Collaborating with community members adds a critical dimension to social work research, providing practitioners with intimate knowledge of a community's goals and needs while equipping community advocates with vital skills for social change. Sharing the inspiring story of one such partnership, Corey[...]

Takes you through a professional workflow for bringing out the best in your photographs in Photoshop, from post-capture through to output, without spending hours in front of the screen. This title focuses on the vital aspects for photographers such as: correcting exposure, sharpening, monochrome con[...]

Are you into photography not photomanipulation? Frustrated that you are spending too much time in front of the screen and not enough behind the lens? Feel like you are not getting the most out of the powerful processing functions of Apple Aperture? If any of the above is true then, whatever your pho[...]

Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was part of a vibrant community of avant-garde artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle included Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Edward Kienholz, Wally Hedrick, and Michael McClure. Although best known for her monumental pa[...]

For the first time, Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor speaks directly to his fans and shares his worldview about life as a sinner. And Taylor knows how to sin. As a small-town hero in the early 90s, he threw himself into a fierce-drinking, drug-abusing, hard-loving, live-for-the moment[...]

In this book, Corey Taylor undertakes something never before attempted in the history of rock superstardom: he takes you with him as he journeys undercover through various ghostbusting groups who do their best to gather information and evidence about the existence of spirits. Some are more credible [...]

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor's third book is a searingly hilarious trawl through the endless backwaters of human stupidity, by the bestselling author of "Seven Deadly Sins" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven"
Corey Taylor has had it. Had it with the vagaries of hum[...]

The explosive third novel in James S.A. Corey's "New York Times "bestselling Expanse series.
For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared i[...]

The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's "New York Times" bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old so[...]

ENTER A NEW FRONTIER.
""An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave."""
"T[...]

The start-to-finish guide to virtualizing business-critical SQL Server databases on VMware vSphere 5 By virtualizing business-critical databases, enterprises can drive far more value from existing IT infrastructure. But squeezing maximum performance out of a virtualized database instance is an art a[...]