Pearson Technology Group Canada: Announcements relating to Technology Titles

Within the Frame: A Journey in Photographic Vision (9780321605023)

05 Mar 2009 10:27:45 GMT

A book that transcends ordinary travel photography books and delivers the inspiration needed to take truly great images.

Within the Frame is not another How To book on Photography; it�s a Why-To book. It�s a book about the passionate photography of people, places, and cultures. It is a book about chasing your vision on a global scale and telling those stories as clearly and passionately as possible with compelling photography.

David duChemin takes you along on his own personal journey chasing his photographic vision around the world as he stops in the following exotic destinations: Prague, Kathmandu, Vietnam, and Samoa. Images created on the journey provide illustration and inspiration. Within the Frame will help you on your own journey as a photographer, as you learn to see, and learn to find and express your vision in clearer and clearer ways. Anyone who wants to shoot images of the places and people they love, whether or not they ever go around the world to do it, will find this book to be both instructional and inspirational.

David duChemin is a Vancouver-based freelance humanitarian and travel photographer.

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Coming Soon - CCNA Voice Official Exam Certification Guide (640-460 IIUC) (1587202077)

5 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Master IIUC 640-460 exam topics with the official study guide.

CCNA Voice Official Exam Certification Guide is a best of breed Cisco exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNA Voice IIUC 640-460 exam. Senior voice instructors and network engineers Jeremy Cioara, Michael Cavanaugh, and Kris Krake share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text and laying out a complete study plan for review.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

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Coming Soon - The Little Digital Video Book, 2E (0321572629)

5 Sept 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Reveals the simple rules of shooting and editing footage suitable for quality filmmaking!

This friendly, approachable guide will teach users the basics of shooting, organizing, and editing their own footage, with short examples so they can practice the techniques as they read through the book. This revised edition of the bestselling book on digital video is now in full color and completely updated for the modern beginning videographer. Users get a thorough grounding in the basics of digital video, but without all the jargon. Michael Rubin explains in under 200 pages all users need to know to get great shots, add sound, organize the footage, and use basic editing techniques. They will learn how to start and actually finish that video project they had in mind--in less than a day.

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Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online (0789738031)

22 Aug 2008 18:11:24 GMT

Computing as you know it has changed. No longer are you tied to using expensive programs stored on your computer. No longer will you be able to only access your data from one computer. No longer will you be tied to doing work only from your work computer or playing only from your personal computer.

Enter cloud computing�an exciting new way to work with programs and data, collaborate with friends and family, share ideas with coworkers and friends, and most of all, be more productive! The "cloud" consists of thousands of computers and servers, all linked and accessible to you via the Internet.

With cloud computing, everything you do is now web-based instead of being desktop-based; you can access all your programs and documents from any computer that�s connected to the Internet. Whether you want to share photographs with your family, coordinate volunteers for a community organization, or manage a multi-faceted project in a large organization, cloud computing can help you do it more easily than ever before. Trust us. If you need to collaborate, cloud computing is the way to do it.

Covers the most popular cloud-based applications, including the following:

Adobe Photoshop Express
Apple MobileMe
Glide OS
Google Docs
Microsoft Office Live Workspace
Zoho Office

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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (0137135599)

6 Jun 2008 16:30:03 GMT

Blown to Bits is about how the digital explosion is changing everything. It explains the technology, why it creates so many surprises and why things often don't work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about our privacy, our identity, and about who is really in control of our lives.

It's about how we got this way, what we are losing, and what remains that society still has a chance to put right. The digital explosion is creating opportunities and risks, and we all have an enormous stake in the outcome. Beyond the science, the history, the law, and the politics, this book is a wake up call!

It features many illustrative examples from current events, things readers may have heard about or experienced -- events of the Iraq war, data breaches by corporations, their own cell phones and online banking transactions and eBay auctions. It peels back the technological curtain enough to explain intuitively what is going on underneath. Things are not always as they seem!

" Blown to Bits is a timely, important, and very readable take on how information is produced and consumed today, and more important, on the approaching sea of change in the way that we as a society deal with the consequences." - Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology, Google, Inc.

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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Third Edition (0321503619)

1 May 2008 19:42:32 GMT

If you�re developing applications for Mac OS X, Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition, is the book you�ve been waiting to get your hands on. If you�re new to the Mac environment, it�s probably the book you�ve been told to read first. Covering the bulk of what you need to know to develop full-featured applications for OS X, written in an engaging tutorial style, and thoroughly class-tested to assure clarity and accuracy, it is an invaluable resource for any Mac programmer.

Specifically, Aaron Hillegass introduces the three most commonly used Mac developer tools: Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. He also covers the Objective-C language and the major design patterns of Cocoa. Aaron illustrates his explanations with exemplary code, written in the idioms of the Cocoa community, to show you how Mac programs should be written. After reading this book, you will know enough to understand and utilize Apple�s online documentation for your own unique needs. And you will know enough to write your own stylish code.

Updated for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, this revised edition includes coverage of Xcode 3, Objective-C 2, Core Data, the garbage collector, and CoreAnimation.

" Aaron�s book is the gold standard for Mac OS X programming books�beautifully written, and thoughtfully sculpted. The best book on Leopard development." Scott Stevenson, www.theocacao.com.

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Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 (0321539931)

11 Mar 2008 18:11:24 GMT

Fully updated for Aperture 2, this comprehensive book-DVD training combo starts with the basics of image management and takes you step by step all the way through Aperture's powerful photo-editing, image-retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features. Aperture 2's new features are completely covered, including a new RAW-image processing engine, a streamlined interface, powerful new adjustment tools, and added integration with Mac OS X and other Apple products for instant web publishing and one-click portfolio syncing.

Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2 delivers comprehensive training - the equivalent of a two-day course - in one project-based book. You'll learn time-saving techniques for sorting, ranking, and organizing images, effective methods for correcting and enhancing images, plus efficient ways to display images for client review, apply metadata, update your online portfolio automatically, and much more. Real-world exercises feature professional photography from a variety of genres, including photo-journalism, sports, wedding, commercial, and portraiture. All the files you need to complete the exercises are included on the DVD.

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Adobe announces the release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4

3 Oct 2007 15:26:16 GMT

The Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers
0321524640 Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski

Best-selling author Scott Kelby pairs up with Matt Kloskowski to deliver the definitve book on using Photoshop Elements 6 to create the best possible images. With this newest release of Photoshop Elements, Scott and Matt show readers how to work with their images like a pro, from importing to organization to correction to output. Readers will learn all they need to know about the digital photography workflow, as well as the latest secrets of the pros to help them create the best special effects, apply the most useful sharpening techniques, and avoid many of the hassles and problems that are encountered in digital photography (such as digital noise and color halos).

Photoshop Elements 6: Visual QuickStart Guide
0321524632 Jeff Carlson

Photoshop Elements is geared for business users, students, educators, and home users who want professional-looking images for their print and Web projects, but don't want or need the advanced power of Adobe Photoshop. With Photoshop Elements 6 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start reading from the beginning of the book to get a tour of the interface and start with image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture photos, reduce red eye, correct color, work with layers, and much more. Updated to cover Photoshop Elements 6 and it's new features including the refined compositing capabilities that allow for seamless panoramas and stitching together the perfect group photo. Both beginning and intermediate users will find what they need here--in straightforward language and with readily accessible examples.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book
0321524659 Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe's consumer-targeted image editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. Readers will learn the basics of editing their images with Photoshop Elements and will learn how best to use the program's many new features. These new features include amazing photo-blending technology that lets you easily combine facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite. Those who need help fixing a blemish or creating a scrapbook page can take advantage of new step-by-step assistance. And users can now create photo books with greater ease and flexibility, take advantage of new selection tools, easily stitch together multiple photos to create seamless panoramas, and quickly find the photos they need with the new Smart Albums feature.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and Adobe Premiere Elements 4 Classroom in a Book Collection
032153395X Adobe Press

This book combines two Classroom in a Book titles--for Adobe's consumer-level photo and video editing products--into one.

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iPod Book Announcement

26 Sep 2007 18:51:48 GMT

iPod Book, The: Doing Cool Stuff with the iPod and the iTunes Store, 4/e
0321524667 Scott Kelby

There is no denying it: With the introduction of the iPod and iTunes, Apple changed the face of music. While the iPod and iTunes are user-friendly, figuring them out for the first time can be tricky. Plus, they can do way more than meets the eye. In this fully updated best-seller, award-winning author, Scott Kelby, delivers what users need to know to get up to speed fast on Apple's popular iPod digital audio players and iTunes software.

Through full-color illustrations and simple step-by-step instructions, readers will learn all about: the brand new iPod touch, equipped with a multitouch interface, 3.5-inch widescreen display, and WiFi Web browsing; the iPod shuffle, sporting a new belt clip and new colors; the iPod nano, featuring a new glamorous square shape, video, an enhanced interface, larger and brighter display, and new colors; the iPod classic which now incorporates iTunes cover flow, enhanced interface, and a sleeker design; and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, which now lets iPod users browse the iTunes Store and purchase music over a wireless connection straight onto their Apple mobile device.

iPod & iTunes Pocket Guide, Third Edition, The, 3/e
0321524624 Christopher Breen

iPod users want to start using their devices as soon as they get their hands on them, and this guide shows them how. Readers will find thorough coverage of the entire iPod family, including: the brand new iPod touch; the iPod shuffle; the iPod nano,; the iPod classic with up to 160GB of storage to hold up to 40,000 songs or up to 200 hours of video, incorporates iTunes cover flow, enhanced interface, and a sleeker design; and the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, which now lets iPod users browse the iTunes Store and purchase music over a wireless connection straight onto their Apple mobile device.

In handy guide, trusted gadget teacher Christopher Breen reveals the secrets to using these leading portable music players, as well as the quickest way to learn how to get the most out of the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Along the way, Christopher offers hints for burning CDs, importing songs from CDs, picking the right aqccessories, making the most of the device's storage capabilities, and troubleshooting advice for when the gadgets become uncooperative.

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The Adobe Photoshop Seven-Point System (0321501926)

23 Aug 2007 16:00:49 GMT

You're about to become a Photoshop Shark!

Scott has focused in and really narrowed things down to just exactly which Photoshop tools and techniques we absolutely, positively have to know, and he found that there are just seven major tools, seven major features that we have to master to enhance our images like a pro. But then he took it a step further. Out of those seven major tools, he looked at which parts or sections of those tools do we really need to master, and which parts can we pretty much ignore (in other words, he whittled it down so you're not learning parts of the tools that you're probably never going to need). Then, and perhaps most importantly, he determined exactly when and in which order to apply these seven techniques that make up Scott's amazing "Photoshop Seven Point System."

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We have your SharePoint needs covered!

10 Aug 2007 16:18:05 GMT

We have your SharePoint needs covered! Available from Addison-Wesley and Sams Publishing