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Prepare to experience a brand new thought process on the drawing of life and the expression of energy. This important concept is also the least talked about subject in figure drawing classes today. Artist Michael Mattesi is your guide on an exciting and provocative journey through multiple methods of thinking using easy to understand critiques of dynamic drawings. Learn to approach drawing through Michael’s groundbreaking theory about force and its relationship to:Rhythm,Form,Shape,Clothing,Reportage,Animals.

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Force: The Key to Capturing Life Through Drawing

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Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life.

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Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life

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The first fully comprehensive guide to the , this book promotes understanding of the four ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) domains. This volume explains ISSE by comparing it to a traditional Systems Engineering model, enabling you to see the correlation of how security fits into the design and development process. It also details key points of more than 50 U.S. government policies and procedures, which need to be understood in order to gain ISSEP certification.

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Official (ISC)2® Guide to the CISSP®-ISSEP® CBK

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Refactoring has proven its value in a wide range of development projects–helping software professionals improve system designs, maintainability, extensibility, and performance. Now, for the first time, leading agile methodologist Scott Ambler and renowned consultant Pramodkumar Sadalage introduce powerful refactoring techniques specifically designed for database systems.
Ambler and Sadalage demonstrate how small changes to table structures, data, stored procedures, and triggers can significantly enhance virtually any database design–without changing semantics. You’ll learn how to evolve database schemas in step with source code–and become far more effective in projects relying on iterative, agile methodologies.

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Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design

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What started as a simple animation tool has evolved into a full-fledged Web development environment. Which means that if you’re like many of today’s Flash developers, you may know little about actually creating animations and effects with the program. Here to solve that dilemma is a hands-on guide from one of today’s leading Flash experts. By showing you how to create 10 projects based on real-world Web solutions, author Jen deHaan provides a thorough grounding in all of Flash’s effects and animation fundamentals. Each chapter represents a single project with simple step-by-step instructions for re-creating the cool Web elements pictured in these pages: an animated character, a Flash interface that uses transitions to “page” through different areas of a site, an animated gallery, a dynamic menu that animates using the Tween classes, a simple game, button effects, Timeline animations, scripted effects, text effects, and more! Ten real-world projects reveal the magic behind the most useful Flash-produced animations and effects, and a companion CD includes lesson files and sample software.

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Animation and Effects with Macromedia Flash MX

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Written for IBM eServer iSeries programmers responsible for converting applications to a web-based interface, this book takes users through WebFacing a sample green screen application using IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client. How to use the different features of the tool to enhance the application after the initial conversion is demonstrated, including debugging. Converting the user interface, running the WebFaced application, enhancing the web user interface, starting the CODE designer, and using WebSettings are covered in detail. Also explained are the starting page designer tool, changing the page attributes, creating a layout frame, adding an animated image, debugging the WebFaced application, and deployment.

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Understanding the IBM WebFacing Tool: A Guided Tour

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