It all revolves around Flash and math. It's what you do in your spare time: just take little ideas and mess around with them. This is a book of inspiration, beautiful enough to leave on the coffee table, but addictive enough to keep by your computer and sneak out while no-one's looking so you can go back to that movie that you were tinkering with 'til three o'clock this morning. It's a fun book. It's a book of iterative experiments, generative design. Each author does four experiments. Each experiment takes up four pages. We give you the code and explain the essence, then you take away your inspiration and run with it. The purpose of the book is to learn through experimentation because you are inspired to do so, not because someone is telling you to do so. Follow the fmc site link for more information.
* Showcase of the current best design and development work using Macromedia Flash MX 2004. * Inspiring visuals through stellar quality production values. * Brand-leading flagship book—this is the epitome of the "Designer to Designer" promise. * Most advanced Flash design content available. * Over 30,000 copies sold of Volume 1.
Those who are quite comfortable with Flash MX and know a little ActionScript, will enjoy this book. It provides detailed step-by-step tutorials, and boasts complete technical support from the friends of ED website.
Flash Components: The Key to Faster Development and Sophisticated Functionality You don't have to be a programmer to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how--and the enclosed CD provides a library of powerful components ready for you to practice with, build upon, and use in your own projects. For those of you with just a little programming experience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of your experience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be within your reach. Coverage includes: Determining the most effective ways to leverage components Avoiding component pitfalls Customizing external resources for use with components Building your own components Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for a component Customizing component artwork Using components to build games Understanding the difference between components and SmartClips Troubleshooting component construction and application Using multiple components to create more complex effects Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Those who are quite comfortable with Flash MX and know a little ActionScript, will enjoy this book. It provides detailed step-by-step tutorials, and boasts complete technical support from the friends of ED website.
It all revolves around Flash and math. It's what you do in your spare time: just take little ideas and mess around with them. This is a book of inspiration, beautiful enough to leave on the coffee table, but addictive enough to keep by your computer and sneak out while no-one's looking so you can go back to that movie that you were tinkering with 'til three o'clock this morning. It's a fun book. It's a book of iterative experiments, generative design. Each author does four experiments. Each experiment takes up four pages. We give you the code and explain the essence, then you take away your inspiration and run with it. The purpose of the book is to learn through experimentation because you are inspired to do so, not because someone is telling you to do so. Follow the fmc site link for more information.
So you think you've got to grips with the features of Macromedia Flash MX? Welcome to this inspirations upgrade from friends of ED. Upgrade your thinking, upgrade your attitude, and upgrade your standards to take on board the host of exciting features incorporated into this version of Flash. With this title, we run the gamut of new features, from the Drawing API ("to die for"), through new video compression, Scriptable Masks and Components. We explore the new territory with experimental interfaces, check out the improvements in the 3D arena, and quarry the back-end technologies to see what gems we can turn up! Some of the best designers in the Web community have concentrated their efforts on this project. This has resulted in the highest caliber of work, including an exclusive insight into the creation of Jim Armstrong's New York Flash Film Festival final piece. From the acclaimed team that brought you Flash Math Creativity comes this inspiring volume, full of brand new effects and discussion on what Flash MX is going to do for designers—and where we go from here.
Flash Components: The Key to Faster Development and Sophisticated Functionality You don't have to be a programmer to achieve amazing effects with the hundreds of Flash components available from Macromedia and various third parties. Step by step, The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how--and the enclosed CD provides a library of powerful components ready for you to practice with, build upon, and use in your own projects. For those of you with just a little programming experience, this book also demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers. Whatever your aims, and regardless of your experience, soon all the power of this incredible Flash feature will be within your reach. Coverage includes: Determining the most effective ways to leverage components Avoiding component pitfalls Customizing external resources for use with components Building your own components Building a custom UI, Live Preview, and MXP file for a component Customizing component artwork Using components to build games Understanding the difference between components and SmartClips Troubleshooting component construction and application Using multiple components to create more complex effects Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
* Showcase of the current best design and development work using Macromedia Flash MX 2004. * Inspiring visuals through stellar quality production values. * Brand-leading flagship book—this is the epitome of the "Designer to Designer" promise. * Most advanced Flash design content available. * Over 30,000 copies sold of Volume 1.
Counterculture flourished nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s, and while the hippies of Haight–Ashbury occupied the public eye, a faction of back to the landers were quietly creating their own haven off the beaten path in the Arkansas Ozarks. In Hipbillies, Jared Phillips combines oral histories and archival resources to weave the story of the Ozarks and its population of country beatniks into the national narrative, showing how the back to the landers engaged in “deep revolution” by sharing their ideas on rural development, small farm economy, and education with the locals—and how they became a fascinating part of a traditional region’s coming to terms with the modern world in the process.
When Abraham Lincoln addressed the crowd at the new national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863, he intended his speech to be his most eloquent statement on the inextricable link between equality and democracy. However, unwilling to commit to equality at that time, the nation stood ill-prepared to accept the full message of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. In the ensuing century, groups wishing to advance a particular position hijacked Lincoln’s words for their own ends, highlighting the specific parts of the speech that echoed their stance while ignoring the rest. Only as the nation slowly moved toward equality did those invoking Lincoln’s speech come closer to recovering his true purpose. In this incisive work, Jared Peatman seeks to understand Lincoln’s intentions at Gettysburg and how his words were received, invoked, and interpreted over time, providing a timely and insightful analysis of one of America’s most legendary orations. After reviewing the events leading up to November 19, 1863, Peatman examines immediate responses to the ceremony in New York, Gettysburg itself, Confederate Richmond, and London, showing how parochial concerns and political affiliations shaped initial coverage of the day and led to the censoring of Lincoln’s words in some locales. He then traces how, over time, proponents of certain ideals invoked the particular parts of the address that suited their message, from reunification early in the twentieth century to American democracy and patriotism during the world wars and, finally, to Lincoln’s full intended message of equality during the Civil War centennial commemorations and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Peatman also explores foreign invocations of the Gettysburg Address and its influence on both the Chinese constitution of 1912 and the current French constitution. An epilogue highlights recent and even current applications of the Gettysburg Address and hints at ways the speech might be used in the future. By tracing the evolution of Lincoln’s brief words at a cemetery dedication into a revered document essential to American national identity, this revealing work provides fresh insight into the enduring legacy of Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address on American history and culture.
This New York Times bestselling “deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks—and déjà vu” (Vanity Fair) and provides a fascinating look at the men who came to the office without being elected to it, showing how each affected the nation and world. The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history. Only Theodore Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right. Only TR, Truman, Coolidge, and LBJ were re-elected. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. He was kicked out of his party and became the first president threatened with impeachment. Millard Fillmore succeeded esteemed General Zachary Taylor. He immediately sacked the entire cabinet and delayed an inevitable Civil War by standing with Henry Clay’s compromise of 1850. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded our greatest president, sided with remnants of the Confederacy in Reconstruction. Chester Arthur, the embodiment of the spoils system, was so reviled as James Garfield’s successor that he had to defend himself against plotting Garfield’s assassination; but he reformed the civil service. Theodore Roosevelt broke up the trusts. Calvin Coolidge silently cooled down the Harding scandals and preserved the White House for the Republican Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Harry Truman surprised everybody when he succeeded the great FDR and proved an able and accomplished president. Lyndon B. Johnson was named to deliver Texas electorally. He led the nation forward on Civil Rights but failed on Vietnam. Accidental Presidents shows that “history unfolds in death as well as in life” (The Wall Street Journal) and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the power and limits of the American presidency in critical times.
Gura details the daily regimen and conditions within the state prison and discusses the demographics of the institution's remarkably heterogeneous population.
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