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Role-playing games, also known as RPGs, are those sword-and-sorcery quest games that feature turn-based combat, inventories full of unique...

Welcome to the world of Microsoft Word 2010. This new Picture Yourself book from Cengage Learning will help you use the many and varied features of one of Microsoft’s most popular products—Microsoft Word, part of the Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft Word 2010 is a powerful word processing program that will take your...

Gaining access to the interactive learning activities on this Online Companion is easy—all you need to do is create a user profile. This simple, one-time process establishes you as a user in the CoursePort authentication system. By utilizing the Online Companion, students and instructors can reinforce the concepts they’re...

Approximation algorithms have developed in response to the impossibility of solving a great variety of important optimization problems. Too frequently, when attempting to get a solution for a problem, one is confronted with the fact that the problem is NP-haid. This, in the words of Garey and Johnson, means "I can't find an...

What makes a good slide show great? In reality, most of us have an intuitive idea of how to create a basic slide show, but without careful study, most people underestimate the number of tricks that make a great slide show. When you’re ready to go beyond the basics and do more with your shows, when you’re ready to create a...

An open source content management system (CMS) like WordPress can be a great resource for anyone who would like to create a blog. It used to be that, to put content online, you had to manually assemble all the files and develop a fair amount of technical expertise; but a CMS can automate and significantly simplify many parts of the...

The rapid advance of technology has changed and influenced how we think about gathering digital evidence. Soon after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, many young men and women volunteered to serve their country in different ways. For those who did not choose the military, options included...

Welcome to Wedding Videography: Start to Finish, a resource to help you step confidently into the field of wedding videography. This book is designed to step the novice wedding videographer through the process of starting a wedding-videography business, filming a wedding, editing the wedding footage, and outputting the final product...

I’m delighted that Cengage Learning invited me to write this third edition of Digital Painting Fundamentals with Corel Painter. The earlier books, for versions X (pronounced “ten”) and 11 (pronounced “eleven”) were greeted with very positive responses from users and critics, not just my friends and...

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