Mar 30 2015 Added eBooks

Most photographers love photographing peoplebut they will also readily admit that there are a lot of challenges to making great portraits. In this book, professional portrait photographer Bill Israelson explores the skills that lie at the heart of a successful approach to portrait photography. First, he helps you set your overall objectives for the image and your depiction of the subject, which will determine the equipment you';ll need. Then, he lays out a simple six-step process designed to help you achieve your objectives(from location selection through lighting and posing) and create a great-looking portrait of any subject in any situation. Delving further into the process, he presents individual chapters dedicated to meeting the unique challenges...

Award-winning photographer Tiffany Wayne takes you behind the scenes as she creates images of couples to mark their engagement or celebrate their wedding. At each phase of the photography, the lighting and posing challenges varybut there';s one important constant: showing the true character of the romantic connection between the pair. While some couples are free-spirited and relaxed, others reveal their love in more subdued or traditional ways; in either case, the seasoned photographer will know how to illicit those pure feelings and capture them beautifully. Wayne shows you how to do just that, using backgrounds, lighting, and posing that fit the couple';s personal style and creating an atmosphere that puts them at ease in front of the camera....

Writing proficiency is more important than ever, especially with the demands of standardized testing and the rigors of new standards impacting our schools. This classroom-tested manual, created from a combination of the author's extensive in-class experience and acclaimed research in neural science and developmental biology, addresses all facets of writing competency. The content links to common core curriculum elements in state language arts standards for every state.Written by experienced educator and author Kendall Haven, the work features 13 innovative writing tips and 30 engaging activities for helping students become better writers. The first part of the book covers writing hints and techniques, while the second half contains core content activ...

Network science is a rapidly emerging field of study that encompasses mathematics, computer science, physics, and engineering. A key issue in the study of complex networks is to understand the collective behavior of the various elements of these networks.Although the results from graph theory have proven to be powerful in investigating the structures of complex networks, few books focus on the algorithmic aspects of complex network analysis. Filling this need, Complex Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective supplies the basic theoretical algorithmic and graph theoretic knowledge needed by every researcher and student of complex networks.This book is about specifying, classifying, designing, and implementing mostly sequential and also parallel and distri...

Apache Spark is emerging as one of the most popular technologies for performing analytics on huge datasets, and this practical guide shows you how to harness Spark';s power for approaching a variety of analytics problems. You';ll learn how to apply common techniques, such as classification, clustering, collaborative filtering, anomaly detection, dimensionality reduction, and Monte Carlo simulation to fields such as genomics, security, and finance.Advanced Analytics with Spark supplies complete implementations that analyze large public datasets, and acts as an introduction to using these techniques and other best practices in Spark programming.Become familiar with the Spark programming model and ecosystemLearn general approaches in data scienceDiscove...