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Demystify your digital camera and start having fun!
Find out about setting up shots, transferring photos, and making great prints
Don't let that digital camera sit in its box another minute! This book is much easier to read than the manual. It'll help you decode the hieroglyphics on the buttons and cables, shoot the photos you want, and then get your pictures out of the camera and into the hands - or computers - of family and friends.
The Dummies Way
- Explanations in plain English
- "Get in, get out" information
- Icons and other navigational aids
- Tear-out cheat sheet
- Top ten lists
- A dash of humor and fun
Customer Reviews:
BOOK REVIEW By Marc Busch.......2006-07-18
Very good book. I'm going to be using this book as an optional textbook for an Adult Education course I'm teaching on sharing digital photos through the Internet this Fall. The information in this book is very hard to find anywhere else. The book is very readable, and is chock-full of examples, photos, and explanatory diagrams and tips. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in Digital Photography that wishes to share photos via the Internet.--M. Busch
Specialized, but good.......2006-04-06
The Dummies folks seem to be running out of topics, and this one is a little specialized, but I found it surprisingly useful. The author covers everything you need to know about sharing your photos, and I learned quite a few things. This book is sure to attract the attention of those who have been busy shooting digital pictures, and now wonder what they can do with them. They won't be disappointed with the tricks revealed in this book.
Customer Reviews:
Canalises Wrath.......2001-08-16
The only way to safely express the feelings Bill Clinton's conduct produces is the editorial cartoon. The man just defies words. So this was a vintage year for cartoonists - and it shows. The cartoons in this book are just great. They canalise wrath into laughter, but also - on social issues - create the awareness that some matters are too serious to be laughed at.
Support your local editorial cartoonist.......1999-11-03
A very good reason to buy this book: it features some of my own work. Really, this is reason enough to buy this excellent volume. Trust me.
Customer Reviews:
Consistant with the past, an excellent collection.......2000-07-23
I have almost all editions collected by Charles Brooks since 1990, and this is an excellent supplement. As before, the presentation is a diverse combination of the very best in editoral cartoons. This book presents a genuine self-examination of not only US politics but all aspects of life on Earth.
Tour-de-force presentation of recent political cartoon humor.......2000-06-05
The 2000 edition is out, and it provides hilarious analogies of Kenneth Starr and Clinton, Y2K, and other major editorial issues of our times. From a Coke-snorting Al Gore to the appearance of the ghost of labor day past, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year is filled with black and white editorial cartoons from a variety of sources who remark on modern ironies and inconsistencies.
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This new edition directory is the most complete, reliable and comprehensive reference book on below-the-line crew talent for motion pictures.
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"Scholar, composer, conductor, teacher, author, music publisher, indefatigable advocate--Gunther Schuller isn't merely a musician; he's a monopoly." So wrote Alan Rich of New York Magazine in 1978, and his description still holds.
Musings is a marvelous introduction to Schuller and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste, and learning. The book is devided into four sections offering a rich sampling of Schuller's musical interests. In Part I, "Jazz and the Third Stream," Schuller gives us his definitions of
jazz as well as insightful pieces on such figures as Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, and Cecil Taylor. Part II, "Music Performance and Contemporary Music," includes pieces on conducting, the future of opera, the question of a new classicism, and the works of Monteverdi and
Stravinsky, Part III shows us "Schuller the Composer" with such pieces as "Shapes and Designs," "Composing for Orchestra," and "In Praise of Winds," as well as Schuller's own thought about his controversial opera The Visitation. The final section, "Music Esthetics and Education," finds Schuller
reflecting on such matters as form, structure, and symbol in music, and the need for broadening the audience for quality music.
From the scholarly to the popular and the polemical, Musings will delight Schuller's admirers and win new converts.
About the Authors:
Gunther Schuller is the author of Early Jazz which Nat Hentoff proclaimed a "remarkable breakthrough in musical analysis of jazz." In addition to composing and conducting, Schuller has been President of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
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Securitization is a corporate funding technique that is widely adopted by financial and industrial companies throughout the world, used to finance both working capital and capital budgets. Importantly, it is also used as a risk management tool and a source of liquidity. Securitization has been adapted to fund corporate acquisitions, capitalize future streams of revenue, and to liquidate pools of nonperforming loans. In this book securitization experts Charles Stone and Anne Zissu provide a practical explanation of how securitization works and explain how future cash flows from various asset classes--from credit card receipts and mortgage payments to movie royalties--can be packaged into bond-like products and sold to investors. The discussion includes descriptions of all major classes of asset-backed securities and offers a practice-oriented commentary on trends in securitization and the value of asset- and mortgage-backed securities across industries and throughout the global markets.
Customer Reviews:
Not as helpful as it looks.......2006-03-14
The information provided by this book is limited. It touches several variations of ABS using case studies and market introduction but has done nothing but repeat the securitization process and entities involving the process. It's ok as an intoduction book but far from a good "handbook". I would not recommend it for any quants or traders as it tells not much about how to model and hedge ABS's.
Understanding Asset-backed Securities.......2006-01-09
Authors Charles Austin Stone and Anne Zissu's treatise on asset-backed securities is part handbook and part textbook, including technical charts, graphs and formulas. Both finance professors and Ph.D.'s, the authors are the founding editors of two financial quarterlies, `The Financier' and `The Securitization Conduit'. As you might expect from authors with their expertise, this book thoroughly covers the structure, dynamics and characteristics of various asset-backed securities. You might pick up the book to learn about the precise details of these instruments, or to refresh your memory for the fine points. It carefully explains how institutions package bond-type products for investors based on funding from different assets, such as mortgages or credit card payments. The authors fulfill every reader's wish for comprehensiveness, although they place a good deal less emphasis on style and readability. Even specialists will find this a challenging read, though it is an information-packed reference book. We believe it is useful and appropriate for professionals who need to know the technical details of particular market structures.
Excellent reference book for beginners and pros.......2005-10-20
There are not a lot of books out there on this topic and this one is great for what it attempts to do. It is not an end all be all type book that covers everything, but is a very good place to start. It touches the main points of history, motivation, products, structures, legal, accounting, credit enhancement, cash flow analysis, valuation and investment. Do not missunderstand me, even though it is somewhat general, this is a techinical book.
It lays out the basic mechanisms for monetizing a selected type of assets using flow diagrams, excerpts from prospectuses, accounting standards and cases studies. This method should satisfy practitioners from many fields as it hits on so many high level specifics.
This is my area of expertise and although I learned most of this on the fly, I still learned a few things from this book. I wished books like this were around when I got my start. The Fabozzi books, while great for academia, do not offer much to the non-PhD who works rather than teaches for a living. This book gives you something you use.
If you are an accountant, lawyer, structurer, collateral analyst, issuer, risk modeler, prepayment analyst, credit enhancer, bond analyst, portfolio manager or investor in or considering getting in to this area or just want to learn more about it, pick up this book.
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