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GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 2.6 (GIS Tutorials)

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  GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 2.6 (GIS Tutorials) GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 2.6 (GIS Tutorials) OTHER ARTICLES Updated for use with ArcGIS(R) Pro 2.6GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 2.6 is the introductory workbook for learning geographic information systems with ArcGIS Pro, the premier professional desktop geographic information system (GIS) application from Esri. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data using map visualizations and location intelligence. Using ArcGIS Pro for these tasks allows you to understand complex data with the leading GIS software that many businesses, organizations, and institutions use every day.Designed for use in classrooms or for self-learners, GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 2.6 delves into GIS concepts and hands-on lessons in every chapter for an easy-to-follow guide for learning GIS and ArcGIS Pro. Using proven teaching methods, this book shows you how to make maps, create and analyze spatial data, ...

Adobe Photoshop Unmasked: The Art And Science of Selections, Layers, And Paths

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  Adobe Photoshop Unmasked: The Art And Science of Selections, Layers, And Paths Adobe Photoshop Unmasked: The Art And Science of Selections, Layers, And Paths OTHER ARTICLES As the feature list of Adobe Photoshop continues to grow, even users with years of experience can feel overwhelmed by the many tools and methods for selecting or isolating parts of an image. This work draws on the selection tools and techniques for specific tasks, and the flexible approaches to correcting and editing images in Photoshop.

Microsoft Pubisher 2010 (SAM 2010 Compatible Products)

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  Microsoft Pubisher 2010 (SAM 2010 Compatible Products) Microsoft Pubisher 2010 (SAM 2010 Compatible Products) OTHER ARTICLES Microsoft Publisher 2010: Comprehensive provides a project-based, step-by-step approach to teaching Publisher 2010.

GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook, 10.3 Edition (GIS Tutorials)

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  GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook, 10.3 Edition (GIS Tutorials) GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook, 10.3 Edition (GIS Tutorials) OTHER ARTICLES GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook is a top-selling introductory text for learning ArcGIS 10.3.x for Desktop. The workbook presents GIS tools and functionality, including querying interactive maps, collecting data, and running geoprocessing tools. Incorporating proven teaching methods in detailed exercises, Your Turn sections, and homework assignments, this book is suited to learning GIS in a classroom. The latest edition includes a new chapter about analyzing street network data to solve routing and facility location problems using ArcGIS Network Analyst. Data for completing the exercises is available for download. Instructor resources are also available.

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

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  100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People OTHER ARTICLES We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and inefficient. This book combines real science and research with practical examples to deliver a guide every designer needs. With it you'll be able to design more intuitive and engaging work for print, websites, applications, and products that matches the way people think, work, and play.Learn to increase the effectiveness, conversion rates, and usability of your own design projects by finding the answers to questions such as: What grabs and holds attention on a page or screen?What makes memories stick?What is more important, peripheral or central vision?How can you predict the types of errors that...

Process / Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition

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  Process / Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition Process / Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition OTHER ARTICLES Extensive practical plant based knowledge to achieve the best automation system BACK COVER DESCRIPTION: This fully updated on-the-job reference contains all the automation and control information you need to make timely decisions, and maximize process capacity and efficiency. Featuring contributions from 50 top technical experts, Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition covers the latest technologies and advances. More importantly, the book helps you select the right instrumentation, install and maintain it correctly, and leverage it to maximize plant performance and profitability. You will get all you need to know to execute a successful automation project including time-saving tables, lists of essential best practices, and hundreds of topic-defining illustrations.Coverage includes: - Process varia...

The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

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  The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks OTHER ARTICLES A practical guide on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for professionals and novices, that can be used both as a tutorial and read cover-to-cover or as a handy and practical reference book to common problems, solutions and effects. The 2nd edition is now full-color throughout and is completely updated and revised with the latest tips & tricks. This book will show you how to:Construct robust CSS layouts that work every time. Create sleek drop-down menus using only CSS. Build a professional tabbed navigation system. Replace image-based navigation with low-fat CSS lists. Design smarter, more usable CSS-flavored web forms. Use rounded corners minus the bloated HTML. Allow your visitors to select their preferred look and feel. Let the W3C validator do your debugging. Reduce the burden of site maintenance and updates. ... along with 92 other solutions to common ...

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 7

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  Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 7 Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 7 OTHER ARTICLES This is the Photoshop Elements guide made just for visual learners. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Photoshop Elements tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, showing you how to import images from a digital camera, create a catalog or smart album, use the selection tools, merge group shots or combine faces. adjust colors with the Smart Brush, add effects to your images, and more. Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules.

Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution

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  Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution OTHER ARTICLES Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution tells the story of how the current age of geospatial knowledge evolved from its ancient origins to become ubiquitous in daily life across the globe, weaving a tapestry of stories about the people, events, ideas, and technologies that affected the trajectory of what has become known as GEOINT.

Microsoft Excel 2002: Introductory Concepts and Techniques

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  Microsoft Excel 2002: Introductory Concepts and Techniques Microsoft Excel 2002: Introductory Concepts and Techniques OTHER ARTICLES Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, Microsoft Excel 2002 Introductory Concepts and Techniques provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color screen shots, helping students learn basic Excel 2002 skills quickly and easily.

Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Exploration

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  Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Exploration Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Exploration OTHER ARTICLES This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago. The scale of Ice Age floods was so huge that today it is often difficult to see and appreciate the power and magnitude of such megafloods from ground level. However, from the air, landforms created by the floods often come into clear focus. Aerial images, obtained via unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) as well as fixed-wing airplane, add a new perspective on evidence gathered by dozens of scientists since 1923.

Photoshop 6 Power Shortcuts (Hayden/Que)

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  Photoshop 6 Power Shortcuts (Hayden/Que) Photoshop 6 Power Shortcuts (Hayden/Que) OTHER ARTICLES Including various shortcuts known to man, this reference allows you to not only save time but also to focus more on creativity. It is aimed at Photoshop users.

Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence)

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  Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence) Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Artificial Intelligence) OTHER ARTICLES Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text. Beginning with elementary reactive agents, Nilsson gradually increases their cognitive horsepower to illustrate the most important and lasting ideas in AI. Neural networks, genetic programming, computer vision, heuristic search, knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks, planning, and language understanding are each revealed through the growing capabilities of these agents. The book provides a refreshing and motivating new synthesis of the field by one of AI's master expositors and leading researchers. Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis takes the reader on a complete tour of this intriguing new world of AI.* An evolutionary approach provides a unifying theme * Thorough...

InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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  InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) InDesign 1.0/1.5 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) OTHER ARTICLES This cross-platform guide introduces you to the InDesign interface including the tools and palettes how to create and navigate a document, work with text and objects, use pen tools, import and manipulate graphics and work with long documents and styles.

CNC Programming Handbook, Third Edition (Volume 1)

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  CNC Programming Handbook, Third Edition (Volume 1) CNC Programming Handbook, Third Edition (Volume 1) OTHER ARTICLES Over its first two editions, this best-selling book has become the de facto standard for training and reference material at all levels of CNC programming. Used in hundreds of educational institutions around the world as the primary text for CNC courses, and used daily by many in-field CNC programmers and machine operators, this book literally defines CNC programming. Written with careful attention to detail, there are no compromises. Many of the changes in this new Third Edition are the direct result of comments and suggestions received from many CNC professionals in the field. This extraordinarily comprehensive work continues to be packed with over one thousand illustrations, tables, formulas, tips, shortcuts, and practical examples.The enclosed CD-ROM now contains a fully functional 15-day shareware version of CNC tool path editor/simulator, NCPlot™. This powerfu...

The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic Book: Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time

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  The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic Book: Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic Book: Automating Photoshop to Get Twice the Work Done in Half the Time OTHER ARTICLES Provides information on ways to automate a variety of Adobe Photoshop tasks to save time, covering such topics as Adobe Bridge, working with smart objects, using Adobe Camera Raw, and working with scripts.

Beginning Scribus

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  Beginning Scribus Beginning Scribus OTHER ARTICLES Beginning Scribus is the book you wish you'd read when you downloaded Scribus for the first time. Scribus is an award-winning page-layout program used by newspaper designers, magazine designers and those who want to do proper page layout but not pay for an expensive solution. It is free and Open Source, providing a useful alternative for those who cannot afford or choose not to use Adobe InDesign or QuarkXpress.Beginning Scribus provides you with the skills you will need in order to use this program productively. It demonstrates the techniques used by printers and publishers in order to create a range of layouts and effects, and it shows you how you can use these techniques to design everything from a flyer to a three-fold brochure. Using the latest Scribus release, Beginning Scribus takes you through the process of designing a magazine from start to finish and teaches you some of the tricks of professional page layout and design...

AutoLISP in Plain English: A Practical Guide for Non-Programmers: For Releases 10, 11, and 12 (AutoCAD Reference Library)

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  AutoLISP in Plain English: A Practical Guide for Non-Programmers: For Releases 10, 11, and 12 (AutoCAD Reference Library) AutoLISP in Plain English: A Practical Guide for Non-Programmers: For Releases 10, 11, and 12 (AutoCAD Reference Library) OTHER ARTICLES Here is the only book that teaches the non-expert how to use AutoCAD's powerful internal programmer to solve common drawing problems. AutoCAD users will save hours of work--and countless headaches--on the strength of the advice offered in this expert guide.

The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers

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  The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers OTHER ARTICLES As a full-featured, free alternative to Adobe Photoshop, GIMP is one of the world's most popular open source projects. The latest version of GIMP (2.8) brings long-awaited improvements and powerful new tools to make graphic design and photo manipulation even easier--but it's still a notoriously challenging program to use.The Artist's Guide to GIMP teaches you how to use GIMP without a tedious list of menu paths and options. Instead, as you follow along with Michael J. Hammel's step-by-step instructions, you'll learn to produce professional-looking advertisements, apply impressive photographic effects, and design cool logos and text effects. These extensively illustrated tutorials are perfect for hands-on learning or as templates for your o...

Methods in Theoretical Quantum Optics (Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging Sciences, 15)

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  Methods in Theoretical Quantum Optics (Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging Sciences, 15) Methods in Theoretical Quantum Optics (Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging Sciences, 15) OTHER ARTICLES Methods in theoretical quantum optics is aimed at those readers who already have some knowledge of mathematical methods and have also been introduced to the basic ideas if quantum optics. This book is ideal for students who have already explored the basics of the quantum theory of light andare seeking to acquire the mathematical skills used in real problems. This book is not primarily about the physics of quantum optics, but rather presents the mathematical methods widely used by workers in this field. There is no comparable book which covers either the range or the depth ofmathematical techniques.

GIS for Science, Volume 3: Maps for Saving the Planet (GIS for Science, 3)

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  GIS for Science, Volume 3: Maps for Saving the Planet (GIS for Science, 3) GIS for Science, Volume 3: Maps for Saving the Planet (GIS for Science, 3) OTHER ARTICLES GIS for Science: Maps for Saving the Planet, Volume 3, highlights real-world examples of scientists creating maps about saving life on Earth and preserving biodiversity. With Earth and the natural world at risk from various forces, geographic information system (GIS) mapping is essential for driving scientifically conscious decision-making about how to protect life on Earth. In volume 3 of GIS for Science, explore a collection of maps from scientists working to save the planet through documenting and protecting its biodiversity.In this volume, learn how GIS and data mapping are used in tandem withglobal satellite observation forestry marine policy artificial intelligence conservation biology, and environmental education to help preserve and chronicle life on Earth. This volume also spotlights important global action i...