In this first volume of the "Mac OS and *OS Internals" trilogy, Jonathan Levin takes on the user mode components of Apple's operating systems. Starting with an introduction as to their layered architecture, touring private frameworks and libraries, and then delving into the internals of applications, process, thread and memory management, Mach messaging, launchd and XPC internals, and wrapping up with advanced debugging and tracing techniques using the most powerful APIs that were hitherto unknown and unused outside Apple's own applications. As with the other books in this series, the approach taken is that of deep reverse engineering, with plenty of hands-on examples, illustrations, pointers to Apple's open sources (when available) and decompilation of code (when not). The book's companion website (NewOSXBook.com) is full of tools, samples and other bonus material for this book. Due to print run issues, NOTE FIRST COPIES WILL SHIP DECEMBER. Read more

The bestselling, comprehensive reference on Photoshop, fully updated to CS5. Photoshop is the gold standard for image-editing programs and is used by professional photographers, graphic designers, and Web designers as well as hobbyists. More than 300,000 copies of this comprehensive reference have been sold in previous this edition is fully updated to cover Photoshop CS5's newest features and includes a 16-page full-color insert. Photoshop is the industry standard for image-editing software used in both print and digital media, with more than four million users worldwide This comprehensive guide covers beginning to advanced techniques, from learning your way around the windows and tools to working with Camera Raw images Covers retouching, color correcting, manipulating, and combining working with the File Browser, histogram palette, Lens Blur, and the color replacement customizable keyboard how to create cutting-edge special effects for digital or film-based images, and much more. Th

Designing application and middleware software to run inconcurrent and networked environments is a significant challenge tosoftware developers. The patterns catalogued in this second volumeof Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture (POSA) form the basis ofa pattern language that addresses issues associated withconcurrency and networking. The book presents 17 interrelatedpatterns ranging from idioms through architectural designs. Theycover core elements of building concurrent and network systems:service access and configuration, event handling, synchronization,and concurrency. All patterns present extensive examples and knownuses in multiple programming languages, including C++, C, and Java.The book can be used to tackle specific software developmentproblems or read from cover to cover to provide a fundamentalunderstanding of the best practices for constructing concurrent andnetworked applications and middleware.

In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores thecomplex interaction between human thought and the technology itcreates, arguing for the development of machines that fit ourminds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine. Humanshave always worked with objects to extend our cognitive powers,from counting on our fingers to designing massive supercomputers.But advanced technology does more than merely assist with thoughtand memorythe machines we create begin to shape how we think and,at times, even what we value. Norman, in exploring this complexrelationship between humans and machines, gives us the first stepstowards demanding a person-centered redesign of the machines thatsurround our lives.

In this day and information age, it is all about those who areable to utilize the information they have to maximize potential,and these two University of California, Berkeley, professors haveassembled the guide to do just that. The nuts-and-bolts approach tofinding ways to differentiate one's product from all the others,and a how-to guide to simplify and improve customer interface, areboth helpful, and the idea of managing intellectual properties tomaximize value is infinitely superior to just protecting them fromcompetitors. Some of the information delves into building positivefeedback for the product, and every businessperson probably needsto know some of the legal ins and outs of building alliances andthe ramifications of competition. Shapiro and Varian seem to betargeting the hard-core student of business here (not the casualbrowser); their approach is extremely thorough, and there is muchpractical information for those willing to wade through theinformation rules. Joe Collins

In the short fiction of Angela Carter, the landmarks ofreality disappear and give way to a landscape of riotous anduncensored sensibility. The city of Tokyo turns into a mirroredchamber reflecting the impossible longings of an exiledEnglishwoman abandoned by her Japanese lover. An itinerant puppetshow becomes a theatre of murderous lust. A walk through the forestends in a nightmarish encounter with a gun-toting nymph and herhermaphrodite 'aunt'. Not simply a book of tales, Fireworks is aheadlong plunge into an alternate universe, the unique creation ofone of the most fertile, dark, irreverent, and baroquely beautifulimaginations in contemporary fiction.