English for the Financial Sector (Audiobook Teacher's book)

Ian MacKenzie "English for the Financial Sector (Audiobook Teacher's book)"
Cambridge University Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0521547288 (CD) | ISBN: 0521547261 (TB)| 108 pages PDF Mp3 | 102 MB

English for the Financial Sector helps learners to prepare for a career in finance and enables those already working in the industry to improve their financial English. Providing at least 50 hours of classroom material, this course builds financial language and teaches students about key financial concepts. It also focuses on the communication skills necessary for working effectively within the industry. It covers a wide range offinancial topics, including retail and investment banking, accounting, trade finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours

Michael Moncur, "Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours"
Sams, Illustrated edition (Dec10, 2001) | English | 0672323028 | 432 pages | PDF | 5.69 MB

Sams Teach Yourself DHTML in 24 Hours provides a friendly, accessible way to learn DHTML. Beginning with the basic concepts, it will proceed with concise lessons on the DOM and style sheets. Later lessons will present real-world examples of useful DHTML applications, such as cascading menus, and continue with advanced techniques, such as animation and dynamic fonts. After finishing this book, readers will be able to add advanced, interactive features to their Web pages, while adhering to standards and ensuring that older and alternate browsers will still be supported.

Brushing Up Your Vocabulary for HSK

BLCUP | 2003 | PDF | 208 pages | ISBN-10: 7561911157 | 84.9 MB

The set of HSK vocabulary study includes three levels: elementary, intermeditary and advanced. Each level contains three volumes. The set intends to help the students to enhance thevocabulary for HSK in a short period. The book is arranged in the way that it let the readers do the exercises the same time as they remember the new words thus reinforce the the memory.

Windows System Programming - 4th Edition

Product Description
Windows System Programming, Fourth Edition, now contains extensive new coverage of 64-bit programming, parallelism, multicore systems, and many other crucial topics. Johnson Hart's robust code examples have been updated and streamlined throughout. They have been debugged and tested in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, on single and multiprocessor systems, and under Windows 7, Vista, Server 2008, and Windows XP. To clarify program operation, sample programs are now illustrated with dozens of screenshots.

Hart systematically covers Windows externals at the API level, presenting practical coverage of all the services Windows programmers need, and emphasizing how Windows functions actually behave and interact in real-world applications. Hart begins with features used in single-process applications and gradually progresses to more sophisticated functions and multithreaded environments. Topics covered include file systems, memory management, exceptions, processes, threads, synchronization, interprocess communication, Windows services, and security.

New coverage in this edition includes
* Leveraging parallelism and maximizing performance in multicore systems
* Promoting source code portability and application interoperability across Windows, Linux, and UNIX
* Using 64-bit address spaces and ensuring 64-bit/32-bit portability
* Improving performance and scalability using threads, thread pools, and completion ports
* Techniques to improve program reliability and performance in all systems
* Windows performance-enhancing API features available starting with Windows Vista, such as slim reader/writer locks and condition variables

A companion Web site, jmhartsoftware.com, contains all sample code, Visual Studio projects, additional examples, errata, reader comments, and Windows commentary and discussion.

Product Details

* Hardcover: 656 pages
* Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 4 edition (February 26, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0321657748
* ISBN-13: 978-0321657749

Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching

Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching By Katrin Eismann, Wayne Palmer
Publisher: New Riders Press 2006 | 472 Pages | ISBN: 0321316274 | PDF | 55 MB

Whether you?re a professional photographer or the family shutterbug, you can?t afford to miss the third edition of the now classic Photoshop Restoration & Retouching. Katrin Eismann and co-author Wayne Palmer have reviewed, updated, and revised every single technique to address the most important features inAdobe Photoshop CS2. Clear step-by-step instructions using professional examples highlight the tools and techniques photographers, designers, restoration studios, and beauty retouchers use to restore valuable antique images, retouch portraits, and enhance glamour photography.

With new example images illustrating the tutorials, Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, Third Edition will show you how to transform faded, damaged photographs into beautiful images that are as clear and crisp as the day they were taken?maybe even better?and how to turn casual snapshots and studio portraits into the most flattering images possible. Full-color, step-by-step examples show you how to:
? Correct extreme exposure errors and improve color, contrast, and tone
? Rescue heirloom originals suffering from mold damage, cracks, and torn edges?even replace missing image
information
? Remove dust and scratches quickly and easily
? Transform your photos into beautiful, original works of art by converting them to black-and-white or tinted images
? Use a variety of sharpening techniques and tonalcorrection tools to add life and sparkle to digital photos
? Enhance portraits by removing blemishes, reducing wrinkles, and enhancing eyes, lips, and hair, while maintaining the subject?s essential character
? Apply the secrets that the top retouchers in the glamour and beauty industry use to perfect skin, make-up, and hair

About the Author
Katrin Eismann is an internationally respected teacher and lecturer on photographic imaging, restoration, retouching, and the impact of
emerging technologies on photography and the arts. Katrin received an undergraduate degree in photographic illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her Master of Fine Arts degree in design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her other books include Photoshop Masking & Compositing and Real World Digital Photography.
In 2005, she was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Wayne Palmer is the principal of Palmer Multimedia Imaging, which offers custom photography, video, andrestoration services. Wayne has worked with Adobe Photoshop since version 3; teaches Photoshop and digital photography classes; and is the technical editor of numerous books on digital imaging techniques.

The Economist Audio Edition

The Economist Audio Edition | 159.80 MB


The audio edition contains word-for-word recordings of all articles published in The Economist, read by professional broadcasters and actors. It is ideal for anyone who wants to listen to articles while travelling, exercising or just relaxing.

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by "The Economist Newspaper Ltd" and edited in London. It has been in continuous publication since James Wilson established it in September 1843. As of summer 2007, its average circulation topped 1.2 million copies a week, about half of which are sold in North America. Consequently it is often seen as a transatlantic (as opposed to solely British) news source.

The aim of The Economist is "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress."Subjects covered include international news, economics, politics, business, finance, science, technology, and the arts. Thepublication is targeted at the high-end "prestige" segment of the market and counts among its audience influential business and government decision-makers.

It takes a strongly argued editorial stance on many issues, especially its support for free trade and fiscal conservatism; it can thus be considered as a magazine which practises advocacy journalism.

Although The Economist calls itself a newspaper and refers to its staff as correspondents, it is printed in magazine form on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine.

The Economist belongs to The Economist Group. The publication interests of the group include the CFO brand family as well as the annual World in..., the lifestyle quarterly Intelligent Life, European Voice and Roll Call (known as "the Newspaper of Capitol Hill"). Another part of the group isThe Economist Intelligence Unit, a research and advisory company providing country, industry and management analysis worldwide. Since 1928, half the shares ofThe Economist Group have been owned by the Financial Times, a subsidiary of Pearson PLC, and the other half by a group of independent shareholders, including many members of the staff. The editor's independence is guaranteed by the existence of a board of trustees, which formally appoints him and without whose permission he cannot be removed.

Digital Tutors - Modeling Hard Surfaces with NURBS in Maya

Digital Tutors - Modeling Hard Surfaces with NURBS in Maya
English | RMVB | RV40 640x480 | MP3 96 Kbps | RS & HF | 171 MB
Genre: Video Training

In this course we will use multiple NURBS techniques to build a skateboard in Maya.

NURBS geometry provides several advantages over some of the other types of building methods available, but the process for creating NURBS geometry is somewhat different from building polygon or sub-d models. In this course we will explore hard-surfacemodeling by using a variety of NURBS tools and techniques in Maya to build a skateboard . We'll go over tools like lofting, fillets, and using the CV curve tool and, by the end of this project, you'll have a taste of the NURBS building process and be able to use these tools to start building your own models.

Runtime: 52 min. 41 sec.

Software Requirements:
Maya 2008 and up

Release Date:
08/04/2009