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41. |  Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web By: Tim Kadlec Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 31-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web New devices and platforms emerge daily.
Browsers iterate at a remarkable pace. Faced with this volatile
landscape we can either struggle for control or we can embrace the
inherent flexibility of the web.
Responsive design is not just another
technique–it is the beginning of the maturation of a medium
and a fundamental shift in the way we think about the web.
Implementing Responsive Design is a
practical examination of how this fundamental shift affects the way
we design and build our sites. Readers will learn how to:
Build responsive sites using a combination of fluid layouts,
media...
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42. |  100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People By: Susan Weinschenk Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 04-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 11-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People Every day around the world millions of presentations are given,
with millions of decisions hanging in the balance as a result. Do
you know the science behind giving a powerful and persuasive
presentation? This book reveals what you need to know about how
people listen, how people decide, and how people react so that you
can learn to create more engaging presentations. No matter what
your current skill level, whether beginner or polished, this book
will guide you to the next level, teaching you how to improve your
delivery, stance, eye contact, voice, materials, media, message,
and call to...
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43. |  Exposed: Inside the Life and Images of a Pro Photographer By: Michael Clark Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 27-APR-2012 Insert Date: 09-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Exposed: Inside the Life and Images of a Pro Photographer Photographer Michael Clark provides an inside look at the
reality of working in extreme conditions to capture and process his
breath-taking images. He offers start-to-finish details of some of
his most demanding assignments – rock climbing, big wave
surfing, sky diving, and mountain biking – sharing his
personal shooting expertise, on-the-fly problem solving skills, and
photography post-processing techniques in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
and Adobe Photoshop (including Lightroom 4 and Photoshop
CS6).
This gorgeous guide for intermediate to advanced DSLR shooters is
packed with practical...
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44. |  Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design By: Ernest Adams; Joris Dormans Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 15-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 27-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design This in-depth resource teaches you to craft mechanics that
generate challenging, enjoyable, and well-balanced gameplay.
You’ll discover at what stages to prototype, test, and
implement mechanics in games and learn how to visualize and
simulate game mechanics in order to design better games. Along the
way, you’ll practice what you’ve learned with hands-on
lessons. A free downloadable simulation tool developed by Joris
Dormans is also available in order to follow along with exercises
in the book in an easy-to-use graphical environment.
In Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design, you’ll learn...
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45. |  Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process By: Nancy Lyons; Meghan Wilker Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 12-APR-2012 Insert Date: 19-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process As an industry, interactive is different. The work entails
elements of software development, marketing, and advertising, yet
it’s neither purely technical nor traditional
“agency” work. Delivery methods are different, and
because the industry is relatively new, the gap in understanding
between the clients buying the work and the teams building it is
often wide. Enter the geek girls guide. Nancy Lyons and Meghan
Wilker don’t just tell you how to deliver digital work, they
demonstrate how to think about it.
Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process helps
clients, agencies,...
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46. |  Seattle 100: Portrait of a City By: Chase Jarvis Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 24-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 05-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Seattle 100: Portrait of a City Seattle 100: Portrait of a City is the culmination of a
two-year personal project by renowned photographer, filmmaker, and
social artist Chase Jarvis. Both a creative project and an
insightful ethnography, Seattle 100 shares—via more
than 300 stunning black-and-white portraits and biographies of each
subject—a curated collection of leading artists, musicians,
writers, scientists, restaurateurs, DJs, developers, activists,
entrepreneurs, filmmakers, and more, all of whom are defining and
driving culture in Seattle. Some faces you will know, other names
you may have heard in passing, and others...
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47. |  By: Matthew Omernick Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-MAR-2004 Insert Date: 05-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Creating the Art of the Game The key word here is art: the dynamic 3D art that defines the
world of computer games. This book teaches you everything you need
to know about the planning, modeling, texturing, lighting, effects
creation, and interface design that go into creating today's most
advanced and stunning video games. You'll be learning from a
master-veteran 3D artist and instructor Matthew Omernick-as you
progress through the carefully chosen, software-agnostic tutorials
that make up this beautiful, full-color volume. The end result will
be skills you can apply to whatever 3D tool you choose and whatever
wildly...
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48. |  By: Russ Unger; Carolyn Chandler Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 09-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 30-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful
and usable Web site or application that’s easily navigated
and meets the needs of the site owner and its users. There’s
a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the latest Web
technologies or design trends: It takes diplomacy, management
skills, and business savvy. That’s where the updated edition
of this important book comes in. With new information on design
principles, mobile and gestural interactions, content strategy,
remote research tools and more, you’ll learn to:
Recognize the various roles in UX design,...
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49. |  Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 28-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 23-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light Light. It's the most powerful tool that any photography has at
their disposal. Whether the lens is turned to people, wildlife or
the landscape, it is often the creative use of light that
transforms a snapshot into a photograph. Chasing the Light
will enlighten photographers of all levels and help them make the
most of this most important tool--light.
With over 25 years of experience in the photographic industry as a
photographer, writer, and educator, Ibarionex Parello has developed
an approach to photography that has helped photography enthusiasts
from all over the world discover and...
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50. |  Content Strategy for the Web, Second Edition By: Kristina Halvorson; Melissa Rach Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 10-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 17-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Content Strategy for the Web, Second Edition FROM CONSTANT CRISIS TO SUSTAINABLE
SUCCESS
BETTER CONTENT MEANS BETTER BUSINESS. Your content is a mess: the
website redesigns didn’t help, and the new CMS just made
things worse. Or, maybe your content is full of potential: you know
new revenue and cost-savings opportunities exist, but you’re
not sure where to start. How can you realize the value of content
while planning for its long-term success?
For organizations all over the world, Content Strategy for the Web
is the go-to content strategy handbook. Read it to:
Understand content strategy and its business value
Discover...
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51. |  By: Roberto Valenzuela Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 17-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 17-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Foreword by Skip Cohen
Translating the chaos of the real world into a breathtakingly
simple, beautiful photograph can often seem like an impossible
task. With busy, cluttered backgrounds and subjects who don’t
know how to pose, how can you take control and get a great shot no
matter the situation? In Picture Perfect Practice,
photographer Roberto Valenzuela breaks down the craft of
photography into three key elements–locations, poses, and
execution–that you can use to unlock the photographic
opportunities lying beneath every challenging situation.
Valenzuela stresses the need for...
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52. |  Film IS Not Dead: A Digital Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Film By: Jonathan Canlas; Kristen Kalp Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 15-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Film IS Not Dead: A Digital Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Film With the popularity of digital photography growing by leaps and
bounds over the last decade, some say film has been dying a slow
death ever since – or is already dead. The reality is that
film has never gone away, and in recent years has experienced a
surging, renewed popularity – sometimes simply for its retro,
analog status, but mostly for film's ability to create a look and
feel that many believe digital can still not achieve. If anyone can
attest to this, it's Utah photographer Jonathan Canlas, who
exclusively shoots with film, and has both an extremely successful
wedding photography...
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53. |  Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy, Second Edition By: Ann Rockley; Charles Cooper Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 16-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 26-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy, Second Edition Smartphones, eBook readers, and tablet computers like the Apple
iPad have forever changed the way people access and interact with
content. Your customers expect the content you provide them to be
adaptive --responding to the device, their location, their
situation, and their personalized needs.
Authors Ann Rockley and Charles Cooper provide insights and
guidelines that will help you develop a unified content
strategy—a repeatable, systematic plan that can help you
reach your customers, anytime, anywhere, on any device.
This up-to-date new edition of Managing Enterprise Content...
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54. | ![[digital] Modeling](/static/201306-7302-my/images/9780321712622/9780321712622_xs.jpg "[digital] Modeling") By: William Vaughan Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 23-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 05-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: [digital] Modeling Professional modeling is the foundation of every aspect of the
3D production pipeline and is essential to the success of any 3D
computer graphics project. [digital] Modeling is unlike any
other modeling book you’ve seen—it gets to the core of
what it takes to create efficient production-ready models and
demystifies the process of producing realistic and jaw-dropping
graphics. Taking a software-neutral approach, it teaches you the
essential skills and concepts that you can apply to modeling in any
industry 3D software, such as 3ds Max, LightWave 3D, Maya, Modo,
Silo, XSI, ZBrush and other...
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55. |  Envisioning Family: A photographer’s guide to making meaningful portraits of the modern family By: Tamara Lackey Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 15-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 02-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Envisioning Family: A photographer’s guide to making meaningful portraits of the modern family FAMILY – A small word with powerful meaning. Most
of us trace the roots of our own personal identity back to
our experience of being part of a family. The definition of what a
family is can vary widely, but most family photography is anything
but varied. We are used to the basic posing of a group, assembled
and smiling like they never do in real life. This doesn't offer
much visual or emotional impact.
Create an image that captures the spirit of a family –
as well as the individualism of the members – and you start
at a magical place. That family now feels something when they view
the...
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56. |  Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash By: Joe McNally Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 06-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 20-DEC-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash Following up on the great success of The Moment It Clicks
and The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes,
legendary magazine photographer Joe McNally takes us on another
memorable ride with Sketching Light, another trip into the land of
light--but this time running the gamut from small flash to big
flash, and everywhere in between.
Of course, Joe includes coverage of Nikon Speedlights, but he also
covers big flash, as well as "in-between" lights as the Elinchrom
Quadra. The exploration of new technology, as well as the
explanation of older technology. No matter what equipment Joe...
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57. |  Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer’s Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous By: Lindsay Ratcliffe; Marc McNeill Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 18-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer’s Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous Agile development methodologies may have started life in IT, but
their widespread and continuing adoption means there are many
practitioners outside of IT--including designers--who need to
change their thinking and adapt their practices. This is the
missing book about agile that shows how designers, product
managers, and development teams can integrate experience design
into lean and agile product development. It equips you with tools,
techniques and a framework for designing great experiences using
agile methods so you can deliver timely products that are
technically feasible, profitable for...
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58. |  Grouped: How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social web By: Paul Adams Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 21-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Grouped: How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social web The web is undergoing a fundamental change. It is moving away
from its current structure of documents and pages linked together,
and towards a new structure that is built around people. This is a
profound change that will affect how we create business strategy,
design, marketing, and advertising. The reason for this shift is
simple. For tens of thousands of years we’ve been social
animals. The web, which is only 20 years old, is simply catching up
with offline life.
From travel to news to commerce, smart businesses are reorienting
their efforts around people – around the social behavior...
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59. |  Visual Stories: Behind the Lens with Vincent Laforet By: Vincent Laforet; Ibarionex Perello Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 10-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Stories: Behind the Lens with Vincent Laforet There is an art to capturing a photo that tells a story. You
need to know what belongs in the frame and what to leave out, what
to emphasize in the photo that adds to the story, and how to use
light, shape, and color all to express meaning while lending
aesthetic value to the image itself. Vincent Laforet –
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and voted one of the "100 Most
Influential People in Photography" by American Photo –
gives a rare look into the art of photography through his lens as a
master editorial and commercial photographer.
This beautiful book contains full-color spreads,...
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60. |  By: Julie Dirksen Publisher: New Riders Publication Date: 07-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 24-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Design For How People Learn Products, technologies, and workplaces change so quickly today
that everyone is continually learning. Many of us are also
teaching, even when it's not in our job descriptions. Whether it's
giving a presentation, writing documentation, or creating a website
or blog, we need and want to share our knowledge with other people.
But if you've ever fallen asleep over a boring textbook, or
fast-forwarded through a tedious e-learning exercise, you know that
creating a great learning experience is harder than it seems.
In Design For How People Learn, you'll discover how to use
the key principles...
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