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Data Visualization with Flash Builder: Designing RIA and AIR Applications with Remote Data Sources by Cesare Rocchi 9781138426351
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.36Design and create functional applications that interact with remote data sources. You get a thorough introduction to the latest Flash Builder tools learning how you can use the built-in wizards, MXML or pure ActionScript 3 to build information-rich... -
Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies by Quan Z. Sheng 9781138117914
RRP: $92.87Booksplease Price: $81.90With recent advances in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, sensor networks, and enhanced Web services, the original World Wide Web is continuing its evolution into what is being called the Web of Things and Services. Such a Web will... -
Gesture Drawing: A Story-Based Approach by April Connors 9781138106291
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $164.90This instructional drawing book is intended to guide the reader through a story-telling based approach to gesture drawing, utilizing different techniques and exercises that encourage and develop creative problem solving as it relates to observational... -
Design of Low-Power Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures by Yoonjin Kim 9781138113527
RRP: $99.32Booksplease Price: $87.38Coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture (CGRA) has emerged as a solution for flexible, application-specific optimization of embedded systems. Helping you understand the issues involved in designing and constructing embedded systems, Design of... -
Introduction to Contextual Processing: Theory and Applications by Gregory Vert 9781138112926
RRP: $99.32Booksplease Price: $87.38Helping to advance a valuable paradigm shift in the next generation and processing of knowledge, this seminal work provides a comprehensive model for constructing a contextually based processing system that can support advanced semantic web and cloud... -
Costume Design for Video Games: An Exploration of Historical and Fantastical Skins by Sandy Appleoff Lyons 9781138086050
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $153.47Costume Design for Video Games: An Exploration of Historical and Fantastical Skins explores the rich and colorful history of fashion throughout the ages. Each page goes into detail concerning the social significance of Iconic period pieces. From the real... -
On Animation: The Director's Perspective Vol 2 by Ron Diamond 9781138067097
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $154.50On Animation: The Director's Perspective is a collection of interviews with 23 animated feature-film directors. These extensive interviews were conducted over the past several years by filmmakers and educators (and peers to the directors interviews) Tom... -
GPS Tracking with Java EE Components: Challenges of Connected Cars by Kristof Beiglbock 9781138054943
RRP: $128.99Booksplease Price: $112.60GPS Tracking with Java EE Components: Challenges of Connected Cars highlights how the self-driving car is actually changing the automotive industry, from programing embedded software to hosting services and data crunching, in real time, with really big... -
Knowledge and Systems Science: Enabling Systemic Knowledge Synthesis by Yoshiteru Nakamori 9781138033795
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97Integrating ideas from the fields of systems science and knowledge science, Knowledge and Systems Science: Enabling Systemic Knowledge Synthesis shows how to create and justify various pieces of knowledge systemically. Written by one of the foremost... -
Successful ScrumButt: Learn to Modify Scrum Project Management for Student and Virtual Teams by Noah Dyer 9781138032958
RRP: $148.35Booksplease Price: $129.06Have you ever seen a promising project get abandoned right when it seemed like it was getting ready to launch, or a project that always seemed like it was going to launch "next month," but took many months or even years before it actually launched? Scrum... -
Redesigning Animation: United Productions of America Cinzia Bottini 9780815381785
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.05The animation studio United Productions of America (UPA) was able to challenge Disney supremacy in the 1950s entertainment market by creating cutting-edge animated cartoons. UPA films express a simplified audiovisual language consisting of stylized... -
Architectural Approach to Level Design: Second edition Christopher W. Totten (American University, Washington, DC, USA) 9780815361374
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $154.50Written by a game developer and professor trained in architecture, An Architectural Approach to Level Design is one of the first books to integrate architectural and spatial design theory with the field of level design. It explores the principles of... -
Vaclav Trojan: Music Composition in Czech Animated Films by Marco Bellano 9780815358527
RRP: $79.97Booksplease Price: $71.61This book explores the Czech composer Vaclav Trojan (1907-1983) and his compositions for Jiri Trnka's films, a very influential puppet stop-motion animator. Trnka is regarded as one of the finest outcomes of Czech art in the aftermath of the Second World... -
A Guide for Machine Vision in Quality Control by Sheila Anand 9780815349273
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $138.07Machine Vision systems combine image processing with industrial automation. One of the primary areas of application of Machine Vision in the Industry is in the area of Quality Control. Machine vision provides fast, economic and reliable inspection that... -
Level Design: Processes and Experiences Christopher W. Totten (American University, Washington, DC, USA) 9781138628809
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $153.86In this book, veteran game developers, academics, journalists, and others provide their processes and experiences with level design. Each provides a unique perspective representing multiple steps of the process for interacting with and creating game... -
Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling by Toiya Kristen Finley 9781138613935
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $164.90Despite its significant growth over the past five years, the mobile and social videogame industry is still maturing at a rapid rate. Due to various storage and visual and sound asset restrictions, mobile and social gaming must have innovative... -
Browsers, Devices, and Fonts: A Designer's Guide to Fonts and How They Function on the Web by Gary Rozanc 9781138612341
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $164.51Part technical and part theoretical, this practical guide to web typography helps designers understand how the typographic choices they make in layout and prototyping programs behave once they are turned into live code. Through a series of demos, this... -
Surviving Game School...and the Game Industry After That by Michael Lynch 9781138568136
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $164.90Surviving Game School speaks about what to expect in a top game design or game development college program, and what to expect once students get out. Making games is not at all the same as playing games. Uncommonly blunt, the book reveals the rigors -... -
Software Engineering Perspectives in Computer Game Development Kendra M. L. Cooper 9781138503786
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $136.88Featuring contributions from leading experts in software engineering, this edited book provides a comprehensive introduction to computer game software development. It is a complex, interdisciplinary field that relies on contributions from a wide variety... -
Artificial Intelligence: With an Introduction to Machine Learning, Second Edition Richard E. Neapolitan 9781138502383
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $148.98The first edition of this popular textbook, Contemporary Artificial Intelligence, provided an accessible and student friendly introduction to AI. This fully revised and expanded update, Artificial Intelligence: With an Introduction to Machine Learning,... -
Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer by Lindsay D. Grace 9781138367241
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $153.47Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer brings together thought leadership in romance and affection games to explain the past, present, and possible future of affection play in games. The authors apply a combination of game analysis and design... -
The Game Production Toolbox by Heather Maxwell Chandler 9781138341715
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $147.95The Game Production Toolbox focuses on the nuts and bolts of producing interactive content and how you can organize and support the creative, technical, and business efforts that are all part of interactive game development. This book isn't going to tell... -
20 Essential Games to Study by Joshua Bycer 9781138341463
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $164.51The purpose of this book is to look over the past 35 years of games to discuss titles whose design deserves to be studied by anyone with an interest in game design. While there are plenty of books that focus on the technical side of Game Development,... -
Procedural Storytelling in Game Design Tanya X. Short 9781138595316
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $153.86This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games. Games are an interactive medium, and this interplay between author, player and machine provides new and exciting ways to create and tell... -
Mechanical Creations in 3D: A Practical Look into Complex and Technical Setups for Animation & VFX by Stewart Jones 9781138560505
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $164.51Cogs, cranks, wheels, plates, chains, springs and pistons - a nightmare for animators. This book shows 3D artists how to create, setup, control and automate movements for complex and technically challenging mechanical structures all while working on a... -
Exascale Scientific Applications: Scalability and Performance Portability by Tjerk P. Straatsma 9780367572716
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.16From the Foreword:"The authors of the chapters in this book are the pioneers who will explore the exascale frontier. The path forward will not be easy... These authors, along with their colleagues who will produce these powerful computer systems will,... -
Introduction to Geometric Algebra Computing Dietmar Hildenbrand 9780367571320
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.13From the Foreword:"Dietmar Hildenbrand's new book, Introduction to Geometric Algebra Computing, in my view, fills an important gap in Clifford's geometric algebra literature...I can only congratulate the author for the daring simplicity of his novel... -
Handbook of Image-Based Security Techniques by Shivendra Shivani 9780367571634
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.55This book focuses on image based security techniques, namely visual cryptography, watermarking, and steganography. This book is divided into four sections. The first section explores basic to advanced concepts of visual cryptography. The second section... -
Security for Software Engineers James N. Helfrich (Brigham Young University, Idaho, USA) 9780367656812
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $54.43Security for Software Engineers is designed to introduce security concepts to undergraduate software engineering students. The book is divided into four units, each targeting activities that a software engineer will likely be involved in within industry... -
Background Modeling and Foreground Detection for Video Surveillance by Thierry Bouwmans 9780367659110
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.16Background modeling and foreground detection are important steps in video processing used to detect robustly moving objects in challenging environments. This requires effective methods for dealing with dynamic backgrounds and illumination changes as well... -
Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges by John R. Vacca 9780367151164
RRP: $174.15Booksplease Price: $154.50This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cloud computing security technology and implementation while exploring practical solutions to a wide range of cloud computing security issues. As more organizations use cloud computing and cloud providers... -
Large-Scale Machine Learning in the Earth Sciences by Ashok N. Srivastava 9780367573232
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.13From the Foreword:"While large-scale machine learning and data mining have greatly impacted a range of commercial applications, their use in the field of Earth sciences is still in the early stages. This book, edited by AshokSrivastava, Ramakrishna... -
From Internet of Things to Smart Cities: Enabling Technologies by Hongjian Sun 9780367572983
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.51From Internet of Things to Smart Cities: Enabling Technologies explores the information and communication technologies (ICT) needed to enable real-time responses to current environmental, technological, societal, and economic challenges. ICT technologies... -
Animation Masterclasses: From Pencils to Pixels: A Complete Course in Animation & Production Tony White 9781032348841
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $143.45Today, it is commonly believed that if you learn software, you can become an animator. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. Master animators are trained and not born. Software, as is the humble pencil, is merely yet another tool through which an... -
Creating Games with Unity, Substance Painter, & Maya: Models, Textures, Animation, & Code Jingtian Li 9780367506018
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $70.43This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Unity, Substance Painter, and Maya. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and... -
Mobile Devices: Tools and Technologies by Lauren Collins 9780367658854
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.51Wireless and mobile communications have grown exponentially. The average individual now possesses a minimum of two smart mobile devices. The consistent advancement of mobile devices feeds the ever-growing appetite for faster bandwidth, uninterrupted... -
Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering by Alexander Romanovsky 9780367574420
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.51From the Foreword"Getting CPS dependability right is essential to forming a solid foundation for a world that increasingly depends on such systems. This book represents the cutting edge of what we know about rigorous ways to ensure that our CPS designs... -
Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Networks by Mazin Gilbert 9780367570965
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.73Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Networks introduces the autonomous network by juxtaposing two unique technologies and communities: Networking and AI. The book reviews the technologies behind AI and software-defined network/network function... -
Explorations in Computing: An Introduction to Computer Science and Python Programming by John S. Conery 9780367659035
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $62.10An Active Learning Approach to Teaching the Main Ideas in Computing Explorations in Computing: An Introduction to Computer Science and Python Programming teaches computer science students how to use programming skills to explore fundamental concepts and... -
Introduction to Bio-Ontologies by Peter N. Robinson 9780367659271
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $56.51Introduction to Bio-Ontologies explores the computational background of ontologies. Emphasizing computational and algorithmic issues surrounding bio-ontologies, this self-contained text helps readers understand ontological algorithms and their...