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41. | Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 By: Louisa Holland; Kati Mercier Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 31-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
A complete tutorial and reference for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
Autodesk's Civil 3D is the leading civil engineering software, and this reliable training guide has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer a fresh perspective on this powerful engineering package. Filled with illustrative examples, new datasets, and new tutorials, this book shows how elements of the dynamic engineering program work together and discusses the best methods for creating, editing, displaying, and labeling all of a civil engineering project's elements.
The book's straightforward explanations, real-world...
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42. | AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Essentials By: Scott Onstott Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 29-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 Essentials
A four-color, task-based guide to AutoCAD
This Autodesk Official Training Guide thoroughly covers the fundamentals of AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013 and teaches you everything you need to become quickly productive with the software. Learn to draw in 2D, shape complex curves, manage objects with layers, organize with blocks and groups, add dimensions and annotation, work with layouts, model in 3D, create realistic renderings, and more. Whether you're an aspiring CAD/CAM professional, preparing for certification, or updating your skills, this is the fast, thorough grounding you need in...
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43. | AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Essentials By: Eric Chappell Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Essentials
The hands-on resource for quickly learning AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013
This Autodesk Official Training Guide features straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises and tutorials to quickly teach new users the software's core features and functions. Each full-color chapter offers a discussion of concepts and learning goals and includes an approachable hands-on exercise that helps build confidence. The book is filled with full-color screenshots to illustrate tutorial steps and will help you quickly thrive in Civil 3D's dynamic, powerful environment.
This thorough revision...
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44. | AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013: No Experience Required Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 19-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD LT 2013: No Experience Required
The ideal introductory resource for Autodesk's powerful architectural design software
With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to plan, develop, document, and present a complete AutoCAD project by working on summer cabin--a fun practice project that runs throughout the book. You can follow each step sequentially or jump in at any point by downloading the drawing files from the book's companion web site. You'll also master all essential AutoCAD features, get a thorough grounding in the basics, learn the very latest industry standards and techniques, and quickly become productive with...
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45. | By: William Leake; Maura Ginty; Lauren Vaccarello Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 07-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 03-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Complete B2B Online Marketing
Learn to take full advantage of search and social media for B2B marketing
Business-to-business marketers have been slow to enter the online marketing arena, but now that the impact of search and social media marketing in the consumer marketplace is clearly documented, B2B marketers are ready for a complete guide to making the most of the medium. Written by experts with first-hand knowledge of the field, this book clearly explains how to leverage today's search engine marketing and social media technologies to get, nurture, and convert leads. Topics include strategy, branding, monitoring,...
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46. | Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 01-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Linux Essentials
A unique, full-color introduction to Linux fundamentals
Serving as a low-cost, secure alternative to expensive operating systems, Linux is a UNIX-based, open source operating system. Full-color and concise, this beginner's guide takes a learning-by-doing approach to understanding the essentials of Linux. Each chapter begins by clearly identifying what you will learn in the chapter, followed by a straightforward discussion of concepts that leads you right into hands-on tutorials. Chapters conclude with additional exercises and review questions, allowing you to reinforce and measure your...
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47. | CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study Guide, 6th Edition By: James M. Stewart; Mike Chapple; Darril Gibson Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study Guide, 6th Edition
Fully updated Sybex Study Guide for the industry-leading security certification: CISSP
Security professionals consider the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) to be the most desired certification to achieve. More than 200,000 have taken the exam, and there are more than 70,000 CISSPs worldwide. This highly respected guide is updated to cover changes made to the CISSP Body of Knowledge in 2012. It also provides additional advice on how to pass each section of the exam. With expanded coverage of key areas, it also includes a full-length, 250-question practice...
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48. | Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life® Scripting By: Dana Moore; Michael Thome; Dr. Karen Zita Haigh Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 16-SEP-2008 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life® Scripting Find complete information about Second Life scripting and gain access to more than 50 previously unpublished ready-to-use scripts in Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. Learn how to script Second Life behaviors, grouped into categories like avatar movement, communications, prim and object control, automation, land control, combat, special effects, environment control and physics, and interacting with the world outside of Second Life. After you read this engaging book, you will possess a solid understanding Linden Scripting Language conventions....
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49. | Microsoft Private Cloud Computing By: Aidan Finn; Hans Vredevoort; Patrick Lownds; Damian Flynn Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft Private Cloud Computing
Learn the foundation of cloud computing and how to build your own Microsoft private cloud
Written by a team of expert authors who are MVPs and leaders in their respective fields, this one-of-a-kind book is an essential resource for IT administrators who are responsible for implementing and managing a cloud infrastructure. You'll quickly learn how cloud computing offers significant cost savings while also providing new levels of speed and agility.
Serving as a how-to guide, Microsoft Private Cloud Computing walks you through building a secure, internal cloud and delivering it as a...
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50. | Introducing ZBrush 3rd Edition By: Eric Keller Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 17-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introducing ZBrush 3rd Edition
Learn ZBrush inside and out with this updated new edition
Get totally comfortable sculpting in a digital environment with the latest edition of this bestselling beginner's guide to ZBrush. Fully updated for the newest version of the software, ZBrush 4R3, this book dispels any fears you might have about the difficulty of using ZBrush and soon has you creating realistic, cartoon, and organic models with flair. Learn all the essentials, as you complete fun tutorials on painting, meshes, organic scripting, hard surface sculpting, lighting, rendering, and more.
Introduces you to ZBrush,...
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51. | Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2013 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2013 Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 29-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 14-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2013 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2013
The complete, real-world reference and tutorial for mastering Autodesk Inventor 2013
This completely updated and revised edition includes new content requested by readers and coverage of all of Inventor's latest features. Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2013 and Inventor LT 2013 starts with a basic hands-on tour of the 3D design workflow and concludes with coverage of Inventor's built in programming tools. In between you'll find exercises and productivity tips as well as information on all aspects of the Inventor tools in Inventor LT to Inventor Professional.
This detailed guide helps you...
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52. | Website Optimization: An Hour a Day By: Rich Page Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Website Optimization: An Hour a Day
Captivate your website visitors, supercharge your conversion rates and beat your online competition!
This hands-on resource steps you through the tools, best practices, test ideas and strategies needed to effectively optimize and improve any kind of website and generate more revenue from it. From optimizing calls-to-action and text to using advanced personalization and targeting techniques, you'll dive into the crucial areas of this exciting new field. This book also takes a unique approach by using best practices from web analytics, web usability and online marketing to help you get the...
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53. | Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day, 2nd Edition By: Chris Treadaway; Mari Smith Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day, 2nd Edition
The bestselling Sybex guide to marketing on Facebook, now fully updated
As the second most-visited site on the web, Facebook offers myriad marketing opportunities and a host of new tools. This bestselling guide is now completely updated to cover all of the latest tools including Deals, sponsored stories, the Send button, and more. It explains how to develop a winning strategy, implement a campaign, measure results, and produce usable reports. Case studies, step-by-step directions, and hands-on tutorials in the popular Hour-a-Day format make this the perfect handbook for maximizing...
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54. | CWNA: Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide: Exam PW0-105, 3rd Edition By: David D. Coleman; David A. Westcott Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CWNA: Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide: Exam PW0-105, 3rd Edition
Newly updated edition of this top-selling CWNA study guide
Sybex is the official publisher for CWNP, Inc., the organization behind the the CWNA certification. The new edition of Sybex's top-selling CWNA Study Guide covers the latest CWNA Exam, PW0-105. If you're preparing for the exam, you'll find full coverage of radio frequency (RF) technologies, as well as IEEE 802.11 regulations and standards, protocols and devices, network security, and much more. This detailed book not only covers all exam objectives, it also includes practical chapter review questions and hands-on exercises. The...
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55. | Game Character Creation with Blender and Unity By: Chris Totten Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Game Character Creation with Blender and Unity
A complete guide to creating usable, realistic game characters with two powerful tools
Creating viable game characters requires a combination of skills. This book teaches game creators how to create usable, realistic game assets using the power of an open-source 3D application and a free game engine. It presents a step-by-step approach to modeling, texturing, and animating a character using the popular Blender software, with emphasis on low polygon modeling and an eye for using sculpting and textures, and demonstrates how to bring the character into the Unity game engine.
Game...
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56. | ZBrush Professional Tips and Techniques Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 19-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: ZBrush Professional Tips and Techniques
Learn to work effectively and creatively with all versions of ZBrush!
ZBrush is used by top artists in Hollywood to model and sculpt characters in such films as Avatar, Iron Man, and Pirates of the Caribbean. In addition, this amazing technology is also used in jewelry design, forensic science, aerospace, video games, toy creation, and the medical field. Written by Pixologic's in-house ZBrush expert Paul Gaboury, this full-color, beautifully illustrated guide provides you with the ultimate tips and tricks to maximize your use of all versions of ZBrush.
Reveals numerous little-known...
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57. | VCP5 VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 Study Guide: Exam VCP-510 By: Brian Atkinson Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: VCP5 VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 Study Guide: Exam VCP-510
The ideal study guide for candidates seeking the leading virtualization certification
The VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP-510) is the most desired certification for virtualization professionals, and this study guide covers all the requirements. Skill in virtualization is a top priority for companies when hiring IT staff, and VMware skills are in high demand. Part of the highly acclaimed Sybex Study Guide series, this comprehensive book guides you through planning, installing, and upgrading ESXi; configuring networking, storage, and vCenter Server; deploying and managing...
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58. | Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager By: Steve Rachui; Kent Agerlund; Santos Martinez; Peter Daalmans Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 26-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mastering System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
Expert coverage of Microsoft's highly anticipated network software deployment tool
The latest version of System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is a dramatic update of its predecessor Configuration Manager 2007, and this book offers intermediate-to-advanced coverage of how the new ConfigMgr boasts a simplified hierarchy, role-based security, a new console, flexible application deployment, and mobile management. You'll explore planning and installation, migrating from ConfigMgr 2007, deploying software and operating systems, security, monitoring and troubleshooting, and...
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59. | Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies By: Lee Varis Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 16-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 28-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Skin: The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies
Achieving accurate skin tones is one of the most challenging tasks in digital photography. Master this challenge with professional photographer Lee Varis as he covers a range of skin: women and men, young and old, various tones, in-studio and outdoors, tattoos, and more. His step-by-step tutorials and before-and-after illustrations demonstrate various techniques for topics such as digital-specific lighting challenges and what can and cannot be done in post-process.
A free CD-ROM accompanies the book and contains sample image files to use while following the tutorials, plus equipment...
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60. | Advanced Google AdWords, 2nd Edition By: Brad Geddes Publisher: Sybex Publication Date: 24-APR-2012 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advanced Google AdWords, 2nd Edition
Master every aspect of the powerful Google AdWords platform with this one-of-a-kind guide
AdWords expert Brad Geddes, the first and only Advanced AdWords Seminar leader for Google, shares his detailed instruction and insights to get new users up and running quickly and teach AdWords pros some slick new tricks. This must-have new edition offers 50+ pages of fresh material on such topics as retargeting, tracking for analytics, video ad features, ad extensions, and much more.
The ultimate guide to advanced Google AdWords techniques authored by a respected AdWords expert who is the...
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