Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment
Publisher: Focal Press | ISBN: 0240805100 | edition 2004 | PDF | 472 pages | 14,1 mb
The first professional book to explore and analyze digital storytelling across interactive media and genresthis book examines how digital storytelling draws on classic narrative techniques and utilizes interactive digital technologies to create todays entertainment. Digital Storytelling explains key strategies for conveying narrative through digital technologies, based on personal experience and numerous case studies, providing project managers, interactive content designers, and writers with the tools necessary for planning a successful interactive project, including ideas for product development and conceptualization.
Detailed planning processes for all types of interactive projects are discussed, including videogames, massively multiplayer online games, the Internet, interactive TV, cross-media productions, smart toys, virtual reality, immersive environments, wireless devices, kiosks, and DVDs. The book also covers topics such as: structure, characters and emotions; tackling projects for children; finding work and staying employed; and more.

Николай Якубович. Истребители Лавочкина. Сломавшие хребет Люфтваффе
Яуза/Эксмо | 2008 | ISBN: 5699272884 | Russian | 210*2 Pages | PDF | 106,8 MB
Самолеты Героя Социалистического Труда Семена Алексеевича Лавочкина составляли костяк советской истребительной авиации на протяжении всей Великой Отечественной войны. И хотя ЛаГГ-3 был, мягко говоря, далек от совершенства, - именно "лаггам" пришлось сдерживать яростный натиск немецкой авиации в первые, самые трудные военные годы. С.А.Лавочкин сделал из первых неудач верные выводы. Установка нового мотора и усовершенствование конструкции буквально преобразили тяжелый и неповоротливый "лагг", превратив его в один из лучших самолетов Великой Отечественной. Новые истребители Ла-5, Ла-5ФН и Ла-7 сначала перехватили у немцев господство в воздухе, а затем и сломали хребет Люфтваффе. Еще до окончания войны КБ Лавочкина переключилось на разработку реактивных самолетов, которые первыми в стране преодолели звуковой барьер. Однако с середины 50-х годов КБ прекратило разработки в области авиации и полностью переориентировалось на космическую отрасль. И хотя в наши дни самолеты С.А.Лавочкина можно увидеть только в музеях, вклад великого конструктора в развитие авиации невозможно переоценить.
В данной книге впервые собрана информация обо всех проектах КБ Лавочкина, их рождении, истории производства и боевого применения.

Biochemistry
Publisher: Brooks Cole | ISBN: 0495119121 | edition 2006 | PDF | 851 pages | 25,2 mb
In Biochemistry, the questions often are more exhilarating than the answers. This Updated Third Edition continues the unique conceptual and organizing framework, "Essential Questions." Guiding students through the density of the material by the use of section head questions, supporting concept statements, and summaries, this focused approach is supported by unparalleled text/media integration through BiochemistryNow, providing students with a seamless learning system. Beautifully and consistently illustrated, this text gives science majors the most current presentation of biochemistry available. Written by a chemist and a biologist, the book presents biochemistry from balanced perspectives. This Updated Edition includes "Emerging Insights into Biochemistry" at the end of each chapter, which present students with the latest advances in biochemical research. The Updated Edition also is enhanced by the power of the online assessment-centered learning tool, BiochemistryNow. This powerful online learning companion helps students gauge their unique study needs and provides them with a Personalized Learning plan that enhances their problem-solving skills and conceptual understanding.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots Real World Training
Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0764588222 | edition 2007 | PDF | 747 pages | 40,7 mb
Get ready to take flight as two certified flight instructors guide you through the pilot ratings as it is done in the real world, starting with Sport Pilot training, then Private Pilot, followed by the Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, and Air Transport Pilot. They cover the skills of flight, how to master Flight Simulator, and how to use the software as a learning tool towards your pilot’s license. More advanced topics demonstrate how Flight Simulator X can be used as a continuing learning tool and how to simulate real-world emergencies.

Dubois' Lupus Erythematosus
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | ISBN: 0781793947 | edition 2006 | CHM | 1440 pages | 41,6 mb
Established for forty years as the definitive reference on lupus, Dubois' Lupus Erythematosus is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Seventh Edition. More than ninety distinguished contributing authors--twenty of them new to this edition--provide comprehensive coverage of every aspect of cutaneous and systemic lupus erythematosus, including definitions, pathogenesis, autoantibodies, clinical and laboratory features, management, prognosis, and patient education. This edition focuses on evidence-based findings, treatment consensuses, and practical clinical information. New chapters cover cytokines and interferons, pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, immune tolerance, clinical indices in assessment of lupus, mixed connective tissue disease, reproductive issues, fibromyalgia, gender-related issues, and biomarkers.

Encyclopedic Reference of Cancer
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540665277 | edition 2001 | PDF | 1017 pages | 12,6 mb
This comprehensive encyclopedic reference provides rapid access to focused information on topics of cancer research for clinicians, research scientists and advanced students.With an A-Z format of about 2000 entries, over 220 contributing authors provide a complete reference to cancer. The merging of different basic and clinical scientific disciplines towards the common goal of fighting cancer makes such a comprehensive reference source all the more necessary, providing definitions of common acronyms and short definitions of related terms and processes in the form of keyword entries. In addition to the keyword entries, there are detailed entries termed essays, which provide comprehensive information on syndromes, genes and molecules, and processes and methods. Each essay is well-structured, with extensive cross-referencing between all entries.

Anatomy for Fantasy Artists: An Illustrator's Guide to Creating Action Figures and Fantastical Forms
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series | ISBN: 0764129503 | edition 2005 | PDF | 129 pages | 80,3 mb
Here in a single volume is a practical, comprehensive training course for budding illustrators working to master comic book art, graphic novels, fantasy posters, sci-fi book covers and illustrations, and computer games. The author, a highly successful fantasy artist, teaches the basics of human anatomical drawing and musculature, as well as perspective and composition. He then instructs on ways to distort, develop, and transform the human figure, giving it features that range from monstrous or magical to super-agile or larger than life. Detailed artist’s references and step-by-step instructions show how to build bodies that truly stretch the imagination—mighty alien warriors, kick-boxing cyber-punks, and mega-muscled superheroes, to name just a few. Art students also learn how to show their characters in many different dynamic action poses, such as flying, spinning, punching, and jumping, as well as how to express each character’s emotions through facial expressions. More than 300 color illustrations.

Artificial Life: An Overview
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262121891 | edition 1995 | PDF | 344 pages | 13,4 mb
Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of the groundbreaking journal Artificial Life, along with a new introduction by Christopher Langton, Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Life, founder of the discipline, and Director of the Artificial Life Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0470847034 | edition 2003 | PDF | 302 pages | 12,7 mb
This is the eighteenth in the most prestigious series of annual volumes in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The series provides authoritative and integrative reviews of the key literature of industrial psychology and organizational behaviour. The chapters are written by established experts and topics are carefully chosen to reflect the major concerns in the research literature and in current practice.
Specific issues covered in this volume reflect the growth and complexity of the organizational psychology field. For example: Implicit Knowledge and Experience in Work and Organizations, Flexible Working Arrangements, Research on Internet Recruiting and Testing, Economic Psychology, Workaholism, and a review of Ethnic Group Differences and Measuring Cognitive Ability. Each chapter offers a comprehensive and critical survey of a chosen topic, and each is supported by a valuable bibliography. For advanced students, academics, and researchers, as well as professional psychologists and managers, this remains the most authoritative and current guide to developments and established knowledge in the field of industrial and organizational psychology.

Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom
Publisher: Sams | ISBN: 0672328607 | edition 2006 | CHM | 288 pages | 6,2 mb
Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom is an easy-to-follow, tutorial approach to using Paint Shop Pro in exactly the way home users want to use it - to manipulate your own images in ways that a local photo lab often does to create both practical and comical projects. As you read, you will actually use the program to complete a variety of projects. You'll learn about key Paint Shop Pro tools almost without trying through both traditional and contemporary projects.
Indulge in shrinking the kids, performing digital plastic surgery, modifying vehicles, creating creatures the tabloids would love to profile, altering pets, creating trading cards and calendars, and combining images to create once-in-a-lifetime shots. Drop people into places they've never been and challenge Mother Nature with unique perspectives. Create holiday magic, photo montages, and even do some traditional photo manipulation. Author T. Michael Clark provides careful instruction that will allow you, whether you are a novice or experienced Paint Shop Pro user, to complete projects and enjoy your experience with Paint Shop Pro X.

Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | ISBN: 0781785006 | edition 2006 | CHM | 192 pages | 10,6 mb
Based on Dr. Driscoll's thirty years of successful bedside teaching at the Mayo Clinic, Fundamentals of Pediatric Cardiology is the ideal textbook for residents in pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric and adult cardiology. This concise, well-organized, and easy-to-understand text can be read cover-to-cover during a pediatric cardiology rotation and focuses sharply on what primary care physicians need to know for initial evaluation and management of patients. Dr. Driscoll explains the many types of congenital heart defects, focusing on the most frequent cardiac problems in infants, children, and adolescents. Emphasis is on use of new diagnostic tools in conjunction with the physical examination.

Grover Park George On Access: Unleash the Power of Access
Publisher: Holy Macro! Books | ISBN: 0972425896 | edition 2004 | PDF | 397 pages | 20,4 mb
A textbook and study guide for new and intermediate Microsoft Access users, this book takes Access developers through the development process step by step. Terms and concepts are explained as they arise and relevant examples are provided to keep users on track and to teach them how to the use the appropriate Access features in the same context in which they will use them in their own work. Users are guided through the process of creating a working database from the first step (defining the business problem it is intended to solve) through the last (deploying the application into an organization and providing ongoing support to users). Also included are case studies that provide practical guidelines for situations Access users might find themselves in.

Richard J. Lewis, "Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Fifteenth Edition"
Wiley-Interscience | 2007 | ISBN: 0471768650 | 1400 pages | PDF | 10,8 MB

Dynamics of Crowd-Minds: Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs And Actions
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company | ISBN: 9812562869 | edition 2005 | PDF | 264 pages | 11,7 mb
A crowd-mind emerges when formation of a crowd causes fusion of individual minds into one collective mind. Members of the crowd lose their individuality. The deindividuation leads to derationalization: emotional, impulsive and irrational behavior, self-catalytic activities, memory impairment, perceptual distortion, hyper-responsiveness, and distortion of traditional forms and structures. This book presents unique results of computational studies on cognitive and affective space-time processes in large-scale collectives of abstract agents being far from mental equilibrium. Computational experiments demonstrate that the irrational and nonsensical behavior of individual entities of crowd-mind results in complex, rich and non-trivial spatio-temporal dynamics of the agent collectives. Mathematical methods employ theory and techniques of cellular-automata and lattice swarms, applied algebra, theory of finite automata and Markov chains, and elementary differential equations.

Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals
Publisher: The MIT Press | ISBN: 0262240459 | edition 2003 | CHM | 688 pages | 7,3 mb
As pop culture, games are as important as film or television--but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games.. Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like "play," "design," and "interactivity." They look at games through a series of eighteen "game design schemas," or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance. Written for game scholars, game developers, and interactive designers, Rules of Play is a textbook, reference book, and theoretical guide. It is the first comprehensive attempt to establish a solid theoretical framework for the emerging discipline of game design.

Cisco Internetworking with Windows NT & 2000
Publisher: Osborne Publishing | ISBN: 0072120835 | edition 2000 | PDF | 459 pages | 15,9 mb
Guide to using Cisco hardware and software in a Microsoft environment With the announced Cisco/Microsoft partnership, just about all NT administrators will need a working knowledge of Cisco products and technologies. You'll find that know-how in Cisco Internetworking with Windows NT & 2000, by Anthony Velte, Toby Velte, and Amy Hanson. After an introduction to Windows 2000, Active Directory, and Cisco's Directory Enabled Network Initiative, you get clear direction for: *Building a Cisco Network with Windows 2000, step-by-step directions for configuring each of Cisco's major hardware devices: routers, switches, and hubs *Managing a Cisco/Windows Networks, how to work with Windows- based Microsoft and Cisco tools to configure and manage a network *Intranet/Extranet Strategies, a probing look at more advanced topics Valuable appendices put at your fingertips a router configuration flow chart...a protocol map for the TCP/IP suite...a reference for certification tracks...and helpful Cisco and Microsoft resources you can tap.

Why We Feel
Publisher: Basic Books | ISBN: 0738203165 | edition 2000 | PDF | 221 pages | 20,7 mb
How did feelings evolve? How do they develop within us? What is their function, their use to us? How does our nervous system implement them?
These four questions, posed in somewhat different form by the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko Tinbergen, propel psychologist Victor Johnston's well-crafted examination of human emotions. Drawing on recent advances in psychology, biology, and the cognitive sciences, he looks into such matters as the role of the emotions in psychological well-being ("the failure to develop an early emotional bond with a single caretaker leads to slow development, withdrawal, depression, and a variety of later developing social problems") and the adaptive advantages--or, at times, disadvantages--of such deep-seated inner feelings as envy and joy. Where earlier scientists were much given to exploring the emotions as responses to external stimuli, Johnston shows that "input from the external world is really not necessary for conscious experiences to occur," as experiments in dreams, sensory deprivation, and hallucinations have shown. Instead, he considers the rich inner world of the emotions as a problem of evolutionary theory, a matter of adaptation and response that favors the survival of genes. Johnston's overview of the science of emotions makes for consistently interesting reading, and it points the way to further research.

Frank H. Netter
Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy 3.0 (Netter Basic Science) (CD-ROM)
Saunders | 2002 | ISBN: 1929007140 | ISO | 509 Mb
This robust, interactive atlas includes hundreds of Netter illustrations and images, as well as audio pronunciations for every label, image title and image subtitle see it, say it, learn it! Great for initial learning, study, and exam review! Netter's Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy, v3.0 provides the depth, accuracy and detail required to create powerful and effective classroom presentations! Also available for institutional license.