Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills

By Mark Galer M.Ed., Philip Andrews
Publisher: Focal Press, Pages: 480, Date: 2008-12-08

ISBN-10 : 0240521242, Rar'd PDF ~ 30.7 MB's Bookmarked

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This inspirational guide to creative image editing will help you master the essential features and tools of Adobe Photoshop CS4. Broken into three parts to form a structured, self-study guide, Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills covers the foundation skills and more advanced techniques you need to enhance photographs creatively and professionally.

Practical, step-by-step imaging projects then give you the chance to practice your skills and see what you can achieve with the right tools and knowledge.

Written by two internationally recognised authors and Adobe Photoshop Ambassadors, this established book and DVD package cuts through the complexities of Photoshop to deliver essential, clear guidance on how to get the best results. Fully updated with the latest CS4 features, it also contains vital information on how to optimize your photography and digital imaging workflow.

Now includes a free DVD, packed with more than 10 hours of detailed video tutorials to accompany the projects in the book, royalty-free hi-resolution images, indispensable RAW files for editing practice and much more.

* Learn to retouch and enhance your photographs, produce sophisticated montages and create special effects with clear instruction and step-by-step practice projects that show the why and the how-to
* Develop an efficient workflow from capture to print, saving time and hassle, and helping you to achieve professional-looking results in Photoshop CS4.
* Watch and learn, with more than 10 hours of movie tutorials on the accompanying DVD to support the practical projects - worth the cover price alone!

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Ebooks for Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques

By Ben Willmore, Dan Ablan
Publisher: Adobe Press, Pages: 480, Date: 2009-03-20

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0321613104

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will truly make a difference in how you use Photoshop every day. They'll take you from blindly following step-by-step instructions to an in-depth understanding of how Photoshop works, cutting through the fat to focus on what they consider to be Photoshop's essential features. This full-color book delivers the content in three easily digestible sections: Working Foundations, Production Essentials, and Creative Explorations. Streamlined for this new edition, the book will distill Photoshop's vast capabilities down to what you need to know for a full understanding of the program, while simultaneously focusing more directly on best practices for the photographer. Beginning with a quick "refresher course" on the working foundations of Photoshop, you'll move on to real-world production techniques. Finally, you'll get to fully explore Photoshop's creative potential by blending and enhancing images, creating collages, retouching photographs, colorizing, and working with filters and layer masks. By the time you finish this book, your creativity and efficiency levels will soar and you'll feel like you finally "get" Photoshop.

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The Beatles - Complete Scores [Music / Songbook]

by: The Beatles Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages: 1136, Date: 1993-06-01

ISBN / ASIN: 0793518326
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A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever?The Beatles! This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 213 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard notation and tablature.

Also includes a full discography. The book is packaged in its own protective box. A must-own for any serious Beatles fan or collector!


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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1: Book/CD Pack (Hal Leonard Guitar Method Books) (Bk. 1)

By Will Schmid, Greg Koch
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Pages: 48, Date: 1995-01-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0793533929
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Newly revised! The second edition of this world-famous method by Will Schmid and greg Koch is preferred by teachers because it makes them more effective while making their job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music education while letting them play songs right away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction including tuning, 1st position melody playing, C, G, G7, D7, and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Features a chord chart, and traditional songs like: Amazing Grace * Greensleeves * and When the Saints Go Marching In.

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Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods, 3rd Edition

By Michael Quinn Patton, Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Pages: 688, Date: 2001-10, ISBN-10: 0761919716

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"On dissertation proposals on which I have served, Patton is by far the most cited qualitative research text."
Ian Baptiste, Penn State University

The book that has been a resource and training tool for countless applied researchers, evaluators, and graduate students has been completely revised with hundreds of new examples and stories illuminating all aspects of qualitative inquiry. Patton has created the most comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date review of qualitative methods available.

"I am dazzled by the extent of the material that this book describes and clarifies. Patton has shifted the focus of the text to qualitative inquiry in general, which includes qualitative evaluation. New examples from his own work and that of others serve to clarify and deepen understanding of qualitative research topics and processes.

New discussion of many current issues and debates in qualitative scholarship (autoethnography, ethical issues of informed consent and confidentiality, focus group/group interviews, computer-assisted analysis, the complexity of creating criteria for judging the quality of qualitative research, etc.) will bring readers up-to-date with the variety in perspectives about (and the variety within) qualitative inquiry.

Most of the chapters in the book have been substantially reorganized in ways that augment the reader’s understanding. When anyone asks me about conducting qualitative inquiry, I will say: ‘Get Patton’s book’."

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PDF For Cloud Computing For Dummies

By Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, Fern Halper
Publisher: For Dummies Pages: 336, Date: 2009-11-16

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470484705, 3.9 MB | Zipped

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The easy way to understand and implement cloud computing technology written by a team of experts
Cloud computing can be difficult to understand at first, but the cost-saving possibilities are great and many companies are getting on board. If you've been put in charge of implementing cloud computing, this straightforward, plain-English guide clears up the confusion and helps you get your plan in place. You'll learn how cloud computing enables you to run a more green IT infrastructure, and access technology-enabled services from the Internet ("in the cloud") without having to understand, manage, or invest in the technology infrastructure that supports them. You'll also find out what you need to consider when implementing a plan, how to handle security issues, and more.

* Cloud computing is a way for businesses to take advantage of storage and virtual services through the Internet, saving money on infrastructure and support
* This book provides a clear definition of cloud computing from the utility computing standpoint and also addresses security concerns
* Offers practical guidance on delivering and managing cloud computing services effectively and efficiently
* Presents a proactive and pragmatic approach to implementing cloud computing in any organization
* Helps IT managers and staff understand the benefits and challenges of cloud computing, how to select a service, and what's involved in getting it up and running
* Highly experienced author team consults and gives presentations on emerging technologies
Cloud Computing For Dummies gets straight to the point, providing the practical information you need to know.

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Understanding English Grammar: A Course Book for Chinese Learners of English

By Tony T. N. Hung
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, Pages: 234,

Date: 2005-03-31, ISBN-10 / ASIN: 962209726X,
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This book aims to help learners of English (particularly those whose first language is Chinese) improve their understanding of, and their competence in, English grammar. It directly address the needs of Chinese learners and take full account of their first language in helping them understand how English works by systematically requiring them to think about grammar, and to come up with their own hypotheses about how it works on the basis of the given data.

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English for the Real World (ESL) (Book with Audio)

Living Language, 2004 | ISBN: 1400020875
224 pages, Audio CD | PDF, mp3 | 127 MB

English for the Real World includes book and CDs that work together to boost your conversational and listening skills. The book features realistic dialogues, thorough explanations of grammar that go beyond the basics, and vocabulary sections that include the most commonly used idiomatic expressions.

Plenty of exercises, both in the book and on the recordings, will help you improve your English, become more fluent, and get ahead on the job and everywhere else. Accomplish your real-life goals with English for the Real World.

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The History of English: A Student's Guide

 Ishtla Singh, Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
2005 | ISBN: 0340806958, 034080694X | 240 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its Indo-European beginnings to the present day.

The text looks at the major periods in the history of English, and provides for each a socio-historical context and an overview of the relevant major linguistic changes. This text is especially useful for students of literature as well as linguistics.

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Round-Up Grammar Practice Starter For Student and Teacher

Evans, Virginia, Longman | 2003
ISBN-10: 0582823498 | PDF | 17,5Mb

Round-Up is a seven-level series for young learners from beginner to upper intermediate. It combines games and fun with systematic practice of English grammar.
Colourful boxes and tables present language clearly
Lively, illustrated exercises and games make practice fun and effective
Pre-tests identify students' difficulties
Regular revision sections and progress tests consolidate language learning
CD-ROMs provide additional grammar practice and games
Teacher's Guide includes answer keys and extra photocopiable tests

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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition

By American Psychological Association
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA), Pages: 272

Date: 2009-07, ISBN-10: 1433805618, File PDF size 9.8 mb

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The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association" is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language.

Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, the Publication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication. The sixth edition offers new and expanded instruction on publication ethics, statistics, journal article reporting standards, electronic reference formats, and the construction of tables and figures.

The sixth edition has been revised and updated to include: new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, disguising of participants, validity of instrumentation, and making data available to others for verification; new journal article reporting standards to help readers report empirical research with clarity and precision; simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publication; updated guidelines for reducing bias in language to reflect current practices and preferences, including a new section on presenting historical language that is inappropriate by present standards; new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations; and, new instruction on using supplemental files containing lengthy data sets and other media.

This book includes significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for communicating the results of the investigation, with new examples for a variety of data displays, including electro physiological and biological data. It offers consolidated information on all aspects of reference citations, with an expanded discussion of electronic sources emphasizing the role of the digital object identifier (DOI) as a reliable way to locate information. It features expanded discussion of the publication process, including the function and process of peer review.

It contains a discussion of ethical, legal, and policy requirements in publication; and guidelines on working with the publisher while the article is in press. Key to this edition of the Publication Manual is an updated and expanded Web presence. Look up additional supplemental material keyed to this book. This book lets you test your knowledge of APA Style with a free tutorial on style basics. It lets you learn about the changes in the sixth edition with a free tutorial reviewing key revisions.

Sign up for an on-line course to enrich and enhance your understanding of APA Style. Read the APA Style blog and share your comments on writing and referencing. Consult frequently asked questions to sharpen your understanding of APA Style. This title lets you examine additional resources on such topics as ethics, statistics, and writing. It lets you familiarize yourself with submission standards for APA books and journals.

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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us | Daniel H. Pink

By Daniel H. Pink, Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Pages: 256, Publication Date: 2009-12-29

ISBN-10 : 1594488843

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Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. 

He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:

*Autonomy- the desire to direct our own lives
*Mastery- the urge to get better and better at something that matters
*Purpose- the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves

Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.

Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

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GRE eBooks | Psychology Test Practice Book

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* One actual full-length GRE Psychology Test

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Compare your practice test results with the performance of those who took the test at a GRE administration.
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Content of the Psychology Test
Most editions of the test consist of about 215 multiplechoice questions. Each question in the test has five options from which the examinee is to select the one option that is the correct or best answer to the question. Some of the stimulus materials, such as a description of an experiment or a graph, may serve as the basis for several questions.

The questions in the Psychology Test are drawn from courses of study most commonly offered at the undergraduate level within the broadly defined field of psychology. Questions may require recalling factual information, analyzing relationships, applying principles, drawing conclusions from data, evaluating a research design, and/or identifying a psychologist who has made a theoretical or research contribution to the field.

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Spoken from the Heart

Publisher: Scribner | ISBN: 1439155208 | 1 edition (May 4, 2010)
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“ Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades of unspoken grief.

When Laura Welch first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the country and at the dawn of the women's movement, she became an elementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained to be a librarian. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had last passed in the hallway in seventh grade.

Three months later, "the old maid of Midland married Midland's most eligible bachelor." With rare intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as she was thrust into one of America's most prominent political families, as well as her deep longing for children and her husband's decision to give up drinking. By 1993, she found herself in the full glare of the political spotlight. But just as her husband won the Texas governorship in a stunning upset victory, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in Midland.

In 2001, after one of the closest elections in American history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she captures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9/11, when fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent the family to an underground shelter.

She writes openly about the White House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of the first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations and tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop urban violence.

And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast schools and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she writes of her visits with U.S. troops and their loved ones, and of her empathy for and immense gratitude to military families.

With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress.

She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her sense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her heart make this story revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any other first lady's memoir ever written.

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Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies | Craig Kridel

By Craig Kridel, Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Pages: 1064, Date: 2010-02-16

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1412958830, PDF 8MB rar

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The study of curriculum, beginning in the early 20th century, first served the areas of school administration and teaching and was used to design and develop programs of study.

The field subsequently expanded and drew upon disciplines from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to examine larger educational forces and their effects upon the individual, society, and conceptions of knowledge.

Curriculum studies now embraces an array of academic scholarship in relation to personal and institutional needs and interests while it also focuses upon a diverse and complex dynamic among educational experiences, practices, settings, actions, and theories.

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DVD For Encyclopaedia Britannica 2010 Ultimate Edition

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Encyclopaedia Britannica 2010 Ultimate Edition DVD. For Student and Home Use. When you need the facts, turn to the 2010 Britannica Ultimate Reference DVD for trusted information written by Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors, and other noted authorities.

From the youngest student to the curious adult to the most advanced researcher, users of every level will find what they need.


Three age-appropriate encyclopedias; interactive tutorials in math, science, social studies, and other subjects; homework help; and other essential learning tools make it the most complete reference source available.

The 2010 Britannica Ultimate Reference DVD includes:
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
Access the world's most trusted and authoritative information, featuring over 75,000 articles from the 32-volume Encyclopжdia Britannica print set.
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Find information easily in over 15,800 entries that are tailored to school subjects.
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Instill a look-it-up habit that will stay with students in school and in life.
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Explore notable events in 11,000 articles covering science, politics, sports, and more from 1993 - 2008.
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A collection of useful homework resources including a video subject browse, online learning games and activities, online subject spotlights, and how-to documents on topics such as writing a book review.
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Hundreds of fun and interactive games and activities to help students with subjects like Math, Science, and Social Studies.
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Together, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® and Student Dictionaries and Thesauruses provide access to 405,000 definitions, synonyms and antonyms.
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The Art of Public Speaking, 10th Edition

By Stephen E. Lucas, Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Pages: 480, Date: 2008-10-31

ISBN-10 : 0073385158, PDF 12.8 MB

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By far the leading speech textbook of our time, The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than 10 million students and instructors. Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations of classical and contemporary theory and thorough coverage of practical applications.

The new edition offers a revolutionary digital experience--McGraw-Hill Connect Lucas and Connect Lucas Plus. The Connect Lucas products allow students and instructors to access all course materials including a complete media and research library, study aids and speech preparation and assessment tools from a single place, connectlucas.com.

With Connect Lucas, students use the traditional printed text. Specially marked icons in the text guide students to the media-rich, interactive features available at connectlucas.com.

Connect Lucas Plus allows students and instructors to access the fully-integrated, media-rich textbook from connectlucas.com. As students read the book online, linked icons guide them to embedded media-rich, interactive features.

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PDF | MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th Edition

By Modern Language Association
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America

Pages: 292, Date: 2009-03-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1603290249

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Widely adopted by universities, colleges, and secondary schools, the MLA Handbook gives step-by-step advice on every aspect of writing research papers, from selecting a topic to submitting the completed paper. For over half a century, the MLA Handbook is the guide millions of writers have relied on.

The seventh edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research and writing in the online environment. It provides an authoritative update of MLA documentation style for use in student writing, including simplified guidelines for citing works published on the Web and new recommendations for citing several kinds of works, such as digital files and graphic narratives.

Every copy of the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook comes with a code for accessing the accompanying Web site. New to this edition, the Web site provides

- the full text of the print volume of the MLA Handbook
- over two hundred additional examples
- several research-project narratives--stories, with sample papers, that illustrate the steps successful students take in researching and writing papers
- searching of the entire site, including the full text of the MLA Handbook
- continuous access throughout the life of the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook

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