"Mike Bender has applied his considerable expertise to crafting straightforward and pragmatic guidelines on making project management work for your enterprise. Now it's up to you. This is how you add value to your organization." --Kimi Hirotsu Ziemski, PMP, VP Community Relations, PMI SFBAC; author, When Opposites Collide: Leadership Beyond Gender; and contributing author, PMBOK(R) Guide, 4th Edition "Were I an executive moving my organization to take advantage of new challenges, I'd want this book to ensure I achieve the most out of my project portfolio.

Aimed at the senior managers of SMEs who are looking to sell all or part of the business. This book shows how to implement Corporate Governance procedures to add both perceived and real value to a business. Implementing CG procedures before sale of the business is likely to add a premium to the price, increase the pool of buyers at the asking price and bring a business to the top of the acquisition shopping list.

A rising star in the food world, Michael Psilakis is co-owner of a growing empire of modern Mediterranean restaurants, and one of the most exciting young chefs in America today. In How to Roast a Lamb, the self-taught chef offers recipes from his restaurants and his home in this, his much-anticipated first cookbook.
Ten chapters provide colorful and heartfelt personal essays that lead into thematically related recipes. Gorgeous color photography accompanies many of the recipes throughout.

A rising star in the food world, Michael Psilakis is co-owner of a growing empire of modern Mediterranean restaurants, and one of the most exciting young chefs in America today. In How to Roast a Lamb, the self-taught chef offers recipes from his restaurants and his home in this, his much-anticipated first cookbook.

Whether you want to prepare your computer for Windows 7, avoid investing in a new one, or just "go green", this fully illustrated guide has what you need. You'll learn how to add printers and new keyboards, boost your PC's performance and increase memory, improve power consumption, rev up your multimedia capacity, and much more.

With the 40 fabulous projects in this eye-opening manual and the revolutionary new forms of transfer paper on the market, such as Lazertran, it’s possible to reproduce any design on a wide variety of surfaces effortlessly. The basic technique couldn’t be easier.

A new Gartner report says that by 2014, citizen developers will build at least 25% of new business applications. A citizen developer is defined as an end user who creates business applications for consumption by others using corporate-IT-sanctioned development and runtime environments.

"Mike Bender has applied his considerable expertise to crafting straightforward and pragmatic guidelines on making project management work for your enterprise. Now it's up to you. This is how you add value to your organization." --Kimi Hirotsu Ziemski, PMP, VP Community Relations, PMI SFBAC; author, When Opposites Collide: Leadership Beyond Gender; and contributing author, PMBOK(R) Guide, 4th Edition "Were I an executive moving my organization to take advantage of new challenges, I'd want this book to ensure I achieve the most out of my project portfolio.

Your Mac is an incredible piece of kit, that offers features to suit anyone and everyone. Designed to be accessible, intelligent and reliable, it’s simple to just turn your machine on and get straight in to everything it has to offer. However, there’s so much more to these machines than first meets the eye. Dig a little deeper and you’ll open a whole new world of possibilities. That’s where this book comes in. Packed with in-depth features and step-by-step tutorials, you’ll learn how to hone your Mac skills, and improve the way your machine works. Whether your Mac’s a little sluggish and want to speed things up, or you want to add that personal touch to your desktop, we’ll show you how. With guides covering iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Aperture, Final Cut Pro X and more, we’ll also show you how to improve your productivity and create amazing projects on your Mac. On top of that, you can discover how to tweak the inner workings of your machine, including how to add an extra hard drive to your MacBook. Last but not least, we point you in the direction of the best the Mac App Store has to offer, opening up a world of new possibilities.

The rules of making money have changed-forever With the collapse of investment banks, trillion-dollar-plus government bailouts, and the Dow plunging like a rock, it's never been more important to understand-and actually profit from-the "new rules." Fact is, Fiscal Hangover, will give you an investing blueprint that will allow you to profit from the changing global economy.

Weaving together personal stories with 120 appetizing recipes, this friendly cookbook delivers authentically American and vegan cuisine that has to be tasted to be believed. Midwestern-inspired recipes range from very basic to the modestly complicated, but always with an eye on creating something beautiful and delicious in its simplicity. Clear text provides step-by-step instructions and helps new cooks find their feet in a vegan kitchen, with a whole chapter devoted to terms, tools, and techniques. With an eye towards improvisation, the cookbook provides a detailed basic recipe that is good as-is, while providing additional notes that explain how to take each recipe further—to increase flavor, to add drama to the presentation, or just to add extra flourish.

With Fontographer it’s easy to design new typefaces and to customize existing fonts, and the result will be high-quality fonts that can reliably work across different operating systems. Fontographer is designed in order to help you easily create new fonts, customize existing ones, add extra characters, fine-tune spacing and kerning, fix problems in bad fonts and convert old fonts to a new format.

InDesign CS5 opens the door to a new world: with the addition of exciting animation tools and deeper multimedia support. Its now a viable interactive authoring tool. Designers want to create engaging interactive content, but may resist making the transition from page layout to timeline-based thinking. But now its much easier: InDesign CS5s new interactive features are intuitive and easy to learn. And once theyve mastered those tools in the familiar world of InDesign, theyll find that Flash isnt scary after all. Designers already know how to add text, graphics, and geometric shapes to a page in InDesign, its a short walk to adding interactive features. Before they know it, theyre creating Flash content.

With Fontographer it’s easy to design new typefaces and to customize existing fonts, and the result will be high-quality fonts that can reliably work across different operating systems. Fontographer is designed in order to help you easily create new fonts, customize existing ones, add extra characters, fine-tune spacing and kerning, fix problems in bad fonts and convert old fonts to a new format.

When you create a photomontage, you usually start with a background image. Adding new elements to that background is simple enough, but what if you want to change the time of day or the weather conditions in the image? In this workshop you’ll learn a whole range of techniques, from time shifting to creating rain and water effects, from building complex reflections to lighting up windows. You’ll also see how to use Photoshop filters like Motion Blur and Plastic Wrap to create a wide range of liquid and weather effects, how to add convincing shadows, and how to use dramatic lighting effects to bring a dull image to life.

This 3-day course is dedicated to teaching you how to add that fine art sensibility to your portfolio. Through the use of her creative techniques, Brooke is going to show you how to transform mundane images into dramatic, eye-catching works of art. Intended for motivated beginners and experienced pros alike, this course will walk you through everything you need to know to create jaw-dropping images and have them hanging on gallery walls in no time. after 3 days with Brooke, you will have mastered new, innovative lighting techniques, Photoshop editing, pitching your images to a gallery rep, and much more

In this training course for Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, expert author Andy Anderson introduces you this top notch web editing software from Adobe. Whether you are new to Dreamweaver, or have used it before, Andy will show you how to get the most out of Dreamweaver to create amazing web pages!
Starting with the basics, Andy shows you step-by-step how to use Dreamweaver. You begin with a tour of Dreamweaver and its interface, and how to setup the software to make web design easier. Once you have that down, this tutorial will show you how to add text, create links, add pictures, style your content and layout, add tables and work with forms. You will learn about working with behaviours, how to use Spry, templates, libraries and snippets, how to edit in code view, and how to add and work with multimedia.

Zack Petrocs Art Directing Series continues with "The Digital Maquette, Volume 2", in which he outlines the creation of the Froad Rider, the costume and peripheral accessories using ZBrush. Watch as Zack develops the character from a low-resolution organized mesh for the head, and box meshes for the costume and accessories. After posing the character using ZBrushs new Transpose tools he documents the process for outputting the character as a 3D print with Gentle Giant Studios. Zack presents the workflow with the artist in mind, highlighting specific tools and techniques and focusing on how they add to the creative freedom of the design process. He also discusses how to define your character from both an art directing and digital sculpting perspective. This lecture is intended for Art Directors and Production Designers who are interested in discovering how digital sculpting can add to their creative process. Additionally, it presents information for artists who are interested in growing their skills as design sculptors.