Hollywood's America: Understanding History Through Film

Mastering Digital 2D and 3D Art

Course Technology PTR, 2004

The very first artist probably used a stick to create the first drawing. Although sticks are great tools for many purposes, they are somewhat limited in their versatility as an art tool. From that early time until today, artists have searched to find better tools and media to create their art. This search has taken artists through cave paintings,...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane

Oxford University Press, 2000

"Dr. Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his wisdom...not only displays a deeply sympathetic interest in those esoteric doctrines so characteristic of the genius of the East, but likewise possesses the rare faculty of making them more or less intelligible to the layman."--Anthropology...

Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays (Human-Computer Interaction Series)

Springer, 2010

This book is an attempt to bring together current research in the domain of interactive horizontal displays. The book integrates and summarises findings from the most important international tabletop research teams. It provides a state-of-the-art overview and allows for the discussion of emerging and future directions in research and...

Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

O'Reilly, 2014

Design and build Web APIs for a broad range of clients—including browsers and mobile devices—that can adapt to change over time. This practical, hands-on guide takes you through the theory and tools you need to build evolvable HTTP services with Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API framework. In the process, you’ll...

C Primer Plus (4th Edition)

Sams Publishing, 2001

As with all the editions, author Stephen Prata's aim has been to create an introduction to C that is instructive, clear, and helpful. Programming concepts are explained along with details of the C language; the book does not assume that you are a professional programmer. Many short, easily typed examples illustrate just one or two concepts at a...

Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Morgan Kaufmann, 2001

Mainstream data mining techniques significantly limit the role of human reasoning and insight. Likewise, in data visualization, the role of computational analysis is relatively small. The power demonstrated individually by these approaches to knowledge discovery suggests that somehow uniting the two could lead to increased efficiency and more...