Readily available, inexpensive, and easily manipulated, polymer clay is an ideal beginner's medium, and Syndee Holt does an admirable job of introducing it. She sets the stage with background on materials and basic handling, then presents 27 approaches and variations as a series of questions on technique whose answers are full-fledged projects. "How do I make a pinroll cane?" for instance, explains a simple cane process and uses it to cover a candleholder. Other cane methods yield jewelry, a frame, a barrette, drawer pulls, and a covered pen, utilizing both basic canes (bull's eye, banner, checkerboard, blended) and pictorial types (flower, millefiori, star, face, shaman). The final section focuses on molds and textural effects such as metallic and rubber stamp effects to produce brooches, light switch covers, a box, and coasters. Most of the designs are fairly ordinary and there are certainly more exciting books on polymer clay, but this one does provide a thorough, easily understood introduction to this popular subject.

Лепить - это просто, - понимает каждый, кому в руки попадает эта книжка. Несложные забавные фигурки, изготовить которые под силу любому, выполненые с любовью и юмором.

...Now that you’ve made the decision to put a shiny new business Web site among the tens of millions of others on the internet, you’re no doubt in a hurry to see the face of your company looking back from the screen – slick, professional, inviting, with eye-catching graphics and exciting text that just begs new customers to check you out...

Вашему вниманию 4 книги по дизйну квартиры и дома:

1. Разбуди своего внутреннего дизайнера (Awaken Your Interior Designer). Очень полезная и богато иллюстрированная книга-гид по созданию интерьера, которая начинается с небольшого теста - чего же вы, собственно, хотите от своего дома.
2. Как создать великолепную комнату. Креативные штампы (How to Create Rooms of Radiance — Creative Stamping)
3. Как создать великолепную комнату. Секреты декорирования (How to Create Rooms of Radiance — Decorative Crafts)
4. Как создать великолепную комнату. Оконные декорации (How to Create Rooms of Radiance — Window Treatments)

Книга посвящена истории создания промышленности ядерных боеприпасов. Приведены документы давшие старт советской ядерной программе.

Creative professionals know how to tap Photoshop CS3's Layers to achieve spectacular results, and now you can learn their secrets in this comprehensive book. How do you combine layers and masks? What's the best way to work with Web images? From the newest CS3 features to successful layering strategies, you'll discover the professional techniques and hands-on examples you need to succeed. Create composites that make an impact, organize your workflow, create great-looking and quick-loading Web images, and more.

The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 teaches the reader everything they need to know to create exciting personal and business presentations. Readers learn about new features such as Smart Tags and Packages, and how to create a presentation from scratch or using the design wizard. This book will make novices confident in their use of design templates, animations schemes and much more!

Renowned author Matthew MacDonald combines careful treatment of the API with detailed user-interface design principles. Further, this book incorporates C# and the final beta of .NET 2.0. The result: thorough coverage of Windows Forms and GDI+ namespaces for you .NET programmers! You will become equipped to design state-of-the-art Windows interfaces and program graphics, and learn how to create your own controls.
As a developer, you must know more than just how to add a control to a window. You must be able to create an entire user interface framework that's scalable, flexible, and reusable. This book is not a reference manual. Instead, it contains detailed discussions about user interface elements that you'll use on a regular basis.

Описано и проиллюстрировано изготовление 12 диснеевских персонажей из полимерной глины.

Замечательная иллюстрированная книга с пошаговыми уроками лепки забавных зверей.

В книге описаны разные техники работы с полимерной глиной.

Разнообразные красочные творения, которые можно сделать из полимерной глины кажутся бесконечными. Эта книга поможет изучить методы и приемы работы с этим материалом, основы художественного дизайна. Проиллюстрированные работы из полимерной глины, а так же инструкции помогут в реализации своих работ и превращения их в предметы искусства. Продемонстрированы многие техники работы и представлено более пятидесяти авторских работ с пластикой фимо.

Create your first enterprise Web application with a desktop-like user interface.
If you are an enterprise developer who wants to add the latest Web 2.0 features to a JSF project this book is for you. You need a basic knowledge of the Spring Framework configuration through annotations and the usage of JPA annotations.
Build Web 2.0 Applications using AJAX Push, JSF, Facelets, Spring and JPA

This full-color guide is perfect for designers and artists looking to master the most powerful graphics program available. Whether new to the software or upgrading from an earlier version, you will learn how to use the most important features of the latest version and create print, Web, and motion graphics.

Книга на английском языке, но понятна по рисункам.

This easy-to-follow guide contains all the information paper folders need to create inspired origami models - from learning basic folds to successfully completing a rich assortment of intricate figures.
Readers will find hundreds of detailed, step-by-step diagrams and illustrations of finished paper art that will enable even biginners to fashion such simple objects as a flower, a Japanese box, and a church.

Working as an effective professional Java developer requires you to know Java APIs, tools, and techniques to solve a wide variety of Java problems. Building upon Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2, this resource shows you how to use the core features of the latest JDK as well as powerful open source tools such as Ant, JUnit, and Hibernate. It will arm you with a well-rounded understanding of the professional Java development landscape.

The focus of “Wordpress Theme Design” is to provide a comprehensive guide on how to create a professional Wordpress theme from the design process to search engine optimization (SEO) and after reading the book I can say it does more than that. It’s basically a compressed version of the Wordpress Codex .

Aimed at the working (or aspiring) Visual C/C++ game programmer, Game Programming Gems contains over 60 programming tips that have been gathered from more than 40 working game gurus. It you want to build your own games or are interested simply in how games work, this text provides an intriguing glimpse into how the pros create state-of-the-art 3-D animation.