books about: expressions

books about: expressions

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Expressions

Emotions Revealed, Second Edition: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

Paul Ekman

Holt Paperbacks, 2007

Interesting, If Occassionally Obvious
Our emotions are the music of our life; the better we understand them the better we can understand and appreciate our symphony--instead of just being overwhelmed. Paul Ekman has done more research on emotions than just about anyone. His insights let us notice things ...

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook: Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex Application Developers

Joey Lott, Darron Schall, ...

Adobe Dev Library, 2006

Exactly What the Title Says - No More No Less
This book is about ActionScript ONLY. when I bought it, I was hoping to find cookbook solutions for Flash and/or Flex IDE and all the step-by-step color illustrations and the cool visual effects that you can implement with those IDEs. That is not really what this book ...

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Douglas Crockford

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Excellent way to become fluent in Javascript.
I decided to pick up this book because I had been using Javascript for years as a "garnish" on top of my web development, but usually only in the form of a few hacked-together utility functions and edited scripts. In truth, I was afraid of the language - it appeared to ...

Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (Brain-Friendly Guides)

Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Good Surprise on Delivery by Amazon
I ordered for 'Head First Servlets & JSP' which shows 2004 edition on web-site. But much to my Surprise, I got March 2008 (2nd Edition) of the Book which is the latest version for the SCWCD 1.5 exam. Thanks to Amazon for giving the best. -Sandeep Parmar

Linux Pocket Guide

Daniel J. Barrett

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004

Does what it says at a price you can't argue with.
This is definitely a great companion for any Linux administrator or hobbyist who is trying to become a level 60 command line warrior. There are plenty of commands to familiarize yourself with, and they are grouped logically (rather than alphabetically), which means ...

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Excellent Tutorial and Reference Book
This book is a really great combination between a tutorial and a reference book. What I like the most about it is that it not only explains you how to use the different elements of the C# language and the .NET Framework core namespaces, but it also explains to you how ...

Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists

Mark Simon

Watson-Guptill, 2005

A great resource for an artist
This book contains black and white headshots of people showing different emotions. It starts with younger adults and moves through the ages. Each person is shown from different points of view of the same emotion. The personality types are varied too. Not just ...

Head First C# (Brain-Friendly Guides)

Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Delivers as Promised
Background: After getting a degree in engineering and landing a job finance, I was tasked with writing an extensive analysis program in C#. Eventually I hobbled through the first draft and many many updates using dry, technical reference books and online searches. ...

Mastering Regular Expressions

Jeffrey Friedl

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Great book, but little Ruby
This book is great if you want to learn about what you can do with regex, how they work, how you can improve them (efficiency & accuracy) and what kind of pitfalls there are. My only gripe is about the Ruby reference on the cover. In the top right corner it says: ...

A Year In the Life of an ESL (English Second Language) Student: Idioms and Vocabulary You Can't Live Without

Edward J. Francis

Trafford Publishing, 2004

You HAVE to get this book for your ESL students, particularly advanced students
I am an English teacher in Japan and I was looking for a book that had a lot of useful, everyday English for my students that covered material not usually taught in the language schools. After searching many book stores I still had no book to use for my students. I ...

500 Animals in Clay: Contemporary Expressions of the Animal Form (A Lark Ceramics Book)

Lark Books

Lark Books, 2006

Wonderful book
Just like the title indicates--it is a great selection of ceramic animals by contemporary artists. There is everything from realistic to bizarre interpretations of domestic, wild and farm animals, even includes a few bees. Like other books in the Lark ceramic "500" ...

From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books (Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species, The ...

Charles Darwin

W. W. Norton, 2005

Fabolous
This book is excellent! It has all of the four greatest works by Darwin, all facsimile editions (exact original) and written by Wilson, a great evolutionary biologist. If you are looking to read some of Darwin's books, here is the place to do it. It also features ...

Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

Jason Osipa

Sybex, 2007

Buy 2.
I am a 3d professional artist for a long time, I have to say I have read hundreds of books, watched hours of training videos, read pages of internet tutorials anything related to 3d animation. No other training material comes even close to things I have learned reading ...

500 Plates & Chargers: Innovative Expressions of Function & Style (500 Series)

Lark

Lark Books, 2008

Lovely pictures.
I am slowly purchasing every book in this series. I am a working artist and use photos to stimulate creativity for myself and my students. All of these books have been wonderful.

Special Edition Using Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Special Edition Using)

Jim Cheshire

Que, 2008

Excellent Book!
This book is very well written and composed. The beginning of the book sums up the basics, letting you know what will be covered. From then on, each chapter is full of nearly all of the information you need in order to complete each individual task. The chapters are ...