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The Graphics Master 7 is the complete source for all levels of graphic designers. It contains valuable information on many aspects of graphic design that you need in the field no matter where you work. Here are a few examples of what you can find in this excellent book:
~printing processes
~digital prepress info and instruction
~typography and typesetting
~type face selector guide
~type size and weight comparison guide
~proofreaders marks
~movable proportion scale
~fraction to decimal conversion table
~digital imaging info
~many pages of color swatches on several paper types
~color management info
~binding and finishing info
~envelope sizes
~an all inclusive glossery to look up unfamiliar terms

Plus, this book comes with a line gauge and ruler that comes out for easy measuring.

Not only does this book provide info on everything listed above and then some, it also provides illustrations in each section to help give you a better understanding of what is being talked about.

So, if you are a graphic designer still in school or a professional who has been in the business for many years, I urge you to buy this excellent book. If nothing else, it is a great reference for all of the tasks that are performed in the industry. It is a great investment.

This is a fabulous book for anyone who is required to design all or most of their publications in black and white.

I have read a few things by Paul Thurrott in the past and found his work easily digestible and loaded with great examples. This book is no exception.
It was a gift, and even though I don't even run XP on my machine I would feel confident using XP tools to work with my digital media with this book by my side. The subject matter may be a little simple for the real tech heads out there, but for folks just starting to play with MP3s and digital imagery up to fairly advanced users looking for some excellent tips and tricks this is a great resource.
Pick it up and join the digital revolution!

If you are involved in page layout - using type and/or graphics -you will probably benefit from a thorough reading of this short book. I have several books by this author but "Great Pages" was the one that gave me the confidence, as an amateur, to explore page layout on my own and to believe in my design decisions. The book itself is a good example of the principles it teaches. It is engagingly written, deftly designed, and has plenty of enlightening, often humorous, illustrations.

The chapter titled "Considerate typography" was especially helpful. Some other standout chapters were "Words and Pictures," "The 'so-what,' 'wowee,' and 's'posed-to' syndromes," and "How to use color functionally." A few examples of the checklists sprinkled throughout the book are "How to decide whether the designer is right for you," " Five reasons for redesigning," "You already know the fundamentals," "Here are ten ways to intrigue and attract your readers," "Here are nine ways to edit for the reader," and "Here are eight ways to design for the viewer."

A+ is a fast rising certification that will be needed just to get a basic entry level technical job, and you aren't certified, what do you do? Grab a hold of a copy of this lab manual and begin studying.

Course technology gives you a lab manual that covers each and every area of the A+ Certification, from floppy drives to CMOS manipulation and everything in between. You get over 60 labs in total.

Each labs list out what you will need to complete the lab, including the parts and the certification objectives. You have safety instruction as well as review question with each lab, certainly a great job.

Couple this lab manual with the A+ Guide to Managing and Maintaining Your PC book and you will be well on your way to attaining you certification in no time flat.

I bought this book 6 years ago. I wanted to do a web site from scratch and had purchased 3 books prior that had no real info. Using this book, I was able to do everything I wanted to.

This is a great book! It gives you alot of examples to work with and teaches the information you need to know! I would recommend this to anyone who wants to get caught up in today's standards of computer-aiding drawing/design.

Katreena Hayes-Wood offers a practical, easy to follow, simple to utilize book for the job hunter who is weary and discouraged.
Her material is uncomplicated, straight forward, and immediately useful.

This is a great source book to get a quick entry into the fascinating world of optimization and modeling of complex structures. The book introduces the ideas with the help of very good illustrations and motivates the topic in a logical and coherent fashion. The book treats state of the art topics like parallel vector computation with elegance and clarity. I would recommend this to any engineer with curiosity and most certainly structural engineering professionals. Any engineer can learn from the book how to analyze complex systems.

This was a fascinating study of our local history, I live approximately one block from the site of the Monte Vista Hotel, and I had no idea it ever existed there. Some of the other buildings I do remember from my childhood but the stories that go with them were til now were unknown. Like a lake at the end of Hillrose street, I had heard about it several times but I always thought it was closer to Sunland Park and now I see pictures of how beautiful it must have been there. I would greatly recommend this series to anyone who is interested in a study of our local history, Ms Tiernan has taken the time to shuffle through old newpaper articles and family histories and brought them all together into several dramatic story lines that are well worth reading. Sunland is my home town, born and raised, I always thought it was a beautiful place and you've made it even better, Thank you.