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| Today's Featured Article John Wiley & Sons: Jossey-Bass: Counceling ![[Untitled]](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/3RC41lb_-D5JPmd9eJgq7A44171/GW75H97 "[Untitled]") The Handbook of Career Advising by Kenneth F. Hughey, Dorothy Burton Nelson, Joannek K. Damminger, Betsy McCalla-Wriggins, and associates published by Jossey-Bass in 2009. This book is a resource to assist you in making career advising an integral part of academic advising; it provides the theory and foundations of career advising, hands-on strategies and applications you can utilize on your campus. career advising is an increasingly important activity for academic advisors. This title adds value to the career advising and as a result, the academic and career planning and development of students will be enhanced. Kenneth F. Hughey is professor and chair of the Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs at Kansas State University in  Manhattan, Kansas. Dorothy Burton nelson directs the Center for Student Excellence at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Joanne K. Damminger iis director of Student Transition and Leadership program at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Betsy McCalla-Wriggins is director emeritus of the career and Academic Planning Center at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Continue New Titles on Photography From Amherst Media  Available Light: Photographic Techniques for Using Existing Light Sources by Don Marr published by Amherst Media in 2009. No matter how much control and technique we develop as photographers, we are always surprised at the outcome of every shot. Light reveals and transforms your subject; the light of the natural world never stop doing its miracles. This title is about the light and its importance. You will learn about finding studio-quality lighting at outdoor locations, quick fixes for working in bright sunlight, tips for flattering images in open-shade lighting situations, creating value contrast in your available-light images, avoiding lens flare - or embracing it for creative effects, and much more. Don Marr shows how to harness the power of available light to create great images.. | In The News News From O'Reilly: Designing Social Interfaces, Building Social Web Applications ![[Untitled]](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/2/i4qquJUhFTn1c2J8YdDbJQ13765/GW94H125 "[Untitled]") Building Social Web Applications: Establishing Community at the Heart of Your Site by Gavin Bell published by O’Reilly in 2009. Over the past decade, the Web has become an increasingly social place. Facebook alone has 200 million registered people. You need to recognize and incorporate this change. This book is about making applications in this Web, referred to as Web.2.0. This title focus on the social web, this is a “design is how it works“ book, based on Gavin‘s experiences as an interaction designer and product manager. Continue From RockyNook: New Photography Books  Architectural Photography: Composition, Capture, and Digital Image Processing by Adrian Schulz published by RockyNook in 2009. This title will teach about equipment and ingredients you need for a successful image, about improvement of your images in your digital darkroom, and much more. Also, you will find the answers to many questions, it is a step-by-step guide to architectural photography for the amateur and for the professional photographers who want to expand their skills. The reader will realize that architectural photography has unique characteristics that are quite different from other forms of photographic imaging.Adrian Schulz is an architect and a photographer who uses real world projects to teach and illustrate how to capture outstanding images of buildings.  Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style by Alain Briot published by RockyNook in 2009. Based on personal experience, author opens new door leading to... | NeoPopRealism Journal & Wonderpedia Awards: WonderBook of the Month NeoPopRealism Journal & Wonderpedia celebrate WonderBook of November The Little Prince Deluxe Edition Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery  Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Published: 2009 ISBN: 9780152023980 |
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| This Month Featured Titles![[Untitled]](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/HYkq__88UTgPaXufvE3C6A14854/GW114H114 "[Untitled]") Hammond World Atlas (Fifth Edition) Publisher: HAMMOND World Atlas Corporation Published: 2008. This fully-illustrated title is the definitive atlas for our rapidly changing world. It describes a world of breathtaking beauty and heartbreaking devastation, a world of contrasts and of mysteries. As you go through the evocative maps and text in this new fifth edition, you will experience the fascination and excitement of exploration. This book contains the outstanding digital cartography that has become synonymous with the Hammond name. The 36 new pages of thematic text preceding the continent map sections and will draw you into the planet’s mysteries and wonders. This deluxe Hammond World Atlas filled with intellectually stimulating information, compelling photographs and graphics. It is a vital resource for every office, home, and library, and has no equal for in-depth, authoritative content and sheer visual beauty that will renew you spirit of adventure. It has designed for optimum practicality and ease of use.  Photo Journalism Author: Nick Yapp and Amanda Hopkinson Publisher: Konemann, an imprint of Tandem Verlag GmbH Published:2006. In the mid-19th century life was a lottery. Everybody needed luck to survive the perils of childbirth. The poor struggled to exist. The average expectation of life varied from country to country, and from class to class. Death seemed always near at hand and people prayed for a longer and better life. The 20th century has arrived. The U.S. was becoming the richest country in the world. Europeans constructed the railways that crossed south America and Africa, engineered the canals that joined oceans. The museums of Europe filled with the riches of the past. Millions benefited from the advance of science and learning, from education. In this important book reader will find the history in photographs, including a gallery of some of the most famous or notorious figures. This title shows the worldwide cultures and the story of the last 175 years that shaped the world in which we live today. Here are unique images from streets, battlefields, palaces, concert halls. . . Amanda Hopkinson is an author, an exhibition curator, and a reviewer. Nick Yapp is an author and broadcaster.  Wine Author: Andre Domine Publisher: h.f.ullmann, an imprint of Tandem Verlag GmbH Published:2008 This completely revised edition explores a fascinating history of enjoying wine and more. Traditional views as to what wine is about have their origins in the 19th century, and are based on assumptions that are fundamentally different than those facing 21st century consumer. The range of wines oared then was much more limited. The globalized world of the third millennium is no longer a place for the romanticized wine - the appeal that was reserved for a social elite. The current wine market can be divided into four main categories. . . This fully illustrated with fascinating photographs title invites you to find out about difference between red and white wines; you will find out that the color of wine is an indicator of quality; you will learn about private cellars, a storage rooms in which the wines have collected over the years; you will know that serving temperature of a wine has a crucial effect on how it will smell and taste; you will learn about which glass for which wine, and much more, including about vineyard and winery and wines of the world. This new edition was revised and will turn any lover of the sublime driblet into a true connoisseur. Cars  Author: Brian Laban, picture research by Alex Linghorn and Ali Khoja Pulisher: Konemann (in English, German, and French) Published: 2000 It is difficult now to imaging a world without the automobile,, mobility and personal freedom it offers. The world has had to learn to live with the automobile because it cannot live without it. Automobile is the product of the late nineteenth century, an age when technical revolution seemed to know few boundaries. It changed the world, it began as a rich man toy. Karl Benz patented his Motorwagen, the world first practical automobile in 1886. Rom Germany motorcar spread to France, Britain,, in 1890s to America. This deluxe account offers an original view of the first 75 years of the motor car through two world wars, prosperity and depression, resistance and acceptance to the end of 50s. The most of these fascinating images were chronicled by Getty Images. The Pierre Dreyfus Award winner, Brian Laban has been a motoring writer for more than 25 years. He is a regular contributor to British newspapers such as Daily Telegraph, Sunday Business, and Auto Express. | This Month Featured Publisher ASCE ASCE publishes high quality, authoritative books that represent the best thinking in civil engineering research and practice. Prior to publication each title is exhaustively peer-reviewed by groups of subject matter experts. Their list includes more than 1,500 Standards, Manuals of Practice, Committee Reports, Proceedings, and ASCE Press titles  Computing in Civil Engineering: Proceeding of the 2009 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, edited by Carlos H. Caldas, Ph.D. and William J. O’Brien, Ph.D published by ASCE in 2009. Reducing energy consumption in buildings has economical and ecological benefits. But building owners often lack clear direction. The proceedings in this book contain papers presented at the 2009 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, held in Austin, TX. This workshop offers the very best and latest in contemporary research that examines the practical challenges and the areas of technological growth and development. Each paper was put through a rigorous peer-review process. 67 papers from around the world examines sensing, mobile/wearable computing, life-cycle assessment ad sustainable infrastructure design, cutting-edge development, and design. Computational Intelligence: From Theory to Practice, edited by Nii O. Atton-Okine, PH.D., P.E.W.M. Kim Roddis, Ph.D., P.E. and published by ASCE in 2004. Significant progress in the understanding of computational intelligence principles and tools in civil engineering practice has been achieved over the past 2 decades. Neural networks, generic algorithms, and fuzzy systems are becoming standard tools. This title includes papers presented at the 2004 ASCE Information Technology Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland in October, 2004. The papers present the many applications of computational intelligence. It discusses the bridge between the theory and practice of computational intelligence issues. ![[Untitled]](http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/9aUJdwRU8dfKDJF0vkRt3w5328/GW100H160 "[Untitled]") Computer Simulation of Earthquake Effects, edited by Kandiah Arulanandan, A. Anandarajah, and Xiag Song Li ad published by ASCE in 2000. In recent years the sophistication of soil modeling has reached a degree at which it is possible to make calculations of the response of soil to dynamic input. The constitutive relations have been incorporated in computer codes and used to make assessments of ground responses. The change in soil mechanics and soil mechanics thinking is analogous to the change that occurred in the early 60’s in structural engineering. This title presents nondestructive site characterization and property evaluation, constitutive modeling and numerical procedures, and applications. Papers cover the use of ground penetrating radar for predicting changes in soil density, details on the use of an electrical technique for evaluating in situ properties, the constitutive modeling of flow liquefaction and cyclic mobility in detail, and much more. These papers were presented at the GeoDenver Conference held in Denver, August 2000. The objective of the conference was to foster an exchange of data on innovative practice based on data from actual projects. |
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