Master the business modeling and analysis techniques that help you transform data into bottom-line results. Award-winning business professor and corporate consultant Wayne Winston shares the best of his real-world experience in this practical, scenario-focused guide—fully updated for Excel 2010. Use Wayne’s proven practices and hands-on examples to help you work smarter, make better decisions, and gain the competitive edge.

Network your familys computers so you can share files, printers, and more — now its easy!
Connecting all your homes computers into a network lets you share files, devices, entertainment, and more. This friendly book shows you, step by step, how to create your very own wired or wireless network.

From the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than the British and Americans combined. Yet this remarkable genius was cut down in its prime by Adolf Hitler and his disastrous Third Reich—a brutal legacy that has overshadowed the nation’s achievements ever since.

Growing food sustainably is becoming more and more important in the light of our changing climate. Forest gardening is a way of working with nature that is not only productive and requires minimal maintenance, but also has great environmental benefits. A forest garden is a managed ecosystem modelled on the stucture of young natural woodland, with a diversity of crops grown in different vertical layers. Unlike in a conventional garden, nature does most of the work for you.

The Architectural Lens draws on techniques used to influence user behaviour in architecture, urbanplanning and related disciplines such as traffic management and crime prevention throughenvironmental design (see also the Security Lens).

The professional programmer’s Deitel® guide to Java™ development and the powerful Java platform
Written for programmers with a background in high-level language programming, this book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach to teaching programming and explores the Java language and Java APIs in depth. The book presents concepts in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, code highlighting, line-by-line code walkthroughs and program outputs. The book features 200+ complete Java programs with 18,000+ lines of proven Java code, and hundreds of tips that will help you build robust applications.

A Perfect Plan for the Perfect Score
We want you to succeed on your AP* exam. Thats why weve created this 5-step plan to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best score. This easy-to-follow guide offers you a complete review of your AP course, strategies to give you the edge on test day, and plenty of practice with AP-style test questions. Youll sharpen your subject knowledge, strengthen your thinking skills, and build your test-taking confidence with

Americans love to eat. We enjoy everything from home-cooked meals made with traditional family recipes, to eating out at restaurants to sampling different cuisines from around the world. But its the mass-produced fast food and junk food we consume—Big Macs, delivery pizza, Coca-Cola, Doritos, M&Ms, and Twinkies—that have become embedded in every aspect of our common culture.

Fully revised to include coverage of the new features of PaintShop Photo Pro, Photo Restoration and Retouching Using Corel PaintShop Photo ™ Pro, Second Edition teaches you how to use PaintShop Photo Pros plethora of top-notch photo editing tools to retouch, enhance, and restore your photographs. Youll benefit from the practical techniques and insider tips shown in this book, regardless of your skill level. After a brief introduction to PaintShop Photo Pro and other helpful topics such as scanning and organizing, youll dive into detailed photo studies that showcase new and old photos alike. By examining actual photos from the authors collection, youll learn how to retouch or restore digital, scanned, color, and black-and-white photos. Each study teaches you how to tackle specific problems, shows you the pros and cons of different techniques, and concludes with a fully restored or retouched photo. Youll learn how to do things like repair cuts and scratches, remove dust, blemishes, take out red-eye, enhance color, brightness, and contrast, remove distractions, correct perspective and lens distortion, and more. Youll even discover how to retouch people, enhance good photos, and explore ways to tackle "impossible" photos.

By simply adding a filter to the camera lens, or using a converted camera, digital photographers can capture infrared (IR) images featuring expressive skies, dramatic clouds, and intriguing white foliage. Illustrated with hundreds of striking IR images taken from around the world, this unique guide shows photographers how to get started and get creative with IR.

For undergraduate courses in Lifespan Development and Human Development

An interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis on culture and family

Using an interdisciplinary approach which emphasizes culture and family, Understanding Human Development challenges students to understand development from a broader perspective. Students draw on their own experiences as they weigh the research and ideas presented in the text.

The Book of Audacity is the definitive guide to Audacity, the powerful, free, cross-platform audio editor. Audacity allows anyone to transform their Windows, Mac, or Linux computer into a powerful recording studio.
The Book of Audacity is the perfect book for bands on a budget, solo artists, audiophiles, and anyone who wants to learn more about digital audio. Musician and podcaster Carla Schroder will guide you through a range of fun and useful Audacity projects that will demystify that geeky audio jargon and show you how to get the most from Audacity.

Cinematography for Games covers the space between the game and film industries by pointing out the most relevant cinematic techniques in todays hottest games, and including interviews with the game industrys greatest luminaries (including Will Wright: Sims legend, Harvey Smith, legendary game Deus Ex, Warren Spector creator of one of the original game companies, Origin).

A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, African American Writers, examines a multitude of black cultural leaders from the eighteenth century to the present as it focuses on novelists, essayists, scholars, activists, critics, teachers, poets, playwrights, and songwriters. Biographical information covers important events in a writer s life, education, major works, honors and awards, family and important associates, and more. Includes illustrations, bibliography, and index.

A step-by-step approach to analyzing markets and making informed trading decisions.

The Complete Trading Course provides aspiring traders with a detailed description of methods to analyze markets, spot profitable trading opportunities, and execute trades properly. Using a variety of approaches—such as Candlesticks, Elliott Wave, Dow Theory, and others—this book shows you how these methods overlap to identify tradable moments in the markets. Author Corey Rosenbloom skillfully explains how to identify trades based on price trend, momentum, and volatility—and how to make decisions confidently and maintain that confidence throughout the trade.

Social gerontology is a new and dynamic field reflecting the increasing interest in aging across the world. This book provides a readily accessible guide to well established and contested issues, as well as new concepts emerging through cutting edge research in the discipline. The entries give concise, lucid knowledge on what constitutes the ‘building blocks’ of social gerontology and sets out a clear review of the core concepts, both classic and emerging, in this subject area. Each concept is explored in terms of its history, application, usefulness to theory and research, and significance in practice.

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk jump-starts the worlds hottest skateboard company with businessman/skateboarder Per Welinder, who recently sold his share of the company back to Hawk to focus on his thriving clothing line.
Freestyle motocross star Carey Hart discovers that backflips in the boardroom dont fly, but sharp entrepreneurship turns his tattoo venture into a multimedia enterprise.