Offers software developers a comprehensive guide to the Microsoft Windows application programming interface, including the most common graphical Windows API functions from displaying graphics and user interface elements to bitmap and metafile creation and manipulation. Color palette functions, menu creation, text output, and regions and paths are also detailed. An included CD-ROM contains source code from the book, a Help file for use within Delphi, shareware, freeware, and other tools. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Featuring a wealth of code examples appropriate for practicing developers, this advanced-level guide provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as arrays, binary trees, data compression. The CD includes the author's highly successful freeware library, EZDSL, along with the code from the book.
This new titles is an updated edition of "Tomes of Delphi: Win32 Graphical API", which received rave reviews from the industry. The new edition retains its reference organization and distinctive help file on the CD, as well as including Windows 2000 changes.
the Microsoft Windows application programming interface, the heart of Windows software development. This reference covers all of the most common Windows API functions, and each function has the syntax and an example of its use in Delphi's Object Pascal. The CD includes all of the code from the book.
"Delphi Graphics and Game Programming Exposed! with DirectX" is a comprehensive reference describing high-performance graphics and game programming techniques in the Delphi development environment. Author John Ayres begins with a discussion of basic game programming and graphics concepts, and moves quickly into an introduction of DirectX, which gives Delphi developers a high-performance interface to system-level hardware while maintaining the benefits of the Windows operating system. Palettes, sprite animation, collision detection, and sound and music are also discussed. In addition the book includes a complete example game illustrating the different techniques discussed throughout, an appendix explaining how to use DirectSetup for installing DirectX, and a glossary of common words and phrases used in the game programming industry. The CD includes: - Source code from the book's projects - full retail version of Delphi 4 - 60-day trial version of Delphi 5 Enterprise - DirectX header files from Project JEDI - freeware sound effects, MIDI musical compositions, and the SpriteLib sprite library John Ayres has over 10 years of programming experience, including over 5 years with Delphi. He is a lead developer and product architect for Beckett Interactive in Dallas and is the lead author of "The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Core API" (1-55622-556-3) and "The Tomes of Delphi 3: Win32 Graphical API" (1-55622-610-1).
Reproduction of the 1929 book - The Sew-It Book - Things to make with needle & thread and odds & ends. This beautiful vintage feel book features 17 projects including a child's apron, smock, sun bonnet, rag doll and Kimono-type jacket. Techniques include sewing, embroidery, doll dress pattern making and tie-dying are explained in detail. The 47-page hardback book with an embossed cover is a keepsake treasure with darling graphics that will charm sewers and quilters, young and old! Perfect book to teach children to sew. Great Grandparent gift.
A discussion of several American women mystery authors during the time of spy novels and paperback originals. Each chapter focuses on a different author of domestic noir and that author's works.
The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. By the thousands, they seek out books on leadership skills, time management, and “getting things done,” but the techniques these volumes offer, useful as they are, don't often don't speak to the leader's fundamental sense that something is missing. Janice Marturano, a senior executive with decades of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, explains how Mindful Leadership training integrates the practice of mindfulness-meditation and self-awareness-with the practical tools of management, enabling leaders to bring a wider range of their capacities to the challenges at hand. We already know from scientific research that mindfulness practices enhance mental health and improve clarity and focus. FINDING THE SPACE shows how this training has specific value for leaders. This is not a new “leadership system” to add to the burden of already overworked people. It brings the concepts of mindfulness into the everyday life of anyone in a leadership role, through specific exercises that address practical issues-the calendar, schedule, phone usage, meetings, to-do list, and strategic planning, as well as interpersonal challenges such as listening and working with difficult colleagues. Leaders who have experienced mindfulness training report that it provides a “transformative experience” with significant improvements in innovation, self-awareness, listening, and making better decisions. In FINDING THE SPACE TO LEAD, Marturano masterfully lays out her proven techniques for promoting mindfulness in the busy executive's working life.
E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.
