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2000 years ago the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote the ten books on architecture still referred to in every architect’s education. The concept of an architectural pattern book offering design principles as well as solutions is universally familiar and this is the green pattern book for today.Now fully updated to provide an introduction to sustainable architectural design suitabl…
A Fresh Look at the History of Graphic Design Graphic Design History, 2nd edition is a critical approach to the history of graphic design. Organized chronologically, the book demonstrates the connection to the current practices of graphic arts, visual expression, and design with its engaging narrative and special features. With new images, chapter revisions, and features like Tools of the Trade…
Your deadline just got moved up. Your artist has never worked with Flash before. Your inner programmer is telling you that no OOP is a big Oops! Any Flash developer can share similar tales of woe. This book breaks down the process of Flash game development into simple, approachable steps. Never heard of a game loop before? No idea what a design pattern is? No problem! Chris Griffith gives you r…
The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture (second edition) offers an introduction to the key elements involved in the creation of aesthetically appealing and practically appropriate interior architecture. The book contains five sections, which together encapsulate the principle ideas, skills and knowledge that are employed in effective interior architecture and design. Areas of study include sp…
The second edition ofthis comprehensive introduction to studying behavioral economics includes recent research and offers an overview of methodology and expanded material on rationality, behavioral game theory and the nature of the role of evidence in testing. More worked examples, real-life cases and end-of-chapter questions are included.
Modern coverage of the fundamentals, implementation and applications of digital signal processing techniques from a practical point of view This successful textbook covers most aspects of DSP found in undergraduate electrical, electronic or communications engineering courses. Unlike many other texts, it also covers a number of DSP techniques which are of particular relevance to industry such as…
"Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed, 2E" offers a variety of topics for system and database administrators to help them learn new features of the product and to solve problems they face on a daily basis. It shows them how to build upon their working knowledge of the product and take their experience and knowledge to a higher level. This new edition of "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed" cove…
Advertising and Public Relations Research is designed to serve as a comprehensive, primary text for research methods courses in Advertising and/or Public Relations programs. To fit the purpose of most undergraduate and masters' level courses, the book concentrates on the uses and applications of research in advertising and public relations situations. Although the design and conduct of research…
This Second Edition of Understanding Journalism tackles these changes head-on. It integrates media and cultural theory with the step-by-step development of writing skills to give students the techniques and the savvy they need to succeed. Bigger and better, this new edition includes: A brand new chapter on who journalists are in the social media age Reorganization of skills chapters to bring wr…
Written specifically for those with no prior programming experience and minimal quantitative training, this accessible text walks behavioral science students and researchers through the process of programming using MATLAB. The book explores examples, terms, and programming needs relevant to those in the behavioral sciences and helps readers perform virtually any computational function in solvin…