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    • Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark 

      Keimig, Lance (Focal Press, 2010)
      Night photographers have one big thing in common: a true love of the dark. Rather than looking at night photography as an extension of daytime shooting with added complications, they embrace the unique challenges of nocturnal ...

    • Flash + After Effects, Second Edition: Add Broadcast Features to Your Flash Designs 

      Jackson, Chris (Focal Press, 2010)
      Flash Designers: push Flash to the next level with After Effects' robust toolset. CS5 delivers more complete integration of these two powerhouse applications-so you can expand your multimedia horizons. Flash After Effects ...

    • The Remix Manual 

      Langford, Simon (Focal Press, 2011)
      Can you turn a soulful ballad into a hit dance track, or make any Billboard hit your own? With this all-in-one guide to remixing, you can! Whether you're a professional DJ or producer, or are just beginning to mix tracks, ...

    • 3D Art Essentials: The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Animation 

      Chopine, Ami (Focal Press, 2011)
      Create high-quality 3D animations and models by using the basic concepts and principles of 3D art presented by GeekAtPlay.com's Ami Chopine. This handy studio reference breaks down the core concepts into easy-to-understand ...

    • Focus On Photoshop Elements: Focus on the Fundamentals 

      Asch, David (Focal Press, 2011)
      Are you bewildered by the advanced editing options available in Photoshop Elements? Do you want to get the most out of your image without going bleary-eyed in front of a computer screen? This handy guide will explain the ...

    • Managing Electronic Media: Making, Marketing, and Moving Digital Content 

      Tassel, Joan Van; Howfield, Lisa Poe (Focal Press, 2010)
      Digital content creation changed the speed, flexibility, and cost of content pro-duction, making it cheaper for consumers, but sometimes more expensive for blockbusters loaded with special effects, such as Titanic.Networked ...

    • Producing Games 

      Cohen, D S.; Bustamante, Sergio A. (Focal Press, 2010)
      Buildinga Next-Gen console game requires numerous team me MBers all working in harmony, each with the same specific goals. These various artists, programmers, designers, audio engineers, and others each have their own ...

    • White House Diary 

      Carter, Jimmy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
      The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world. Each day ...

    • From the Ruins of Empire The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia 

      Mishra, Pankaj (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
      A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the ...

    • Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free 

      Tobar, Héctor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)
      When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. The entire world watched what transpired ...

    • Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence 

      Haslam, Jonathan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
      A uniquely comprehensive and rich account of the Soviet intelligence services, Jonathan Haslam's Near and Distant Neighbors charts the labyrinthine story of Soviet intelligence from the October Revolution to the end of the ...

    • A Village Life: Poems 

      Glück, Louise (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
      Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain’s opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at ...

    • Digital Compositing for Film and Video, Third Edition 

      Wright, Steve (Focal Press, 2010)
      This book is about hands-on digital compositing techniques in the quest for photo-realism in feature film and video digital effects. Of course, artistic training is an essential ingredient to achieving photo-realism, as ...

    • Photoshop 3D for Animators 

      Elmansy, Rafiq (Focal Press, 2010)
      Adobe Photoshop has been widely used by graphic designers, web designers, photographers, Flash designers, animators, video specialists, and many others to accomplish design tasks ranging from the simple editing of personal ...

    • Making Great Games: An Insider's Guide to Designing and Developing the World's Greatest Video Games 

      Wyman, Michael Thornton (Focal Press, 2010)
      Look around. Increasingly, video games are becoming more and more a part of the fabric of our day-to-day lives. The debate regarding what should be considered the world’s first video game continues, but since the medium’s ...

    • Blender Foundations: The Essential Guide to Learning Blender 2.6 

      Hess, Roland (Focal Press, 2010)
      Howdy folks. This book is your guide to learning Blender 2.6. It assumes no previous knowledge of Blender, although old Blender users will find a lot to learn here too. Some beginner texts are dressed-up reference manuals, ...

    • The Manual of Photography, Tenth Edition 

      Allen, Elizabeth; Triantaphillidou, Sophie (Focal Press, 2010)
      The tenth edition of The Manual of Photography is an indispensable textbook for anyone who is serious about photography. It is ideal if you want to gain insight into the underlying scientific principles of photography and ...

    • What is Music Production?: a producers guide, the role, the people, the process 

      Sawyer, Russ Hepworth; Golding, Craig (Focal Press, 2010)
      Music production per seis a strange entity and an odd thing to do. It is certainly a challenge to quantify and very difficult to measure, analyze, and then simu-late. Despite this, we perceived a need for a guide that ...

    • The Technique of Film and Video Editing, Fifth Edition: History, Theory, and Practice 

      Dancyger, Ken (Focal Press, 2010)
      The Technique of Film and Video Editing provides a detailed, precise look at the artistic and aesthetic principles and practices of editing for both picture and sound. Because editing is about more than learning a specific ...

    • The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution 

      Fukuyama, Francis (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
      A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed ...