnterprise Level Security
Enterprise Level Security: Securing Information Systems in an Uncertain World provides a modern alternative to the fortress approach to security. The new approach is more distributed and has no need for passwords or accounts. Global attacks become much more difficult, and losses are localised, should they occur. The security approach is derived from a set of tenets that form the...Paperback$18100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDream Worlds: Production Design for Animation
A truly unique visual delight offering insight into the development of animation classics like Bambi, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Lilo and Stitch as well as a tantalising examination of unfinished Disney projects.Hardback$14000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDrawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes
Drawn to Life is a two-volume collection of the legendary lectures of long-time Disney animator Walt Stanchfield. For over 20 years, Walt mentored a new generation of animators at the Walt Disney Studios and influenced such talented artists as Tim Burton, Brad Bird, Glen Keane, and Andreas Deja. His writing and drawings have become must-have lessons for fine artists, film...Hardback$51100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDigital Sports Journalism
Digital Sports Journalism gives detailed guidance on a range of digital practices for producing content for smartphones and websites. Each chapter discusses a skill that has become essential for sports journalists today, with student-friendly features throughout to support learning. These include case studies, examples of sports journalism from leading global publications, as well as top tips and practical exercises. The...Hardback$62600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDigital Sculpting with Mudbox
Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch, or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier sculpting solution for digital artists, allowing them to naturally and easily sculpt detailed, organic characters and models in a way that feels like traditional sculpting....Paperback$18200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDigital Design Exercises for Architecture Students
Digital Design Exercises for Architecture Students teaches you the basics of digital design and fabrication tools with creative design exercises, featuring over 200 illustrations, which emphasise process and evaluation as key to designing in digital mediums. The book is software neutral, letting you choose the software with which to edit raster and vector graphics and to model digital objects. The...Paperback$22800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDigital Design Exercises for Architecture Students
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