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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.

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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

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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

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.

A complete guide to Pentaho Kettle, the Pentaho Datalntegration toolset for ETL This practical book is a complete guideto installing, configuring, and managing Pentaho Kettle. If you’rea database administrator or developer, you’ll first get up to speedon Kettle basics and how to apply Kettle to create ETLsolutions—before progressing to specialized concepts such asclustering, extensibility, and data vault models. Learn how todesign and build every phase of an ETL solution. Shows developers and database administrators how to use theopen-source Pentaho Kettle for enterprise-level ETL processes(Extracting, Transforming, and Loading data) Assumes no priorknowledge of Kettle or ETL, and brings beginners thoroughly up tospeed at their own pace Explains how to get Kettle solutions up andrunning, then follows the 34 ETL subsystems model, as created bythe Kimball Group, to explore the entire ETL lifecycle, includingall aspects of data warehousing with Kettle Goes beyond routinetasks to explore how to