Description: It's no mystery why InDesign has become the premier page layout program: It offers great tools-not least among them its sophisticated typographic controls. Here to show you how to take advantage of them is the first book devoted solely to that topic. Whether you're a graphics pros migrating from InDesign's long-entrenched competitor QuarkXPress or a hobbyists producing fancy invites and book-length projects, you'll appreciate this guide's finely tuned focus on everything typographic. Realizing that to take full advantage of InDesign's typographic tools, you must understand the principles guiding their use, author Nigel French addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using practical examples, and loads of tips, Nigel provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning, and its support for OpenType fonts. Starting with character formats and then moving through paragraph formats, styles and effects, and layouts, you'll have gained all the skills they need to produce beautiful type by the end of the volume.

Description: Image and video segmentation is one of the most critical tasks of image and video analysis: extracting information from an image or a sequence of images. In the last 40 years, this field has experienced significant growth and development, and has resulted in a virtual explosion of published information. Advances in Image and Video Segmentation brings together the latest results from researchers involved in state-of-the-art work in image and video segmentation, providing a collection of modern works made by more than 50 experts around the world.

Description: Develop the skills you need in the real world

Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at network administration, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of network administration, including:
* Designing a network
* Implementing and configuring networks
* Maintaining and securing networks
* Troubleshooting a network

Title: Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology
ISBN: 3-54-001218-4
No. Pages: 1347
Author/Editor: Edited by: Bhushan, Bharat

Description: 400 nudes--and the lighting setups that make them look so good

* A best-seller, available for the first time in paperback!
* Side- and plan-view diagrams of the lighting setup for each shot
* Includes a directory of photographers, valuable for art directors and designers

Available for the first time in paperback, the top-selling Lighting the Nude reveals the lighting secrets of the top photographers working today. It showcases more than 400 images of the nude, in a wide variety of styles. Each photograph is accompanied by detailed lighting diagrams and an explanation of what makes the shot work. Both beginners in this branch of photography and seasoned pros will find plenty of inspiring lighting ideas and practical guidance. Lighting the Nude is an essential reference for every studio photographer??�s bookshelf.

Description: Newly expanded and thoroughly revised to reflect and meet the demands of a high-velocity global business environment, the Fourth Edition of this popular book and its companion CD-ROM are highly accessible, self-contained desktop references developed to be informative, practical, and easy to use. They help small and mid-sized businesses as well as non-profit organizations and public-sector agencies to achieve effective, efficient, and disciplined business development, proposal development, and knowledge management (KM) processes.
Among an extensive array of updates and new material, the fourth edition??�
?� Introduces storytelling as a proposal art, along with solution development;
?� Emphasizes the value of front-end proposal planning and storyboarding (including elevator speeches, annotated outlines, and pain tables);
?� Underlines the importance of focusing on the customer mission in proposals;
?� Significantly expands the discussion of performance-based acquisition (PBA) and the latest U.S. Government procurement reforms and what they mean for small businesses; and
?� Discusses the development of successful grant proposals for the first time in this volume.

Description: "Incorporate Your Business lays out everything you need to know about corporate laws and regulations in your state, clearly explaining: why and when to incorporate what you need to know about corporate taxation whether to elect S corporation tax status how to incorporate an existing business Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself -- Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including: Limited Liability Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts -- this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments. Tax Advantages You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes. Access to Capital Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public. Employee Perks The owners of a corporation who work for the business are treated as employees. They can take advantage of tax-deductible, corporate-paid benefits such as: pension plans stock-option and stock bonus plans medical expense reimbursement term life insurance coverage and more Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions. The 2nd edition includes a special supplement about the latest federal tax changes that benefit small and large corporations. It also provides the latest corporate laws, rules and procedures for each state. "