Multimedia Books

I found the videos to be helpful in gaining confidence in my physical assessment skills. Nursing Clinicals can be overwhelming without the proper preparation. Since I didn't feel that my instructors sometimes spent enough time demonstrating important procedures, study aides like this came in handy to supplement class and clinical time. They present real-life scenarios and walk you through the assessments step by step (including voiceover explanations). In particular, for example, I found the lung and abdominal exams useful. The abdominal exam demonstration saved me from failing a clinical exam when I almost palpated before auscultation (a common error, but a no-no nonetheless).

Another resource that I found incredibly useful was Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills. Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills: Complete Set It shows real-life nursing clinical scenarios and walks students through an incredible array of clinical nursing skills -- from beginning to advanced. There are 17 modules (all on separate DVD-ROMs) that cover everything from how to take vital signs to asepsis, IV, skin care, catheters, trach care, to central venous access devices and practically everything in between. If you want to bone up on your clinical skills, get it! It's also available on Amazon.

This book is one of the best around for anyone interested in setting up an alternative worship service/experience. The companion CD-Rom has loads of useful resources and suggestions to help. I would recommend this book to anyone who knows they are unhappy with "trad" worship but don't know how to go about exploring alternatives to the old forms of worship.

I really appreciate the easiness and the clarity of this book. It is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in music production techniques and engineering skills.

There are several books on Content Management Systems (CMS). But there are only very few books on the market covering the topic of Digital asset management (DAM). Three books stands out:
"Professional Content Management System: handling Digital Media Assets", "Digitial Asset Management: how to realize value of video and image libaries" and "Expanding a Digital Content Management System: for the Growing Digital Media Enterprise".

Each book describes the subject in different perspectives. The "Digitial Asset Management: how to realize value of video and image libaries" by David Austerberry is more like introduction to DAM and related concepts and technologies. While "Expanding a Digital Content Management System: for the Growing Digital Media Enterprise" by my former collegaue and friend, Magan Authur is discussing how to plan and implement a large scale digital content management systems.

The Professional Content Management Systems by A Mathure and P. Thomas empersizes much more on (and deeper in) technical and applicaiton design aspects. Besides the basic concepts, it covers a wide range of topics on DAM from user requirements;video production use cases and workflows; media formats and standards; system architecture and integrations; hardware infrastructure and application requirements. The deepth of the discusions on systems architecture of both software and hardware are incrediable. The application modules and use cases scenarios presented for broadcasting industry are very well illustrated. The book reveals fully the authors vivid imagation, creative and industry experience.

Even though I may not completely agree with every piece of the design described in the book, some of the core concepts and use cases described are really valuable. (I have built one of succussful commercial enterprise DAM system used by by many large enterpises in broadcasting, advertising and Coorporate Marketing before this book was published).

I especially recommend this book to Product Managers and System Architect who are trying to build a DAM system; or trying to build applications on top of the DAM System. I have read ths book twice since I brought it over 1 year ago. It's still very refreshing to read it.

disclaimer: I have no association with the authors of the book (don't know them) or BlueOrder.

Chester Chen (Xiaoguang Chen)

Just the book Programming Windows 95 user interface will be worth the money, along with other books. I tried to get Programming Windows 95 user interface but it was out of trace--you cannot found it even at MSPress. I thus bought this one although I had other great books on the CD. A must have and a big bargin.

First I studied OSEK(Open system together with interfaces for automotive electronics: Offene Systeme und deren Schnittstellen fur die Elektronik im Kraftfahrzeug) by OSEK documents.
In Japan there are open source OSEK os, TOPPERS/OSEk is available.
Second I studied OSEK os using TOPPERS/OSEK.
Third I now read this book.
This is very compact information using OSEK OS, not making OSEK OS.
In the CD there are source code for each chapter.
You can feel what is the OSEK OS.
Now OSEK OS is ISO standards ISO 17356 series.

Chapter 11 of this book is concerned with porting existing MMX to WirelessMMX. If you are the type that is going to play with MMX code, chances are you have been playing with MMX code, and this chapter is ~the~ chapter that you are looking for.

I haven't read far through the book yet, nor tried the examples, but the reading is very presentable and the topics are well aligned with existing needs for performance optimized software on PDA/Phone devices.

IntelPRESS has good connections with the hardware developers at Intel, and the book has been reviewed by some of the key Intel Developers and Systems Integrators. In a world where correctly surfing the technology wave is the difference between staying afloat and drowning -- I look to IntelPress to keep my head above water.

I would recommend this book to people who have browsed the web and now want to get involved in writing their own web pages. I love the fact its Macintosh oriented! Also, this book takes you through a (brief) history of hypertext, html, etc. and explains (briefly) the controversies between purists and standardizers - I have a better understanding of where all this came from. Pfaffenberger is an excellent and entertaining writer - maybe a little tiny bit simplistic in some ways but not condescendingly patronizing and very thorough. After having looked through several books including "HTML for Dummies" (definitely condescending) and another thick book professing to give you everything you need to know on running a website (which was written by a compendium of people and assumed you understood all sorts of things) - I would say this is a great starting point. (I rated a 9 because I feel there is ALWAYS room for improvement...)

I picked up this book a couple of years ago, when the second edition first came out. It provides a very complete overview of digital video, from capture, through non-linear editing and compression, to output or streaming video (web-based) applications. The major concepts are well-explained and fully illustrated -- including video clips on the CD that show the various phenomena being discussed. The book falls down in only one category -- it devotes a significant amount of time to specific product descriptions and evaluations. However, given the lead time for production of a book, these product descriptions were out-of-date when the book first appeared. They are even more out-of-date now. If you read the book in order to familiarize yourself with desirable features of products and how you might use them, it is excellent. If you use it to select a specific product, you will probably be making a mistake.

"These Are the Days of Our Lives" is a very good book. This is my fourth time reading it. Even if there are a little bad words in it(like f***!)I still think you should read it if you are a super duper Queen fan !!!!