iOS Game Development Developing Games for iPad iPhone and iPod Touch The book offers information about the iOS platform. It explains the use of OpenGL ES for 2D/3D graphics and OpenAL for sound both of which are recommended for game performance on the iOS platform. It covers new APIs such as the GLKit GameKit and Box2D Physics Engine. | iOS Game Development Developing Games for iPad iPhone and iPod Touch GBP 170.00 1
Pro Tools 11 Music Production Recording Editing and Mixing Hone your Pro Tools music production skills and create better tracks with Pro Tools 11: Music Production Recording Editing and Mixing. With Pro Tools 11 you’ll get more than descriptions of Pro Tools features and menus—this book grounds its Pro Tools instruction thoroughly in real-world music production. Learn to leverage this powerful DAW and bend it to your will whether you’re recording and mixing a band or producing a dance track. Get tips that will save you time even if you’re an old hand at Pro Tools. Extensive full-color screenshots visually guide you through the book and an informal writing style keeps you engaged. Includes coverage of additional features incorporated into version 10. 3. 6 which can be co-installed alongside Pro Tools 11 to allow use of TDM and RTAS plug-in formats. Author Mike Collins an independent music producer and music technology consultant who has worked with Pro Tools since 1991 gives you a frank view of the software without the hype. This book is carefully designed for users with basic music production experience or knowledge but can serve as a quick learning guide for ambitious beginners or as a reference for the advanced or professional user. Pro Tools 11 includes coverage of the application’s new features including: Avid Audio Engine Dynamic Host-based Plug-in Processing Low-latency Input Buffer Offline Bounce Unified Workspace Browser Advanced Metering for Pro Tools HD 11 Co-Install with Pro Tools 10. 3. 6 Level: Intermediate | Pro Tools 11 Music Production Recording Editing and Mixing GBP 130.00 1
Pro Tools for Music Production Recording Editing and Mixing Pro Tools for Music Production is a definitive guide to the system for new and professional users. Extensively illustrated in colour and packed with time saving hints and tips you will want to keep to hand as a constant source of information. The book takes a real-world approach and shows how to build the right system to suit your needs. Detailed chapters on recording editing and mixing blend essential knowledge with tutorials and practical examples from actual recordings. The second edition features a wealth of new and updated material including: � Pro Tools HD systems explained� Pro Tools 6. 1 software (and up to version 6. 2. 3)� Mac OSX installation and troubleshooting� A new chapter on MIDI� Additional and expanded tutorials� More on Identify Beat Beat Detective and tempo maps� Extra coverage of plug-ins and virtual instruments� How to use Propellerheads Reason and Ableton Live with Pro Tools� What you need to know about the new file management capabilities� How to transfer projects between Pro Tools and other MIDI and audio software and between Pro Tools TDM on the Mac and Pro Tools LE on the PCPro Tools for Music Production is a vital source of reference to keep by your side whether you are a working professional or a serious hobbyist looking for professional results. | Pro Tools for Music Production Recording Editing and Mixing GBP 170.00 1
Rendering with mental ray and 3ds Max Create stunning renders of your 3ds Max models in mental ray with this concise guide. Learn all of the essential concepts such as indirect illumination materials render options shaders and lighting. Rendering with mental ray and 3ds Max Second Edition is now revised to cover Autodesk Revit and special effects. The companion website includes all of the necessary project files from inside the book. GBP 175.00 1
Getting Started in 3D with 3ds Max Model Texture Rig Animate and Render in 3ds Max Learning a 3D visualization software is a daunting task under any circumstances and while it may be easy to find online tutorials that tell you what to do to perform certain tasks you'll seldom learn why you are performing the steps. This book approaches training from a top-down perspective way you will first learn important concepts of 3D visualization and functionality of 3ds Max before moving into the finer detail of the command structure. By learning how things work and why you might choose one method over another the book will not only teach you where the buttons are but more importantly how to think about the holistic process of 3D design so that you can then apply the lessons to your own needs. The goal of the learning presented here is to familiarize the new user of 3ds Max with a typical workflow from a production environment from planning to modeling materials and lighting and then applying special effects and compositing techniques for a finished product. | Getting Started in 3D with 3ds Max Model Texture Rig Animate and Render in 3ds Max GBP 175.00 1
Animating with Stop Motion Pro Animating with Stop Motion Pro is comprehensive hands-on guide to achieving professional results with Stop Motion Pro 7. 0 software. Gone are the days of stop motion guesswork and waiting to see the finalized result of your meticulous labor intensive animations. With the push of a mouse button and the Stop Motion Pro software animators have ten times the capability of simple camera stop motion capture. Re-visualize stop motion character movements graph these movements and composite characters into a flawless animations with the techniques and step by step tutorials featured in Animating with Stop Motion Pro. Create professional stop motion animation immediately with detailed exercises at the companion website: www. focalpress. com/cw/sawicki-9780240812199/. Integrate classic stop motion animation techniques with the latest stop motion software features. GBP 175.00 1
Logic Pro X Audio and Music Production From initial demos to mixing and mastering seasoned authors Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer show you how to get the most from Logic Pro X. By exploring the essential workflow and the creative possibilities offered by Logic’s virtual instruments and effects Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production leads you through the music creation and production process giving you all the tips and tricks used by the pros to create release-quality recordings. Using full color screenshots throughout alongside related boxouts that expand on the key concepts Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production is an informative and easy-to-read guide to using Logic Pro X. Key features include: Production FAQs – Instructional Walkthroughs and Knowledgebases present information clearly and answer common production–specific problems. Methods – Professional techniques for recording and editing in Logic Pro X – whether you’re dealing with real musicians or cutting-edge virtual instruments. Workflow – Use Logic Pro X’s tools and functions in an optimal way. Website – Access audio examples samples (Apple Loops) Logic projects sampler instruments and instrument patches at www. focalpress. com/cw/cousins Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production covers more than just the software; it will help you make the most out of every recording session and will illuminate and inspire your creative and sonic endeavors! | Logic Pro X Audio and Music Production GBP 145.00 1
Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray Photorealistic Visualization Create high-quality photorealistic renders of architectural visualizations using 3ds Max and Vray with the project-based tutorials in this book. Learn how to combine lighting and rendering options to end-up with the most realistic final renders possible at a professional level. The tutorials in this book are filled with beautiful full-color images and they teach you how to light both interiors and exteriors and daytime and nighttime scenes. Learn how to save time without sacrificing the quality of your final renders with tips and tricks on rendering with Vray - the most accurate rendering application for 3ds Max. The downloadable resources include all the project files that you need to recreate each of the projects presented within the book. Please note that this book does not support the current versions of 3ds Max and V-Ray. Topics include: | Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray Photorealistic Visualization GBP 175.00 1
The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow is the comprehensive roadmap to affordable postproduction workflow using Final Cut Pro Cinema Tools and Pro Tools. Illuminating workflow and the interrelationship of these software applications it also focuses on cost saving and efficiency aiding low-budget independent moviemakers as well as students trying to take their skills to the professional level. Author Dale Angell offers a practical guide to complete film postproduction workflow describing low-cost workflow that can be used for 35mm film High Definition digital video or DV/Red Camera. The Filmmaker's Guide to Final Cut Pro Workflow will help the independent filmmaker working on a tight budget:. Understand capturing picture when shooting on film or digital video . Finishing the project on either film or video . Audio edit workflows for both film and video . Comprehend NTSC and PAL video as well as modern digital video formats. Understand timecode and the file architecture in Final Cut Pro Cinema Tools and Pro Tools GBP 130.00 1
Logic Pro 9 Audio and Music Production From initial track laying through to mixing sound design and mastering Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth- Sawyer bring you Logic Pro 9. By Highlighting the relevant parts of each application they take you through every step of the music creation and production process giving you all the tips tutorials and tricks that pros use to create perfect recordings. The book has full color screen shots illustrating the tools functions and the new look of Logic Pro 9 and the companion website has audio samples and loops. Logic Pro 9 covers more than just the software it will help you make the most out of every recording session and will Illuminate and inspire you creative and sonic endeavors! | Logic Pro 9 Audio and Music Production GBP 145.00 1
The Last Romantic Life of Max Eastman Poet and Journalist Max Eastman is perhaps the most famous example of an American intellectual who during his life moved across the entire political spectrum. This reexamination of his career and his place in history reveals the dynamics behind his several careers and political transformations offering new insight into one of the most influential writers of this century. It is a model biography of a key intellectual of the twentieth century. It is also both a perspective social history of his times and a study in the history of ideas. The book will find a welcome place in history literature and political science courses as well as in personal libraries. | The Last Romantic Life of Max Eastman GBP 110.00 1
Pro Tools 9 Music Production Recording Editing and Mixing Prepare yourself to be a great producer when using Pro Tools in your studio. Pro Tools 9 for Music Production is the definitive guide to the software for new and professional users providing you with all the vital skills you need to know. Covering both the Pro Tools HD and LE this book is extensively illustrated in color and packed with time saving hints and tips it is a great reference to keep on hand as a constant source of information. Detailed chapters on the user interface the MIDI and scoring features recording editing signal processing and mixing blend essential knowledge with tutorials and practical examples from actual recordings. New and updated materials include:*Pro Tools 9 software described in detail*Details of the new functions and features of PT9 *Full color screen shots and equipment photos Pro Tools 9 for Music Production is a vital source of reference for the working professional or serious hobbyist looking for professional results. | Pro Tools 9 Music Production Recording Editing and Mixing GBP 145.00 1
Pro Tools for Film and Video This step-by-step guide for editing sound to picture using Pro Tools starts by explaining the Pro Tools systems and covers all key audio topics including equipment sound music effects output and mixing tools to give users the skills needed to work on any project from big budget feature film to amateur DV video in mono stereo or surround sound. Clearly set out and thorough in coverage the book takes a practical real world approach a live 35mm film project runs through the chapters illustrating how different functions are added to a film providing the real detail of how to apply it to an edit. Extensively illustrated in color and packed with time-saving hints and tips the companion website http://www. focalpress. com/cw/angell-9780240520773/ . contains the various Pro Tools sessions of the project film as it moves through audio editing ADR mixing and final 35mm release prints. | Pro Tools for Film and Video GBP 175.00 1
Max Weber A Biography A founder of contemporary social science Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism The Economic Ethics of the World Religions and his magnum opus Economy and Society with its treatment of the relations of economics politics law and religion belong to the great achievements of 20th-century social science. The groundwork for the posthumous Weber reception was laid by Weber's widow Marianne a well-known feminist writer who followed up her edition of his collected works with one of the greatest biographies in a generation that produced many important accounts of itself. Although unavailable in English until a decade ago the importance of Marianne Weber's 1926 work had been widely understood. Sociologist Robert A. Nisbet called it a moving and deeply felt biographical memoir. Historian Gerhard Masur cited the book as the foundation of all further inquiries into Max Weber's life and influence. Beginning with Max's ancestry and early years Marianne Weber guides us through his life as student young lawyer scholar and political writer quoting liberally from his voluminous correspondence. Her account of his nervous breakdown after 1897 which curtailed his academic career but ultimately strengthened his creative energies provides deep insight into some of the personal tensions that troubled him to the end. In addition to her perceptive personal and intellectual life before the First World War describing many scholars social reformers politicians and literary figures within and beyond the famous Heidelberg circle of the Webers. The new introduction by Guenther Roth situates Marianne Weber's own role in the contemporary setting and discusses the current state of Weber research and of the international Weber reception. | Max Weber A Biography GBP 130.00 1
Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop Master the Vegas Pro 8 toolset including its industry-leading HD and audio capabilities. This comprehensive guide delivers the nuts and bolts of the essential tasks from installing the application to outputting together with practical editing techniques and real-world examples for working more efficiently. Packed with all the necessary materials including video footage sequences and detailed instructions this book and downloadable resources combo gives you a working knowledge of Vegas Pro 8. Better expert advice simply can't be found. Key features include:* Capturing video including HD HDV XDCAM and AVCHD* Using editing tools transitions filters and third-party plug-ins* Multicam production and editing* Color correction titling and compositing* Recording and editing audio; using audio plug-ins* Creating and using Media Manager databases* Web video workflow* 24p HDCAM/DVCAM workflow for the independent filmmaker | Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop GBP 175.00 1
Realistic Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray Revitalize your architectural visualizations by bringing new levels of realism to them with an enhanced command of the mental ray toolset in 3ds Max. Full-color step-by-step tutorials give you a firm understanding of the processes and techniques needed to create impressive interior and exterior visualizations. You'll learn how to prepare materials light a daytime interior scene use mr Physical Sky and how to save time during complex renders. The companion website includes all of the tutorial files and sample files from the book. Plus find more information at http://jamiecardoso-mentalray. blogspot. com/. | Realistic Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray GBP 175.00 1
Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap Updates and addendum for the new version of FCPX (10. 0. 3) are available on the companion website fcpxbook. com. Are you an iMovie or Final Cut Express user ready to make the jump to Final Cut Pro? If so look no further. Take your movies to the next level with this easy-to-follow hand-on guide from one of the preeminent Apple trainers in the world today. Author Tom Wolsky starts with the basics of Final Cut Pro X allowing you to easily make the leap from Final Cut Express or iMovie then gradually introduces you to more complex techniques with step-by-step tutorials. Tom specifically shows you how certain techniques and concepts you utilized in iMovie and Final Cut Express translate to Final Cut Pro. More than a button-pushing manual this editing workshop gives your firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing with Final Cut Pro. It includes in-depth information on the application's features interface elements and tools. You will develop a working knowledge of the principles and methods taught in film schools with tutorials that covers the essentials: . Nuances of system set-up to ensure smooth operation . Getting your tape-based and file-based AVCHD and DSLR media into Final Cut Pro and getting it organized . Editing to build and trim a sequence of shots. Working with audio split edits back-timing and level control . Adding transitions. Final Cut Pro titling tools. Color correction image animation and special effects . Compositing to enhance your projects . Outputting your material | Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap GBP 145.00 1
Digital Audio Editing Correcting and Enhancing Audio in Pro Tools Logic Pro Cubase and Studio One Whether you‘re comping a vocal track restoring an old recording working with dialogue or sound effects for film or imposing your own vision with mash-ups or remixes audio editing is a key skill to successful sound production. Digital Audio Editing gives you the techniques from the simplest corrective editing like cutting copying and pasting to more complex creative editing such as beat mapping and time-stretching. You‘ll be able to avoid unnatural-sounding pitch correction and understand the potential pitfalls you face when restoring classic tracks. Author Simon Langford invites you to see editing with his wide-angle view putting this skill into a broad context that will inform your choices even as you more skillfully manipulate sound. Focusing on techniques applicable to any digital audio workstation it includes break-outs giving specific keystrokes and instruction in Avids Pro Tools Apple‘s Logic Pro Steinberg‘s Cubase and PreSonus‘s Studio One. The companion websites includes tutorials in all four software packages to help you immediately apply the broad skills from the book. | Digital Audio Editing Correcting and Enhancing Audio in Pro Tools Logic Pro Cubase and Studio One GBP 175.00 1
Game Art Complete All-in-One: Learn Maya 3ds Max ZBrush and Photoshop Winning Techniques A compilation of key chapters from the top Focal game art books available today - in the areas of Max Maya Photoshop and ZBrush. The chapters provide the CG Artist with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that every 3D artist needs to create stunning game art. Game artists will be able to master the modeling rendering rigging and texturing techniques they need - with advice from Focal's best and brightest authors. Artists can learn hundreds of tips tricks and shortcuts in Max Maya Photoshop ZBrush - all within the covers of one complete inspiring reference. | Game Art Complete All-in-One: Learn Maya 3ds Max ZBrush and Photoshop Winning Techniques GBP 175.00 1
Final Cut Pro Workflows The Independent Studio Handbook Today's digital production tools empower the small team to produce multimedia projects that formerly required large teams. Orchestrating a production requires more than proficiency with the postproduction tools. Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook offers a cookbook of postproduction workflows that teams can follow to deliver an array of products to their clients. It describes appropriate postproduction workflows team roles and responsibilities and required equipment for some of the most common media productions. Combining the wisdom of traditional roles and responsibilities with an understanding of how FCP facilitates a new flexibility where these roles/responsibilities can be redistributed this book sheds light on workflow processes and responsibilities and includes 7 real-world workflows from a diverse range of projects: Money-Saving Digital Video Archive Long-Form Documentary with Mixed Sources Web-Based Viewing and Ordering System 30-Second Spot for Broadcast Multi-Part TV Series with Multiple Editors DVD Educational Supplement Music Video with Multi-Cam Editing and Multiple OutputsWritten with a unique iconography to better convey key points and applicable to all levels of FCP users Final Cut Pro Workflows: The Independent Studio Handbook is a vital reference tool for every postproduction house. The DVD files are also available at http://www. taylorandfrancis. com/cw/osder-9780240810058/. | Final Cut Pro Workflows The Independent Studio Handbook GBP 175.00 1
Pro Tools LE and M-Powered The complete guide Pro Tools LE and M-Powered is an authoritative guide to Digidesign's entry-level hardware and software systems. Illustrated throughout with color screen grabs the book starts by giving you useful overviews and advice about the hardware options available. Subsequent chapters are packed with easy-to-follow instructions valuable hints and time-saving tips on how to use the software. Includes:* Full coverage of all new features in version 7* Information on tempos clicks and grooves* Two chapters on MIDI* Useful tutorials on using Reason Live and SampleTank* Recommendations on backups and transfers* Guidance on the DV Toolkit for post productionFor troubleshooting technical problems advice on purchasing decisions or inspiration for new ideas keep this book by your side as a vital reference point. | Pro Tools LE and M-Powered The complete guide GBP 130.00 1
The MRCGP Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) Workbook This book is a guide to excellence in Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners clinical skills assessment (CSA). It includes 3 circuits of 13 cases each. Each circuit includes the variety of cases the readers would expect in the actual exam to comply with the CSA blueprint. | The MRCGP Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) Workbook GBP 140.00 1
Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe Fourteenth-Nineteenth Centuries The historiography of death memory and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions. For East-Central Europe there are many short studies in various regional languages mainly on anthropological/ethnographic aspects of the funeral rituals. This is an edited collection of studies by international scholars on the interlocking themes of attitudes and discourses on death commemorative practices and inheritance/testamentary strategies in the Balkans and East-Central Europe. These and other related themes are addressed comparatively and cover areas including Albania Bulgaria Romania Greece and areas of the former Yugoslavia Hungary and Austria from the perspective of imperial – Ottoman and Habsburg – legacies. Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe contributes to this subject by: linking anthropological/religious/cultural approaches to death to the legal/economic aspects of inheritance/commemoration; adding a still absent East-Central European and Habsburg Balkan and Ottoman dimension to the study of death memorialization and testaments; and presenting an abundant primary and secondary material in English translation and thus placing research on death and testaments by East-Central and Greek scholars within the international scholarly circuit. | Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe Fourteenth-Nineteenth Centuries GBP 130.00 1
Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups 2006-13 In the 1960s only 10% of peace agreements included some element of political-military accommodation – namely military integration. From Burundi to Bosnia to Zimbabwe that number had increased to over 50% by the 2000s. However relatively little is understood about this dimension of power-sharing often utilized during war-to-peace transitions. Through an examination of the case of South Sudan between 2006 and 2013 this book explores why countries undergoing transitions from war to peace decide to integrate armed groups into a statutory security framework. This book details how integration contributed to short-term stability in South Sudan allowing the government to overcome wartime factionalism and consolidate political-military power prior to the referendum on self-determination in 2011. It also examines how the integration process in South Sudan was flawed by its open-ended nature and lack of coordination with efforts to right-size the military and transform the broader defense sector and how this led the military to fragment during periods of heightened political competition. Furthermore the book explains why integration ultimately failed in South Sudan and identifies the wider lessons that could be applied to current or future war-to-peace transitions. This book will be of great interest to students of war and conflict studies peacebuilding post-conflict reconstruction African security issues and International Relations in general as well as to practitioners. | Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups 2006-13 GBP 130.00 1
Mission Money and Authority Part Two Journal of Museum Education 35:3 Thematic Issue Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable | Mission Money and Authority Part Two Journal of Museum Education 35:3 Thematic Issue GBP 175.00 1