Cengage Learning
The 50 greatest photo opportunities in Washington, DC.
This travel guide will help photographers make the most of a trip to DC. It catalogs locations and specific shots in the area, with notes on best times of day for photography and least obstructed viewpoints. Each location entry gives a brief overview of the history and significance of the place, and includes step-by-step directions for duplicating the images shown in the book. Locations are in chapters on architecture and monuments, city life and neighborhoods, events, urban oases such as Great Falls and Rock Creek Park, and little known places such as Glen Echo Amusement Park, gates to private homes, gravestones, and Old Town Alexandria. An introduction covers equipment. Stevenson, a professional photographer, teaches digital photography. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
90 days to success in consulting.
McKnight, president of his own consulting firm, provides a manual with practical insights and measurable benchmarks for those wanting to enter consulting, either on their own or as part of a larger organization. The book covers the entire lifespan of the consulting enterprise, from identifying who might make a good consultant to developing and growing a consulting business. The book even goes so far as to discuss exiting the profession when the consultancy is no longer viable. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
90 days to success in grant writing.
This guide for inexperienced grant writers is targeted to several groups of readers: those with good writing skills who want to learn about grant writing as a profession; teachers or administrators in educational, nonprofit, or local government agencies; and artists, scholars, and other individual grant seekers. The book begins with general advice on getting started in grant writing as a career, and finding and securing a grant writing position. Later chapters walk through the grant writing process, from researching foundation and corporate support through writing specific types of queries and proposals and managing grant awards. Boxed dialogues with professional grant writers offer insider tips. Sample letters and annotated proposals are included, along with margin notes and b&w screen shots. Timothy Kachinske is a veteran grant writer. Judith Kachinske is assistant instructional supervisor of grants and monitoring for Prince George's County Public Schools. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Irreverent photo tools for digital photographers.
Weinrebe, a photography and Photoshop instructor, presents an incredible array of tips and tricks gleaned from his decades working as a professional photographer. He includes tools and techniques for studio, location and travel photography, and for portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, and video. He covers a few digital tools — including a couple of iPhone apps — and provides instructions for making useful tools such as a monopod from a hay fork handle, a polarized lens from a pair of sunglasses, foamcore light reflectors, and tables using homemade sawhorses and hollow-core doors. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Keeping score; interviews with today's top film, television, and game music composers.
Hoover brings together interviews with 36 Hollywood film composers drawn from his web site, ScoreNotes.com, which features a segment of interviews with individuals in film music and entertainment. Composers for television, film, and games are included, such as John Ottman, Nicholas Hooper, Bruce Broughton, Murray Gold, Michael Levine, Nathan Barr, Marty O'Donnell, and Winifred Phillips, who composed for Cheers, Iron Man, Doctor Who, True Blood, Battlestar Galactica, Halo, Harry Potter, and 28 Days Later, among others. They discuss specific projects, their careers, working with directors, their musical background and methods, and what they think of film music and the business today. Some interviews have been updated for the book. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Mixing in Pro Tools; skill pack, 2d ed. (CD-ROM included)
This book/CD-ROM package explains how to create audio mixes using Digidesign's DAW Pro Tools. The book begins with basics of essential processors and works up to advanced signal routing and sonic manipulation. Coverage progresses from equalization and dynamics through special effects, automation, stereo enhancement, and managing mix resources. Each chapter is accompanied by a Pro Tools session on the CD-ROM. A companion web site contains files for download. The book is for Pro Tools LE and M-Powered users at the intermediate to advanced level. Smithers is department chair of workstations at Full Sail University, one of the largest digital audio workstation labs in the world. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Think big!; an entrepreneur's guide to partnering with large companies.
This plain-language guide walks small business owners, entrepreneurs, and inventors through the steps of partnering with large companies to build their business and to market or expand their products. It examines some of the benefits of partnering with a larger company, describes components of a good partnership, and overviews ways to protect the smaller company, such as nondisclosure agreements, patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. A chapter on how large companies operate discusses factors such as slow decision making, many decision makers, and fear of negative publicity or litigation. A chapter on communication reviews terms large companies use, and gives advice on communicating with different roles and decision makers in large companies. The book also gives tips on negotiation and working with attorneys. Ideas are illustrated with real-life examples throughout the book. Pardew is a video game and entertainment industry veteran. He has taught at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management. Slade is a consultant and educator. (Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
